Guitar Neck Facts for dumb MFers

[Thundersteel]

I've been schooled!

[django49]

But, you will notice he does NOT play a guitar with BIRD inlays.....Hmmmmm

[stratacus]

10 seconds in and I want to face punch this mother fucker.

[3of5]

I guess I have real fortitude. I got 17 seconds into it before I had to shut it off.

[zenmindbeginner]

How did this guy fit so many damn guitars in a doublewide?

[HoboMan]

How did this guy fit so many damn guitars in a doublewide?

He stacked 'em (the doublewides).

[django49]

^^^Jeez....High rise trailer court!

(Is that Bill Clinton in that doorway scouting out another "double-wide"?)

[gorch]

I love this guy, because he's speaking out what I have ever believed in.

[diablo175]

Shit. He's wearing Vans. Gonna have to reconsider wearing mine for fear of association with him of any kind.

[santellavision]

I also wanted to punch this idiot in the first 30 seconds.

[Disturber]

What was that again?

[cynic]

I find the guy funny. Little of what I do is very nuanced, so I don't hear nearly as much difference in woods (if any) as many claim to, so as far as I know he could even be right.

[LordsoftheJungle]

I wonder if he's got any advice regarding aged magnets?

[deadringer]

That would be Scott Grove.

Check this out:

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/backstage/214130-i-guess-scott-grove-has-brain-dead.html

[cmatthes]

Guys...

C'mon. We do not allow political posts on this board.

[The Shark]

Hopefully, I won't be on my death-bed and realize I could have seven or eight minutes more if I'd not clicked on the video above.

[diablo175]

Guys...

C'mon. We do not allow political posts on this board.

Was wondering when that was gonna be cited.

[FrettyMcgee]

Ah, that guy...lol.

Reminds me waaay back in the 90s, L&M once had a rosewood Warmoth neck hanging behind the counter for 75 bucks. And it was all rosewood. Still kicking my self for not snagging it.

Guess I'm a dumb motherfucker.

[Jack C]

I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it. The guy is entertaining.

[David B]

I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it. The guy is entertaining.

Me too.

[Ting Ho Dung]

I like that guy.

[MCChris]

Although my ear isn't good enough to hear the tonal difference between fretboard woods, I do know that you'd probably have to actually fret a note in order to hear them.

Of course I could just be a dumb motherfucker.

[bcsride]

He's wrong - I practice more than I bitch, and I still suck at guitar.

[HSB0531]

Although my ear isn't good enough to hear the tonal difference between fretboard woods, I do know that you'd probably have to actually fret a note in order to hear them.

Of course I could just be a dumb motherfucker.

Very, Very Good Point.

The tonal difference can't be heard by simply plucking an open string.

The fretboard, frets, and inlays don't come into play here.

I'm talking no amp, just acoustically.

I Definitely here a difference in two of my Fender basses that have exactly the same neck and body wood. except for one having a rosewood board and the other being all maple.

Both have the same neck shape, & both have alder wood bodies.

If I pluck an open string they sound the same.

When I play them, I hear a difference.

[Dasein]

Timbre and overtones. If he can't hear the difference then all the better for me that he'll miss the gem and I'll find the prize next time I buy a guitar.

Last time I bought a guitar for myself I was in Singapore -- I went into a Tom Lee Music there and they had about 400 acoustic guitars in stock and on display. I spent 2 days playing through them, rejecting and isolating the good from bad until I had my shortlist of about 10 to 15. I'd already found my guitar at that point but I went further and paid to restring the last 10 or 12 before continuing to test and play. The next day I walked out of the shop before it closed with a guitar that was amazing. Total time spent was about 12 hours over 3 days --- I was a 24 year old kid at the time (Holy shit? The last guitar I bought was 20 years ago -- bloody hell, that shit ain't right) and the guys at Tom Lee had never seen anyone spend that kind of time to buy a guitar before. They didn't know what to make of me. I blew their minds when I bought the strings and restrung that last group (leaving them overnight). For me it was an amazing experience - to compare that many instruments virtually unmolested in a big guitar store (the acoustics had their own floor I think so nobody playing eruption or Stairway or Crazy Train). Every guitar played was a revelation as I compared them. Same makes, different makes, same models, different models. Was fully prepared to lay out the big money and buy the best guitar they had there (With only the absolute top shelf stuff like vintage Martins and Taylors really off my list as this was to be a travel guitar), and in the end, to my enormous surprise, I walked out with a humble Yamaha FG-421 for around 400 Singaporean dollars that sounded and played better than anything in the shop.

This guitar has been all over the world with me, from the Himalayas to the Mekong Delta - To the moors of Devon, and the streets of Antwerp. I've handed it over to more people to play in more places wondering if I'd ever see it again - and as I sit here typing this the guitar rests beside me on my couch.

The point to this is that every instrument has individual characteristics that define it. And the more you play it, the more in tune to those characteristics you become as a player - the more you are able to exploit and suppress them as necessary. The more you are able to evoke the magic and suppress the suck. Instruments are individual -- even mass produced ones.

If this guy can't hear the difference that's his problem. He wont be selling me a guitar nor will he ever be touching one of mine. He can bully his way through life slapping people in the face with a bag of dicks -- I'll just keep playing my guitars.