Members Flatspotter Posted December 12, 2012 Members Share Posted December 12, 2012 Originally Posted by danswon Is that a Hamer? Warmoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scott Abene Posted December 12, 2012 Members Share Posted December 12, 2012 Originally Posted by danswon Never seen a Gibby like that before. What pickups are those? Single-coils? Seems crazy to me that you have never seen a guitar like that yet have Paul Stanley Make up on... Paul played a Gibson Marauder for quite a while back in the day. http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyl...0725-2012.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danswon Posted December 12, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 12, 2012 Originally Posted by Scott Abene Seems crazy to me that you have never seen a guitar like that yet have Paul Stanley Make up on... Paul played a Gibson Marauder for quite a while back in the day. http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle...0725-2012.aspx Wow no I didn't know that. Doesn't quite seem PS's style. I'm guessing they were manufactured in the late '70s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scott Abene Posted December 12, 2012 Members Share Posted December 12, 2012 Paul was playing those guitars on the "Love Gun" tour when I saw them at MSG way back in the day... The Marauder was introduced in 1974 but entered full production in 1975. Around 1,368 were made between 1975 and Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MahaloVision Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 Originally Posted by danswon Never seen a Gibby like that before. What pickups are those? Single-coils? As pointed out above, the pickups were single coils using a bar magnet or rail. There were two different wiring configurations, but this one has the following:1) Neck and middle2) Middle and Bridge3) All three4) Neck and Bridge out of phaseThe toggle switch selects the Bridge pickup by itself. The knobs are volume and tone. Positions 1 and 2 are similar to a Strat in positions 2 and 4, with the usual quack and can do a good job filling in Strat parts in most songs. Position 3 is just a bit stronger in output. Position 4 has a great semi-nasal quality. The bridge by itself does a passable Tele tone. This particular guitar is a little different from other S-1's I've seen in that it has a maple body and maple fingerboard. It's a bit on the heavy side. The stock tuners are surprisingly awful, hence the TP-6 tailpiece I added on almost immediately after I got this back in '78. These did not sell well and don't have a lot of vintage guitar value, but it does garner complements on a regular basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vanzant38 Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 The ones that I have are pretty good.Couple of Awesome RoguesThe Fender Friday Special from a couple of years ago. (scale = 24in)Silvertone Fastback SFB1Peavey MysticEpiphone Les Paul Junior Special - (crappy tuners) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members McHale Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 Originally Posted by vanzant38 Epiphone Les Paul Junior Special - (crappy tuners) I just ordered new tuners for the Junior Special I have. You can NOT beat the price for these tuners. Grover 102-18C's for $19.95 - http://www.rondomusic.com/product5101.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jimash Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 I got one of those LP Jr Epis for my niece. ( w/ a 10 watt Orange crush combo) Spent an hour, polishing the frets and messing with the trussrod and strung it up and it worked fine. She is rocking it in a band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 Don't own one, but I like the Shoreline Gold VM Squire Thinlines I've played.Very comfy, looks good, and sound good too.A Tele that really doesn't feel like other Teles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 I had one of these back in the 70s. Unique pickups designed by Bill Lawrence if I remember correctly. Good sounding guitar with quite a few usable tones.Mine was picked up used for really cheap, had the typical Gibson broken headstock w/shitty repair syndrome so I wound up getting rid of it as soon as I could afford to get something "better". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bruce Bennett Posted December 13, 2012 Members Share Posted December 13, 2012 Theres been no complaints yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danswon Posted December 14, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Originally Posted by Bruce Bennett Theres been no complaints yet... Interesting! I can't say it's my thing but each to their own. Is that a Lace Alumitone in the bridge? If so, what's that like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Texas Noise Factory Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Originally Posted by Bruce Bennett Theres been no complaints yet... Looks cool, but I wish there were better pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Texas Noise Factory Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 I like this little guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bruce Bennett Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Originally Posted by danswon Interesting! I can't say it's my thing but each to their own. Is that a Lace Alumitone in the bridge? If so, what's that like? VERY clean and quiet.. processed is the word that comes to my mind quickest.. slightly compressed or maybe just very "even" sounding. they do have some rather interesting qualites. The have awesome picking articulation, especially when played distorted. every note will be heard during quick passages, and chord balance between notes is actually better than most standard pickups. you can hear every note within a chord very clearly. the drawback is, they don't do that, firey, in your face, bluesly growl type sound. playing an SRV song would sound thin and weakish. they can't produce that "sting" at lower crunch levels. but for a clean jazz tone, or a heavy distorted speed metal that needs an almost compressed evenness yet with excellent articulation between notes.. they shine like no other. and one other strange detail. there is very little difference between the single coil and the humbucker versions.. they sound VERY much the same, except for the position they are located in on the guitar.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members supafast213 Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Heres mine. Kramer Proaxe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bruce Bennett Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Originally Posted by Texas Noise Factory Looks cool, but I wish there were better pictures. maybe these will be better.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Texas Noise Factory Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 Originally Posted by Bruce Bennett maybe these will be better.. There we go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soulsurfer Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 My Taylor T3 is 24.875 and I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jpnyc Posted December 14, 2012 Members Share Posted December 14, 2012 I think they Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members tommyld Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Had a 24.75" Fender Stratosonic. Fantastic guitar, played great! In my experience, scale length has more to do with tone than neck joint. I'd imagine a 24.75" scale all-mahogany bolt-on guitar wouldn't sound much different than set-neck guitar with the same specs. Regardless, my first step with any 25.5" Fender is to get a 24.75" neck on it (for playability reasons. I'm currently loving a 22.7" Fender). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jpnyc Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Originally Posted by tommyld Regardless, my first step with any 25.5" Fender is to get a 24.75" neck on it (for playability reasons. I'm currently loving a 22.7" Fender). I had no idea I could even do that. Is that just a drop-in thing with a Warmoth neck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members orourke Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 I finally have a little time to respond to this thread. I'm a big fan of a shorter scale bolt-on. The two tele's below have Warmoth LP scale necks on them, I like the sound of a tele but I never feel like I can do my best lead work on the original scale tele neck. I can just tear it up better on a shorter LP scale neck. The last on is my Rick Kelly custom, I had Rick build it for me with the LP scale. When it comes down to it I can and do play any scale, I regularly use baritone and bass guitars, but when it comes to doing the most challenging stuff I'm more comfortable with the shorter scale.As far as the sound goes, I'm sure it effects the sound of a guitar to use a shorter scale neck on it, but they all sound great to me: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members meresing Posted April 14, 2013 Members Share Posted April 14, 2013 The only real difference your going to find in shorter or longer scale-length guitars (unless having 24 frets is important to you versus 22 or 21) is that in the shortere scale instruments, there is less string-tension... The longer the string, the higher the tension required to tune it to concert-pitch... Thats why you see most of your Blues players who bend a lot, using shorteer scale-length guitars (especially your acoustiv blues players). Also allows you to use heavier guage strings without string tension getting insane i.e., one reason why strats are a popular choice with and even more so with Les Pauls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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