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guildman63
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GAD said:
Not bad at all for a 1991! As for your '94, congrats! It has an awesome finish, and knowing how mine plays you will not be at all disappointed.
Zelja
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Spectacular! Great looking guitar GAD. I hope she plays/sounds a s good as she looks.
I came here for teh acoustics but I'm getting GAS for the electrics now too.
Will keep an eye out if you want to move your other one along,
I came here for teh acoustics but I'm getting GAS for the electrics now too.
Will keep an eye out if you want to move your other one along,
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Zelja said:
This Friday will tell all.
I'd have a real hard time selling my Blonde Starfire. I hunted a LONG time for it before I came here to the world of enthusiastic enablers.
NEONMOONY
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Sell? People actually sell their guitars?
Thunderface
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GAD-zooks, that is a beautiful guitar! :shock: Move over Good Friday, this is going to be a Great Friday for you!
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NEONMOONY said:
I have this rule about only owning one guitar of a certain type. Having two SF4s would break that rule. Of course I have a Gretsch SSLVO and an orange X170T, but I've convinced myself that one's for rockabilly and the other is for Jazz. Very loud, uptempo, orange Jazz.
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Holy Moly...
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Excellent foreshadowing. Now put the thing down long enough to take some photos, will 'ya?
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No pics yet. I took 'em - just haven't developed them yet. I'm tired. I drove five hours round trip plus an hour's worth of various stops.
Initial report is that it's a damn fine guitar. It's almost my perfect Starfire.
There is barely a mark on it. The previous owner, who is a super nice guy, took very good care of this instrument. Intonation is perfect, he waxed it, the neck is straight, the tuners are all tight, no binding rot, no headstock shrinkage, and aside from some wear on the gold hardware, it could almost pass for new. There is one stripped screw on the bridge pickup ring. It was partially stripped until I got ahold of it. :roll: The frets show some wear, but nothing that I can feel while playing. I polished them up which made a nice improvement. They could probably do with a leveling, but I generally don't do that until I feel or hear an issue while playing.
The pickups are SD-1s. I had some small hope for HB-1s since it's a '94, but I pulled 'em for inspection and they're almost identical to the ones I had in my '97 SFIII. Still worlds better than Fender HBs, but you know how it is when you get excited for the real thing.
The fretboard does appear to be ebony. The neck is 1 11/16" at the nut. Woohoo! It's got the rounded fretboard ends that many people like (I don't really care either way), which was one of the clues that had me hoping for HB1s.
The neck is not mahogany, but I knew this from the pics going in. My other SF4 has a hog neck, so it will be fun A/Bing them. It was set up (perfectly I might add) for 11s. I prefer 10s, and right now they're a little buzzy, but we'll see how it is after a few days of settling. It really came alive with new strings.
The owner told me that it had sat online for a long time without selling. He recently lowered the price, but said he still had 1200+ people view the ad with no takers. Here's the original ad: http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell ... Z266670814
I got it for $1200 US money. No shipping, no paypal. I spent a fun day in the car with my daughter, stopped at Cabellas and Hershey, though not for long, got a great guitar and met some good people. All in all it was a good day.
Initial report is that it's a damn fine guitar. It's almost my perfect Starfire.
There is barely a mark on it. The previous owner, who is a super nice guy, took very good care of this instrument. Intonation is perfect, he waxed it, the neck is straight, the tuners are all tight, no binding rot, no headstock shrinkage, and aside from some wear on the gold hardware, it could almost pass for new. There is one stripped screw on the bridge pickup ring. It was partially stripped until I got ahold of it. :roll: The frets show some wear, but nothing that I can feel while playing. I polished them up which made a nice improvement. They could probably do with a leveling, but I generally don't do that until I feel or hear an issue while playing.
The pickups are SD-1s. I had some small hope for HB-1s since it's a '94, but I pulled 'em for inspection and they're almost identical to the ones I had in my '97 SFIII. Still worlds better than Fender HBs, but you know how it is when you get excited for the real thing.
The fretboard does appear to be ebony. The neck is 1 11/16" at the nut. Woohoo! It's got the rounded fretboard ends that many people like (I don't really care either way), which was one of the clues that had me hoping for HB1s.
The neck is not mahogany, but I knew this from the pics going in. My other SF4 has a hog neck, so it will be fun A/Bing them. It was set up (perfectly I might add) for 11s. I prefer 10s, and right now they're a little buzzy, but we'll see how it is after a few days of settling. It really came alive with new strings.
The owner told me that it had sat online for a long time without selling. He recently lowered the price, but said he still had 1200+ people view the ad with no takers. Here's the original ad: http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell ... Z266670814
I got it for $1200 US money. No shipping, no paypal. I spent a fun day in the car with my daughter, stopped at Cabellas and Hershey, though not for long, got a great guitar and met some good people. All in all it was a good day.
taabru45
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GAD said:NEONMOONY said:
I have this rule about only owning one guitar of a certain type. Having two SF4s would break that rule. Of course I have a Gretsch SSLVO and an orange X170T, but I've convinced myself that one's for rockabilly and the other is for Jazz. Very loud, uptempo, orange Jazz.
I have a rule about only playing one guitar at a time....works for me... :wink: Steffan
guildman63
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GAD said:
GAD,
You need to be introduced to digital technology for your pics. There is a cool new product (just came out about 20 years ago) called a digital camera. I think it might work for you. :wink:
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I've been shooting digital since I bought one of these in 1997 or so. I still have it!
Now I shoot one of these:
I shoot RAW, so all the raw files need to be converted to jpg for posting on the web. I supposed I could say "processed" or something, but my years with film tells me that I haven't developed them yet.
As soon as I figure out which little door to pour the stop-bath in, I'll post the pictures.
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Here's one
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Here's another
Wow! :shock:
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Thunderface
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HMMOGG -- Holy Moly Mother of Guild Goodness!
Dr. Spivey
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That's a beauty, GAD. Congrats and enjoy.