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Silvertone Jupiter I done gone and boughted

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Just pulled the trigger on this... 25" scale with DeArmond Pickups.

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That's grand. And 25" scale is my favourite.
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I like that a lot...
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Nice. I'm always thrown off by how heavy they are considering how close they look to the originals. I think Doog has a black one. It looks cool in red.
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Sweet! I used to a black Silvertone like that. Check out the Margaret Glaspy's Harmony Jupiter in the thread about her I posted below.

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Congrats! She's a beaut!
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Nice. I've always liked the Eastwood version.
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Nice, I really like mine, although it's had some upgrades (Mojo Goldfoil pups, B3, white button tuners, new 4-way pot thats supposed to be serial/parallel but I fucked it).

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Nice that you got the D'Armond goldfoils rather than the stock fake TV Joneses; I emailed them a while back about getting a pair for mine but they totally blanked me, total asswholes

The scale's 24 3/4, mind- don't you be boasting to all the gals about that extra quarter inch, Cowbell...
http://www.silvertoneclassic.com/guitars/model-1423/
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Nick wrote:Nice. I'm always thrown off by how heavy they are considering how close they look to the originals. I think Doog has a black one. It looks cool in red.
Weird, it's about as light as the Jazzmaster I had, not heavy at all.

I defo prefer the solid body of this reissue, even if it's not vintage-correct. Did love that mid-60s Silvertone 1448 I tried out last year though.. lovely, but not for me.
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Doog wrote:Nice, I really like mine, although it's had some upgrades (Mojo Goldfoil pups, B3, white button tuners, new 4-way pot thats supposed to be serial/parallel but I fucked it).

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Nice that you got the D'Armond goldfoils rather than the stock fake TV Joneses; I emailed them a while back about getting a pair for mine but they totally blanked me, total asswholes

The scale's 24 3/4, mind- don't you be boasting to all the gals about that extra quarter inch, Cowbell...
http://www.silvertoneclassic.com/guitars/model-1423/
Sweet!

I'm glad to know you actively own/play one because I aspire to be you... :wink:

Seriously though, I do feel better knowing you own one because you play A LOT and aren't one to B.S. about guitars.

I feel like these are hidden gems, and I would love to own teh vintage one but if I spent the $$ to get teh vintage I know it would probably cost me $$ to get it to play worth a damn.
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Nick wrote:It looks cool in red.
Thanks. That's exactly what drew me to it. I had seen them in black, but when I saw red + D'armond pups, I was SOLD.
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My buddy has a vintage Silvertone that looks like that, shit is so fun to play. Never have got to try any of the reissues.

Silvertone is my shit. Love my 1448 and 1449.
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This the Harmony Jupiter with Goldtone pickups.

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She's lovely and all that...but these Youtube guitar demos I find are all of how it sounds "clean". I need to hear teh kurdtz.
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Looks kool!
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More Cowbell wrote:Seriously though, I do feel better knowing you own one because you play A LOT and aren't one to B.S. about guitars.

I feel like these are hidden gems, and I would love to own teh vintage one but if I spent the $$ to get teh vintage I know it would probably cost me $$ to get it to play worth a damn.
Totally, these things play like budder; love the radius and the neck profile; it feels like the perfect fit for me and my weird alienhands.
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