merciful-evans

Attractive, though it seems he's not offering the original pickups. Toneriders have good rep, but I've never heard them.

They could probably squeeze in more pickups if they used spring tensioned rotary system. Like an ammunition magazine. Put a motor on it and it would be like a Leslie speaker.

Unless I missed some, this is the 3rd wave. However irksome this is for us, its better than what it must be like for the spammers. Nobody with a full productive life acts this way. They are likely frustrated, embittered and without direction. They still need some consequences though.

A 3rd party image host site is the way to go. It does look like a modified special, though that nut looks like the original brass. Gibson made a gratis titanium replacement for this (fitting into the brass base). Most people attended to this right away as strings soon wore ruts into the brass zero fret. Depending on what pickups are fitted, and whether a titanium nut could still be sourced, it would interest me for one. I played a bunch of them in 2015, but disliked the P90 sound.

No never seen one before. The bridges I'm familiar with hold the saddles captive. I suppose they are later designs and yours is traditional/correct for the model? Interesting and good to know. Try this. Seems cheap enough. https://www.stewmac.com/Hardware_and_Parts/All_Hardware_and_Parts_by_Instrument/Electric_Guitar_Parts/Electric_Guitar_Bridges_and_Tailpieces/Tune-o-matic_Bridge_Parts/Saddle_Retainer_Wire_for_ABR-1_Tune-o-matic_Bridges.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=2019-07-gp&pref_currency=P&shipcalc=UK&gclid=Cj0KCQjwj_XpBRCCARIsAItJiuQbnjXbxgKsl4VE-nPHPfNyjaRnM5-cfcJjTwPQq5d4Ot9ZSm9kL24aAsgJEALw_wcB

If you truly believe this, then you have wasted your money. All PRS core guitars have the serial numbers hand written on them. Its seen as a personal touch. The Gibson example you are citing can be regarded the same way. Anybody can print a label too. Jimmy Page has been criticised for using a stamp instead of signing autographs. Which would you rather have? Why not value your guitar for its build quality and sound instead?

Saddle retainer? I don't know what this is. Sorry if this is an obvious and silly point to make, but is this the first time you have changed strings on the guitar? You are aware that the 175 has a floating saddle that will fall away without the strings tension?

Interesting. Never tried these. May have to now.

In action, it reminds me of a slot machine. 😉 Seems like its made for those who regard pickups as the main differentiator for guitar sound. Personally I think the guitar build/design is more significant, with pickups running 2nd. Not my sort of thing at all, but credit for innovation all the same.

Yes the type of venue matters a lot. We gave up the best paying ones (clubs) many years ago because of lack of interaction with the people. It felt like hard work. Pubs and certain private bookings give us a great experience. We dont make any money. There are 7 of us and we play because we like to. I still spend more on gear than I make from gigs. I can identify with your Yacht Club experience. We had a very similar experience when we played a charity fund raiser at Southampton Football Club a couple of years ago.

Yes I though that too. My language prefs that is. Hats off to Duanne & KSDaddy 🧢

I made out something about 'Canadian Universities'. Anyway, I hope you manage a peaceful crossing. Soduko? Sorry no. You said something meaningful! Take your camera maybe...

It is definitely Chinese BTW Not quite all gone at time of posting. Plenty of work for the mods. Thanks fellers. 👍

It is in very good condition, at the back

well try a Chinese translation of you post 1st. See if it gets a bite: 抱歉，请原谅我的无知，但你的文字是用韩文还是中文写的？我在翻译时遇到了一些困难。 提前致谢！ 皮普。 Bàoqiàn, qǐng yuánliàng wǒ de wúzhī, dàn nǐ de wénzì shì yòng hánwén háishì zhōngwén xiě de? Wǒ zài fānyì shí yù dàole yīxiē kùnnán. Tíqián zhìxiè! Pí pǔ.

我们制作好的吉布森吉他! 🎸

Looks like an unprecedented massive board invasion of Asian origin. Why? 😳

You obviously had pretty cool parents Duane. I was 16 in 1970. I had just left school to become an art student. The first name band i saw was Deep Purple at the local Guildhall.

generic major blues in A (no thats not a song title from the Mississippi Delta). Its been so so long since I had a gig I've gotten soft. It usually has to be in B flat. but that's bl**dy saxophonists for ya!

(at the risk of negative racial stereotyping) er... I think they only do that sort of thing in Glasgow Pip!

60’s audiences In truth I have no personal experience as I started going to concerts & parties in 1970, but I do recall that in the uk most people stood (or sat) and watched the bands. This was true for both recording artists and local bands. The reason I mention this now is because I just got a live recording (of old Fleetwood Mac) on CD ‘Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968’, and the notes include some Peter Green quotes. “In England I get bored, not musically, but the so-called blues fans stand there silently, listening. I wish they would let themselves go. In the Fillmore, the Shrine and the Carousel, which are just dancehalls, people come in to enjoy themselves, they shout and let themselves go. They don’t fight like they do over here when it gets crowded.” We knew of course about the US audiences. We read the music press and knew it was in stark contrast to ourselves. Another interesting snippet “When I was with John Mayall, most fans were just frustrated guitarists”. He goes on to say that he disliked this and wished they listened to the lyrics etc. It’s a bit of a sad indictment of uk audiences back then.

Wow, drama on the doorstep! I walk early every morning. A couple of days a week its a shore walk at Portchester. I regularly take pictures of the same locale and its always different. This is from a couple of days ago. It was at about 7.30am as evidenced by the long shadows

I miss the old double peg elasticated ones from the 70s. Dont know why they were discontinued. They could be tensioned to suit the player/guitar easy enough.

Merciful-Evan was another incarnation of me some 15 years ago. I used the Songstuff forum for many years, but the reviews were fawning, hypocritical pap. I asked for a special 'by application only' area where honest 'give it to me both barrels' criticism was encouraged. I was denied. So I created a sock puppet called merciful-evans. ME would post deliberately dire lyrics in an attempt to challenge the mutual admiration society. At least that's the way it started... After a short while, ME's lyrics came good. This was a an astonishing surprise to me. I was writing in a 'different' style entirely, changing from lyrics to poetry. It just made sense to continue to write this way all the time it was paying off. This carried on for about 4 years and ME garnered quite a few fans in that time. ME was another version of me who fully embraced his/my working class roots and even wrote a xmas song one year. Something I would never do as myself! I also use the moniker ME on 2 other guitar forums.

I have grown to like these. Especially that classic finish. Lots to like about them. Nice score. Congrats 🙂