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Post by antares on Feb 24, 2020 11:23:55 GMT -6
Well it did seem a good idea when Dane suggested it so here goes, I'll start with a few panoramas and then onto the nuts and bolts.    Eddie you can see that a light bulb went on here when you revealed your dual purpose guitar hanger / hat pegs! Next up, the Yamahas ... e&oe ... |
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Post by antares on Feb 24, 2020 11:33:59 GMT -6
The Yamahas! This one is an LS400-vt. Very lightly constructed and all solid timber. I think it's cedar, mahogany with ebony board, but could be a spruce top- like lots of things it's becoming a blur. (around 2000?)  This is a CG190. Again, all solid cedar, mahogany and ebony, but with the same caveat. (about2010?)  This one needs no intro, the SG2000. I make it a 1978.  And now an SA2000 (1982?)  And finally- a Pacifica 904. (1990s)  There's plenty more to come... e&oe ... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2020 12:20:28 GMT -6
Wow!!! You have been holding back! Cool guitars! I want to see more.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2020 12:21:59 GMT -6
Oh and the hat/guitar rack work out great! LOL! 
EB
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Post by antares on Feb 24, 2020 15:56:29 GMT -6
Let's do the "Strats". This is the Warmoth neck / one piece Schecter Hawaiian Koa body build with Sperzels. The rear "Trem" cover is routed flat into the body just like Leo should have done. You've seen it before.  A 1973 sunny to red refin with an ebony board grafted onto the maple. Now has a narrow Callaham vibrato to compensate for the string line next to the edges of the neck. Another Leo drop-off IMHO. Plays and sounds better than the pundits would have you believe ...  Custom to order Roger Giffin neck with a Mex body. The neck is only 1.625" at the nut and the taper meant that the neck pocket had to be shimmed to fill the undersize gap. Really sharp triangular profile. Beautiful to play but you need nimble digits. Surprisingly nice guitar considering. The neck was in the Schecter Koa for three decades until I moved the deckchairs around.  Cheap £20 Japanese neck bought in the same West End shop where they refin'd my 1973 Stratocaster. Mighty Mite hard tail two piece body routed for Tele pup at the bridge and also routed for vibrato at the same shop. It's all in the set up and this one plays nicely too.  Next up- the "Teles". e&oe ... |
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Post by antares on Feb 24, 2020 16:06:33 GMT -6
My first assembly! The "Esquire". Has a GFS overwound pup under the scratchplate with four way switch and associated series winding. That's a circa 1955 Fender bridge pup.  And my last assembly! The Danny Gatton tribute.  e&oe ... |
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Post by dnic on Feb 24, 2020 21:45:13 GMT -6
Good Lord Steve that is an outstanding guitar collection! I will have to study it a while to fully appreciate it all.The hat rack trick is also pretty neat. Now the next logical step is to record yourself playing them all so we can fully appreciate how amazing they all are. I would like the first vid to be the semi-hollow SA 2000.
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Post by antares on Feb 25, 2020 2:51:32 GMT -6
Nice try Dane but I haven't forgotten that I still "owe" John a sound file (at least) of the Koa Strat because of the fancy wiring. The Blue Strat is wired the same way. I forgot to mention that the blue and whites both have Wilkinson "Trems" and Sperzels. The Danny Gatton has a Warmoth neck and Gotoh locking tuners that preserve a vintage Kluson appearance- at a distance! I love the nickel plating on the Gatton.
I will get over this hurdle somehow Dane. The thing is, I press record and at the first slightest poor fretting related buzz or extended pause or whatever I wince internally because I know that I'll always be aware of it and consequently I just halt, delete and press record again. This has given me a respect for even the most bland rubbish musak because it has been committed without any flaws. Hey-ho.
What's that? Eleven so far? Not even half way yet! ;<D
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Post by antares on Feb 25, 2020 9:29:10 GMT -6
Here's a 1999 Heritage Sweet16. I haven't seen it in their catalogue recently. I wish it had a Charlie Christian but I know when to leave things alone these days!  I think that one speaks for itself? e&oe ... |
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Post by antares on Feb 25, 2020 9:32:12 GMT -6
This is a Gretsch Committee bass Mk. 1. I think the "Mk. 1" refers to it having a single pickup. That's it hanging on the wall at the far end of the room.  "That Great Gretsch Sound" e&oe ... |
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Post by antares on Feb 25, 2020 9:39:03 GMT -6
This is a 1980 Takemine F360s. I think the "S" referred to solid spruce on top. The rest is plywood. Some would call it laminated! This was my only acoustic until I bought the Yamaha (which has in turn been usurped by the Sobell.)  I seem to recall that you worked on a Tak F360 once Dane? This one has a piezo screwed to the bridge block inside and has an output strap peg socket. Screwing the piezo working blind inside was "interesting"! When I installed it I could reach in right to the back, but I cannot do that these days. Sheet metal worker's arms I suppose? e&oe ... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 12:07:24 GMT -6
I don't know what happened to my last post. But again WOW! Super nice collection.
It would be nice to hear a few of them.
I just had run into some more medical stuff I have to pay out of pocket. I hate insurance... So now I am finding myself selling off some more of my guitars. I have to have eye surgery on one eye and I go next moth to start some surgery in my mouth to correct some things. Plus I will be going in for injection in my neck to see if they can get my pain under control. Yep it all cost money even with insurance. Just don't seem fair. But, it seems that is the way things are these days. I miss the days when health insurance covered 100%. Oh well...
Guess some day I can rebuild some of my collection.
You have one cool collection of guitars. OK tell me. Did you at least strum them while taking the pictures? I can't pull any of mine off the wall or case without playing them LOL!
EB
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Post by antares on Feb 25, 2020 14:43:00 GMT -6
Sorry to hear of your setbacks Eddie. Since Best-Beloved has worked in an operating theatre for our NHS these last four decades, I am very aware of the value of free health care provision even though I've been fortunate not to need it thus far. I'll leave this here because it'll morph into politics ... This next one is a Tacoma built Guild F512. Spruce, rosewood and ebony. Peachy! Check out the custom truss rod access cover- MOP inlaid with dream catcher into ebony. A Canadian guy on EvilBay sells them.  It thrumms like a grand piano on your lap! e&oe ... |
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Post by antares on Feb 25, 2020 14:45:46 GMT -6
And here's my grab-in-a-fire guitar, the Sobell "New World". It's in that video on my YouTube channel Dane.  What can I say? e&oe ... |
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Post by antares on Feb 25, 2020 14:57:10 GMT -6
This is my Gordon Smith Gypsy 1 which dates to about 1980. Serial number in the low 300s! I once had a thread on here where you guys helped me with retro fitting that 1970s Gibson P90 into the hummer rout. I did it using a plastic mount shim that covered the slightly larger humbucker rout. This guitar plays as sweetly as the Yamaha SG2000 and that's saying something. The original humbucking pup was made in-house at Gordon Smith Guitars. I think John Smith's wife wound the epoxy potted pickups. Sperzels on here too and plenty of nickel plating! It has a distinctive stainless-steel nut with two slots for attachment screws. You can loosen them and shim the nut if necessary. John Smith was a real innovator. You should see his 12 string electric design with only 6 machine heads on the normal sized headstock. Also, he had a secret way to fit a truss rod into a one piece maple neck but with no skunk stripe!  I may have tickled the strings a little Eddie! e&oe ... |
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