A GUITAR CHAT thread

[Jeff Alton]

Went out to https://www.prestigeguitars.com/ for a private tour of their new Custom Shop. Have known Mike at Prestige for a little over a year since I had my Koa Eclipse built. I have used them to set up quite a few of my guitars in the last year. Most recently had them install a Fishman Elipse Matrix Blend pickup in my Guild 12 string. Always a pleasure to meet business peers from different industries and learn and share passion.

At any rate, picked up this amazing Cocobolo/Lutz Spruce Master Class. (1 of 2 in this combination they produced this year) Same body shape as my Prestige KOA which I love. It has the addition of the Paduk armrest to go with the cutaway soft Paduk feature of the KOA.

Great people, great operation, totally dedicated to quality and the experience. They have a tone wood divison that sells a lot of tone woods (as well as fret board, neck stocks etc) to the likes of Gibson, Fender and many other major manufacturers.

Cocobolo is much like KOA in that each piece of wood has a unique color and characteristics. My guitar is even more stunning than the one in stock photos. I played it on thursday, and should have it arrive at may shop (needed final set up) on Monday or Tuesday..... I can post pics of the actual one once it arrives...










Fortunate we have the Likes of Prestige and Morgan in our back yard. Larivee was here but, long story, moved to California. Went from 100 employees here to 6 down there. They also make amazing instruments.

If you are heading to a major guitar show in your area, check to see if Prestige has a booth. Drop in, say hi, play a couple guitars.

Cheers

[Dpmulvan]

Davesguitar.com has a ton of Eastman guitars as well as every other brand. Custom shop fenders and Gibson. PRS Brazilians et. Also one of the coolest vintage displays/collections. Great web site used stuff too.

[Steve Carlton]

Epiphone was acquired by Gibson in 1957 so Gibson could suppress the competition. In 1963, Epi made the Excellente, which was top-of-the-line over both brands. Not a sales success, only 139 were made between 1963-1969. Loretta Lynn famously had one.



https://www.vintageguitar.com/20489/the-epiphone-excellente/


Nowadays, Epiphone is making some nice guitars in Indonesia (as well as in Bozeman) and resurrected the Excellente in a Masterbilt edition to strong reviews. I grabbed one a few weeks ago and it has a loud voice, very different in character to my others. It's very heavy and well made- I'm quite pleased with it.

[NutmegCarrera]

Here is a concert a couple weeks back.
My daughter is the second performer.

Some pretty darned good players in this lineup. A nice range of “style” here from baroque to jazz.

Hope the link loads properly.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGyLC-sY1UQ

[Steve Carlton]

Wow- very impressive! An interesting contrast with some of those unexpected dischordant notes- I liked it. Here's the embed from when your daughter started:

[NutmegCarrera]

Thanks so much for the kind comments Steve.
…and for embedding.

Brouwer is an awesome composer. Lots of character.
By the way - she’s a freshman undergrad. Eight of the performers are graduate students.
They are a great bunch of students/performers.

I know there’s a lot of rock n roll going on here - and this is a nice contrast.
Take a look at some guitarists (and many other popular musicians’) background. The classical training is never lost.

Enough rambling here. Hope you guys and gals enjoy.

[Jeff Alton]

NutmegCarrera,

Your daughter can play!

Cheers

[NutmegCarrera]

Thank you Jeff.
It’s been really fun to watch the journey.
Currently I think she does 4-6 hours/day.
And classes etc on top of it.
Great department in a school where you would not expect to find that level of talent.

[rockfan4]

Originally Posted by Dpmulvan

Davesguitar.com has a ton of Eastman guitars as well as every other brand. Custom shop fenders and Gibson. PRS Brazilians et. Also one of the coolest vintage displays/collections. Great web site used stuff too.

Hey, Dave's is in my home town. If you ever need someone to go with you and be the voice of reason, well, don't pick me. But I love going there.
Right now he has some '59 Les Paul reissues with some very fancy wood. Must resist.

Dave bought my E30 M3, he was going to add it to his collection of M cars, but he ended up selling it to buy another guitar.

[Steve Carlton]

[Jeff Alton]

Originally Posted by NutmegCarrera

Thank you Jeff.
It’s been really fun to watch the journey.
Currently I think she does 4-6 hours/day.
And classes etc on top of it.
Great department in a school where you would not expect to find that level of talent.

Thats awesome. Talent is everywhere you least expect it.

But good for her puting that amount of effort in to perfecting the craft. Which she is clearly excelling... I love it.

My parents, both departed now, met teaching music in a music store in the early 1960's.... so it is in our family, from young ages...

I am drumer for 45 years, I am actually good at that. I am also a guitar "player" cough cough. Have a great collection of guitars and a studio drum set in our basement studio. Played Trumpet in high school in concert band while drumming for the stage band and all the stage musicals. My sister was more taleneted than I am, I work at it, she was a natural. But it was not her passion.

Your daughter clearly has a passion, and that is amazing.

Keep posting vids and notes about her progress. It is insperational to us average musicians....

Cheers

[rockfan4]

I took some days off here between the holidays. Use it or lose it.

I've spent way too much time on Twoodfrd's channel. At least an hour every day.
https://www.youtube.com/@twoodfrd

He repairs and rebuilds guitars. There something really satisfying hearing steel carving wood.

Has anyone taken a guitar building class? A guy I used to know from another Porsche forum started buying broken guitars on eBay. He'd take them apart and learn how they were built, and then started building his own. Not to sell, but just for friends and family.

I'd like to build an acoustic, but I'm thinking the one week or whatever classes skip over some of the stuff, an a longer class would be cost prohibitive.

[TimT]

I need some sort of parental control to prevent me from looking at Reverb....

[Rick Lee]

Just bought another Marshall Silver Jubilee RI head last night - my fifth. I promise I will keep this one and knock it off with the flipping. Gonna have to sell a guitar to free up some funds and toy room space.

[Nick Triesch]

Anyone play or own an Eastman guitar? I just bought a new Eastman dreadnought DT30D. Double top and it is by far the best sounding guitar I have ever owned . Rosewood , herringbone, scalped braces . Just amazing . For half the price of a HD28.

[Jeff Alton]

Post some pics! ^^^^^

[rockfan4]

+1 on the Eastman pics.

How are you guys storing your guitars? I had some of the electrics in their cases, stuffed under the bed in the guest room, but I don't like that solution. My wife says I should hang them on the wall in the family room, but then I'd have to dust them if they weren't played that often. I don't want to get to this point.

[oldE]

The 90 year old Hensel sits in a stand on a bookcase in the living room. It is tuned DADGAD and gets played about once/ week. The other three acoustics (nylon string, 12 string Framus I bought 50 years ago and the old Yamaha) live in their cases and will get played depending upon the songs in my head. The cheap Strat copy hasn't been out of its case in months, nor has the banjo.
Too many guitars for a half arsed player.

Best
Les

[Steve Carlton]

These Pre-War Guitars are interesting. They make top quality '30s-'40s style guitars that sound and look like the Martins and Gibsons of that era. Sought after and sound good. They offer 4 distress levels- this one is the second most severe, called "The Road Warrior." My birthday is coming up...

[Steve Carlton]