capnkid
Optimus Prime
So all those 85' neon colored guitars with the pointy headstocks are all vintage now?
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Unsprung
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OT: It ain't just guitars.
It happens in the vintage tonewheel Hammond organ community, as well. Find a cheap enough Hammond BV and Hammond A100, swap the A100 guts into the BV case, and viola...instant B3! On top of that, you now have a cache of Hammond parts to sell off, and add to your booty from the sale of the "B3."
Personally, while I'd love to be able to own a Hammond B3 and Leslie speaker, I'd settle for a Hammond C3, RT3 or A100 with a Leslie speaker. They all have the same guts as a B3, and will of course sound like a B3. Knowing my luck, however, I'll probably only find one of the above mentioned Hammonds with a Hammond Tone Cabinet, or with only the built-in speakers in the case of an A100. They'll still sound like a B3, but won't have "the Hammond sound" that comes from pairing a Leslie speaker with a Hammond console.
Matt
Treeline said:
It happens in the vintage tonewheel Hammond organ community, as well. Find a cheap enough Hammond BV and Hammond A100, swap the A100 guts into the BV case, and viola...instant B3! On top of that, you now have a cache of Hammond parts to sell off, and add to your booty from the sale of the "B3."
Personally, while I'd love to be able to own a Hammond B3 and Leslie speaker, I'd settle for a Hammond C3, RT3 or A100 with a Leslie speaker. They all have the same guts as a B3, and will of course sound like a B3. Knowing my luck, however, I'll probably only find one of the above mentioned Hammonds with a Hammond Tone Cabinet, or with only the built-in speakers in the case of an A100. They'll still sound like a B3, but won't have "the Hammond sound" that comes from pairing a Leslie speaker with a Hammond console.
Matt
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Anyone know anything about old Allen organs? We acquired one at the school I'm involved with - seems from about the early 1970s, huge church organ, big rotating speaker cabinet, unmarked amps inside. Something does not work, but my guess is a signal trace would lead to the amp and a minor fix - loose wire category. No tubes but generally built like a tank. I expect the last maintenance it had was just before it was put on the truck for delivery to the original owner.
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ggunn
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shredfit said:
My '61 Strat will be buried with me.
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ggunn
Crystal Flavolian
Buck62 said:A firend of mine who is a professional luthier says it something like this.... (paraphrased)
"A guitar doesn't even know it's a guitar for the first several months. It still thinks that it's two or three trees that were un-naturally forced to coexist by glue and metal parts. Only after a few years of settling in, being played and "worked in" does the guitar finally realize it's a guitar."
I've had a couple of my guitars for over 20 years and I wholeheartedly agree with his statement. Their tone and playability have improved greatly with age. To me, that makes them priceless, because I'd never sell them.
I bought a new Strat in 1978 or thereabouts. I liked it a lot until one day I went into a music store to get a piece of PA gear, and saw this '61 hanging on the wall. I picked it up and played it, and it has been with me ever since (I didn't get the PA gear). The way I have always described the diff was that the new Strat played like a bunch of stuff bolted together while the '61 played like a single entity. Maybe that '78 plays great by now, wherever it is.
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ggunn
Crystal Flavolian
ai-tastic said:OUCH! that's horrible that she would do that.
i have the usual stories of accidentally banging against things while having the guitar on, or leaving my babies against the wall and having them tilt over.
i think the closest call i've had was that i was recording with my taylor, doorbell rang, i set it on the floor, came back down and the mic stand had fallen and the end of the boom had missed my guitar by an inch. the mic itself was balancing the stand 2 inches above the actual guitar. i nearly peed my pants when i saw it.
My sad story: My first real guitar was a Gibson B25N that I got in 1965. Ten years later I was working in Peru, and I had it with me. I was living in an apartment with concrete floors, and I was sitting on a couch with my guitar leaning against it standing on the floor. I moved, the couch shifted, and my guitar pitched forward at so perfect an angle that the nut was the first thing that hit the floor. The headstock snapped off like a dry twig. My heart broke at the same instant.
The first thing I did when I got back to the States was buy a J45, which is a real nice guitar, but it was never as sweet as that B25.