BluesKing777
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Here's a slide instrumental i just recorded on my 1937 Gibson L-0.
Change of seasons or sick of me - the action has gone a bit high so - into Open G she goes!
I called the instrumental "Mud"...
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24 minutes ago, PatriotsBiker said:
BK - My 614 is close to the edge of needing the neck re-set shim. I have to babysit the truss rod and saddles more than another other. I brought it to a taylor authorized shop. He agreed, but then wanted me to do this system that goes inside and remains adjustable by me. It's some sort of wooden dowel that goes from the back to the top and raises/lowers the top and hence, the bridge. Nothing wrong with my top, he says, but essentially gives me an adjustable bridge, he says. I ask about tone. Might not even notice, he says, or something like that.
Um - no thanks.
I had every intention of bringing it across county to the better tech dude, but that will have to wait a while. What I REALLY wish for, though, is that Taylor wiould sell the shim kits to the general public. I understand why not, but still.
Dowel?..
Doesn’t sound correct. Not a Gibson guy, is he? Bit of revenge, hey, hey.
It looked straightforward in the video I posted - hand in the hole, undo the bolts, take neck off, change shims to suit the required measurements. No dowell!
My 37 L-00 had a neck reset, new fretboard, bridge, everything really. I hope not to go through that too often and I wasn’t even there. A couple others of mine could do with a tweak but they are great slide guitars! The reset took way more than my patience lasted.......the guy in the first video had a neat little EMPTY shop and all the time in the world. My guy has a row of guitars to fix, like possibly 70 last time I was there.
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Well I better put ugly old Doug up to balance things out!
Sorry Doug! But you know how it is with this forum here...
I have a few of Doug's DADGAD books, absolutely great, but hard stuff.
This video was made when the Tonedexter was released. Unfortunately, I think he used guitar and pickup that are not as well known and as easy to compare as Molly's SJ with K&K....
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Video shows how Molly trains her Tonedexter....
I have been raving about mine for long while now, but I think Molly will persuade you more!
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I play all kinds of small body acoustics and I use Elixir PB 12s on all of them!
Love ‘em!
But not a lot here like them. Then again, there doesn’t seem to be many small body guitar players on this forum lately. Maybe ask on AGF?
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Thanks Nick - great video. Very clear from yo to go!
On the other end of the scale is the Taylor acoustic guitar neck system, a stroke of genius whether you like the guitars or not. (My 717e Builder's edition is a great guitar! I don't play it and think there is no dovetail, just enjoy a fab guitar)
Here is a factory tour of the Taylor factory by Sweetwater Music. At 9 minutes, approx, they show the Taylor neck system which enables a neck set in a couple of minutes! I know there are yeahs and nays for both but post this for the contrast in old and new.... 9 minutes in....watch all if you want.
Edit : found a 'real world' Taylor neck reset video:
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Here is my version of "Phonograph Blues" by Robert Johnson I have played many times and recorded as many - to demonstrate a great live guitar pickup system (Maton Messiah 808 guitar with Maton AP5-Pro sytem) through a great live performance device - my Boss VE8 Acoustic Singer pre-amp.
So the guitar is EQ'd at its controls on the side of the guitar, fabulous - internal mic and pickup both have controls and these are both on full. 10, not 11! You can plug this guitar direct to a PA and sound good but....
Once you have the sound right onboard, there is nought to do but plug in to the Boss guitar input. I added a bit of the reverb. I plugged my Shure SM58 to the mic input, added a bit of reverb, got the right volume of vocal to guitar (controls for each). That's it! Easy peasy. Played the song live to my computer from the Boss, recorded it. This is what is in the track below, no processing.
If I wore my little headphones, I could use this setup anywhere plugged to a PA. (a bad case of all dressed up with nowhere to go at the moment.....I suppose I could drag some gear up to my rooftop and start plunking away? They were singing to each other from their balconies in Italy the other day, maybe not now). I have all the pickups and there are currently none better than this at the time of typing, that I know of.......
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Found a Neil Young solo acoustic video - In Concert 1971 BBC:
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Hmm, found it a bit depressing so then I thought to find a non depressing Neil tune and...even his happy ones he can make sound sad....
here goes:
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You better get to learning this ditty then:
https://www.guitarnick.com/the-addams-family-acoustic-fingerstyle-guitar-tab.html
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Showmanship Lesson One - 'How to win the crowd!'
Ian Moss solo live:
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1 hour ago, E-minor7 said:
Ouhh, , , 1 not 2 ? - I just automatically assumed he would choose the X- not latter-braced version.
You may know better. .Very low light in the footage but I couldn’t see the internal brace through the middle that you see in LG2/3s.
And the strings on both Ibanez and Gibson sounded like the ones they were born with!
But the whole production was just cool for the non coolness. My opinion.
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Thanks for the link, Em7!
Fantastic!
Ibanez in black at the beginning and an Gibson LG1 for the rest...
Speaking of old timers, I watched Ole, Ole, Rolling Stones last night.....more fabulousness! The Rollingas come out of the woodwork in Argentina.
Here is a tune unplugged from Mick and Keef in the dressing room :
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1 hour ago, billroy fineman said:
Just poking fun, I know you've got an affinity for black guitars, and was wondering if guitars could talk would the black ones include the colorful dove in their conversations or would they push him aside because he's too flashy?
Maybe you gotta do a back and forth song between one of the black ones and the dove.
Ok, I get it, thanks.
I rotate around various guitars a lot, just a joyous thing, eh? I have about 7 various black guitars but I didn’t buy them just because they are black....though there may be a thing where Dad wouldn’t buy me that black Strat when I was a kid. I bought that myself about 15 years later!
Back to the 2 black guitars of mine in the pic - they are both fearsome fingerpicking machines, the left one is a Maton EBG808 with the best pickup system in the world currently - the AP5-Pro. It was a custom finish ordered by a guitar shop and I think it is the only Maton EBG808 in black in the world! The one on the right is my custom Cargill deep body 00 made with ebony and Italian spruce top, with the neck spec copied off my OM18v. It is my only custom made guitar and it is truly superb acoustically, let down only by the dud K&K I had installed.
My 2005 Dove’s neck is a bit thinner, it has a nice pickup in an Anthem that was already in it and I love the maple sound, though it is meant to be a strummer and not a fingerpicker, but I get around it ok! I find the maple is a better fingerpicker than the mahogany squares, more definition.....
How’s that?
P.S. I just read the specs for the black L-00 and it has a ‘slim neck’ and the black J45 has a ‘50s’. I don’t like slim necks.
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17 hours ago, billroy fineman said:
Beautiful looking, but do they play nice with the Dove, a not so understated one?
Sorry Billroy, I don’t understand what you mean?
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Looks like a mid 70s Norlinesque Southern Jumbo to me...
Funnily enough, you are not the first one to find you can’t load pics or vids.🙁
I have loaded approximately four billion guitar photos here! 😎
I am the photo loading Blues King!
So take a few minutes, join Imgur for free, load your photos to it and you get all the options then to load a link direct to the forum by copying and pasting their link. Imgur works for a lot of other stuff too, sending to friends easily (send a link instead of the whole file in your email, for example.)
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Can’t find my spray can of gloss black....
😁
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Well, maybe, maybe not.....we shall see. Grasshopper.
It started when China closed its borders.
Hong Kong gets all its toilet paper and rice supplies from mainland China, so they totally ran out of both in a short time.
The word was out here and next thing people are taking 2 or 3 shopping carts of toilet paper and rice. That was 2 weeks ago and there is still none because the word was out to the great unwashed, who panicked.
The deliveries never came as promised. My guess - anyone with contacts and friends in the rice and toilet paper industry........
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If the big bug don't get us all, these 2 black Gibsons will probably join my black guitar collection!
Yep, I always loved black guitars and the black L-00 could sit nicely with my black Cargill custom and my black Maton EBG808!! Watch out old Gibson Blues King - there is a can of black spray in the shed!
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Very nice, KC!
You may need a Dove next. You know, sit between the Bird and the CW?!
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My sister sent me this link. Our toilet paper supplies in Australia have been wiped out, so to speak. Govt says a syndicate has bought it all and sold it overseas... either way, the shops are bare, so to speak.
This is hysterical like me.
or worse:
or worse:
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The old 'marketing paint and paper'?.....
Let me go back a bit - I always wanted a 55 - 56 J50, could be something to do with Lightnin' Hopkins, Youtube etc, but they are always so much money to import here and obviously there has never been one for sale here that I saw or....😥
I have the Mini Me 1959 Gibson LG3 in natural and owning that has made it worse probably. I want that 55!!!!
So looking at the wares advertised online last year at a pawn shop. bingo !!!!! Is that a 55? Heart stopped a little bit.
No it is a 2002 Gibson J50 in pretty bad condition, but I bought it with intentions of getting it repaired. It needs a new nut, saddle, frets, setup, neck repair...in the least. But it sounds so good I know it will be worth it. And I bought it for a 1/4 of the price the new ones will be here in a shop!😎 And someone aged my nut and saddle, look good but don't work so good. But it may just look older than the 59 shown at Elderly!
But I was looking at my photo and thought what a good job they did in 2002 to make it look like a 1955 era model - finish, pickguard, tuners. When I bought it, I had no idea Gibson were going to bring out these new '50's' models, but they have done the same thing as in 2002 to the J50s - finish, pickguard, tuners.
Here's mine:
Here is a '59 at Elderly :
https://www.elderly.com/collections/all/products/gibson-j-50-1959
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30 minutes ago, j45nick said:
That's basically a Brazilian AJ with a narrow nut. I'd love to play it.
I thought you might appreciate it.
UMGF has had lots of threads in the past about the Authentic Series versus Pre-war Guitar Company, and a lot of people that would have bought Authentics have bought Prewar Co.
Chances of ever seeing a normal mahogany PW one here are pretty slim, chances of a PW BZ - ZERO. So enjoy them if you can US'ers!
Sorry, Mr Curly, but your new Banners haven't arrived here yet. Will they be exact enough copies of the real Banner for some to part with $US5K? ($AU10K here, the way it is going).
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2 hours ago, j45nick said:
That is one of the better A-B comparisons I have seen. The test tracks are exactly the kind of music you associate with Gibson slope-J, and the two guitars are directly comparable.
One thing this comparison does is show just how superbly modern Bozeman Gibsons are at replicating the voices of their ancestors.
Another good thing about these test from my perspective is that we are listening to the guitars the way others hear them, not the way we hear them while we are playing.
To my ear, both guitars have wonderful tone. The new guitar has a certain lushness that is missing in the vintage guitar. The vintage guitar has a dryness, note separation, and articulation that is substantially different than the new guitar, even though the overall effect is similar.
I have two mahogany slope-J's that are directly comparable to these two: and all-original 1950 J-45, and a modern 1943 SJ re-issue. What I hear in those two guitars, sitting behind the wheel rather than in front, as in this test, is pretty darn similar.
My two are my favorite guitars right now, and this test reminds me of why they are.
The guy demo'ing the guitars is perfect for the job, and shows them off well.
JCV, thanks for posting this.
He is a member here, Nick....
You can tell him yourself.
What about this sucker a short drive away? May be harder to get hold of than a vintage....they go like hot cakes normally - the BZ price may have put a stop to some.
https://folkwaymusic.com/new-instruments/item/id.3827BluesKing777.
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Maybe I need some more guitar lessons?
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