BluesKing777
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Phew, that is a dangerous question we will stay right away from!
Back to relic’d cars, errmmmm.....
No, I don’t want my BMWs to look aged, even though one is a 1989 and other 2010.......in Martin Guitar Aging terms, the 2010 is probably a Stage 1 and my 89 is probably a Stage 2, even after all these years of parking wayyyyy down the end of the supermarket carpark on my own! And a learner driver hit it there!
My guitars are generally exactly like the day I bought them, good or bad - I don’t fret and fuss like with my cars but they live in Hiscox cases and other good cases.
Can I get a Hiscox for my cars?
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There is a word for it that nobody uses......texture.
Vintage guitars can have a pleasing texture. The Aged newbies try to get some of that texture. (Errr, the Aged Martins are Authentic models, while the plain Jane D28 is in the Standard Series with relevant price difference).
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27 minutes ago, Murph said:
That was a long time ago.
The percentage has gone up...
Makes me think of the movie - ‘Idiocracy’....😶
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I was in a music shop, general instrument type with everything...drums, keys, electrics and I headed to the acoustic guitar area.....mid range Gibsons, Martins, Matons, Taylors.
I was just looking for a minute, then is guy turned up and grabbed a guitar and just started hammering as hard as he could, so hard I was surprised he didn’t break all the strings! Yep, hitting it hard. He put it back in the rack and then grabbed another and started hammering that. And rinse and repeat until a nervy little manager scurried over and told him to cease and desist!
Then the guy left, leaving a handful of people staring with our mouths open.....WTF was THAT? The whole guitar display was about to be relic’d!
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You could give the guitar to a friend of mine for the night, and his name is not Murphy, with his acid skin and fingers that kill my strings in one play and the - how to put it in words except for me screaming: "STOP!!! Don't play my guitar with that gigantic triangular metal plectrum, please!" Too late, he did!😐
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54 minutes ago, Boyd said:
I don't understand your math. One Australian dollar is only worth 68 cents in US dollars at current exchange rate, so that $4799 AUD J-45 Standard would be $3263 USD. The same guitar goes for $2849 at Sweetwater in the US. So you are paying 14.5% more, which doesn't seem too unreasonable considering international shipping/fees. Looks like you had parity with the US Dollar back in 2011 and it has gone way down since then. I don't think we could blame Gibson for that. 🙂
https://www.macrotrends.net/2551/australian-us-dollar-exchange-rate-historical-chart
Uh, you don’t like my rubbery accounting?
All the same $4799 is still $4799 here. For a standard dread/jumbo...
The locally made Cole Clark and Maton have mid range dreads for about $2,200....both makes with sensational pickup systems included, so you really, really have to want that Gibson J45 Standard. (I got my 2002 J50 at a pawn shop for about $2500 a couple of years ago).
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There is the working guitarist playing pop and then there is the working blues guitarist....
Nothing but whining whiners! 😁
Go buy them while you can.
Have a look at the price here - almost double!
https://skymusic.com.au/collections/guitars/products/gibson-custom-shop-1952-j185-vintage-sunburst
https://skymusic.com.au/collections/guitars/products/gibson-hummingbird-vintage-cherry-sunburst-2019
https://skymusic.com.au/collections/guitars/products/gibson-j-45-standard-vintage-sunburst
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I think the buyers want a guitar that looks old and vintage but with all the motor and suspension brand new.
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Recording sounds nice, Em7!
I picked up my 2006/7 Dove cherry burst a few years back at a second hand instrument/pawn shop kind of place and I looked everywhere for signs of other cherry bursts....none.... Supposedly, mine was made for the Japanese market, special order.
So I posted a NGD here with photos and someone at Gibson must have thought how pretty it is and said to get more of the cherries happening! Now!😬
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On 6/27/2022 at 11:55 PM, Remmuts said:
I bought a new L-00 Standard a year ago in May 2021.
Last week I noticed the finish flaked off of the fretboard side, the length of the first fret. This would be the area where neck binding would be. Then I noticed the finish was defective along the tire length of the nut!
When I first got the guitar the last 5 or 6 frets along the surface of the fretboard was covered with a white substance that I just can’t remove. I thought, oh well, I can live with it, but the finish flaking off is, to me, not acceptable on a $2700.00 guitar.
A well known online supplier said it is normal wear, caused by hands. That is not true, even thumb over fretting doesn’t touch that area. I was told that’s just the way it is with that type of finish.
If I knew how to post photos I would.
Any L-00 owners out there with newer models having this same issue?
Bill
Hard to see without pics!
To post photos (easily), join for free Imgur hosting site, load you photos you need to share to Imgur...again, really easy...then you will see some different ways they have to copy each photo to forums etc.
I don’t think anything has flaked or fallen off my 2007 Blues King L-00....
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21 hours ago, Murph said:
So, I ordered the Peterson, with some strings, from Sweetwater yesterday afternoon.
They are located in the next State, should be here in a few days if they're as quick as they used to be before they were sold out. It's my first order from them since that happened, but I couldn't find one locally.
I didn't really like the look of the lights on the TC Unitune, from looking at Youtube videos.
And, I used to use a "real" Peterson in the late 70's / early 80's out in Arizona and have fond memories of those times, and that band.
I'll report on it when I get it.
Yes, report back...
Is that the Peterson HD Strobodoodah clip on?
$69.99?
Want to be good! Be about double that to land one here.
Due for a newbie, might get the new gold coated strings to go with it, plus gold capo...😬
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7 minutes ago, Murph said:
The Snark is made from the same defective, deteriorating plastic that the Hercules guitar stands were. It's a Chinese product built to get our dollars and then melt away.
Snark will never get another dime from me.
However...
My nickname used to be "lumpy Pockets".
Well, I did mention a tuning fork....you could run it over.....
Though I do remember in the dark ages in the dark (stage) desperately going dounggggg, doinnnnnnggg, doinggg with my tuning fork before the band started but bass doing whoof, whoof test, test and drums going rat tat tat tat at.....someone going test, test, test on the mics..............and I would have been more in tune if I had left the guitar alone!
Then I bought the new and famous Boss TU-12 battery operated tuner! And everyone in my band used it to tune up and every band I was in was the same for a while and the TU-12 cover was now mainly gaffa tape......and if I found it in my music room in a box or bag somewhere, put a battery in it and.....would it work? My money is on : Yes.
I had a box of Snarks somewhere, but no use since I bought the TC Electronics Polytune Clip and then another backup one. Only catch is tuning outside or under very bright spotlights - look for that dark corner to tune (again) and no good in a band with loud bass/drums.
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What’s the tune? ‘Everything made to be broken’?
The best one, but still breakable, I have ever had and very reliant on it, is the TC Electronics Polytune...shows tuning better than most pegs can do! Not sure if they still make them but they made enough to find one. Highly reco’d, even though you may want an old tuning fork.....😷
I have two in case one breaks, batteries last forever!
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25 minutes ago, Murph said:
The truth always comes out, if you're just patient...
Well, he can SMELL a dodgy fret or a badly cut nut from the doorway, true!
While we are friendly, I am his friend but mainly....client!😷
But I feel like calling him every time I play a guitar he has ‘perfected’ for me! But so do all the dudes, I suppose, and he goes home and wants to be left alone....😗
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17 hours ago, Murph said:
My 2003 was pretty nice out of the box.
I eventually changed the saddle. (myself, I've never paid for a setup, it ain't rocket science)
They can sound different on different days, eh?
I could do the setup myself and do a bad job like the previous owner who filed the nut wrong, saddle awful and painted them with tea to make it look old, but forget to stretch the neck...so guess they didn't play it much.
And..if I did it myself, I wouldn't get to go to the workshop, kind of like a guitarist's Santa Cave....😁
First photo is my custom 00 deep body being made, note the famous Italian Moon Spruce top, and the second photo is some lucky fella's guitar that was ordered (like mine but slothead ) and was about to pick it up, when I had a quick pluck and went home and then came back to order mine.....😃
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So it means you got to know what you want before you have it!
And how you do that is anyone’s guess. 😆
Once you have it, there is the matter of setup...phew, strings, case, humidity control, maintenance .......and after all that, it can sound different every time you pick it up.
So, just put my abovementioned 2002 J50 Ren era back in its case and the medium strings I struggled with were fabulous today. The tone was there with lights but........mediums are better but harder to fingerpick. And did I mention the setup and repairs and bone nut and saddle by the best repair guy around turned it from a toad into a princess? I think I will ring him again but he may think I am stalking...
Some people just buy a J45 off the shelf, don’t do anything and are happy as piggies in the trough.
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Maybe designed for a dentist wearing a tux?
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Every now and then, my local guitar shop orders the locally made unmentionable name in this forum guitars in matt black custom finish.....4 or 5 years back I saw a 00 deep body land at the shop straight from the factory - I played it, setup incredible for factory sets, bought it, love it. Now these matt black ones are pretty rare but when they do get them in, they go like hotcakes...also some custom sunbursts etc...gone!
Now their full Custom Shop guitars do a fast trade normally, but they made a 00 in orange, bright orange and it has sat there for nearly 9 months approx.....time to take it back and get the black spray on it, my opinion, but that orange isn't selling! But you know, it has someone's name on it somewhere, I suppose. They normally do.
And so to the blue one....a friend bought the same blue on a 335 type electric! But he hates the orange one I showed him.
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Back to Gibsons with no cases.......
I was perusing Elderly used guitars and they have a 67 J45 cheery burst, and ha ha ha, it comes in a Taylor guitar bag!😁
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My 100% fingerpicker experience likes the 2002 J50 more than the later model J45s with slimmer necks (had a 2010 J45 Standard)........my J50 has a chunkier neck and space and is a close image of the 1956 I was looking at......but with wider nut!
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First songs would have be:
Am I blue?
Blue Bayou
Blues in the Night
Blue Skies
Blue
Blue Moon
🤩🤩🤩
(Don't really care if it is polka dots if it sounds great, but....gimme the black one!)
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12 minutes ago, slimt said:
You answering your own stuff? I do that as well. 🙄
Yep, talk to myself as well.....only one that makes any sense! 🤐
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On 6/12/2022 at 10:49 AM, BluesKing777 said:
Anyway, my 52 LG1 is behind rack with 5 guitars in cases on it - second row back in a closet, and I have meaning to drag it out to see if it has all its bits......but I have to shuffle all those nice ones around.......hmmmm. 😬
News report just in......Man found this morning survived the night in his basement after a row of guitars in cases collapsed on top of him while moving some around. His dog found him early morning and directed other family members to assist. When questioned, one replied that they though he was still returning from a gig......
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I didn’t do any of what I said. 😃
Dog didn’t have to search for me - my Eric Clapton was in the front row of the rack and spoke to me.
After my luthier tortured it back to submission, it is just fabulous to play.
3 mistakes I made:
1. I didn’t record.
2. I didn’t take more photos.
3. I didn’t ring my luthier and thank him....again...🤪
The LG1 value keeps going up and I WILL drag it out, get my luthier to fix it up and paint it black to cover the awful top crack. Meanwhile, I have nice guitars to play.
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38 minutes ago, BIRD909 said:
Finding this Gibson made me wonder about my other one. I believe it’s an L 50 but I am not sure if the mother of pearl inlay is on the fretboard make it a more specific model. Also the serial number is 397130 which, I believe makes it a 1953 model but, I could be wrong about that too. There seems to be a lot of different information online when it comes to serial numbers. I tried to take a picture of the model stamp on the inside. On the subject of cases neither one of these have cases. I got the L-50 from my Dad, who got it secondhand when he was in college and it never had a case. Still doesn’t.
Looks approx 1950....
Google 1950 Gibson L50.....the inlays on the board begin late 40s models.
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Since Covid, something has happened to people’s attitudes to older cars.
People, well guys really, use to give me the finger when driving my 89 BMW coupe but then all of a sudden everyone wants to buy it! I had notes to buy left under the wipers, had people approach me at the shopping centre and a guy pulled up cop style window to window at McDonalds Drive Thru of all places and said he wanted to buy it. And then my mechanic said he was interested in buying it.
What is happening?
And guitar prices! Some of my average guitars are going to need armed guards.....
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