Members Terry Allan Hall Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 At last night's NYE gig, as we were tearing down, a kid (anyone under 35 is a kid these days ) and asked about the guitar I play slide on, which is a First Act...he asked if he might play it for a minute, as he'd just started learning slide and hoped I might critique his attempts (he's actually coming along nicely, other than not always muting well). He was particularily interested in how I'd replaced the tone control with a 5-way rotary "Vari-sound", and had quite a time checking out how it changes the sound. Looks like this one: Eventually, he asked if I might consider selling it, but I told him if I did I'd have to find something else and the only other guitar I was considering was another First Act, the ME509. He then said that he had one and wondered if I might like to see it...I told him that I would, so while we finished loading gear, he ran home to get it. Got back just when I was about to point my truck back to Da Boonies and pulled his ME509 out and asked if I could take it and $120 for mine...a agreed and here she be: Sorry about the crappy cell-phone pic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 Nice one, Terry. Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 Cosmetically, you came out ahead. Plus the cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted January 1, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 Cosmetically, you came out ahead. Plus the cash. Yeah, I like this one's styling better...the p/u isn't as hot, which is also a "+" (some p/us are just excessively over-wound for anything but Metal), but has a nice, sweet tone. Don't know if I'll put a 5-way into this one, as I really only used the series, parallel and single-coil modes, but not the other two...probably will just go with a 3-way. Will likely put some chrome Grovers on it, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knockwood Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 Cosmetically, you came out ahead. Plus the cash. ^^This^^ Love teh white! Looks good, TAH. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted January 3, 2012 Members Share Posted January 3, 2012 Happy New Guitar Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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