My New Gordon Smith GS1.60 (updated TLDR edition)

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:55 pm

Fran wrote:I'll echo Dave here, as if the next meetup needs anymore reasons to turn up but this is one of them. Cant wait to neck bend try it. I may have read this but remind me; did you go the traditional GS route of brass but?

Arr, brass nut Francis - I'll bring it along to cucumber-sandwiches-fest.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:55 pm

WANT DEMO!!

Want THUNDERS TONEZ....

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Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:11 am

HAHA GENIUS YOO SHLAAAAAAAAAGGGG!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:29 am

benecol wrote: cucumber-sandwiches-fest.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:30 am

this thread and also finding a UK custom maker of jazzmasters and the fact that 71 guitars will be over priced this year because everyone who is 40 will buy one and the fact that gibson and fender were in a big transistion and value might not be worth it means things might be in a state of flux for me but I have to say I might be trying to angle a trip up the road to benecols soon just to try both his GS & Jazzy pretty soon

but the UK meet up will be a better place for a brass nut and some english guitar class

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:44 am

Stay on target, soft lad: not everyone will be buying birth-year guitars. Hang in there: January and February are notoriously bleak months on eBay etc. Something will crop up.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:50 am

benecol wrote:Stay on target, soft lad: not everyone will be buying birth-year guitars. Hang in there: January and February are notoriously bleak months on eBay etc. Something will crop up.

very true, and i get like this when I see you posting such great guitars. I think 71 might be a poor year though but I'm looking around these years to widen the net. I just also like the idea of a bespoke/unique guitar as well. friday night drunk speak kicking in as well

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:35 am

lorez wrote:this thread and also finding a UK custom maker of jazzmasters

Sovereign? Do tell!

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:43 am

benecol wrote:Scale Length: 24.5 inches - mine too

surely this is just a typo, and they're both 24.75" scale? mmm hmm?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 9:09 am

Ah fuck.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:03 pm

Fran wrote:
lorez wrote:this thread and also finding a UK custom maker of jazzmasters
Sovereign? Do tell!

the creamery in manchester - http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:10 pm

It might seem shallow, but I'm always put off by people making Jazzmasters and similar without doing a decent edge contour. It really doesn't suit the guitar for it to be so square. It looks fine on a tele or an explorer, but even if I had a bound body jazzmaster I'd want it to have an arm contour and overall be quite free flowing and svelte. It's very out of place and just looks lazy on a jazzmaster.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:25 pm

Benecol, that is a fucking beauty. probably the most perfect JR style i've ever seen.

very very jealous.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:29 pm

James wrote:It really doesn't suit the guitar for it to be so square. It looks fine on a tele or an explorer...

Or an LP Jr style guitar.

That looks well worth the wait, Tim. I'm not usually a fan of chunky necks but I can imagine it feeling natural on this guitar.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:58 pm

lorez wrote:
Fran wrote:
lorez wrote:this thread and also finding a UK custom maker of jazzmasters
Sovereign? Do tell!
the creamery in manchester - http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/

Like. This one in particular..

Which leads me to remembering i have a perspex Jazzmaster routing template, a natural finish with a decent piece of timber would not be hard to do. I'd buy a Strat neck though...

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:56 pm

I've been looking forward to this thread. Looks great. About as solid and no nonsense as guitars get, really. I like it when you see something that is so simple and that doesn't contain much more than the fundamentals of what makes things good, but still manages not to be artless or clumsy or unrefined.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:15 pm

looks mint, boss. nae messin'.

*thumbs up*

Post by **Doog** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:22 pm

Looks brillo pads, Benecol; do want a low-strung go on it.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:45 pm

Nice one Tim, looks really sweet.

A sidenote on The Creamery guitars- not sure I'd want a non-contoured JM. Also, look at the screws on this guitar- are any of them in straight?
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/handcr ... model.html

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:05 pm

Can't help thinking that if Squier came out with one of those, we'd think they were taking the piss, and would have dubbed it the shedmaster by now.

My New Gordon Smith GS1.60 (updated TLDR edition)

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