BluesKing777
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I don't mind the Iris headstock, it is growing on my, just the logo is a bit large...
Link to AGF - Ugliest Headstock Competition if you want more...
https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127670
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FYI, JT - Here is the fabulous "One Way Gal" by William Moore:
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Mark A answers our question on the difference in sound of the scalloped LG2 Banner with the non scalloped LG3.....
He plays (fingerpick) the same song first up on the LG3 and the LG2 next! Probably need some cut and paste and overlay each other, but the rest of us have to listen to all of it.
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13 hours ago, jt said:
Did someone mention LG-3s? 🙂
My current favorite guitar.
Nicely done, JT!
Is that your version of One Way Gal?
Have you played the brand new version of the Custom Shop LG2 1942 Banner? Comparison? You would be the ideal candidate! Hop over to Wildwood Music and have a pick, please, then review!
My 59 has non scalloped bracing and I find I can really dig in (fingerpicking).....nice. Have never played an vintage one with scalloped, or the new ones for that matter. like to hear the diff in person, but....none here.
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5 hours ago, dhanners623 said:
I do love the sound of the DE-11.
Quality and sound aside, from a purely aesthetic standpoint, I find Iris’ headstocks ugly as sin.
Headstock isn't much, is it? Though I am getting use to seeing it now....
My Waterloos are sensational guitars but the headstock on those is a bit 'iffy'...feel like I could round off the point! Maybe a can of black spray paint for the Iris, the shape is ok but the logo? Like the Waterloos, the Iris is designed as a no frills acoustic that is built well and sounds good.
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Amazingly, not much interest on these fabulous LG3s.....
So, my ‘59.....I have a ‘fake book’ with 1200 songs! Mix of everything...
I play the melody line, try to make it ‘sing’ a bit, advantage of the fake book is that some other boffin has worked out all the chords in the original key, usually Eb or Bb or ZZ😄
Then I do the chords...
Then I make a fingerpicking arrangement with first versions having a simple version of the written chord on the first beat of each bar, add the melody, and we are getting somewhere! Then over weeks, months, years, we get various versions in all level of difficulty and hopefully, something sticks in the head that I play without looking!
Even if I just play the famous hook, eg..first line of Fly Me To The Moon, in a totally different song, eg, Rocket Man...then I have made something...
Where am I going with this? Yep, you guessed, the ‘59 LG3 is just fabulous for these duties....63 year old wood just sings those melodies!
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Their first 'success' was the Iris OG, based on Gibson LGs:
Also interesting to me - the all mahogany Iris CH!:
But as usual, nothing here as yet - they (Iris Guitars) have been out for a couple of years, so I guess...they ain't coming.....
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For the ladder braced guitar fans and Waterloo Guitar fans, Iris Guitars has this fab Kalamazoo KG-11 reissue made for Dan Erlewine, complete with screws for custom capos and banjo tuners! Pity Gibson acoustics aren't making things like this!
And Mr Miner playing one!:
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Hmmm, great story thanks QM!
But I am going to pin my younger brother down and ask it it was he or my sister that scratched the top of my (no name) acoustic while I was out when a kid....hmmm......he is always evasive when asked. He lives a 1000 miles away but is moving closer.....and I will corner him!😁
Don’t think it was my sister - she lost interest after somehow getting my father to buy her a guitar for school lessons........and being told to ...gasp....cut her nails........goodbye!
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Just a few different LG3 videos I saw....
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I paid $2.44 a litre here the other day and really appreciate my little old BMW 1.8 litre 4 cylinder motor! Yep!
A guy at the next pump with a big Pontiac, unsure the model but it looked like an elongated Camaro, well he looked he was about to cry and his mate with a big Toyota Truck and big fishing boat did some complaining!
It is just more criminal activity, isn’t it? We get oil from off our coast and the rest from the arabs, not Russia. I think.
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That’s great!
And she has some evil looking claws!
I watched some of her other videos and the only thing against is they get a bit the same......needs some vocals to break it up a bit, maybe.
One trouble with playing backing plus the melody is getting the voice bit to sound ‘real’ and that needs some techniques like vibrato and other devices to imitate a singer......hard to do while everything is going flat out with nowhere to go. Best way is to stop the backing here and there, just play the melody and make it sing. I guess that is the hard part! Holding on to notes like a singer, pretty hard to do, but some of the old jazz guys did it!
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11 hours ago, Murph said:
My 2016 Ram doesn't have a cd player, and it's a loaded Bighorn. I have music on my phone, but still wish I had a cd player from time to time. It has a jack, but I where do you find a cd player for that? Do they still make walkmans?
I didn't mention that the cd player in the old car (1989 BMW 318i) doesn't work, just the radio. The speakers were full of dog hair from over the years and rattled and buzzed so I went to the car stereo shop...Ha ha......years back, a helpful boffin would come out to your car and measure and give you a few car stereo ideas to buy and then they would install it!
Now, the shop is some kind of retail cage where the boffins are NOT allowed out, and will not help you with your speakers in any shape or form. Just a girl at the cash register that points to a speakers display. So you need to research the speakers you want before you get there and then.....they were out of stock...Ha, we are in a comedy.
So I told them to jump hoops and went home grumpy. One day when picking up a repair to my old car, I asked the mechanic if he could get some new speakers for me and install ...NOPE. What if I went and bought them and he installed them? 'Suppose'. (a big waste of his great mechanical skill but now I have speakers and listen to the radio everywhere I go...to hide the sound of the whining diff that he can't get parts for!)
I have a newer car as well (2010 BMW 1 series convertible.) and so far everything works and ...it has cd player. No working CD player in my house or anyone I knows house anymore!
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I saw my mechanic looking aghast at a dusty cd cover in my glove box when I gave him the service book.......he is the young groovy type who texts my phone when he has finished a car repair, most times with photos of the repair or parts, and has a phone full of song hits and videos ready to play.....that is why people drive all over the road - they are looking at their digital songlist to find a song, I guess.....
I work on various digital ‘lists’ all week and don’t want to look through another one, so in my car I listen to.......gasp........the radio! 😁 (though I am very modern radio listener - FM, baby! ) I let someone else pick the list! And boy-o, they pick some crapola sometimes!
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Does anyone buy records or even listen to guitarists anymore? Not a lot of evidence!
The record shops are putting their money to important things, like selling coffees. Though that can be a fickle biz too - long story short, I take my dog to the beach every morning before the 10am deadline, rain or shine, and last year the groovy people were seen lining up at one particular vendor.....and Covid or not, they lined up around the block. Dirty little cafe got rid of all their old stock! Made a few kazoos. But then, here is the fickle part, another cafe opened in a groovy red shipping container with window in a previously sad and lonely beach plaza thingy and.....sign said Coffee plus bacon roll for..X or something and every time I drive past, the line is.....of course, around the black and people sitting on all the previously unused benches.
But then the other cafe has no customers.
Now the groovy people walk the beach with a reusable coffee cup in one hand and phone in the other! What happened?
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Shubb...
I had a gift voucher a couple of years back and bought a box full of the top names, some already mentioned above.........and I use the cheapest one! A black Shubb standard (Capi Noir), right on the dotted line of the fret.
Depends what music you play but I do a bit of blues bending and the Shubbs are the only capo that let the string return to base after a bend.
If you just play chords, the G7 P3 is the best for in tune-ness. The worst is the Kyser if it has too much tension, non adjustable...ok on various necks.....but.....
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Well, Gibson has currently about 75 'Historic' versions of the same guitar, but not one with a mahogany top, and no L-00 with a V neck and 1 3/4" nut.
How about re-issuing one of these:
https://www.folkwaymusic.com/museum/gibson-guitars/1932-gibson-l0-1118
or one of these:
https://reverb.com/au/item/47628801-gibson-l-00-1932-black
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28 minutes ago, sbpark said:
I'll throw a wild card into the mix...
I love Gibsons so don't take my recommendation as being anti-Gibson, but OP may want to check out a Martin 00-15M or 000-15M. I say thins because I think these are amazing blues boxes and they have a pretty slim/lower profile neck that's 1 11/16" wide. They play fast and although not identical to an electric guitar neck, they are smaller than your usual 1 3/4" and even the standard Gibson nut width. I think it's a combo of that particular nut width and that neck profile that gives it this feel. These are fantastic guitars that although not identical to the 17 Series from way back, they are definitely nods to that sound and era, but with the narrow nut width, lower profile neck but longer/standard scale length. I recently feel back on love with these little Martins and they really are a really nice compliment to a Gibson, or a departure from one that might tick the OP's wants/needs, and they're still an amazing bargain at $1349, but can easily be had all day for 15% off that, sometimes more., and under or around $1,000 used.
He bought the Gibson L-00 - see other thread, but the Martin 15 series guitars are a good suggestion anyway.
I prefer 1 3/4" nut so saw a new OMC-15ME with wider nut but same bridge spacing last year and bought it! After 8 or 9 months, the top is breaking in nicely....and it is a terrific guitar, setup good straight out of the box. It also has a pickup system with an undersaddle PLUS faceplate sensor and I actually like it, sort of...could do it, but I also have my Tonedexter to improve the undersaddle sounds of a few monsters I own.
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If you haven't drilled a strap button hole before, it is probably better to get a guitar tech to do it.
Meanwhile you can use a boot lace tied to a guitar strap and the headstock. You can also buy a headstock leather tie to attach to your guitar strap and headstock:
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Congratulations to L-00 ownership!
I was playing my Gibson Blues King L-00 when a friend was over, about 5 years ago, and he went away with THE FEVER.
Seems like the next day, (wasn't) he was back with his Blues King!
Mine on the right of photo, his on the left......(mine is 2007 bubinga back and sides/sitka, his is 2015 mahogany/sitka):
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1 hour ago, QuestionMark said:
The EL-00 had a thinner neck and smaller nut spacing than the Epiphone EL-00 Pro or Epiphone Studio version has. Also, if it was one of the original EL-00s it had a different body shape in its first year or two than the EL-00s or EL-00 Pros or Studios that came afterward.
Plus, the suggestion was that the poster first purchase and play for awhile a less expensive EL-00 Pro or identical EL-00 Studio if he likes the slim taper neck shape before deciding to spend big bucks on a Gibson L-00 with a slim taper neck if he’s hesitant or unsure at this point.
QM aka “Jazzman” JeffAha...
What size nut does the EL-00 Pro run?
I really don’t know who thought my EL-00 with 1 5/8” nut was a good idea, but they made lots of them.
It is coming back to me through the veil of time that after I gave it to friend’s kid, it not long after went to a pawnshop! I was a little miffed - I could have taken it to the pawn shop, but I thought I was spreading goodwill. Most stuff I have given to anyone over the years has ended at a pawnshop. I also offered some gear to a music school, but they didn’t want it either - they had deals going with a famous shop...... I give up on fellow man, I will just sell stuff.
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1 hour ago, sbpark said:
They make two ne k profiles. One is pretty standard, the other a super chunky V. Both have 1 3/4” nut widths.
Is that the Waterloo model they recommend only using light 11s?
Wouldn’t last long with my medium 13s! I prefer fat string tuned down, but would be willing to give the K a chance, my Waterloos are superb and get better daily!
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The Waterloo WL-K is a strange recommendation for someone that wants a skinny ‘electric type’ neck.......I have not played a WL-K but I have 2 Waterloo WL-14s, X and ladder......and they are exactly the large V neck and 2 3/8” bridge space I love for fingerpickng!
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10 hours ago, zombywoof said:
I have never laid my hands on an EL-00 Pro of whatever they call the more recent versions. I have had a chance to play the older plain old EL-00 and thought they were Gawd Awful when it came to both sound and feel.
My favorite Epi take on the L-00 remains the Bluesmaster. This was a limited run in the mid-1990s. Neat herringbone binding and such. Admittedly though, one of the things which I found most attractive about this guitar is something which sounds like it would be a major turn off for the OP. It was built with a 1 7/8" nut. While I have never been a Keb Mo fan, this is the model he played before being enticed into the Gibson fold.
I had an Epiphone EL-00 before I bought my 2007 Gibson Blues King L-00....ha, forgot I had that one! Long gone, but it was cheap and the lam sides and the skinny neck with 1 5/8” nut didn’t offer much for my fingerpicking style! I gave it to friend’s kid, a small kid and that is what they are.....a small person guitar, not a lug like me.
In my music room currently are 3 Gibson acoustics from the 2000s with Ren at the helm.....2007 Blues King, 2005 Dove and 2002 J50. .......not one of the necks is in any way similar. I can only put this down to Dove made on Tuesday morning, J50 Wednesday afternoon and Blues King 5pm Friday afternoon! To me, the J50 neck is best, a fairly chunky 50s style perhaps but with wider nut, a great fingerpicker really. Dove neck is flatter, thinner, more a strummer but I persist because of the tone. Blues King neck also is its own thing Ren came up with...slim but before the slim taper was invented. 1.725 nut....all in all no relation to my 1937 Gibson L-0 in any way except the general idea of it!😬
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I just listened to both the LGs above again, iPad.....queued up just the fingerpicking tune he plays - I think I like the 58 LG3 punch a bit better than the Banner....
Good, eh - I have a similar 59! No need for cash outlay at all!😁
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