Westerly Wood
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Thanks Jeff!Don't see you "strum" very often - enjoyed it! And as you know, +1 on the F30 as a cure for a sore right shoulder!
Thanks Jeff!Don't see you "strum" very often - enjoyed it! And as you know, +1 on the F30 as a cure for a sore right shoulder!
I spent a good part of today getting reacquainted with my J-45. It’s been neglected of late in favor of my Guilds and some others. It’s the first really good guitar I ever bought.
Thank you. On the other hand, I don’t have a Gibson that sounds like any of my Guilds. Just been digging the Guild tone lately. Whatever that is. All 3 of my Guilds sound different and they’re all dreads (D15, D30, D50). I also have a D40 Traditional on the way so the 45 will be pulling case duty soon enoughReally nice playing Dave! That J-45 sounds fantastic. I don’t own a Guild that sounds like that, you must own sone really nice Guilds.
Did some picking on the Eastman E1SS this morning. I sold my E10SS/v in favor of this one. I think I made the right decision. Super loud and punchy guitar.
Yes. Same size and shape. Adirondack top, Sapele back and sides, ebony fb and bridge. Tone is quite different from my 45 but I like it. More hifi sounding if that makes sense.is that like a J-45 shape, Dave? Gosh, I would love a slope dread.
I really fell for this Airliner electric guitar at a guitar shop in Boston way way way back. I just loved its shape and tone and it was a bit of a wreck but sounded amazing thru an amp. I did not end up buying it. But it was the coolest looking thing and the color was yellow.Yesterday I got out my department store arch top. Probably a Stella from the 50s. The brand is Amplificator. All solid birch, it had painted on binding and fake maple back and sides. Overpaid in a moment of weakness, I spent $100 and it was a wreck. Needed a neck reset, and since the back was practically falling off, I did the old slipping the neck block, or California neck reset. While the back was off, I shaved a bunch off the two bar braces, glued in JJB pickups, and fixed some loose back braces. Since a bunch of the painted binding had to be trimmed, I put real binding on it, front and back. Then there were the new frets. Since I have more fret tools now than then, I took a look at them and had two high frets, plus I now have a fret end file I put to good use, plus a fret end file to round things over. The nut got a shim as it was too low.
So I restrung and intonated the floating bridge and now have a very clean sounding cheesy guitar instead of a buzzy one. I found my regular heavy picks don't work on this guitar. It wants a Fender medium, otherwise you just drive what little tone it has into compression. Here is the deal, this guitar just takes you back to depression era songs like nothing else. It's no trussrod baseball neck is a handful, but Carter Family era sounds perfect, like a depression era farmer would sound on the back porch. The pickups are a great addition, and when I built my mandolin I had some experience, which was why I bought the guitar in the first place. A couple hours really improved the playability. So today, I'm playing old songs, and meant to sound like old songs on it. Haven't heard of anyone else with an Amplificatior. Got be worth $1000 based on rarity alone.
Oh come on this is funny !Same one I played the last time we tried to take over the world Pinky !
70 and sunny here. A nice reprieve from winter. Just a teaser though. Happens every year. It’ll be 30 again soon enough. You probably don’t have that problem in CA .Sitting on my front garden bench in 68 degree sunny weather playing my Guild D 35. Fiddle tunes mostly.
That's nice!F-47R
Such a sweet guitar!This F-47R is the perfect fingerpicking guitar