Nice guitar..

[Downside Studio]

In an earlier thread I tried to convince myself for not buying an Ibanez sa160. I didn't....I bought a secondhand Patrick Eggle Berlin Pro today. This giutar really rocks, now if i only knew how to play...

[ausrock]

Downside,

I have owned one for a couple of years..............you won't be sorry .

How about posting a photo of it.

[Downside Studio]

Pic:

[getuhgrip]

Cool........what kind of tailpeice is that?

[ausrock]

Rick,

Eggles used a Wilkinson Tremolo. Hopefully I will have a digital camera here in a couple of hours, so I will post a couple of photos later.

Chris

[ausrock]

A close up of my Patrick Eggle "Berlin Pro"..........

Rick,

The Wilkinson tremolo is a locking type..........when the arm is fitted and hanging down "at rest" it locks the mechanism totally. It is only as you swing it up that it unlocks.

Chris

[ausrock]

Part of my arsenal.......not the basses though.

The glass panels behind the guitars are 10mm tinted laminate, which form part of the newly built airlock that seperates the studio from the outside world. The carpeted panels behind the basses are two movable gobo type things.

The instruments are;

Fender P Bass Deluxe
Yamaha TRB-6P

Gibson Epiphone Sheraton
Fender 40th Anniversary Strat.
Fender Tele Plus
Patrick Eggle Berlin Pro

[getuhgrip]

Sweeeeet blue flame Chris!
Nice collection you got there!

Here's a couple of mine.

[A Reel Person]

I especially like the v-70's stereo gear!

[Fangar]

Here are a few of my working collection. I dig my Quik lok stands too!

Fangar

[A Reel Person]

but how do you get up there to play them? Haha.

No, seriously, I see you're another Ibanez man! Me too!

I've bought umpteen new guitars over the years, but they mostly just sit in the closet, and I play my '82 Ibanez Blazer, almost exclusively! That's not to say I don't like my other newer guitars,... many other Ibanez's and some Danelectros,... but I just hate to take a new guitar out of the case and get it scratched or something,... so I put all the miles on my "old-trusty" '82 Blazer!

[Fangar]

The hard part is getting behind the stands while they are mounted to the wall. =). I like the Ibanez stuff. I have owned a few and like the necks most of all. The Bass is nice too. The Steel string is a Sigma SDR-41. I have many oldies too. But these are the ones that I keep out.

Fangar

[Downside Studio]

The pic doesn't show to well, but the one I bought got a dark red tiger stripe, wilkinson tremelo and original case. Its from 93.

[A Reel Person]

Hey ausrock, I forget what they call that look,... the look of the wood on that blue guitar.

It's 'webbed',... 'pleated',... 'matted',... 'layered',... 'corduroy',... 'frosting-top',... 'wavy-gravy',... 'reupholstered',... 'tuck & roll',... or SOMETHING! Haha.

What on Earth do they call that pleated look of the wood? I know it has a name, I just can't remember it!

[Downside Studio]

I think they call that.....tigerstripe

[A Reel Person]

No, I've got it,... it's QUILTED!

The blue guitar with the QUILTED top! Way cool!

And the tigerstripe guitar's cool too, Downside. I'm not very familiar with that model, but it looks like a nice guitar. The tiger stripe is not obvious on the pic, but you can see it a little bit.

[Quilted,... quilted,... I've gotta remember that].

[Downside Studio]

What I mean is that my guitar has exactly the same pattern as the blue one on the photograph. Only it's dark red.

[A Reel Person]

but it's really hard to tell from the pic.

It's cool the way the wood looks, and is usually found on the more high-end guitars. I've heard it be called a 'quilted top'.

[Downside Studio]

I looked it up a couple of minutes ago, but allready forgot...something like flaming quilted......maple?

[ausrock]

I may be wrong, but I think either "tigerstripe", "fiddleback" or "flamed" are the terms for that pattern in maple. "Quilted" has a random "blotchiness" look to it almost like looking at crushed velvet.

Patrick Eggle guitars are made in England, although as I understand it, the man himself sold the business to a music retail company. He still makes guitars, but mainly custom work.

Quality and playability, particularly on these "Berlin Pro" models puts them pretty level with PRS, if not a bit better, however Eggles lacked the big marketing dollars to go head to head with Gibson or Fender.

[Fangar]

Actually here is the difference. Know you all will be able to tell. Flamed looks more uniformed, liked a rippled sheet. Quilted is more random and less seen. Here are some great photos that show the difference:

Fangar

[Downside Studio]

Some of my girlfriends students played for an audience tonight. So while we're posting pics of guitars here...here's a nice one.

[Downside Studio]

oops, forgot the pic

[A1A2]

besides the crazy collections you guys have, DAMN!!! you peeps are organized!!

AL

[A Reel Person]

Now I see the difference. Thanx for the info! BTW, cool guitars!