GF25 NT: Renaissance and Redemption
- Thread starter ac1dt3st
- Start date
Graham
Venerated Member
ac1dt3st said:wow... i think that's pretty amazing. i'd be interested to know, what about it appeals to you? anything specific? i'm so used to looking at it after 20 years, i'd love to see it through new eyes.adorshki said:
The send it to me please :shock:
ac1dt3st
Member
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2009
- Messages
- 239
- Reaction score
- 27
no way, man.Graham said:ac1dt3st said:wow... i think that's pretty amazing. i'd be interested to know, what about it appeals to you? anything specific? i'm so used to looking at it after 20 years, i'd love to see it through new eyes.adorshki said:
The send it to me please :shock:
still playing her tonight. split my time about evenly between the GF25 and the F50R. (very, very different feels and tones...) i think the F30 is starting to get lonely; i'll attend to her tomorrow night.
SmithfieldFair
Member
OK - I'm going to weigh in on this one from a different perspective - but check my list of instruments below and notw that you may have 4 chairs, but I have 4 GF-25's. I'm a constant gardener when it comes to my guitars. I keep them in the best shape I can, try to do preventive maintenance as possible, and play them all regularly. Some are road instruments and some are house instruments and some are only for the studio, all dependent upon the need. Sometime back (with two natural tops and one black) I learned that they also made the GF-25 in sunburst. Anyone will tell you I love a beautiful sunburst. Our dear friend Graham was kind enough to find one and later sell it to me - making my GF-25 collection pretty complete. However, this guitar didn't have the sound in open D that others have and I found myself not playing it often. I had Holger Notzel, my esteemed luthier and guitar tech, set it up when I got it according to my requirements, but ...well, it just didn't sing the way I had hoped.
So, I thought long and hard about it. Some time went by and I found myself rarely taking it off the wall. For me that meant sell it or rethink it. Not ever wanting to let one of my Westerlys go, I started thinking. The idea came to me that I was using my little black 88 GF-25 for all of my open C work and perhaps this sunburst might help out. So, I dropped it the full step after a restring (medium guage 80/20s with a substitute wrapped 20 for the 'B' or second string - 56-46-36-26-20-13). Wow! Instantly the sunburst took on a new life and it's had few days of rest since then.
You see...I not only believe in the maintenance and caretaking option, but also in finding a guitar's best use and purpose. You coulcn't buy this from me now - for several times what I paid for it.
So what am I getting at here? First, find a good luthier or repairman - someone whose work you respect and admire and someone you really like working with and feel you can trust. Visit him on a regular basis and don't get behind in your regular maintenance and upkeep. Second - if you've got a guitar you aren't using and perhaps don't really care for in its usual role...rotate it to another position in your arsenal. Give it a chance to speak in another language or tonality or style. You might surprise yourself with what a reall 'keeper' it is after all. All the best to you all....dbs
So, I thought long and hard about it. Some time went by and I found myself rarely taking it off the wall. For me that meant sell it or rethink it. Not ever wanting to let one of my Westerlys go, I started thinking. The idea came to me that I was using my little black 88 GF-25 for all of my open C work and perhaps this sunburst might help out. So, I dropped it the full step after a restring (medium guage 80/20s with a substitute wrapped 20 for the 'B' or second string - 56-46-36-26-20-13). Wow! Instantly the sunburst took on a new life and it's had few days of rest since then.
You see...I not only believe in the maintenance and caretaking option, but also in finding a guitar's best use and purpose. You coulcn't buy this from me now - for several times what I paid for it.
So what am I getting at here? First, find a good luthier or repairman - someone whose work you respect and admire and someone you really like working with and feel you can trust. Visit him on a regular basis and don't get behind in your regular maintenance and upkeep. Second - if you've got a guitar you aren't using and perhaps don't really care for in its usual role...rotate it to another position in your arsenal. Give it a chance to speak in another language or tonality or style. You might surprise yourself with what a reall 'keeper' it is after all. All the best to you all....dbs
ac1dt3st
Member
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2009
- Messages
- 239
- Reaction score
- 27
i'll happily trade you a chair for another GF-25.SmithfieldFair said:
in all seriousness, you make a good point. guitars all express themselves differently in different situations, or with different tunings, etc... just stringing a guitar up standard and strumming a few chords is not necessarily going to tell you what the instrument is capable of.
last night, i was happily playing the GF25 and singing some of my current standards. the tone of the guitar was working well with the style of songs and my somewhat rustic voice.
then i started practicing with my wife, and i immediately switched to the F50R. she's a classically trained vocalist, and the GF25 suddenly sounded kind of empty behind her, but the full, rich tone of the F50 complemented perfectly...
adorshki
Reverential Member
It's the neck. On the first thread about this guitar I mentioned the neck looks so much like my D-25's I just want to try it to see how it feels. Like you said it's got it's own feel. I do love the look of the F style body and it would also be interesting to compare tone, but man that neck.....I can almost start to understand why the Japanese think that's one of the most beautiful parts of a woman's body! :wink: :lol:ac1dt3st said:wow... i think that's pretty amazing. i'd be interested to know, what about it appeals to you? anything specific? i'm so used to looking at it after 20 years, i'd love to see it through new eyes.adorshki said:
