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1 hour ago, VECTOR said:
Disagree. I know several musicians that want and use the newest features. It depends on the music. Can hardly imagine a blues player with an 8string with fanned frets, evertune bridge and using a high-gain mini amp or "software-amp". These guys of the new generation need this for their music and do not understand why they should buy old stuff that will not stay in tune for example. They are gear nerds too but in a different way. They don't care for "made of one-piece mahogany", bumblebees and so on. They are happy with uncommon wood choices made in Indonesia guitars or using recycling materials instead of "brazilian" because this makes them sound fresh. On the other hand I know enough traditional players so I don't think the grown magic factor or voodoo of the typical components will be forgotten.
You almost make the 'new generation' sound like the guitar version of modern bass players.
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I gotta agree, but I'm not blind to something that I would consider 'better' than the original...if somebody has a used guitar for sale that has different hardware or pickups on it that I would consider as a positive upgrade, then I'm open to it. Provided the guitar has the 'improvements' professionally installed, and isn't a hack job.
There are certain 'fashionable' woods that I would NEVER want in a guitar, such as basswood, or paulownia, or okoume. Why? Because they're soft, and dent way too easily for my liking...and having to drill screw holes in those woods is something I'd dread contemplating.
I've learned to respect poplar as a tone wood, plus it's nearly as hard/durable as alder...but only if the guitar makers select high-grade poplar in the same way as they do any of their other tonewoods.
Guitar makers like to use whatever is 'trendy' at the moment, but they often don't make a convincing argument in explaining why...and the why is at least as important as the wood or hardware or 'innovation', as anything else is to me.
That being said, it's still very hard to beat an ash-bodied Telecaster with the old three-saddle brass saddles in my mind. And a 'real' Tele should NEVER have a 'belly cut' contour!
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5 hours ago, Jakeboy said:Bumpage for a great amp that I’ll be thrilled to keep if no one wants it. Great cleans and great grind, especially low on the gain channel. Very classic rock. Yet plenty of gain on tap.
One thing you haven't mentioned yet (other than not being made by Peavey), is that your Budda is a handwired Jeff Bober-era, first version SuperDrive 18 with no PCBs, correct? If it is, this is the one to have! GLWTS!
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The latest version of Guild just announced a Kim Thayil model S-100...only at least 20 years too late, unless they're going for the Grunge niche market, or for the 'nostalgia' customers:
Guild Polara Kim Thayil Signature Demo | First Look - Premier Guitar
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10 hours ago, phoenix said:
it must have been lost so long he's forgotten how much they suk
He has (and still uses on occasion) other 500/1 basses, including his '63 that still has a Beatles set list from '66 taped to it, like Willie mentioned above:
The history of Paul McCartney and his iconic Hofner 500/1 bass guitar | Guitar World
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33 minutes ago, topekatj said:
Hey Crunch: if one wanted to preserve the aesthetic of a single knob but add a tone control you could incorporate a jazz bass style stacked/ concentric pot to the equation.
Does your cabro feature a back tummy cut? Coincidentally, Dave’s has another ash bodied cabro on the ‘verb with the same Rutters bridge.
https://reverb.com/item/73066798-fender-limited-edition-cabronita-tele-19
I'm still in the thinking stages about a double-decker knob, those came to mind when I was looking at Cabronitas before. I don't care for belly cuts on Teles, if I wanted one I'd buy a Strat.
I saw that Cab at DGS though, I like the butterscotch color but the one I got in white blonde is nice (much cheaper, too), with a cool 'Jimmy Bryant' vibe, plus the ash grain shows up much better in person than it did in the original DGS photo.
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47 minutes ago, tbonesullivan said:
Lemme know when they find it in Abu Dhabi at the home of some mega billionaire along with the Beano Burst.
Maybe it's in Japan:
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On 8/30/2023 at 9:40 PM, topekatj said:
Hey @crunchee: what’s the story on those pickups?
Not bad, they're crisp and clean when I want them to be, jangly and chimey for sure, it makes the guitar sound like a similar-but-distinctly-different flavor of Tele, if that makes any sense. The 3-saddle bridge seems to work great for this guitar, and I'm pretty sure it is a Rutters bridge, but I haven't looked under the bridge to see if there's any I.D. marks on it yet. This guitar's great for Tom Petty stuff and BritPop, and anything else that uses a lot of rhythm playing, IMO...and I'm definitely itching to try the guitar out through tremolo effects. I wish Cabronitas were around back when I had a Rick 330 and 360!
The PUs kinda sound somewhere like between a PAF and a Tele PU, with more oomph than a single coil (they are humbuckers, after all). Good for blues and even jazz, too! I dunno how well they compare to a TV Jones PU yet (I don't have or have played any guitars that have those), so I'd have to listen up on YooToob samples. I did once have a Gretsch Electromatic G5420T with stock 'blacktop' pickups on those, those were similar and OK for that guitar, but they didn't make the same impression on me that the Fidelitrons did...maybe it had something to do with them being in a hollowbody guitar? The only drawback is that I have to control the tone from the amp (no tone knob on the guitar), but that's no big deal to me...at least not yet.
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Probably not being pictured on a milk carton near you soon, but still...
3 lifelong Beatles fans seek to solve "greatest mystery in rock and roll" (msn.com)
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Has anybody else noticed that Gibson's necks (as shown on reissues too) got noticeably thinner from about c. 1960 onward, as well as on Fenders (and reissues, again...check out the neck thickness on a 1960 RI Strat as an example) at about the same time? I'm sure that's more than coincidence, but I can't pin down the reason why. Did it have something to do with more chord usage? Instrumental music? Surf music? More student players?
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19 minutes ago, RobB said:
It’s probably a browser setting, not the computer. Nothing is easier than copying an image, saving it to your desktop and using the, “add files”, link on the HFC.
Or, operator error (no affiliation).
Nope, computer issues. My computer won't upload my OWN photos anymore, even through the 'card reader' or a flash drive.
I get the feeling that I need to dump a lot of things and free up memory, and see if that helps. Or get something better than my old cheap-ass computer. And YES, it is Windows 10 compatible.
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Yeah, I know, It's already sold (no affiliation, BTW), but y'all might wanna look at it anyway. I can't post photos (damn computer issues!), so somebody else might want to do a screen grab of it before it's gone:
https://www.davesguitar.com/collections/all-products-latest/products/ic200-iceman-78
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Just checked, the DGS website says it is now SOLD OUT. Did anybody here on the HFC snag it?
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16 hours ago, Cboss said:
The are on my brothers slash edition Gibson, I was just marveling at them the other day
How did he manage to do that without drilling? Or is this a different tuner and system that Gibson uses, meant only for Gibsons? AFAIK, the 'contemporary dual-pin mounting system' that I'm referring to (and referencing to in the above Fender link), is only compatible on Fenders that use said system, unless he made them fit by drilling.
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29 minutes ago, topekatj said:
Hey @crunchee: what’s the story on those pickups?
I hope to find out tomorrow, as FedEx didn't pick up from the DGS store in Fitchburg until yesterday (Tuesday).
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1 hour ago, Cboss said:
Why is it this much? I don't know the background
If you can find another one that's cheaper, go for it. It looks like this one has already SOLD, according to the DGS website.
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Remember that I said the guitar had what looked like vintage Kluson-type tuners, instead of the standard modern square cast/sealed housing'd Fender tuners? I took a closer look at the DGS photos, and I noticed that 1: The tuner post bushings looked like the larger modern 'screw in' types, not the vintage 'push in' grommet-style bushings, and 2: On the back of the headstock, there weren't any visible screws holding the tuners in place.
I did some on-line digging around, and guess what? These are apparently those tuners:
So look Ma, no tiny screws to futz with, and no drilling! If you've got a recent-model Fender, the tuners just drop in and install, just like the standard modern cast/sealed tuners. I'd never knew these tuners even existed, has anybody else encountered them? They sure look like a good way not to mess up your headstock with a drill !
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I snagged this Tele Cabronita (the TC in the NTCD) at DGS Madison tonight after it showed up in the DGS online inventory yesterday, after giving it some long thought overnight:
I'd wanted one since they came out several years ago, but missed out on the chance. Some things in the item description had me scratching my head, though...such as the 'standard cast/sealed tuners' stated in the description (they look like vintage Kluson-style repro types to me, not the square-bodied Fender-branded sealed tuners that often show up on these guitars); and I also thought that Fender was using ash with a 'White Blonde' finish in 2012 on MIM Teles and Cabronitas, not alder?
The color makes it tough to tell either way (thanks a LOT, Fender ); and the weight doesn't give much of a clue either, as all my Fenders/Partscasters (alder and ash) sit in the upper 7 lb. range also. The other 'unique' thing about MIM Cabronitas (some might call it a drawback), is that the original bridge is a three-screw baseplate-mounted type, not the traditional four-screw Tele baseplate-mounting type, and appears to be patterned on the old three-screw Fender American Standard hardtail, regarding mounting screw placement and string spacing. The maker of the currently-installed bridge on this guitar is also a mystery, as it's not mentioned in the DGS item description; but from looking around online, it does look a lot like the Rutters' 'La Burrito' bridge to me, so maybe it is, and/or maybe it isn't (no affiliation):
https://ruttersguitars.com/la-burrito-bridge
So, anybody else want to try to unravel this mystery?
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1 hour ago, HSB0531 said:
I just weighed it and I was very surprised.....10.8 lbs. I thought it weighed more because it's an Ash body.
That, too.
Ash can be all over the place weight wise, especially nowadays since it's not quite as plentiful as it used to be. My '06 Fender MIM Mike Dirnt P-Bass weighs 9 lbs. 7 oz., and has a four-piece Ash body and a factory Quan BadAss bridge. Check out an old 70's Ash-bodied Peavey T-40 bass if you ever get a chance, they're usually heavy.
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18 hours ago, HSB0531 said:
I like brass; This has brass nut, pickguard, knobs, and bridge.
I like brass too, but how much do the brass parts that don't have anything to do with string vibration and tone weigh, when compared to standard stock parts? For instance, the difference in weight of vintage-style brass Tele saddles are pretty much negligible when compared to vintage-style Tele steel saddles, but standard Fender recent-make flat-top Tele chrome knobs weigh approximately 15g (1/2 oz.) each, while Fender vintage-type Tele recent-make 'domed' knobs weigh about 30 g (1 oz.) each. For multiple sets, you can do the math.
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I gotta go with what Jeff R said. I know it's kind of a 'apples and oranges' thing when talking about Strat trem blocks vs. Tele saddles, but I love those old-fashioned brass saddles on a Tele, with either intonation 'steps' in them or not. I once had a Tele that a previous owner had put on a vintage-style Glendale 'Bakersfield' saddle set (aluminum E/A saddle for the bass side, and cold-rolled steel D/G and B/E saddles for the others), and I didn't care for those at all; they were too bright, too 'pingy', and kinda meh in general. I took those off and put on a off-the-shelf set of vintage-style brass Fender Tele saddles, and it sounded much better to my ears, IMO.
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No affiliation. I know nothing about Valvetech amps other than they seem to have a following here on the HFC:
https://www.davesguitar.com/collections/all-products-latest/products/hayseed-30-head-cab-recent
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