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Some tough advice - if it hurts, don’t do it.
Little Elvis is leaving the building.
You could get the neck reshaped and still have problems, then more reshaping? You will just have to find another model with the slim taper neck of your J45. My Blues King L-00 has it, plenty of Gibsons since around 2007/8.
Hummingbird or Dove with slim taper would go nicely with your J45.......probably better in the long run that two J45s.
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Yep, there is the accountant's MSRP and the used price etc, but I don't see much about some kind of 'lovability' 'playability' index... you know, you have a 10 -15 year old version of the new models that got the good build on a nice day, it is now broken in beautifully, plays sensationally after a number of setups and alterations including the best pickup you can buy, etc...but this is worth, on paper, half of the new model?
These are the ones I keep and eye for, and have bought a couple of neglected beauties over the last few years and had them repaired. Great fodder for the struggling musician. And on a 'lovability/value/playability' index, out of 10...maybe way higher than what a new one could score.....
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I was looking at the Acoustic Letter's video of the new Gibson Elvis Dove - love black guitars myself.....
So I looked up Elvis Aloha From Hawaii live concert, Elvis pictured on the brochure with black Dove, and was going to rent it, nothing to watch much last night....and nobody had it for streaming. And Elvis Presley Enterprises is still making $4.99 a pop for streaming all his other movies...
Then bingo, I found a restoration of the full concert on Youtube.....linked below if you want to watch.
Err, Elvis holds the black Dove for approx 10 seconds, poses with it a bit, plucks something, then it goes to the dark spaces out back....
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3 hours ago, rbpicker said:
Thanks all, this is a sweet example. I’ve pretty much got it dialed in and set up to my liking. Usually takes a few days of adjusting, tinkering, etc.
Bluesking, I told my wife just today that I’m naming the guitar Elvis.
Does anyone know to resize iPhone pictures? Mine come out too large for this forum. Not sure why.
Roger
Cool!
May your sideburns grow long and your collar high!😁
Photos - I load mine to my laptop, save as a smaller size as I do it, then load that to Imgur photo host site. (then copy the link they give you for each photo to the forum...
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On 7/13/2022 at 10:05 AM, rbpicker said:
STOP THE CAMERAS, HOLD THE FORT, CEASE AND DESIST!!!!!!! I checked the label…IT DOES SAY 50s J45. I’ll be damned, son of a gun, what the heck, holy smokes!!!!,! Well I’ll be darned, OK, I have another J45.
I find this pretty amusing, if only slightly embarrassing. I was certain it was a 50, and the dealer referred to it as a J50. I didn’t even look at the label.in the end, I really don’t care. It’s got the large pickguard, and the beefier 50s neck shape (although not as chunky as the natural J50 I sent back.). I love it whatever the heck it is.
Thanks Boyd, I think I’ll just go to bed.
Roger
Congrats!
Maybe Gibson should call the black one an Elvis to go with their new black Elvis models? The Elvis 45 or the E-45?
Or maybe the X - something like the radar proof jets? X-45?
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Wires are getting crossed still....
The Authentic series guitars are very different from the Standard series. They are close copies of vintage 30s Martins, very lightly built in the Custom Shop, while the Standards are modern, more heavily built guitar from the factory. You can do a search on AGF or UMGF about these extensive differences - there is plenty of detail.
I bought an OM18 Authentic 1933 VTS around 2015/6. It is a close copy of a Martin OM18 owned by Fred Oster of Vintage Instruments, all hide glue construction, torrefied Adi spruce, very lightly braced. Compared to a Standard OM18, it is a bucking bronco, hard to control ....the twin turbo version of my standard non turbo car.....
I am going to rope it now......
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Cool!
I have the guitar version of that rat rod in my back room!
I did get to play for a minute a Martin D28 Authentic Aged at a shop.......it sounded fantastic, played fantastic and the aging was very, very subtle. It looked about the age and wear of my 2006 Martin HD28V. There were no big gouges like some Fender Relics. No belt sander used.
More my preferred guitar size is the new Martin 000-28 Aged Custom Shop Expert Authentics, haven’t played one....but the aging process is also pretty staid.
I would say they are designed for old codgers like me that have bought vintage before and want new instead, but with a few years scraped off the guitar that helps the sound and feel.
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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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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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Help me think this through, friends…J45 dilemma
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What about giving the (new) Gibson 60s style J45s a go? Thinner nut, neck....
They have a black one with white pickguard and quote, comfy in any position! 😁:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/OCRS4560EBN--gibson-acoustic-60s-j-45-original-ebony
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