| Author | Message | ||
     Steveford |
Motorcycles and guitars go together like peanut butter and jelly. Who's got what? I'll start with my Gibson ES335 Satin. A little DuPont No. 7 and some Mother's California Gold carnauba paste was and it spiffed right up. An added benefit was the increase in sustain, the guitar really came to life.  Those with sharp eyes will notice that when I popped the strings on real quick for the photo I neglected to put the lower E string in the saddle. Oops. | ||
| Court |
I picked up 4 guitars . . . kind of by accident . . . last month. Here are 2 of them.  | ||
| Steveford |
No home should be without an SG (or two).  I always was a sucker for P90 pick ups. | ||
| Court |
Crazy huh ?. . when I heard that the MinEtune was standard for 2014 . . . I snagged an identical pair of 2013 SG Standards. The 50th Anniversary SG 12 string was a special limited edition. Fun stuff. . .. | ||
| Griffmeister |
It's the guitar! | ||
| Cyclonedon |
As much as I love Gibson guitars, they are not in my budget. I own four Epiphones, a Dot, SG, ES339, and a acoustical. My favorite is the SG but the ES339 is becoming more like able every day! | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Slightly rare early Korean Les Paul with Gibsonesque headstock and long neck tenon. Plays like a dream.  Early Korean Sheraton. A fantastic guitar.  1980 Gibson Sonex-180 Deluxe. Dirty fingers pickups, factory coil splitting and almost fretless action.  1991 American Fender Telecaster with Texas Special pickup and custom wiring.  1986 Fender Squier Japan made "strat" Tons of mojo and great tone for a cheap guitar.  I won't bore you with the rest of the collection. | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Ok one more. Agile Harm 3. Kind of a Rick inspired model. We're presently working out some intonation issues.  | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Steveford, that's a beautiful 335. My dream guitar. | ||
| Steveford |
Thank you, I really love that 335. Last year I got in a real bind and I sold her big sister, Lucille, to a fellow in Canada. I contacted him a little while ago and I am happy to say he's selling her back to my next month. How often do you get one of your old guitars back?  | ||
| Glitch |
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| Xb9er |
Got this beast for Christmas. New Fender Starcaster.  | ||
| Steveford |
Pretty cool, I've never seen that Fender model. That Flying V is inspirational! Here's my whale of a guitar, a 10 pound, 11 ounces Les Paul. No wonder guitar players all walk around stooped over.  | ||
| Blake |
I recently purchased my first ever pair of drumsticks. I do a wicked air-bass while practicing basic beats on the mouse pad. | ||
| Court |
http://bdlpercussion.com/#bdldrumpads | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
i'll post pics later -squire strat -ibanez rg7 seven string -fender acoustic -fender aerodyne bass (Made in Japan) and now....well, Im browsing CL for a while epi les paul, if I can find a good deal, cool. If not, I'll get one at some point, always wanted one since I was 14 | ||
| Rkc00 |
Here are a few that I built last year. Build #1 Esquire  Build #2 Tele  Build #3 Esquire  Build #4 Esquire (sold to Matt Grundy of the Donavon Frankenrieter Band)  Build #5 Tele  My 50th Anniversary Pete Townsend SG  | ||
| Rkc00 |
Build #6 Tele  Build #7 Esquire  Build #8 Tele  Build #9 Tele  Build #10 My own shape  | ||
| Rkc00 |
The Quiver  | ||
| Buellish |
Michael,are you building from Stew/Mac kits?You do really nice work,though I shouldn't be surprised after seeing your photography. | ||
| Rkc00 |
Build #2 and #3 where pre finished bodies. All the others are cut from plank and finished by me. All necks where purchased some with a finish some without a finish. Don't have the proper setup to make necks yet. | ||
| Steveford |
What your is that Firebird? My goal is to replace some of the guitars that I sold off and that's one of them. Same with that LP Special you've got there... You have good taste in guitars, there! (Message edited by SteveFord on January 09, 2014) (Message edited by SteveFord on January 10, 2014) | ||
| Rkc00 |
2010 v | ||
| Xb9er |
Michael, Build number 8 is beautiful. | ||
| Rkc00 |
Build #8 is a copy of the Muddy Waters Tele. Just a few changes. Truss rod adjustment at the head not the base. I used custom shop 51 nocaster pickups. | ||
| Rkc00 |
Steve, I might be interested in selling the LP Special. Let me know if you are interested. Need money for my next build. Might sell some of the Tele's also. Michael | ||
| Steveford |
I wonder if my typing is really that bad or if this site is correcting my spelling after I hit enter? I'll shoot you a PM about that LP Special - I have to get my beautiful Lucille back in my hairy arms again but I suppose I could always sell something to snag another one a little bit ahead of schedule. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
I don't know squat about guitars.... but I love to listen I have found myself watching a lot of youtube videos of John 5 giving lessons Its amazing to me what some people can do | ||
| Al_lighton |
There was another guitar thread here on badweb a few years back that folks posted their guitars to, but I can't find it now. I've been playing bass more than guitar since taking over the reins at American Sport Bike, but before American Sport Bike I played lots more guitar. I've had a number of them over the years, but I've sold all of them except the ones I built. I built my first one in college. The first neck kinda sucked, so I put a Gibson neck on it. This is the only picture that I know of it (that's me at 19 holding it):  It had a solid maple body, and would have been heavy as heck if it wasn't for the large body cutouts at the rear. After many years and guitars, I scrapped it and stole the neck and built this one:     The body is mahogany, the top is 3/8" thick curly maple. The pickups were from a fender Heartfield Elan II, which were very underated Japanese guitars with really nice pickups. But I prefer the fender scale length and single coil pickups, so the next one I built was this:     The body was mahogany, with 1/8" thick rosewood front and back. There are several open chambers in the body to make the thing a bit more lively acoustically, since the rosewood caps can tend to deaden a guitar a bit. The neck is a stew mac maple with ebony fretboard. The bridge is a clever wilkenson locking trem that fixes when the whammy is rotated back and frees up when it's rotated forward. It's a cool idea that never really caught on. The tuners are also different than normal and work well but also never really caught on. Pickups are Lindy Fralins, can't remember the specific model of them though. My fave and the one that I play most is this Jag-o-casterish thing      Body is light ash, neck is a stew mac birds-eye maple, conventional Wilkenson trem and Sperzel tuners. Pickups are Seymour Duncan vintage something or others, I can't remember, it's been years since I built it. All are finished in Nitrocellulose lacquer. I'm sure I'll die of cancer some day from all the Butyrate dope I inhaled building RC airplanes as a teenager, and the lacquers I've inhaled painting countless motorcycles and guitars. (Message edited by al_lighton on January 17, 2014) | ||
| Steveford |
You guys do nice work. I really like that birds eye maple neck - that looks great. |
