Whats your' latest gear acquisition?

[Chocol8]

Last night I received a package from the snowy North that included a bunch of new straps. I have a pair of Orange Frame JBL D-120F's that are on their way to Upland for a recone, and I have a Mu-Tron clone due to arrive Thursday. Pictures to be posted in the near future!

Here are the AD-3200's lined up with their new clothes. The lighting sucks but hopefully you get the idea. The black one is getting black P-90 covers soon and BLACK Well-Hung Pro Pins. The plain top will probably be getting a set of "reverse zebra" pickups like the original one on the left. (Yes the factory pickups still have the plastic on them).

[Tonray's Ghost]

Last night I received a package from the snowy North that included a bunch of new straps. I have a pair of Orange Frame JBL D-120F's that are on their way to Upland for a recone, and I have a Mu-Tron clone due to arrive Thursday. Pictures to be posted in the near future!

Here are the AD-3200's lined up with their new clothes. The lighting sucks but hopefully you get the idea. The black one is getting black P-90 covers soon and BLACK Well-Hung Pro Pins. The plain top will probably be getting a set of "reverse zebra" pickups like the original one on the left. (Yes the factory pickups still have the plastic on them).

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Wait...don't you live in the snowy North ?

[LightWingStudios]

Firefly Flame Maple DC with P-90s. $189 SHIPPED...I added the TP-6 Tailpiece and Speed Knobs...$52.
https://guitarsgarden.com/collections/f ... ric-guitar

[golem]

Buying one of these. @andrewsrea knows the seller as he's local and he now goes to Rob for a lot of his amp and guitar work (thanks to me!). Pretty sure I got a price I won't lose my ass on if I need to sell.

[andrewsrea]

Buying one of these. @andrewsrea knows the seller as he's local and he now goes to Rob for a lot of his amp and guitar work (thanks to me!). Pretty sure I got a price I won't lose my ass on if I need to sell.

Hennig?

[golem]

Hennig?

Mike. Also, the aesthetics of those Kinmans I have works perfectly for this guitar so you probably know what I'm tempted to do. The electronics are on a pickguard and it doesn't require doing anything crazy through F holes to install. I think a push-pull would be required.

Also, working out a trade deal for that pedal for BYOC Royal Tweed (Amp). So if you want a low watt tweed based amp to play with for a few months let me know. I should be clear that while a kit build it's already assembled. Just needs a speaker and I've got that Warehouse speaker.



Schematic: http://byocelectronics.com/tweedroyalschematic.pdf

[andrewsrea]

Mike.

Odd that Mike would by that guitar.

Cool on the amp! It has a few of the mods that I do, with negative feedback. It also has a mod toswitch it to Class A output (Tweed Champ) from a 15w (Tweed Deluxe).

[golem]

Mike.

Odd that Mike would by that guitar.

Cool on the amp! It has a few of the mods that I do, with negative feedback. It also has a mod toswitch it to Class A output (Tweed Champ) from a 15w (Tweed Deluxe).

I feel like I'm going to explain it poorly, but Mike had a side project that he thought called for a more Gretsch like guitar. He bought this and a Richard Fortus, who I think he knows, signature Gretsch. I'm not surprised to hear that he prefers the Gretsch as it has higher output pickups

[andrewsrea]

I feel like I'm going to explain it poorly, but Mike had a side project that he thought called for a more Gretsch like guitar. He bought this and a Richard Fortus, who I think he knows, signature Gretsch. I'm not surprised to hear that he prefers the Gretsch as it has higher output pickups

I was at the Pagent two weeks ago to see Blackberry Smoke and some guys I know there are friends with Richard Fortus. They said he has moved back to St. Louis as his 'hub' and has been around the local watering holes.

[Chocol8]

Wait...don't you live in the snowy North ?

Not this week! It's late April and a balmy 43 degrees here!

[Tonray's Ghost]

Wait...don't you live in the snowy North ?

Not this week! It's late April and a balmy 43 degrees here!

Hey...it's 43 here in Thailand also ! Oh wait..that's Celsius.

[voodoorat]

This guy just arrived:



It’s a strandberg essentials 6, have been curious about them for a while and these came out and i got a tax refund and well, stuff happened.

Don’t have a fully formed opinion yet though.


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[Tonray's Ghost]

This guy just arrived:



It’s a strandberg essentials 6, have been curious about them for a while and these came out and i got a tax refund and well, stuff happened.

Don’t have a fully formed opinion yet though.


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UH Oh...the headstock broken off in shipping.

[tonebender]

Yesterday I spent an hour in GC and walked out with a new Cowbell by LP. The one we use for busking is a little large. We needed a medium size Cowbell tone and more of it too!

[dabbler]

This guy just arrived:



It’s a strandberg essentials 6, have been curious about them for a while and these came out and i got a tax refund and well, stuff happened.

Don’t have a fully formed opinion yet though.


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Ooohh, so that's what the Agile Geodesic is patterned after!

[voodoorat]

This guy just arrived:



It’s a strandberg essentials 6, have been curious about them for a while and these came out and i got a tax refund and well, stuff happened.

Don’t have a fully formed opinion yet though.


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Ooohh, so that's what the Agile Geodesic is patterned after!

Yeah. I think there are a few other headless clones of the body shape, I think I saw an EART on Amazon that looks similar. I have been playing it a good bit including at a mini-jam (just me and the drummer) last night and I have a little bit of a first impression at least of the guitar:

It's very light, probably a shade under 5 pounds. So it's my first of all these: Ergonomic shaped body, extreme carve neck, solid steel frets, and headless. Most steinbergs are also fanned fret multiscale or extended range 7 or 8 strings, but I'm not really that interested in that stuff, at least not now. But I was intrigued by the other stuff so this seemed like a real opportunity to try out something modern. They also usually come with floyd-y trems, but I'm ambivalent on trems (and kinda anti-floyd) so that was fine with me. I should probably mention that the vast majority of my guitars are very traditional. I have very few with modern flavor (and that's including stuff like the elite strat which is still mostly pretty traditional). So yeah this one was a significant departure for me, and I basically play blues and classic rock so nothing that particularly begs for like a prog-friendly guitar, but I"ve always been curious about how this sort of thing feels.

So, most of the things about it I like. The weight is great, picking up the Heritage H150 after playing this thing for a while felt like picking up an anvil, and I don't think it's even particularly heavy for a traditional LP-style, probably 9 pounds or so but this thing is probably somewhere around 5 lbs.

The headlessness of it is not actually that big a deal for me for the most part--I did get thrown a little bit because obviously the neck length is visually different. I do already play a bunch of different guitars, some with different scale lengths, so I'm not so used to any one thing that it throws me much though (the SG honestly throws me more with how its neck is even though it still doesn't take long to get used to). I don't really look at the headstock much when I"m playing though so it doesn't affect me that much while playing. That said, most of my guitar stands or wall hangers don't work worth a shit without a headstock, so I had to get a few extra floor stands that can be set up to hold this thing (a few because I want to have them in different places around the house). One thing I don't like about the headlessness is the tuners behind the bridge. Conceptually I don't mind them but I find them to be kinda hard to use--they are a little tight and it's hard to get a good grip on them since they almost touch each other. The are knurled a little so at least there's some texture, but I'm not looking forward to doing my first string change on this thing.

The stainless steel frets seem great, that seems like an unmitigated positive. I don't notice any downside. They are smooth and polished, well dressed, and I assume will outlive me.

The location of the output jack is rear-facing kind of on the back of the electronics plate cover--not quite has hard to stuck a jack into as the one on the Charvel SoCal type 2 (t type), but still sort of a pain. I might get more used to that and find it less annoying in time.

The ergonomics of the body I like a lot although it does aggravate the guitar stand issue a little. The body is tiny and carved in ways that it just gets out of the way when you're seated. Standing it matters less but it's so light that it seems like it would also be really comfortable to play standing (I usually play seated though), but might look a little silly IMO. I think that's maybe unavoidable when it's got such a weird tiny shape and no headstock though.

The weirdest thing about it though, by far, is the neck. The "endurneck" is a crazy weird carve, it's like almost a somewhat flattened-edge triangle shape but where the flattened ridge at the back moves from sort of the middle or slightly treble side of the neck to the bass side of the neck as you go up the fretboard. It sort of naturally moves your thumb into a comfortable playing position. I find that for like single note playing it's really almost not noticeable, but that sometimes when I was playing more rhythmic stuff with barre chords I'd feel that edge in a weird spot on my hand. It's such a departure from a more traditionally carved neck that it makes me a little worried that if I get used to it then normal necks will feel weird.

Those are the main things I've noticed. The pickups seem pretty good, on par with pretty decent pickups I have in some other guitars, I don't think I'll feel the need to swap them out, and I like the tonal variety from the pickup switch options (the 2 and 4 split one of the humbuckers, the middle one does something weird but they sounded good to my ears--and the split just added a little touch of single coil-ness along with the more full humbucker tone for those two positions).

All told, based on my 24-hours experience I'd recommend it if you are interested in trying something very different without dropping 2.5x as much on one of the "real" steinbergs with the fanned frets and fancier finishes.

Also, the size of the thing makes it really great for just sitting on the couch playing it unplugged while I'm doing other stuff, can even just wear it on a strap walking around the house if i have to get up to do something real quick since the headstock isn't going to bump into every doorway like every other guitar I own.

For scale here’s a pic of it next to the Charvel which itself isn’t a particularly large guitar.

[mozz]

Thanks for the very descriptive picture. I've never tried one or had the urge to try one. Think i am still in that boat though.

[glasshand]

I was up in Troy, NY the other week, and I discovered that there was a local guitar shop called Love of Fuzz, so of course I had to stop in. It turned out to be a really cool shop, and I highly recommend it if you happen to be in the area!

I wasn't really looking for anything in particular, but then I ran across this EHX "22 Caliber" power amp in pedal form. I'd been toying with getting one for a while, and the price was right, so I picked it up. I've barely had a chance to test it, but so far it sounds good and it seems like it should be a neat tool for traveling light or as a backup.

[tonebender]

Xvive ear monitors and so far I am liking them. I have used them at home with the Bose rehearsing my acoustic show and I definitely sold on that set up. It will save me toting a monitor speaker and cables. Anything to lighten the load is good. Not sure I will use them with the band but I will take both them and the speaker to the next gig and give them a try.

[tlarson58]

@glasshand I'm not sure what the power amp pedal does.

[idiotsdelight]

Thrift store grab.

Peavey Contour case for the 80's era T-Series guitars.

[Tonray's Ghost]

After gassing for one of these for years, I finally scored a THR10C the desktop amp from Yamaha. I was disappointed when they discontinued this model and wasn't keen on paying $430 retail for the THR10II. Here is one I got for $130 used, the only issue was the foam pads inside the battery compartment were disintegrated, cleaned that up no problem, a few scratches here and there but for the most part a completely functioning amp and more importantly, a USB audio interface which I didn't have. So for a nice discount, I get a lot of functionality.

[Tonray's Ghost]

Thrift store grab.

Peavey Contour case for the 80's era T-Series guitars.
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I'd be afraid of finding King Tut in there when I got it home

[glasshand]

@glasshand I'm not sure what the power amp pedal does.

It is basically the power amp section of an amplifier: it takes audio input and drives speakers. This one just happens to be in pedal format. So you take your favorite effects pedals, use them as your "preamp", put the 22 Caliber after them, and then put your speaker cabinet directly after the 22 Caliber. Voila, a tiny (pedalboard-sized) amp.

[Stig]

Hi, folks. Been a while. A LOT has happened in the past... god, I don't know how long. My mom died back in October, and my wife passed away on July 20. She had been bedbound for over 4 years. On one of our usual trips to the ER, as we waited for test results, we both nodded off. When the doctor came in to basically say "You're fine, go home(again)" we couldn't wake her up. She was gone.
But that's not why we're here. A week before, I traded my 1971 Tele - with not a lot of original parts - and a box of original parts even for a brand new Gibson ES-335. I love it. I'm getting her name engraved on a TRC for it. She was always a good sport about the guitars, and bought me a couple of the really good ones, and encouraged me to get others I wanted but felt bad about. OK, I'm gonna post pics before I get all weepy again.