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I have a new guitar today

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:04 pm
by benecol
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As I've mentioned in the diary thread, I've bought a new guitar. Playing loads of semi-hollows in my local shop made me hanker after one again (had a couple in the past, for a while they were the weapons of choice for us Jesus and Mary Chain-obsessed wurzels). I was eyeing up one of the Nick Valensi Rivieras but (guitar heresy alert) I don't think P90s suit me very well; I find they lack a bit of dynamic range - for a clumsy fucker, some of my playing can be quite nuanced (Doog: you may want to pronounce this "nuancéd"). It's slightly embarrasing that it's taken me four P90 equipped guitars to realise this... So, I cast around for nice 335s, and happened upon the above Edwards on eBay. I had an Edwards before (with a P90 hemhem) and it was great - only sold it to raise funds for my Jazzmaster. They're one of the few 335s with a big-ish neck (the Tokais are good further up the neck, but have a really narrow nut), and have good pickups and tuners from stock. Plus he'd already dinged the headstock, so I don't have to worry about damaging it.

And it's fucking great - love it to bits so far. Means I have a nice range of guitars now; tele, tele baritone, Jazzmaster and this one. It also means that I can cop all of Tortoise's guitar sounds and still have a telecaster spare to pretend to be Judah Bauer.

I am, however, trying to gloss over the fact that it's effectively an Eric Clapton signature (small blocks, Grovers etc).

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:06 pm
by Thom
Lovely.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:06 pm
by lorez
Oh my that is lovely Tim. Looks so sweet

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:13 pm
by Noirie.
Now that is nice.

Although not a 335 but I would really like a Epiphone Casino after trying one last year.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:22 pm
by benecol
I played a Casino, and the neck wasn't as dinky as I was expecting.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:23 pm
by Gabriel
Very nice, I approve of an semi-hollow or hollow body guitar. All guitars should have some air in them 8)

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:27 pm
by Dave
335 is one of 'my' guitars that I just click with. Small nut Tokai is most certainly relevant to my tiny pawed interests.

Unrelated sidenote: nice buy B! Extra mark for Judah Baur mention.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:28 pm
by dezb1
Nice looking guitar... I've never heard of Edwards where are they manufactured?


Ps: I agree with you on the p90's put a set in my Riviera, but went back to humbuckers as the p90's weren't for me...

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:45 pm
by Fran
dezb1 wrote:Nice looking guitar... I've never heard of Edwards where are they manufactured?
Japan, high end models of ESP.

Looks cracking Tim, spotless in fact. I imagine it plays great. Dont start off a JAMC/Semi-Hollow revival, i cant afford it just yet :wink:

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:48 pm
by lorez
Fran wrote:
dezb1 wrote:Nice looking guitar... I've never heard of Edwards where are they manufactured?
Japan, high end models of ESP.

Looks cracking Tim, spotless in fact. I imagine it plays great. Dont start off a JAMC/Semi-Hollow revival, i cant afford it just yet :wink:
Talking of semi hollows I read a billy Duffy interview where he said gretch were going to do a signature white falcon 8)

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:54 pm
by dezb1
Fran wrote:

Looks cracking Tim, spotless in fact. I imagine it plays great. Dont start off a JAMC/Semi-Hollow revival, i cant afford it just yet :wink:
but you know you want one... you're already thinking about it... am I right?

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:57 pm
by westtexasred
Awesome Guitar!

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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:24 am
by James
I was watching this one on ebay but the London collection made me just watch it to see what price it went for rather than to consider bidding on it. It looks a really classy guitar. I've looked at a couple of Edwards models and they all have a great spec.

Dibs if you ever sell it?

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:36 am
by AaronGuitarDude
335 is worthless without a bigsby.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:24 pm
by NickD
Lovely looking thing, the colour is great.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:48 pm
by gypsyseven
Pure sex, congrats!

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:08 pm
by Mike
Mike approves. Cherry Red ES335s are beautiful.