BluesKing777
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Can't help with your tailpiece problem, but you may be able to help my problem - Gibson Forum doesn't work on my iPad or MacBook at the moment - works on this PC, so I assume it is to do with Apple.
Perhaps you know a boffin who can look at what they have changed?
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1 hour ago, AnneS said:
My open mic spot is quite a listening room, with a great house system operated by an employee, not a rando off the street, so their DI set-up works and my man Josh dialed me in just fine.
I’ve moved the L-00 off to my local store for consignment, so, alas, I can’t run the experiment. Unless I run down to the shop and try it there…hmmm, maybe….
But capoing beyond 2 was exactly my issue. I play to accompany my croaking, and I almost always gotta be up the neck. In fact— true story—I had tuned it down a full step a month or so ago (when all you guys were touting the same), and boy-howdy, did she sound fabulous! I mean, goose-bumpy stuff.
But ‘twas in vain, as I can’t sing down there (without transposing every damn thing, which is its own pain in the arse), and so the capo issue was exacerbated and I became, I think, even more downcast.
In the end, it was not just the right fit; it was me, not her; she belongs with someone who will love her for who she is and not give her the cold shoulder for not being someone else.
Now, to be sure, my J100 ain’t ever going anywhere—the higher up the neck the capo goes, the more like a piano she sounds. Jumbo, maple, long scale—that IS a fit. Turns out, the little RW short scale is a good companion for me, too.
Thanks, BK…
Couldn't be saved, poor Gibbie, gone....
Some blues fingerpicker will probable grab the L-00! Perfect.
Which capo/s do you use?
Back story - G7 capos on my fat V neck guitars DON'T work and if I bend the strings, a large part of my playing country blues, the string stays bent...and way out of tune. So to the failure pile of capoii it went, knowing that they ARE very good for chord work.....on thinner necks.
So the good news, the G7 Performance 3 is great playing LIVE in tune up the neck a few....quick to place.
Here is the blurb, quite true ...except for string bending...hmm...:
Now more fiddly but beautifully tunable is the way more expensive G7 Heritage capo with 'compensated string pad' !!! ( I had a muso shop voucher and bought a gold one and a silver engraved one....and I just played capo 3 on my 59 LG3 with the Heritage capo, doing 'fingerpicking faves chord melody style' (no bending strings) and though I swear by the Shubb gold model I always use, bending strings works, I think with the Heritage it is the first time I have played the old LG3 in tune capoed! Great setup from my luthier, passes the D Minor test up the neck and all! But capo, nope. Out of tune. Retune with capo.....
Small problem with the Heritage....opened then free leather pouch to take the capo out of it's house and the pouch fell apart! Don't matter. Capo is reat.
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Did you plug direct with the Taylor at the open mic? Wow, brave you are! (that is what Taylors are actually famous for though but I like gadgets to make sure the sound is close to the same every time).
Not sure how many of the local crusties are going to negotiate the vagaries of dropbox, we will see! You may need to join Soundcloud and have a link that plays live on the page or they are going to be lost in Digita?
Sennie headphones > my opinion > Gibson is way fuller, no capo but flops with capo higher than 2.
The Taylor has V bracing and if you try the old plain D Minor test, it should be in tune up to the end of the neck where the L-00, hmm, love 'em but that is getting to slide territory - depends on the guitar setup. So grab both, tune up, play cowboy D Minor (High E string - 1st fret, B string - 3rd fret, G string - 2nd fret, D string open).....play the chord then single note to test the V brace theory....move the chord up a fret at a time to the 14th fret and check the tuning visually and by ear! Poor old Gibsons.!😁
But the tone, poor new Taylor! OK but L-00 has it.
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12 hours ago, fortyearspickn said:
Another supporter of LG1s specifically and ladder braced faces in general here ! A '64 LG1 I bought new was my one and only for approximately 40 years and I never had any issues with it, including how it sounded. Mostly fingerpicked. Of course, I was not nearly as sophisticated in discerning tone then as I am now. Now that my hearing is half as good.
I rang my luthier even though I don't like chasing him - he hasn't done anything yet to my 52 LG1.
Anyhow, it could never be my only guitar with the 1 11/16" nut and tight bridge spacing - I always end up with a capo on 3 on my other LG - 59 LG3. Trouble with 'previously affordable' vintage guitars, I suppose.
But I do it for the old wood tone! (Arch those fingers, I hear my old teach say - then 'whack').
That is another reason Bill Collings' Waterloo idea is so great for fingerpickers - 1 3/4" nuts. ...2 3/8" bridge spacing, V neck and a bit of Bill's Old Age Sauce or something to make it sound great. .......I better drag out the LG3 for the weekend!
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Still waiting for my 52 LG1 to come home - previously of huge bow in neck that made it great for....slide! But not fingers... but it had a great tone, so if the neck can get bent back to playable, it should be good. Only catch is the 1 11/16" nut is not my preferred 1 3/4" and the bridge spacing is ok almost....
But it has the old wood tone!
My other ladder braced guitar is my now nearly 6 year old Waterloo WL-14 ladder and that is just sensational! (I keeping thinking 'Thanks Bill!" when I play it, as they were what blues fingerpickers were looking for, and didn't know it yet!)
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I think 2006 wasa bit of a 'crossover' time - they may still have had Fishman undersaddle pickups or may have moved to the more recent Baggs Element systems.
I got my 2005 from a pawn shop and it had the Baggs Anthem already installed, doubt it came with that originally....may be not invented yet in 2005?
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4 hours ago, jedzep said:
Oh, wishful ladder bracers out there like good ol' BK! They never give up.
Probably cos ladder braced guitars are great for country blues and bottleneck but also sensational for making a melody sing!
My 1952 ladder Gibson LG1 is at the luthiers getting some fixes, been a long wait...but LG1s are going for so much cash now.
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Sorry, - I blew up the black and white photo above and thought I saw a big 'K' on the headstock and assumed it was a K version of a G like an L1 cheapo, then looked up a K that looked similar - cannot find it now....
On the equipboard site it says she has a CW, A Gibson L1 or L-0 not sure and a Sundberg
And on this video, it is clearly a Gibson L1 or....
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1940s Kalamazoo KG-12.
Nice!
https://jakewildwood.blogspot.com/2016/11/1940s-gibson-made-kalamazoo-kg-12.html
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8 hours ago, AnneS said:
I believe Taylor doesn’t use nitro, which is what the nose knows. No sweet vanilla-ish scents here—no scent at all, really.
The good news is I think you can use plain old car polish on the poly finish! From the local shop!
Please check on that!
Also I looked to find some worn looking recent Taylors online - zip! The finish may stay like it is new ......forever.
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When these came out, I thought they might be worth a look see - mahogany top Grand Concert size (Taylor AD22E) - no binding! ...looks a bit like an old Martin 0-17 I have except it has the ES2 pickup system.....someone else thought the same 'cos the only one they got at the music shop near me was gone about 5 seconds after it landed! And they haven't had another since!
Needs a few thousand gigs to break in the mahogany top, I suppose - it sounds too 'new' on this video:
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2 hours ago, AnneS said:
Today, I pulled the trigger on a used (mint, they say) 2021 Taylor 412ec. After lugging the jumbo around in Nashville last weekend, I came to realize how much I really want a small-sized strummer for stage stuff. It didn’t hurt that I heard a few nice Taylors whilst there, either.
In fact, I paid a visit to Carters and played an older Taylor 614, which felt quite good…and got me to thinking—and researching.
So today I went to GC to test out what I could, but they only had the next-size up-grand auditorium, in rosewood. Loved it, really, and now feel confident that the 14-fret grand concert size RW will be the ticket.
I will be selling (insert sad face) my 2015 Ebony L-00, which is a lovely finger-picker (and beautiful guitar) but a too-tight-sounding strummer for what I want now.
My jumbo is, of course, not going anywhere, and I think a maple and a rosewood are a good combo for me. We shall see! Stay tuned… (And being the kind folk you are, I know you won’t hate. 😅)
Actually that is the dark side! Taylor....😁
The only darker is my little collection of 4 different woodage Maton 808s, best live factory acoustic pickup/guitar you can get.
So pickup......ES2......I have the Taylor 717e and I am probably wasting my breath, but my guess is you intend to plug direct to the PA wherever you play. Even though the ES2 pickup is a great pickup, the PA you plug to will give HUGE variations in sound...probably leading to disappointment some gigs.....
I experiment running mine to various nice preamps and you want that extra flex with a DI/EQ/Vol and various help.
Mine is truly sensational in my Tonedexter run to my little mixer....with the Tonedexter biz on bypass! ......like I said - extras = DI, EQ/Vol....plus for flex, I have a wonderful Tonedexter file I recorded with a Neumann mix! Sounds like I am recording in a studio! But I don't really need it - the Taylor ES2 is great through the pre.
But yeah, also experiment with the Taylor EQ/vol controls - they do work.
Congrats!
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Congrats, that went very well!
Very natural presentation - you looked calm but I bet you were NOT!😀
Maybe keep it going and get up somewhere regularly ( 2x a week?) to get rolling.
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Congrats Murph!
I have the "Beast" - Nat Trike - very heavy - the original heavy metal guitar!:
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You can catch a glimpse of Riley and her guitar and her replica Elvis strap at the beginning of this vid - after that is the usual gossip drivel:
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The Boss and I have watched all 6 episodes of Daisy Jones on Prime and have to wait another week for the next episodes...
Apart from Daisy (Riley Keough) being Elvis’ granddaughter, I noticed her with a....gasp.....60s LG2 cherry burst! I want! I want! I think they stopped making LG2s around 1962.
So, my 59 LG3 has been getting a lot of play! I might need to get some red spray cans.....make it cherry, LG3 is old plain Jane, eh?
AND...my 1952 LG1 is getting repaired and must be about to come home! I cannot believe how much theses LGs are worth now! And I suppose the few cherry reds for sale will be gone after everyone watches the Daisy Jones shows!
AND, I just read that Riley herself owns the LG2 she uses in the show AND the guitar strap is a replica of Elvis’ strap in the 69 Comeback Special!
AND, out came my (2005) cherry burst Dove, very pretty!
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I saw the shop near me got in a new (Martin) 000-15M yesterday...quick look at their wares just then and it is...gone! Truly, if they only sold Martin 000-15M and had a shopload, they would all be gone too! Very popular....
I had a thing for mahogany tops ........ and one thing I can say is that you might need to play it a bit harder to open up the top, maybe belt it a bit. Otherwise it will take 80 years to open up like my old 1944 Martin 0-17.
A couple of years ago I saw then bought an OMC-15ME, OM cutaway with a wider nut 1 3/4" but still a skinny bridge spec. I really wanted the Waterloo WL-14MH, all mahogany L-00 shape but they were unobtanium at the time...then I found the local version, my Maton EBW-808 deep body all Australian blackwood ...it has binding and scalloped bracing and other stuff the Martin doesn't and the big guy - the Maton AP5-Pro pickup system - WOW! This guitar has hardwood top and needed a belting to open it up as well!
My Martin OMC-15ME:
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My Maton EBW808:
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On another note....
The luthier gave me a rough valuation, not official, but way higher than I paid....so back to presentation......if you are selling a guitar, just make sure it is in the best condition and setup you can manage. It normally pays off.
The original owner of the Dove above could have had all this done, then got a nice price for the guitar. Instead he sold it at its worst.
And...make friends with the very best luthier for acoustic guitars you can find. I have had my luthier do quite a few guitars up for me over the years, plus build me one of his custom deep body 00s...and they are all fully ...delightful! 😁
Instead of sad.😶
(though you can't please everyone in this world - one guy I sent there reckons he is pure evil and killed his guitar, but seriously I think the guy is a nutcase ....(was in a band I was in for awhile...pure...flippo. And of course, these types hit the internet bad mouthing everything.)
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4 hours ago, MissouriPicker said:
Here’s a start for a guitar song. Change it, finish it and make it your own. You’re a damn-good picker.h
A man bought this old guitar…..it was back in ‘68.
Didn’t even know if he could learn to play.
All he really was the song in his soul.
And as he learned to play, this is how it would go.Thanks MP!
Alas, I am no songwriter, working and dedicated totally to playing blisteringly good fingerstyle acoustic guitar styles! 😐
Someone else is welcome to take up the baton though!
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38 minutes ago, MissouriPicker said:
Sweet story……A song needs to be written about this guitar……
What about:
’Please write to me, not on me!’
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4 minutes ago, jibberish said:
Ahhhh...I see now. Earlier when you mentioned "Badland" I thought you were referring to our Badlands area in South Dakota here in the US.
Certainly makes more sense now. Thanks!
I didn’t even mention currency exchange rates - moving goalpost that can do your head in!
Easier to give up and just buy the new one highly inflated price or not.
Fedex use to be fairly reasonable, customs here were reasonable, delivery times extraordinary sometimes....but when things get delayed and money prices alter after you already paid, well.....
Thousands of old guitars around here, not exactly what was wanted maybe, but....and the local makers do fantastic stuff lately.
Yep, all in all it would take .........a Lotto win to change my mind about overseas ordering! Ha!
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6 hours ago, jibberish said:
The guitar certainly is wonderful! No doubt about it!
The story, however, would be more interesting knowing how much (or how little) money was spent buying and restoring it.
I haven’t mentioned the costs because where I live everything is 2 - 3 times the price you would pay in the US, and you probably would not understand any of it and it is hard to explain.
For example, looking at a guitar shop in Sydney, a brand new Dove for sale is $AU7,999. A L.00 Standard is $AU5,199.
So at least double as it would cost in the US. .......more for some things.
I use to order guitars from Elderly or similar, get it delivered Fedex, our exchange rate was good and all was coochy. Your previous government changed the rules so we had to buy from a local dealer and of course, they put the prices up even more. No more Fedexing.
Got it?
So $AU2,500 to buy my 2005 Dove plus $AU400 to fix it are great numbers here!
P.S. Further example.......at a local acoustic shop, the price for a new Gibson 1960 Hummingbird Fixed Bridge Heritage Cherry acoustic (that is a mouthful to say!) is listed at $AU9,699.
At Sweetwater, it is $US5,199
if I could order direct like I use to be able to, can’t.....I would get it for $AU8,838.30............$AU1310.70 LESS!!! Aye Yi Yi Yi!!!
Except I have lost interest in buying new, why would I when I prefer a 20 year old guitar fixed up? Broken in but preferably not broken............
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Not much whirled peas or bomb banning been going on, has there?
Seems about everyone has the bomb except me.
So the dove goes up for peace, or was that weddings?
Maybe a blood red Dove is for something else? A real family of doves live in my veranda - why live in the nasty wild.
But I am itching to down tune the Dove, but not game to wreck the setup just yet, and a fab setup it is! And even though I have done this a few times now, getting a pawn shop rescue repaired....I still can’t believe what a great job the luthier does.......like I have just bought another guitar or something.
I was thinking to get a bone saddle on my Blues King L-00 at last, but when I looked at it, there is a bone nut already! I must have got it done with a setup back in 2008 or so!
I have a couple more jobs for the luthier before he.......gulp........retires! But for now, a red Dove is calling and I am playing only it for the weekend at least!
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All I can say is that as a teen, I was easily lead!
My first guitar, a don’t know the name acoustic, got a purple metal speckle spray on the top along with the school friend and his guitar. Yep, it was his idea but I thought it would be good. Nope.
Just played my Dove plugged again to triple check the undersaddle pickup part of the Anthem didn’t move during the installation of the bone saddle.......
Sounds really good, phew!
It would have been a popular guitar at the bar I played years ago with I think it was 80? Or was that 40? Types of bourbon......I played my very shiny metal Dobro and everyone remembered it, and lots of questions. Would have been fantastic to pull out the cherry Dove! The bar owner kept saying to do that song about Hot Dogs again, Blind Lemon - he would sell his hot dogs with a grin from the kitchen booth! I personally could not imagine anyone wanting one but I saw the back area!
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I only mention the G7 Heritage because you mention tuning difficulties and it is something that actually works - I would say a must - they call it ART ha ha....the string pad adjusts to suit the different string thicknesses and then it...ha ha...stays in tune (to itself, may need a tweak if you play with someone else).
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