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Unsprung
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My 'Johnson' is probably bigger than yours. I own a JG-622-E acoustic/electric bass.notCardio said:Yeah, I'm filled with pride when someone compliments my 'Johnson', too.
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Unsprung
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If it had a Bigsby, I'd truly be jealous, otherwise I'm diggin' those P90s!Rickson Gracie said:My Epi probably cost more than most of your Gibsons
Gorty
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I usually just take photo's of my guitar's headstocks!
Gorty
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Rickson Gracie said:My Epi probably cost more than most of your Gibsons
TragikRemix
I am NOT a Gear Whore. ;)
i dont know about epi.
squier is in fact shit.
but epi sells guitars for over $1000... i wouldnt throw them in the 'shit' pile.
if there was a $1000 squire, well, there is, a FENDER. which can be purchased for what, $200-300 for a used mexican,? and a squire probably costed them $200 because they are not smart musical consumers just yet.
although i must say, a year or two ago one of the teachers in my store happened to buy an old squire, a real ugly gold color and everything, but this thing had the wrong neck on it, i'm telling ya. the neck was soo sweet, gotta be a 1 in a million that guitar. has to be the best squire i've ever played. of course the pickups sounded like ass, but hey they can be replaced.
squier is in fact shit.
but epi sells guitars for over $1000... i wouldnt throw them in the 'shit' pile.
if there was a $1000 squire, well, there is, a FENDER. which can be purchased for what, $200-300 for a used mexican,? and a squire probably costed them $200 because they are not smart musical consumers just yet.
although i must say, a year or two ago one of the teachers in my store happened to buy an old squire, a real ugly gold color and everything, but this thing had the wrong neck on it, i'm telling ya. the neck was soo sweet, gotta be a 1 in a million that guitar. has to be the best squire i've ever played. of course the pickups sounded like ass, but hey they can be replaced.
Gorty
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I have an old Japanese made Ibanez Blazer Series that has the best neck (maple) that I have ever played on. I have used this guitar for gigging for over 10 years. I changed the pick-up for a Dimarzio Tone Zone. If I had to keep just one guitar to take on a desert island for a million years I would choose this guitar over my Les Pauls and Fenders etc.
cephus
Slow Children Playing
I think Epiphones are all show. I mean, I am used to shitty guitars, so i can play anything. I couldn't tell you if mine if good or not. It's better than anything else I have, mostly because it isn't wore clear out.
But it looks to me like Epiphone guys totally are into the flame verneer or photo finishes on their guitar bodies and buy the guitars exclusively for that.
Seems like Squier or fender copy guitar-buyers are a bit more utilitarian, and buy their guitars to replace all the hard parts with fender stuff and put fake decals on the headstocks. Funny how the fender guys also do that fake relicing thing, too.
These observations of any playing ability. There's absolutely no way that you can tell whether a guy can rip or not by the pictures of his guitars on the internet. Maybe you can make an assumption based on what kind of loser posts pictures of his copy guitar collection with all the headstocks cut off so you can't tell they were made in Micronesia.
But it looks to me like Epiphone guys totally are into the flame verneer or photo finishes on their guitar bodies and buy the guitars exclusively for that.
Seems like Squier or fender copy guitar-buyers are a bit more utilitarian, and buy their guitars to replace all the hard parts with fender stuff and put fake decals on the headstocks. Funny how the fender guys also do that fake relicing thing, too.
These observations of any playing ability. There's absolutely no way that you can tell whether a guy can rip or not by the pictures of his guitars on the internet. Maybe you can make an assumption based on what kind of loser posts pictures of his copy guitar collection with all the headstocks cut off so you can't tell they were made in Micronesia.
TragikRemix
I am NOT a Gear Whore. ;)
well, i am a decent player. i don't 'rip' so to speak, i just don't dig that kinda stuff. yeah, i can play up and down the modes relatively fast and clean, but i'm not a shredder.
my axe of choice; Martin 000X1. what a pretty bitch she is.. although she does have a slight buzz on 'er G string, around 8 or 9th fret. gotta work that out later i guess, but it doesnt bother me too much.
my axe of choice; Martin 000X1. what a pretty bitch she is.. although she does have a slight buzz on 'er G string, around 8 or 9th fret. gotta work that out later i guess, but it doesnt bother me too much.
gvarko
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TragikRemix said:
Complete and total BS
Take a $99 Squire 51 and mod it with new pups and saddles and it will be as good if not better than any Fender Standard..
apl
Stand Up Comity
Yep. I've got a Bullet that's got new pups, tuners, bridge and nutwork, and it's a very nice little faux strat.gvarko said:
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notCardio
I walk the line
Hey APL
Is your Bullet a 3 single coil, or one humbucker? I wondered if the single coil models were deep enough to mod without routing. I've heard Affinity's aren't.
apl said:
Is your Bullet a 3 single coil, or one humbucker? I wondered if the single coil models were deep enough to mod without routing. I've heard Affinity's aren't.
apl
Stand Up Comity
notCardio said:
It's three singles but it's got the swimming pool routing so you could put pert near anything in it 'cept your head which is too big to fit in even a double bass.
gvarko
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apl said:
I have also found the Bullets and Affinitys to be very nice. Not to say there isn't a lemon in the bunch every now and then. That said, there are lemons in every bunch USA Gibsons and Fenders included.
I have played for nearly 20 years. I have owned every USA guitar you can name. I admit, I used to get a hard on for the Gibson logo. Not anymore. Once you open up your eyes to the wealth of great guitars out there and forget price it's a whole other world.
Get over the headstock, forget the logo, don't worry about what country it was made in. Pick it up, play it and if it makes you happy that's all you really need to be concerned with...
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toad
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cephus said:
Or perhaps they just want a quality, Gibson-made Les Paul without dropping a grand on it?
jimistone
long standing member
I agree.gvarko said:
Hell, I bought a strat back in 1976...the price was $150.
It was cheap because it was a 1966 model...the first CBS year.
It wasn't seen as being desirable at the time....it had the "big headstock".
The pre-cbs little head stocks were the only ones considered "collectable"
I didn't worry about it. I LOVED the guitar. To this day i've never played one I like better.
I've been playing it for over 20 years, made thousands of dollars gigging with it....and it's STILL worth $150!!!!
andycerrone
Banned
Ok, well, I have a Dillion, a knockoff of PRS guitars, but it plays (and sounds) like a dream. I actually like it as much as my gibson sg, although they have totally different sounds. I'm quite proud of my Dillion though, it's a tank.
apl
Stand Up Comity
I really want a circa 1980 Yamaha SG1500. I don't think there are any acceptable knockoffs.
cephus
Slow Children Playing
toad said:
I'm positive that in some cases you're correct. I am from appalachia and I have seen some guys absolutely rip some chet atkins on a shitty lotus or hondo bolt-neck les paul copy. In the hands of a good player, the brand matters even less, I think. I bought an epiphony and now I read the epiphony forum. You see these guys who have a collection of 8 or 9 3 or 400 dollar guitars. At a certain point, don't you think that you can own too many shitty guitars that aren't worth shit used if you decided to sell them? I admit that if I had a hardon for a less paul, I'd buy an epi. If I had one epi less paul, I can't see buying another one because it's a different color.
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ggunn
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cephus said:
I know what you mean. Over on another forum, there's a guy that claims to have 12 Strats. Why? It's like having 12 hammers and no screwdriver. I own several guitars myself, but they all sound and look different. Different tools for different jobs.