Acoustics

[littlekenny]

The question is mainly for the electric guitar players, but what acoustic guitars do you guys have? I have my first guitar, a yamaha F-325, from a cheap starters pack thing.

 

I dont have a solo pic so here it is with my Ibanez:

[Thundergod]

I've had lots of acoustics that I generally sell after a week of owning them... I just can't find a place for them... I dont play them that much.

[Riffster]

I have a 6-string Guild Jumbo and a 12-string Fender Dreadnought.

 

The Guild was a bit brighter than I expected for a Jumbo but after 2 years it has warmed up nicely. The resonance of that guitar fascinates me.

 

The Fender 12-string I found for $140 brand new in a local store. Budget guitar but it is really well finished, I am talking perfect.

 

i do not gravitate towards acounstic guitars but I do like having them.

[pippy]

I have a 'Kiso-Suzuki KS-150' dreadnought which was bought in the first week of Jan 1980 in the 'January Sales'.

 

I actually bought it on a whim when I went in to collect my '64 Strat and thought 'Hey, why not buy an acoustic too???' (Santa had been very good to me).

 

It's basically a Martin D-45 lookalike but with simple MoP dots.

 

At the time, Martin were trying to get into the "lower-level-but-still-high-quality" market with their 'Vega' range of acoustics - "Made in the Martin Mould" - as the advertising of the time read. I tried a few (three?) but the K-S was the same price and smoother sounding (and better finished).

 

I do suspect the Vega would have been the better choice, however; it would have aged better and so-on, but I didn't anticipate I'd be keeping the guitar nearly thirty years.

 

Like a lot of the earlier replies I didn't really get into the acoustic thing as much as the electric side. Probably 20 years to get to the stage where I didn't feel the need to begin with the "...I can't play this thing to save my life...." apologia.

[RudyH]

I sometimes play the acoustic models on my Variax electric. Sounds good, but I prefer elecrtric guitars.

[flyingarmadillo]

I have several:

 

Alvarez AD-60S

Alvarez AD-60S12 (12 string)

Alvarez MSD-1 (Travel guitar)

Guild G-37

Yairi FYM-95

 

I just picked up the FYM-95 so that's getting the most play right now but I try to play them for at least 10 minutes a day each.

[myspace.com/jessenoah]

i picked up a 75 martin d-28

its a ***** to play, but it has such a perfectly balenced sound, i love it

 

even if it does hurt to play

[SRV-Zeppelin]

I have a 20+ year old acoustic I got from my Dad that says "Traditional" on the headstock... good guitar, though. I would eventually like to buy a J-185 Modern Classic from Bozeman, especially if I start gigging regularly.

[xchrisbobisx]

I thought about getting a little melody maker, because i dunno. Acoustics in a way seem more simplistic compared to a electric. You dont need a amp, dont have all these switches etc. You can just pick it up and just jam away for a little while when your inspired or something.

[pippy]

As Homer (Simson; not yon Greek chap) would say;....

 

Thanks, Jessenoah, for posting your snap - I meant to say a D-28.

 

In what way is it "a *****" to play? I have had very little experience of acoustics and I don't know what 'normal' would be.

 

Can they be compared playability-wise with solid-bodies or is it a 'Chalk-and-cheese' scenario? I read in an interview with BB King that he had a mid-'60s Gibson acoustic and the neck felt exactly the same as his current (this was mid '80s) Lucille.

 

The Dreadnought has always been a bit cumbersome for me. In an ideal world I'd like to try one of the Martin 'Eric Clapton' models or else an 00018.

 

Anyone out there with either of these???

[Homz]

Acoustics listed at bottom. Believe it or not, but that piece of sh*t Applause which I've had since the age of 12 is one of the best sounding Acoustics I have ever played. And I have played many very expensive Gibson's and Martin's.

[AXE®]

Gibson J-185-ec Custom Shop. #87 of 200.

 

Ovation OP-30 Custom Shop.

[Cruznolfart]

The Songwriter's the one that gets the lion's share of acoustic playtime.

 

[myspace.com/jessenoah]

 

In what way is it "a *****" to play? I have had very little experience of acoustics and I don't know what 'normal' would be.

 

 

big strings, high action, and low frets

but it sounds so wonderful, a taylor or ovation would be easier to play (more like an electric)

but it wouldnt have the huge sound of this baby

[Ian Martin]

+1 to Axe for an AMAZING, GORGEOUS J-185.

 

-1 to Axe for an ugly-*** Ovation.

[AXE®]

All I can hope for is to break even.

[ChanMan]

Hmm...

 

 

Hondo 12 string

 

 

 

 

 

The JB Player acoustic/electric

 

 

 

 

 

 

And THE Ibanez Exotic Woods:

 

 

[Ian Martin]

Holy hell Chan, that Ibanez is AMAZING...

[Flight959]

I have a Tanglewood TW15... Great guitar....It does just sit and gather dust though..

 

Flight959

[:oilpit:]

I have a crappy 250 dollar china made Fender, I use it for all drop/open/different tunings

I have it tuned to DADGAD for all my kashmir needs, it was in open G

but I don't have a slide.

 

I want a Gibson Hummingbird real bad, that or a nice ovation (not an *** ugly one like AXE's)

[Ian Martin]

Do you guys seriously like and enjoy Ovations?

 

Everything about them makes me want to break my fingers so I have an excuse not to play one.

 

Stupid ****ing round back that rotates while you're playing it, ****ing cheap-*** plastic back, GOD-AWFUL sounding when plugged in. I've done sound for SO many people with Ovations at live gigs, and as soon as they're plugged in they don't understand why their guitar only has one sound no matter how you EQ it: SUPER TREBLE GLASS-SHATTERING SHRIEKING TONE FROM HELL. And it's not just the cheap ones, I've known a couple people with REALLY expensive models (like, $4K). Soundwise they're not TOO bad unplugged, but I don't know if it's the mic/pre-amp they put in them or the fact that they are incapable of producing a tone anything but awful.

[surfpup]

Love the acoustic. I play lots of acoustic around the house. In addition to sounding killer and being great to sing with, the acoustic will give you strong hands and fingertips made of iron. Makes the electrics play like buttah!

 

1997 Gibson CL-10 (below). I also have a Seagull cedar 12 string and my first guitar ever, a 1978 Alvarez folksinger

 

[AXE®]

Sitting down the Ovation sucks HARD.

 

But overall this one is okay.The neck is a little skinny, but I haven't had any squealing or live difficulties.

 

Yet..

 

Oh oiltard...get back to doing what you do best, whining and sniffing bicycle seats at the schoolyard.

[:oilpit:]

I have tried 2 ovations, unplugged.

They sounded fine to me, the plastic is a turn off but I like the concept of them.

 

Oh and AXE, I will keep whining, but what the hell is sniffing bycylce seats?

That is the second time you have mentioned it, is it outdated slang for drugs?

Fill me in bro

[AXE®]

It is what it is oilydrawers.

There was this "special interest" kid at school that sniffed seats, desks, bikes.. anything that had an *** on it.

Kind of like your shoulders...:D/

 

 

But the backs are not plastic, or at least not all of them, they're some sort of composite...

 

Yeah plastic pretty much.