Guitar stuff

[Buck]

I was poking around at the Brossard Picks Web site and found the link to this guy:


I know there are other players around here and plenty of guitar fans, so I thought there might be some interest.

I have a Japanese 1998 '72 Custom Telecaster, a Kaman Applause from some time in the 1980s (I haven't dated it) and Fender FB-54 banjo.

 

[Machine Head]

Very cool.

Made me think of Jerry Douglas



EDIT: OK, now you've got me banging around in youtube. Love this. Last one, promise..

 

[Double J]

I have a Kramer Ferrington acoustic-electric which is shaped like a Telecaster.....love it to death. Here's what it sort of looks like, although mine is white and the fretboard looks a bit different.

I bought my son a sunburst Strat and have my eye on another Strat that's robins-egg blue in colour. Truth be told, though, I'd rather have a Telecaster.

 

[Buck]

I just bought new pots for my Tele. My friend and I are changing it around a little this weekend.
We're taking off the original ash-tray and bridge and replacing it with a new Gotoh one. It has the six bent saddles instead of the three dumbell style.
We're shielding the inside and replacing the pots. I found a schematic for Keith's '72 Custom from the '81 Still Life tour, so we're trying to redo that.

 

[Buck]

I just watched that Kotke video. Pretty sick.
He looks so young in the video.

 

[Buck]

Different and kind of long, but excellent:

 

[old_tony]

About a month short of 10 years since my first lesson. Now own a Martin D-15 Acoustic/Electric, a dark blue Fender Strat and a black Epiphone Les Paul. Also own a Gibson acoustic which, best I can figure, is from 1937. Used to be my late grandpa's, and when I started playing I claimed it from a closet in my aunt's house where it was just collecting dust.

 

[KG]

I really wish I could do this.

 

[Buck]

About a month short of 10 years since my first lesson. Now own a Martin D-15 Acoustic/Electric, a dark blue Fender Strat and a black Epiphone Les Paul. Also own a Gibson acoustic which, best I can figure, is from 1937. Used to be my late grandpa's, and when I started playing I claimed it from a closet in my aunt's house where it was just collecting dust.

Is the Gibson an L series archtop?
My pants just got tight.

 

[Buck]

This is not my Tele, but it is an accurate portrayal.

 

[Buck]

This is fantastic:

 

[old_tony]

About a month short of 10 years since my first lesson. Now own a Martin D-15 Acoustic/Electric, a dark blue Fender Strat and a black Epiphone Les Paul. Also own a Gibson acoustic which, best I can figure, is from 1937. Used to be my late grandpa's, and when I started playing I claimed it from a closet in my aunt's house where it was just collecting dust.

Is the Gibson an L series archtop?
My pants just got tight.

The markings are too hard to read now, but I found this picture on the internet and it looks exactly like the one I have.

 

[Buck]

Hey, if that guitar is really an L Series Gibson from 1937, that is a beautiful guitar.
I'd offer to buy it from you, but I don't think I could afford it.
You should have it appraised.



On an unrelated note, somebody recently turned me onto the Lost Fingers, which is a Quebecois trio.
Check out their cover of 'Pump up the Jam.' It is great.
http://www.myspace.com/thelostfingers

 

[old_tony]

Hey, if that guitar is really an L Series Gibson from 1937, that is a beautiful guitar.
I'd offer to buy it from you, but I don't think I could afford it.
You should have it appraised.



On an unrelated note, somebody recently turned me onto the Lost Fingers, which a Quebecois trio.
check out there cover of 'Pump up the Jam.' It is great.
http://www.myspace.com/thelostfingers

It wasn't a truly official appraisal, but I took it to a guitar show at a local music store year back. It was put on by the Gibson guys. The guy loved it, but it's got enough nicks in it that he roughly guessed only about $700 at that time.

Your interest in it caused me to pull it out of its case and actually play it and it plays beautifully yet. My Martin has a deeper sound, but the old Gibson actually plays easier. I still have problem with buzzing strings on the Martin when I play a barre chord, but not at all on the old Gibson.

I think tomorrow I'm going to take some good wood cleaner and polish it and see if I can bring back some of the luster to the wood.

It still has the old rope tied to the neck and the bottom that serves as a strap. A thin, brown and white, braided rope. When that Gibson guy was showing it during the show years ago he said that was one of the really interesting things to him. Said it was exactly the kind of rope/string that guys like Roy Rogers and such had as "straps" back in the day.

 

[Buck]

Don't use wood cleaner.
Go to the music store and get some Dr. Duck's to clear it. That stuff is great.
It is very gentle, so it doesn't do any damage to the finish. It's also good for the fret board.
You have ot be careful about what you use on a guitar like that.

 

[Buck]

This guy's kicking it with an L7:

 

[old_tony]

Don't use wood cleaner.
Go to the music store and get some Dr. Duck's to clear it. That stuff is great.
It is very gentle, so it doesn't do any damage to the finish. It's also good for the fret board.
You have ot be careful about what you use on a guitar like that.

Good idea. Thanks.

And thanks for starting this thread. I always figured there had to be some real guitar guys on this board.

And now I note that the picture in the gbase.com ad at the bottom of this page has a guitar that looks like it could be the old Gibson.

 

[Machine Head]

Billy F Gibbons gives a Blues lesson.

 

[old_tony]

This guy's kicking it with an L7:

That was great to watch and listen to. And it's also good to know the name of what I have because that's definitely the same guitar.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Today at the theater we saw the new documentary "It Might Get Loud," in which Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White talk guitars and guitar playing. They all seem pretty into the hardware.