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  1. 1 hour ago, Phil OKeefe said:

    For the record, Rickie didn't use tiles. He hand-carved and hand-painted each one of the "tiles" on the Explorer and Flying V individually. It takes him about a month (or more) to do each guitar or amp. He makes five or maybe ten pieces a year, max, so it's not like these are a huge part of the Gibson production totals, but personally, I think it's pretty cool that we let him run wild and do something a bit different from the norm. 

    He's a really nice guy, IMO, and just like he comes across on the video in person. Personally, I think he's an amazing artist. Would I buy one of his guitars? If I was wealthier than I am, I might be tempted to pick up that Explorer or the Old West Les Paul, but they're way out of my price range. Would I use it on stage? No. If I owned one of his guitars, I might use it in the studio, but those are obviously collector-type or museum-type pieces and while Rickie is quick to point out that they're 100% playable and that he wants their new owners to use them if they wish (or put them in a display case if they prefer, or whatever they want to do with them), I seriously doubt the folks who buy his MasterArtisan Collection guitars use them extensively, if at all. I wouldn't. And while I do have a lot of gear (including some pretty valuable vintage gear), everything I have gets used, so buying something I wouldn't be using would be a first for me. 

    So which is the bulk of Gibson customers?  Somebody has data, somewhere, to support this kind of thing.  I get loss-leader and all that but from a company that already has a high end normally this gets a bit...sticky.  Nobody that actually plays guitars is going for one of these, the people we used to call guitar players, the people that used to be the only people concerned at all about guitars from G & F & CFM.  It doesn't seem like they matter at all, haven't for a long time.  There is room for everyone, I get that too, it just seems weighted in this ridiculous direction.

    The other two do similar, they have their moments too.

    rct

  2. As of two weeks ago our GC was NOT taking trades of any kind.  The last trade I made, two weeks before that, they were extremely fussy about what I was trading and wouldn't take certain things at all.  

    And neither instance was guitar stuff at all, just studio and pa type stuff from gigging.  So, I'll wait until they are taking trades and maybe something nice will come along at a decent deal.

    rct

  3. 2 hours ago, ghost_of_fl said:

    I guess Jimmy just didn't want to give up having 12 strings on some songs.  I think he put that monstrosity to good use here.  Plus look at the visual: 

     

     

    He did, of course.  And a few others.

    Ever used one?  Ever done one song, like that popular one from the guy above using a double neck?  Maybe Hotel Eaglefornia?

    rct

  4. Ok, disregard.  But don't disregard anything I said about how your guitars are set up, because I said nothing about that at all.

    String height is measured at that point because it works with proper relief to set the neck up to perform properly all over the neck.

    It isn't a number we would like it to be, for the most part, it is a number that is spec'd to provide correct performance all over the neck.

    If you want 3/64 at the 12th, set the guitar up to spec first.  You will have to give it a tad more relief in order to get 3/64 at the 12th, but it is possible.  If you wanted me to set your guitar up that way I would certainly try, but you might not like the feel of it at around the 6th - 10th fret area because of the relief needed, and it might have some annoying buzzing past the 12th.  To get the 12th that low may show you quickly that some of the frets up high aren't perfect.

    Good luck with it.

    rct

     

  5. 31 minutes ago, rpavich said:

    You don't have to get snarky....I posted the Official video from Gibson TV that explains it.

    I also said that I don't have BADLY set up guitars, my guitars play spendidly...I was just wondering if anyone else has ever achieved the target of 3/64...that's all.
    In the video that I posted above the Gibson tech himself didn't achieve it...he settled on 4/64.

    Why do people have to resort to insults and dismissal when they disagree?

    I'll say it again.  It isn't working out for you.  It isn't even working out for the guy that says it works out.  I come along and tell you facts, there are physics involved, setting up a guitar

    has numbers for all good reasons.  There it all is, and again, even the guy from the company can't do it.

    It's either the way it is and trying this is a fail for everyone involved, for the reason I stated, or it is snark.  It's up to you.

    rct

  6. 12 minutes ago, rpavich said:

    At the 12th fret, bottom of string to top of fret

    Right.  String height is measured at the first fret above the body join.  So on Fenders it is measured at the 17th.  On Gibsons, I don't remember, but a quick look says

    I would measure at the 17th also for an SG.

    I don't know when measuring at the 12th became the thing.  It isn't.  It wasn't ever.

    rct

  7. 8 hours ago, Biker13 said:

    I own a Yamano guitar. It is a very unique custom shop LP Special with a Bigsby and a finish that is much more true to the originals that was never released in the US...

    If the Yamano guy had to use the restroom and he missed that one, or he had a slight cold and was not quite paying attention, or he just didn't like it, it would be the same as any other Custom Shop job.  He picks them.  They pick them.  There is nothing at all different about them.  I could simply say that my Custom Shop guitar is one that Yamano missed, right?

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  8. I still listen to FrampToon Comes Alive regularly.  A great live record in a time of great live records.

    Right before the live one came out, Mrs saw him at Glassboro State College, $6.00 a ticket, only a couple hundred people in a 2000 seat theater, that same band on the live record.

    Well, she wasn't Mrs yet, in fact we weren't even dating yet, but, you know.

    rct

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  9. A bit of slack in your truss, so maybe it is loose.  Turn it clockwise just until it stops.

    Or, you have a neck with a bit of a twist in it to begin with, and it is going for it.  I had an American PBass with this mild twist situation, and true to form, it did not get better, only got a little worse.  

    Either way, not really a great situation, but not exactly the end of the world,  Trade it for a good guitar.

    rct

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  10. 1 minute ago, PrairieDog said:

    We attended a conference in Baltimore a decade ago, stayed at the Hilton? Down there in the Harbor.  Had dinner one night at a great Japanese restaurant in that shopping complex there.  Had a nice set up on an upper floor with a lovely, romantic twinkly view of the harbor and the skyline… and the helicopters buzzing the city all night.  They even shined their lights right our room.  We were worried what the heck was going on. Found out the next day, nah, that’s just regular police surveillance.  Man, that was Orwellian.  

    Yes, a decade ago it was still pretty good, not nearly as good as the decade before that, it was starting to...I don't know.  We were at the convention center one year in February for the Craft Council and got blizzarded in.  It was dope as hecks, had a great time, one of many down there.  We miss it.

    rct

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  11. If you sing in a band a lot, a long time, you get used to it pretty quickly.  When you get used to hearing it you can be honest with yourself in that one could be good to great, others not so good to great, downright terrible.  If you can be honest like that because you are used to hearing yourself, you can then figure out what you have to do to make it at least better the next take or the next night out.

    If you harmonize a lot with a band, you not only get used to it you enjoy it very much because there really aren't that many things that feel as good as a nice couple lines of three part done well by all three. Or four or five if you are really lucky with your band.  Then you look forward to it, it's that good.

    I have it on pretty good authority from others, not me, that moving a few hundred thousand or a mil and a half or so records with your voice on it definitely changes how you hear yourself.

    I have a passably ordinary voice that does only a few things well in a band and everything in the studio just well enough to get by.  It is what it is, and I am used to it.

    rct

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