shaved_ape Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Ok I just had my final review for my Master's Thesis on Wed and I passed with flying colors!!! I am officially a Master! So the last time I spent more than a $1000 on a new Gibson is when I graduated high school back in 2000. The day I graduate I see this in my email and I have to say, in spite of many of you not liking solid colors on Gibson's I think this is the sexiest series I seen Gibson do in some years. For one, it's a solid body 335, or if some of you can clarify if these are chambered. But I LOVE the green, I LOVE the Purple and I really want this blue one. I am going to try my hardest to see what kind of deal I can get on this because the first thing I want to do to preserve the hardware is take off all of the gold and put on chrome hardware, take out the pickups and put a Zebra Jeff Beck in the bridge and a zebra classic in the neck, . And dump all of the original stuff in a baggie. I have never owned a Lucille, but has anyone else on here? What is with the bodies, are they completely solid, or chambered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 sounds cool! wish I could get one of those. good luck with it. post some pics when you have it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaved_ape Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 If I even get it, it will be on layaway for about 6 months to a year. I know what the cost is on a regular Lucille and these are about $500 more than the regular MSRP, so I am hoping that if I can get it at cost or near that, I will seriously be selling off some of my prized possessions to get one. I will certainly post it IF I get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 First of all, GRATZ THE MASTERS!!!!!!!!!!! Second, I love me a BB King Lucille guitar. I like the blue, and that White one is pretty sharp too! I don't know for sure, but the Epi one I played was chambered. (FAR too light to be solid) Pull the trigger and show us porn pics! Gratz again man.... hella accomplishment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Congrats on the Masters feels good doesn't it? the day I got my masters was a big deal, I felt so grown up and professional and it was allot of work to get that first one. Later I got a doctorate and still didn't feel quite the same high probably because I was older and established and it always made me feel weird, guess I just never figured math made me a doctor? They are tempting just because they are different, I also prefer Nickel over Gold on almost any guitar but I'll have to see these in person before I decide. some guitars really look good in Gold as an example I always thought gold looks great on green guitars. Blue looks good either way and purple well don't know since I can't recall ever seeing a dark purple guitar? I used to only like the traditional woods and burst colors and/or Gold tops and always hated bright colors but that's kinda changed over the last few years. One of my favorites is a Green Gretsch Brian Setzer model with mixed hardware where most of the hardware is gold but the Bigsby and the tuners are matte Silver and I love the look. Green Guitars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaved_ape Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Congrats on the Masters feels good doesn't it? the day I got my masters was a big deal, I felt so grown up and professional and it was allot of work to get that first one. Later I got a doctorate and still didn't feel quite the same high probably because I was older and established and it always made me feel weird, guess I just never figured math made me a doctor? They are tempting just because they are different, I also prefer Nickel over Gold on almost any guitar but I'll have to see these in person before I decide. some guitars really look good in Gold as an example I always thought gold looks great on green guitars. Blue looks good either way and purple well don't know since I can't recall ever seeing a dark purple guitar? I used to only like the traditional woods and burst colors and/or Gold tops and always hated bright colors but that's kinda changed over the last few years. One of my favorites is a Green Gretsch Brian Setzer model with mixed hardware where most of the hardware is gold but the Bigsby and the tuners are matte Silver and I love the look. Green Guitars I LOVE those Gretsch's, those pickups are the nicest ones I have heard in a hollow body, I really want a double cutaway white penguin but the only thing I HATE about Gretsch's is the floating bridge. If I ever came across one where someone modded the bridge to be a les paul, or if I could get my paws on one of those Malcom Young sigs, I would totally be down. Once a year Guitar Center devalues guitars that don't sell well, in 2000, they devalued a red Setzer hotrod from $1500 cost to $600 cost and I didn't get it and I still regret it to this day. That green one looks pretty tasty though. I am even mulling the Green one. I always thought that the only purple I would like to see on a Gibson is a Purple Lucille and they did it. And I think it is Gorgeous, especially a dark purple. My favorite color is blue, and that thing is just too damn gorgeous although I think the gold hardware dulls it out. And I wanted to go for a PhD because I would love to be a professor in England or Australia and that is the only way you can be a professor out there, or so I am told, but they don't offer a PhD program in Animation or Visual FX. So I have to hope that a school out there see's my work and offers me one. here is my demo reel from the 3d modeling side, if anyone needs some work done it will only help me pay for this guitar, I also have my B.S. in Graphic Design so I can do an almost unlimited number of things for anyone on here. I had a Dean ML for a while and that was a fun guitar, this one is modeled to the "T" and the DW kit is modeled to an exact kit. I went to guitar center and took apart a kit and took over 200 reference photos just to get it right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtMY0uyMQa8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Hi Shaved' congrats on your Masters... The Lucille is a great guitar for blues...essentially an ES335 with no 'f' holes, so therefore a semi. If it was solid it would be too heavy outside of Sparta BB King used to play an ES335 and stuffed cloths into the 'f' holes to cut feedback due to his hi gain amp settings Looks to me like Bright Blues is the new thing V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaved_ape Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Well how hollowed out are these? I thought best case they were just chambered of sorts. But are they the same hollowness as a regular 335 or 336? I would only buy it if it was almost like a solid body, I would put some pretty heavy distortion through it, or some medium gain. Will it still give feedback. I once had an Ibanez artcore 335 copy and I liked it, but if I did too much distortion like all hollows it gave some squeltching. Are the 1979 - 1982 gibson 335 artist completely solid, or are they "semi" hollow as well? I have never gotten to see a "lucille" up close but seriously was under the impression that these were fairly solid guitars. I mean, BB King sits down a lot of the time so I just thought it didn't matter to him. Does anyone have a "gibson" lucille or one of the early "335 artists"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Well how hollowed out are these? I thought best case they were just chambered of sorts. But are they the same hollowness as a regular 335 or 336? I would only buy it if it was almost like a solid body, I would put some pretty heavy distortion through it, or some medium gain. Will it still give feedback. I once had an Ibanez artcore 335 copy and I liked it, but if I did too much distortion like all hollows it gave some squeltching. Are the 1979 - 1982 gibson 335 artist completely solid, or are they "semi" hollow as well? I have never gotten to see a "lucille" up close but seriously was under the impression that these were fairly solid guitars. I mean, BB King sits down a lot of the time so I just thought it didn't matter to him. Does anyone have a "gibson" lucille or one of the early "335 artists"? All 335's including BB King models and Lucilles are 'semis' with a 4" wide centre block...the rest of the width is hollow Therefore not suited to heavy distortion...BB King and Eric Clapton probably drove them as hard as they could Eric in particular using LP's, SG's and Strats etc for alternative tones Good to think about what you are looking for tonewise before being seduced by appearance and slick marketing(!) I use my 335 up to medium gain, then for more distortion switch to a solid Dream On V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 All 335's including BB King models and Lucilles are 'semis' with a 4" wide centre block...the rest of the width is hollow Therefore not suited to heavy distortion...BB King and Eric Clapton probably drove them as hard as they could Eric in particular using LP's, SG's and Strats etc for alternative tones Good to think about what you are looking for tonewise before being seduced by appearance and slick marketing(!) I use my 335 up to medium gain, then for more distortion switch to a solid Dream On V :unsure: I don't want to sound like a Jag... but Chris Cornell and Dave Grohl both use 335s, and I don't think they are playing clean the whole time. I know Grohl cranks the **** out of his Mesa Rectifiers, and had to stop using a VOX AC30 because he refused to get cleans out of it because he would just crank it. I love 335s and I think they are the most versatile guitar out there. Try one out, and the absence of f holes will reduce feedback, but it depends on your style of music. If you play thrash metal, probably not. I like controlling the feedback, so I enjoy them with more gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 I have a Gibson "Lucille," (Tradional Black), it's semi-hollow, essentially, a ES-355 with no "f" holes, as mentioned, previously. It doesn't "feed back," except when I want it to. But then, I play mostly "blues," and "classic rock" on it...not "metal," or "Grunge." For the harder rock, I use either a Telecaster, Les Paul, or SG. I love the warm "blues" tone, of Lucille cranked through my Fender Twin Reverb. I wouldn't even want to mess with heavy distortion, with her. Such a beautiful tone, with just some nice tube saturation. It would be a crime, to put heavy distornion, on that... IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaved_ape Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 When I say distortion, I mean as much as Slash would use. When I don't have a guitar I think of multiple songs I would like to learn as soon as I get one. The reason I wanted a Dean ML so bad with a floyd was there were several White Zombie songs I wanted to learn, as soon as I got it, I learned 'em. I am dying for a les paul right now, because now I want to go back and learn some guns n' roses songs. I want to tackle some Bad Religion songs, and a few others in THAT way of distortion, nothing Death Metal, but yeah probably to the same degree that Dave Grohl uses. The one guitar that has been showing up that I have been Dying to get since I was 16 is the Jay Yuenger Ibanez Iceman, If I can save up for one of these I can save up for one of those. But I can't put it on layaway I would have to buy it outright, which at this point I would prefer layaway. Here is one I would love to learn to play. Not hard by any means, but one that has been stirring on my mind each time I hear it on my mp3 player. Stuff like this, I really am thinking of selling a lot of my things in order to get a guitar, right now it's a toss up between an expensive dog or an expensive guitar. Gibson just killed me with these colors, although I thought they were a little more solid than what they actually are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UI6kuFgEZ0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Natural Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 By the time B. B. had settled on the ES-355, he still didn't like the feedback he was getting. When he and Gibson got together to build a Lucille, he requested it be built with no f-holes. Gibson used to build a ES-335 Studio with no binding and no f-holes. I've only seen one. These Gem Series Lucilles look cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 The new BB King guitars are very nice.....perfect for any style except metal...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 The new BB King guitars are very nice.....perfect for any style except metal..... See my PM to you. What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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