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Gorgeous guitar Reminds me of John Squier's. What about those F-holes, they look like they are just painted on the body?

sunshiner wrote:Gorgeous guitar Reminds me of John Squier's. What about those F-holes, they look like they are just painted on the body?

Yeah, John had a vintage G6122-1962 with the painted f-holes, mine being a reissue of the same model. It's still very acoustically lively and the bridge pickup being a tad farther away from the bridge than in that of a G6119 or G6120 gives it a really unique, somewhat more "mellow" tone of its own.

ultratwin wrote:Zero fret is also an oddly new thing for me, but things do sound a tad more consistent between open and barred chords.

I've had a few zero fret guitars, and don't know why all guitars don't have it - just sounds better to me.

Nice guitar and playing on the fromm track.

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Absolutely beautiful instrument. One of my friends had one, I was almost scared to play it it looked that good and the sounds were incredible. I've always had a fascination with imperial machine heads too, one day I will fit some onto something, just for the sake of it.

I'm starting to agree with you, Debz. It's a no-nonsense setup that is so consistent across the strings, and something even tells me that maybe even Tal Farlow almost never comped chords with open strings because the Gibsons he had in hand never had zero fret. Just a thought.

Fran wrote:Ultra posts the guitar that ends the thread

Absolutely beautiful instrument. One of my friends had one, I was almost scared to play it it looked that good and the sounds were incredible. I've always had a fascination with imperial machine heads too, one day I will fit some onto something, just for the sake of it.

Nice to hear you've been around one of these guys, Fran! Other than the Art Deco flair, the Imperials are quite nice in that they're both thin and wide, making for an easy grab-and-turn.

It's Pedalworx McSqueeze and Digitech RV-7 (Modulated setting) all day for me somedays, the warmth and body makes it an infectious guy to pick up and play.

dub wrote:I should really just fuck off to gibsonscale.org:

is that an SG300 in the middle? saw one for sale this week but the guy wants £450, which is a bit optimistic, i reckon.

From left to right:
Unbranded 70s SG Copy with BKP Mississippi Queens.
Yamaha SG2000 and one beat to shit Gibson Sonex Custom. both 1980 I think.

i want a double cut now

lorez wrote:i want a double cut now

ms spiro's guitar





just replaced the nut. first non-original part on it. its a '76 i think.

Is that thru neck or bolt on like the Hondo II's?

Nice guitars Vantage, I have a Les Paul 'the paul' copy from the early 80's. Matsumoku production (Ibanez, Westone, Aria Pro ii, Westbury...), dont think they ever made anything that was poor.

Fran wrote:Is that thru neck or bolt on like the Hondo II's?

Nice guitars Vantage, I have a Les Paul 'the paul' copy from the early 80's. Matsumoku production (Ibanez, Westone, Aria Pro ii, Westbury...), dont think they ever made anything that was poor.

bolt on. its got little metal things mounted into the neck, and neck bolts as opposed to screws, that go into em. string-thru too. sustains for ever. pickups are nice actually, not as good in coilsplit mode. but still useful. overall its nice and bright and ringy sounding, but still thuddy in the lows.
id had my eye on it in smack converters for like a year or so, then me n her got together, n she got it for her 18th a few months later. then she could give me my duosonic back. which was nice.
£125, about ten years ago or so. not bad eh. one of the best sounding guitars ive played. bit too headstock heavy tbh, probly cos of the 5piece laminate neck. im not sure if the thinner strips are maple or not.

cant decide which is the better pic, so have both...

Fender/Squier group shot (minus my P bass- should maybe take a better pic with that in there at some point, break the red/white/black pattern)

Danelectro Dead on '67 (Hornet)

edit: just added some large Boss style volume and tone knobs that are a lot more user friendly than the original Danelectro toothpaste cap knobs

Thats interesting to see, i've seen that guitar in PT's home studio before but I didn't know he ever used it live

sholkham wrote:Thats interesting to see, i've seen that guitar in PT's home studio before but I didn't know he ever used it live

Used them on an tour of America rather than take and guitars with him... that one survived to come home.

spirograph wrote:ms spiro's guitar





just replaced the nut. first non-original part on it. its a '76 i think.

I used to have the case for that guitar

didnt realise there was such a thing! id better not show her it tho! what happened to your case?

just realised i never posted this.

its a pacifica 604. some time last summer, i was all upset n depressed n stressed, n my co-guitarist had just got a BT-Jaguar, n was gonna sell this, but instead he decided i should have it, on account i didnt have a full scale guitar at that point. to spread some goodwill, i gave two guitars to other friends. (a tatty acoustic that was only good for slide, and a basicly worn out samick sg)
anyway, this thing is one of the nicest playing guitars ive ever laid my grubby hands on. its now my main guitar. ive set it up to perfection too. my PRS-playing friend complimented my setup. it sounds lovely too, in all switch positions. the strange bit is that it has two serial numbers, one on top of the other. must have gone round part of the factory twice i guess.

Group shot, gonna be keeping these for a while I feel.