hey a gear thread!

i just traded a 7 string reminder of my metal days for an epiphone es 335
got a classic '57 at the bridge. it's surprisingly good

http://guitarinternational.com/wp-co...4604498297.jpg

fuck you for that beautiful gretsch teb i want a gretsch so bad

my most cherished guitar is actually a 87 SG that i want to put a bigsby on

slunken have you had any experience with vibramate

no i don't know much about wang bars, only historical info.

i mentioned before i really want an sg with trem. i would accept either a danelectro reissue (with the the wide neck - sounds more like a les paul) or an off-brand 70s japanese model would be ideal. as long as it has a bar.

sg's are too expensive and 70s supermarket guitars are unreliable i'll probably just try to get danelectro. if you really like a les paul sounding guitar that has amazing pick response (chime, twang, growl) those 90s reissues can't be beat for the money. like $250 top dollar. i like them because they have thick necks like a hollowbody and the body is nice and weighty too for deep sustain. amazing sound.

the worst is i barely use it. I haven't in many months now anyway. It's not quite the sound i'd like, but since it's inherited, i'm never selling it. I will find a use for it yet at some point anyway.

do you find that, even if you've cleaned it after you last played it, that it oxidizes in the case? i would pull mine out after even a few weeks and the whole fucking thing would be wrecked. oxidized chrome. gross strings.

maybe it was just me. i sweat a LOT when i play. it was like driving a classic caddy through the mud.

perhaps it's a humidity situation?
it's pretty dry where i live so i don't get that

try wiping off the strings and make sure the guitar doesn't lie there for a few weeks with wrecked strings

it's kind of a shame, i came across a few just like those in the past month
they're local auctions though so i'm not sure you\the sellers would be bothered

yeah i dotn ahve that problem. However....i stringed this guitar only once so far and HOLY SHIT, an exercize in frustration. First time with a bigsby bridge. You kinda ideally need two people... I want to have to restring this as least often as possible.

i never had to do this because i don't own a bigsby guitar
what's so frustrating about it

^

YES.

Glad to know i'm not just a retard. Cause i was like...maybe i am a retard and don't understand the proper procedure to string this? I mean it did get a little better towards the end but still.

Bend the bottom part about 45 degrees before putting it on the post

yeah i tried that after the first one. It helps but doesn't keep it from happening.

I basically stringed it with one hand on the bridge and one hand on the head. very uncomfortable.

Ive been wondering about using the blue gum thing used to put posters on walls. put ball end on post, stick some blue gum over ball end and post, then remove gum after.

using a capo will help. i always do anyway.

this is clutch

http://www.sweetwater.com/images/ite...-000-large.jpg

Hey i'm sure i've asked this before, but what are some good songs for an intermediate learner to try? So far of all the songs i've taught myself, Siva is the most fun to play - a few interesting chords, lots of sections to learn, nice balance of riffing and leads. Any suggestions?

the bass line to stranglehold

transpose it all over the neck

blue oyster cult - burning for you

great for playalongs either lead or rhythm

those are my two little jam practice warmup exercise things at the moment

so im bidding on a mij jaguar hh special, a guitar I used to own but had to sell for crack cocaine. 399. so far so good. hope to get it and swap out the pickups with something HOTTER.

They do indeed have nice pickups stock but I replaced them on my old one with dimarzio's dp155s and it gave it the sound I'm looking for.

Yeah there is a lot of new stuff. The black tops, the pawn shop models... I'm liking the mij 2007 models though I wouldn't mind the pawn shop bass vi.

Is it worse than a Floyd Rose?

Break a string and not have cutters and an allen key set and 10 minutes to get the thing in tune??

I got a mocking bird with floyd rose (yeah lol) and I like it but I'm fixed bridge + locking tuners for life now.

actually there's a new system called Evertune that's based around routing your guitar for it, which means losing a considerable amount of wood

BUT - you tune your guitar once, and no matter what happens to it, it'll keep that same tune forever

that is TEMPTING

particularly for me because i'm obsessed with being perfectly in tune
two or three cents off on one string can drive me crazy

It's not like a floyd or whatever where you need to get the balance of everything spot on. You tune up however you want and the system then works to retain whatever balance is set. It's kinda a weird mechanical system of springs and levers and pulleys but apparently not all that difficult.

It's supposedly not that great though as it can adjust out some of the subtlety in guitar playing. And also guitars by nature shouldn't be perfectly in tune everywhere. It's a perfectly imperfect instrument. Dunno the science of it tbh but if you're playing in a band and your the only one with Evertune there's occasions when you're going to sound a little out of tune.

i don't think i've ever played a guitar that has crazy dive action and i don't think i've ever had a problem with a guitar staying in tune. i guess they are both related.

you're lucky to be able to get a semitone from a gretsch bigsby and that's how i like it

This is my dad's mid-80s Washburn G-2V, I had it worked on and fixed up but...

http://i.imgur.com/lnON7lN.jpg

I still need this screw piece thing for the wonderbar trem...where the fuck would I find one?

http://i.imgur.com/iFpYi19.jpg

My dad said he might be able to get someone to weld one but I don't know.

Are you gonna smash it now?