First Guitar
 

I just bought my first electric guitar last week, so I felt like sharing. I've been enjoying the recent amp threads, but you guys live in a different world than I do!

I've had an old acoustic for years and been taking lessons finally. I picked up an Epiphone Les Paul Standard from Craigslist and a $30 Crate to go with it.

Maybe 10 years from now my guitar posts will include comments on $1,000 amps and riders. For now my repertoire includes Meatplow and Everlong and that's about it.

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You thought there was a slippery slope with Porsche's? Nice get, enjoy it.

Oh you're gonna like that puppy. Make this next on your list...(not that I'm partial to the odd shape or anything....)

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Good stuff. I've had a guitar in the basement for year, only pick it up once in a while. I have the itch to get back into it and think I'm picking up a $100 VOX practice amp. Love the big gear but I'd have to wear earplugs, especially until I can play halfway decent.

I've had some lulls in my interest in playing. Sometimes I'd go for months without touching my guitars. But then I went on a buying spree and have found that spending ridiculous money on more gear makes me want to play more. I've really gotten my chops back over the last two years and am trying to get a band thing going here to start playing out again.

A slippery slope indeed.


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I like the goofy Gibson. Looks like a SeaGull too. Nice. (but of course it's a sea gull yer in Canada)

indeed a slippery slope...

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Get your guitar setup by a pro and you may find that a pickup replacement is in order. I recommend Wolfe's Marshallheads.

It's definetly a slippery slope. I bought an Epiphone Dot back in the late 90's(Korean) and never played it until 4 months ago. Since I started playing it I've done some mods as follows.

I first installed new pickups, Gibson 57s along with a Dr Vintage early spec wiring harness. This made a world of difference in sound. I then wanted better playability and brought it to well known luithier in Chicago for a pro set up. After consulting with him I had a bone nut installed and had the guitar refretted. All I can say is wow, this thing sounds and plays awesome. The fret board is just unbelievable. I'll next have a new bridge installed. I've got a few bucks in to it, but I really like the guitar.

So it can definetly be a slippery slope.

Enjoy

Dean

Awesome!! Take heart. I've been playing for 30 years and I suck. Literally. But I love to play and I love some good tone.

I tried to learn the acoustic intro to Widespread Panic's "Airplane" last night and finally gave up. I suck, but I love playing guitar. ;)

I suck at it, too. I think I need to make some more unnatural noises with my tele.

My stable...mostly tenor banjos...plus Gibson ES 140

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I was going to make a banjo joke until I realized I've been listening to a lot of Bela Fleck lately.

I need to take an 'aresenal' pic sometime. It'll be difficult as it spans two walls and the floor. :eek: I think I have a problem. :rolleyes:

PS I suck too, but buying more guitars lessens the sting of that knowledge. :D

Hey Drdogface nice banjos, we got a picker in our mist. Just load those in your truck (when it gets there)
n head on down to the bluegrass hoedown. They will park you right up front!

Cheers Richard

Richard,

Thanks for the invite ;) Those are four string/tenor banjos used mostly for trad jazz but I have played with guitar players who play country stuff. I don't usually play in the keys they use, Dmaj, Amaj, etc., but I sorta transpose chords on the fly if I ain't had too much to drink. Picking single string is a little harder to do on the fly. We usually play in C, G, F, Bb, etc. Horn players hate shape keys.

Okay, so far I've added two bars of Rock You Like a Hurricane to my repertoire and my guitar teacher gave me the Master of Puppets intro to work on. Sure doesn't sound like the original yet, but I've been having fun so it's all good.

Head keep on taking lessons and enjoying your new passion. Here is my last guitar a 04 Strat 50th anniversary. Got it the year I turned 50. Can't profess to be a player but it makes a good conversation piece wall hanger.http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/12/ajuqygyt.jpg

you guys are gonna make me drag em out aren't you?

slope slipping?

gig last wed:

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Latest addition

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Here's my first guitar in 1988, a few years after I painted it, slapped a Kramer neck and Floyd Rose on it and a DiMarzio humbucker I bought from Greg Howe back before he hit it big. It started out as a red Hondo Strat.

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"Latest edition" he says casually.....nice color!

Please PLEASE don't tell me those pedals on the floor are yours....

Candy apple orange. I'm not a JJ guy but I decided to give it one more shot. So far it is pretty fun, will gig it for the first time tomorrow.

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ohhhh a Lull....nice...really nice. I played a 4 hr gig the other night. Half the night was the 79 T-Bird the second half I used the fender Aerodyne. The "Dyne" is really one sweet bass. A keeper for sure. A welcome change in weight and comfort. Had to turn up 3 more full numbers from the Tbird settings. Bah ...single coil...sounds mighty good though. Lull makes a nice t bird ya know.....:-)

Yeah, but the ergos on the Birds aren't my thing. That Lull is 7.8 lbs so it is incredibly comfy. I prefer the tone on my PJ, but it does get that classic JJ sound. The only other thing is that the control layout can get in my way as I'm used to slapping fairly far back towards the bridge. Plenty of room on my Foderas, with the Lull I sometimes whack the volume knob. I'm sloppy...

I know this is a bass, but I have a similar question on guitars as well. I have always strung my guitars with one half loop through the tuning peg. "Minimalist". This is wound around several times. Is there any advantage to this set up with all those coils? More tone, sustain, anything?

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$99.80

CastleRock EGMW20PR2S Red Tele-Style Guitar Stage Pack with Amp
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Makes me wonder.:D

I admire the period sticker art on my sons first axe. They are accompanied with the 3rd stringers, tucked away to a forlorn corner in a cold abandoned room of the house. Retired for the time being.http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/12/uju4u3yd.jpg

You have 5 *retired* guitars?

Mr. Lull is in my backyard. He does a nice job of setting up an instrument.

I resumed playing bass in summer of 2011. I had one bass and a practice amp. Today I have four basses, the practice amp, an Ampeg VT-22 combo, a Mesa Boogie 2x15 and an Ampeg SVT. I scour Craigslist daily.

You want a good witness point at the nut and enough tension to avoid buzzing. I use enough string to wrap until the string exits the tuning post and heads to the nut at the base of the post. When I change strings, I cut the new strings to the same length as the old ones so it is consistent.

Mike made his name as a repair guy, and he makes great instruments. He pleks every one he builds (as does Fodera now), and they have very consistent feel and action up the neck. Plus he's a really nice guy to boot.

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Made one Once whilst living the Dark Days in Alaska...Bored out of my little mind

?. how does the number of turns on the machine head post affect the tension of a string at given pitch?

not the tension on the string, but the downward force across the nut. Tension maybe wasn't the right word.

Depending on the instrument the angle of the string across the nut varies and if you don't wrap low you can get buzzing. This is why non-angled headstocks have to use string trees.

Ah. The break angle across the nut. Yes, important.

Reason I ask is that there is this funonoma called "top wrapping" on gibson tune-o-matic guitars which claims amongst its benefits, world peace, extra sustain and changes to string tension.

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Calling Gogar. He has a pretty well-stocked man cave.

The reason I top wrap is so that I can get the tailpiece screwed down tight against the body. Otherwise, strings hang up on the backside of the bridge.
It does seems to reduce overall string tension a bit though... which makes NO sense, because strings must be at a specific tension for a specific pitch...

I have the TP screwed to the deck also and have never encountered that problem- but I have tried top wrapping. I just had the low E jumping out of the saddle (break angle). My top wrapping lasted one unsuccessful night.

Ive seen an explaination for the string tension thing that did make some sense...involved suspension bridges......

An SVT what?