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    Gibson Cedar?

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    Cedar is supposed to be better for fingerpicking and not picks....

     

    And I love my cedar Lowdens.

     

    And a Maton with cedar top - they usually have sitka though.

     

    And......a house on the beach where I was walking the dog is all cedar....phew...looks good.

     

     

     

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    Does Tone-Rite really work?

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    Posted · Edited by BluesKing777

    Did Corbs design apartments? I thought he only did a range of chairs.... :rolleyes:

     

    Well I left the Tonerite on the Blues King lying on the Eames:

     

     

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    Got a phone call, came back and look what had happened to the BK:

     

     

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    LR Baggs Session VTC pickup...anyone tried one?

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    Posted · Edited by BluesKing777

    I've not seen or played one yet, but they all seem to be coming out with new pickups...

     

     

    You may already know, but Fishman are bringing out a new Matrix Infinity Mic Blend, with condenser. Hooray!

     

     

    https://www.fishman.com/fishman-equipped/matrix-infinity-mic-blend-oem/

     

     

    Addendum.....the mic may need to played at low volume, or it may squeal like a pig - I was playing my Maton plugged with mic full on, but I have a soundhole plug. This won’t fit the Fishman volume controls etc hanging on the soundhole, unless we cut holes in the plug.....

     

     

     

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    Excess glue inside guitar need help

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    I was trying to stay out it but can't help myself. Should I go take a look to see if I have any glue spots previously un-noticed? I don't recall anything monstrous.

     

    Though I did read Collings leave the excess glue on the Waterloo, and not sand their bracing, to give it that authentic touch and I think Bill thinks it makes them sound better! Read the Waterloo guitar blurbs if you don't believe me.

     

     

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    Question for Gibson LG-1.

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    I use my 1952 Gibson LG1 for Open D Tuning slide practice - needs a neck reset among a long list of needs - but my National weighs about 450 pounds and the LG1 about 3 feathers, so it is good to grab and practice, and it is a KILLER sound for slide.

     

    If someone bought mine or one like it hoping to play ragtime or heavy strumming or...or ...by getting a cheap guitar - well, they are out of luck with the wrong guitar.

     

     

    Do a search on 1960 Gibson LG1 - some look great and some have been tortured by mean cat killer children ...and then there is the neck size as 1960 is about when the real skinnies came in, plus a whole range of issues:

     

    https://www.google.com.au/search?q=1960+Gibson+LG1&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=622&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj386ndp4vPAhXFQD4KHeYWBrIQ7AkILQ

     

     

     

     

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    Gibson 2016 1932 L-00 Vintage Acoustic Guitar

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    I doubt anyone but an Internet Newbie would pay the List Price!

     

    That said, that L-00, the J45 Vintage and the Hummingbird Vintage with the 'trendy drip dry, toasted top ready to be old already' - right up my alley since taking the plunge on my OM18 AuthentIc with torrefied top and braces and hide glue and, and, and..... Versus the real vintage OM18 I posted above with all kinds of repaired splits and cracks for $16K. I went for the new OM18A and it sounds sensational and plays beautifully. My old rebirthed Gibson L-0 is great, don't get me wrong, but it is certainly 'Quirky'. So, if the L-00 Vintage above sounds 3/4 of the old ones, take it! As long as it is put together right, it would be plain sailing comparatively.

     

    I would love to play the new L-00 next to my BK L-00, my 1937 L-0 and my Martin CEO7! I would also love to play the J45 Vintage next to my 5 or 6 year old J45 Standard. Or bust out in a totally new direction with the Bird Vintage! Not sure if it is a fingerpicker though - the L-00 Vintage and the J45 Vintage should be.

     

     

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    Gibson 2016 1932 L-00 Vintage Acoustic Guitar

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    Then sir you are in luck.

    Chicago Music Exchange just got at least five of them in. They can all be found on Reverb or their site prolly.

    Yours for $2,999.00

    I def want one but I have the CEO-7 and don't need one or have the funds. [unsure]

     

    I wonder how they got them all..

     

    PS. The CEO is 24.9 scale length while the 32' L-00 is 25". Prolly wont make much of a different feel? I had a '91 L-00 and it was way too long feeling...

     

     

     

     

    Those in CME are a different (older?) model:

     

    http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/collections/gibson/products/gibson-1932-l-00-reissue-vintage-sunburst-serial-11095001

     

     

    The one in this thread is the 2016 model and has torrefied top and other treats like the 2016 J45 and Hummingbird, and is about $2500 more:

     

    http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/collections/gibson/products/gibson-montana-l-00-vintage-vintage-sunburst

     

     

     

    AND.........

     

    That one doesn't mention torrefied top either!

    Gibson site:

    http://www.gibson.com/Products/Acoustic-Instruments/2016/1932-L-00-Vintage.aspx

     

     

     

     

     

     

    BluesKing777.

    Gibson 2016 1932 L-00 Vintage Acoustic Guitar

    in Gibson Acoustic

    Posted

    Well, that price is almost double here, IF one ever comes to a shop near me! Hope that price is 40 % too high.

     

    I have the extremes - Blues King L-00 and the 1937 L-0, and I imagine the one above could slot in the middle here with the new drip dry top. I will reserve judgement til it is played by me.

     

    I thought I would post the link above because we hear lots about the new Hummingbird Vintage, not much about the J45 Vintage 2016 and absolutely totally nothing about the L-00 Vintage! Has anyone here bought them?

     

     

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    Wen was my LG-1 built?

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    Murky world for sure!

     

     

    My 1952 Gibson LG1 pictured below (with new ebony bridge) with great Gibson full "C" neck - the model went through lots of changes over the years. Yours has my pickguard and general look - mid 50s the long J50 type guards were used, late 50s and early 60s saw adjustable bridges, skinny necks and...gulp ..plastic bridges and probably a general lowering of material standard?

     

    Only silly slide players want the LG1 I have found - great for slide. Plucker generales prefer the x brac LG2, which is way more expensive!.....

     

     

     

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    Angie .. is it in key of Am or C ?

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    Davey Graham's Sweet Home HelloMama was in Bb

     

     

    Yes, and he originally wrote it on an Oud while lounging in Morocco. So even though it could sound like Bb, it had a string relationship like the DADGAD tuning he made popular with his tune on return to UK - Black Mouldy River Mountain Water.....

     

    I thought Sweet Home was in drop D?

     

     

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    Angie .. is it in key of Am or C ?

    in Gibson Acoustic

    Posted

    I'm surprised noone has bought up the fact that Angie was originally titled Aung Kyi.

    It was written when Keith was going through a period of deep Buddhist reflection (as he is want to do).

    It was his homage to Burmese Nobel Laureate and activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

    He composed it in a hotel in Burma on a traditional Burmese harp known as a Saung- Gauk.

    A 14 string instument, but Keith usually takes one string off.

    It was composed in the Burmese key of Q.

    Hope that has cleared things up.

     

     

    Cool - that's one of the reasons we love this forum - the incredible knowledge and mind blowing information that comes forth!

     

    I am not sure how Keef got hold of the Saung-Gauk, FB ...... they are tightly held by their owners, who go through an 'apprenticeship' of approximately 45 years with the initiation ceremony involving, correct me if I am wrong, trimming some of the skin from the gonads, to see how much they want that Saung-Gauk I assume, and how generally keen they are on learning the instrument? But he probably pinched it from Brian?

     

     

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    Lightnin' Hopkins

    in Gibson Acoustic

    Posted

    Guys don't you dare to talk about music here. This place is about Gibsons... [wink] .his j-50 seems to have a rosewood adj. bridge no wonder that he sounds so good!

     

    Really nice stuff though.

     

     

     

     

    Guitar talk then.....

     

    No plan at the beginning, but when playing different guitars in shops I have a few little 'guitar riffs sampler of the sort of thing I like and the guitar has to do well at least or it is next guitar on the rack time' type things I try.

     

    Various mishmashy versions of the famous Lightning E riff are the mainstay of my little guitar test kit!

     

    At one stage, hard to believe I know, but I was learning these very riffs and .....only had my metal Dobro...I know, I know, what happened? I thought to myself that I could need one of those Gibson J50 things like you know who. Not a sign of anything like that in this cowtown and I bought a Martin 000-15 mahogant top which had a sound like Lightning playing his mahogany Guild.

     

    So I was at a guitar shop and played those Lightning-esque riffs and others on a sweet little ......ha ha ha....Gibson Blues King L-00.......it had that sound and was soon to be mine!

     

     

    Another dangerous thing about those DVD lessons is you need to listen over and over and over and over to get a handle on it, and now and again we think: 'Eff, I want a guitar like that!!!'

     

     

    Oh oh!!

     

     

     

    BluesKing777.

    Lightnin' Hopkins

    in Gibson Acoustic

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    BTW, Stefan Grossman offers their DVD's in downloadable form as well, but I would think twice before purchasing in that form. I bought two other videos in the download format and you have to use their buggy proprietary video player to watch them. Had a lot of problems with that and won't make the same mistake again. I prefer the DVD because I can rip it into iTunes where I keep all my other media.

     

     

    I have been a SGGW junkie for a long while - many doors opened. I was a blues nut first though and saw every single thing that had 'blues' in the title that came past, so had a bit of the music in my head but getting it to the fingers was tricky as nobody local taught the real thing.

     

    I liked the first DVD lessons that came with the little TAB book tucked in the case! Now you got to print. Download lessons need the TAB printed too. I was printing them to my Epson I use for photos, but that took forever and used all my ink so now I email the attached PDFs to my Princess who prints it illegally to her work printer in miniseconds! (Depending on her mood, of course). The Epson is so slow, I could walk to her work with the files, print, walk back and the Epson would still be considering it.

     

    So lately I have been downloading the lessons and they work really well on my MacBook - AS LONG as the whole file is downloaded to the computer. The streaming option just doesn't work with my lousy broadband - it is ok if you watch the WHOLE thing, but it just won't go to the individual sections.

     

    I do like the DVD option because I like to watch the various tunes on tv with my feet up, then go to my music room with the TAB and make a go at it over the next...gulp...many years sometimes. I get annoyed sitting in front of the tv stop starting reversing, but do it for sticky bits....

     

    BluesKing777.

    Lightnin' Hopkins

    in Gibson Acoustic

    Posted

    Good stuff. Sam wont lead you wrong. For the record, while E was his old reliable, he also recorded in A (come back baby, shining moon), drop D (sugar mama, santa fe) G (bad luck and trouble), and C (shaggy dad, fishin clothes). The G and C numbers show what he got from Lemon Jefferson. In any case, he knew his way around the fretboard. An all-round great player, rancatour,and rascal. Ernie Hawkins has a great lesson out on Vestapol for those who want to crack the code.

     

     

    I have those and others - just great stuff - not only the exacting lessons from Ernie, but the bonus tracks of the original recordings that come with the lessons.

     

     

    Kenny Sultan has sections in some of his instruction books that would be called 'in the style of' Lightning Hopkins and are highly recommended for those starting down the Lightning guitar road - they are a bit less exacting than Ernie's but have the feel of the E and A stuff.....it helps getting your head around the thing before going deep!

     

     

    BluesKing777.

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