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For the past few months, it`s been almost exclusively my Parker Nitefly mojo flame top. I got it used fome Long & McQuade for less than half of what they'd go for new.
But I got this Gibson LP Classic yesterday, and I've been playing it a lot in the past 24 hours. Also from Long & McQuade, at their blowout sale. 900 bones!
onelife wrote:
dmc69 wrote:But I got this Gibson LP Classic yesterday, and I've been playing it a lot in the past 24 hours. Also from Long & McQuade, at their blowout sale. 900 bones!
How do you like the extremely hot pickups on that guitar?
Do not like. They're going to go soon, probably for a set of Alnico II pros, or Gibson PAFs.
I really need some better pics of this.
Gibson LP Studio that I bought when I was 17. Obtained it with some settlement money from a faulty bike manufacturer. I traded it off to friend about 7 years ago for his acoustic and recently traded back. I have barely put it down, it plays better than I remember. A real workhorse and it has the scars to prove it.
These two pretty much get equal play time.
The strat is an MJT finished body, the neck is from my very first guitar and perfect for me in everyway, pickups are Klein jazzy cats, and the hardware is callaham. To me, this guitar sounds and plays as good as any strat I've ever picked up including customshop models, vintage strats, and current production models. I wouldn't trade it for the world.
My LP is a 2001 and was purchased from GreatDane. As expected, is an amazing playing and imo looking guitar. Pickups are Wolfetone Dr. Vintage which just ooze classic rock goodness. Hardware and plastic was swapped out with aged RS guitarworks pieces to give it a bit more of a vintage feel.
I used to have an ebony Les Paul Special about 7 years ago, but it had P-100's I never bonded with and I sold it after a year. This is a nice replacement, and bought for the same blowout price as the previous one, $499! Plus this has a bound neck. Will play at the next big Crash Pad show on March 2,
Here's a pic of me playing the previous one with Crash Pad:
I play all my guitars evenly but at the moment my carvin is up to bat...
DC135 Subtle flame Koa top over an alder body. Neck through, with (obviously) a floyd. Ebony fretboard. SSH layout but the single coils are actually single coil sized humbuckers. They do straty sounds fairly well. The bridge humbucker is very hot, but with good grind.
My girlfriend bought it for me for my birthday a few years ago, after I saw it in a shop.
Very nice guitar over all. Fit and finish is very good although I wish it would have had a nitro finish. Don't like Carvin's thick poly. Aside from that though it plays very well. Excellent variety of sounds but does it's best as a hard rock mid to high gain player.
My K-Line Truxton has stepped into my top spot. I custom ordered it this past summer - Chris turned it around right on the quoted 12-week lead time and made me a killer guitar. There's nothing particularly wild about the specs, just a good 60s Tele with a slightly hotter bridge pickup and slightly flatter fingerboard. It gets all the classic Tele tones but is never overly bright or icepicky, and the neck and fretwork are to die for.
The nitro finish is incredibly thin - literally a sheet of paper. Even though I've only had it for less than a year, I've been gigging it a bit and it's starting to naturally relic.
2009 Ibanez Jem7v, left handed. This has been my #1 since my wife gave it to me as a present. This guitar has been my "Holy Grail" guitar for many years. Only 150 left handed Jems were produced in the one and only production run of left handed Jem7v's. My wife tracked down probably the last one that was available in North America. It plays and sounds amazing.
Mark Wein wrote:
benzem wrote:
Sweet! What year?
Thanks Mark. 1979 LS50. Nice old light weight (solid) mahogany, it's a little over 8 lbs. All stock except the new frets. I also have a '85 LS150. This one is the workhorse tho, and I have gotten used to the chunky neck.
Don't you have a Goldstar or similiar?
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benzem wrote:
Mark Wein wrote:
benzem wrote:
Sweet! What year?
Thanks Mark. 1979 LS50. Nice old light weight (solid) mahogany, it's a little over 8 lbs. All stock except the new frets. I also have a '85 LS150. This one is the workhorse tho, and I have gotten used to the chunky neck.
Don't you have a Goldstar or similiar?
Cool! I'd love a Love Rock from that era. A friend has a later 80's goldtop that is killer.
I have a 1979 Springy Sound lawsuit model. Actually used in the lawsuit as evidence even:
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