Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Siding with TS. Acoustic archtops are super specialist guitars, dry, attacky sound, little sustain. Are you sure you want that? Is your name Colin and do you aspire to play chord-melody jazz? Eastmans are high-class imports but I don't much like hand-rubbed style sunbursts and in terms of resale it's got a dink in the top tube. And that ain't cheap to me...

*pff meant to reply to Jung obvs

Cheers chaps. I might take a cautious butchers if he’s open to offers....good second hand 810s seem to go for around 1500ish. Definitely needs to be under a grand.

This is literally around the corner....not really what I'm looking for though....I've only seen one Eastman Archtop on Craigs for the last three months. Either they don't sell many or people hang on to them.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/msg/d/los-angeles-eastman-t486b-semi-hollow/7124696229.html

Anyone else been watching this guy lately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asPxjWs5eyo

Seems to be that people hang on to them, I'm a member of an Eastman owners group on Facebook because I was interested in hearing some more about them and they're all absolutely devout!

They're both gorgeous looking guitars and if the jazz box tickles your fancy I see no reason to buy it after a viewing and a tryout. It is a rather specific thing but if you like it you certainly won't be disappointed with an Eastman.

got notified of shipment today!

Ditto. Looking forward to a strum. And the stream of identical NGD pictures on here.

They do look fab. Not heard back from the fella yet, we'll see. I do fancy a jazz box to noodle around on. As much as I love playing my Tele and Strat, it's nearly always unplugged these days, so it would be nice to make a bit more noise. And I've never had one. And N+1, etc.... :)

Did a colour test. Have now a piece of ash that is a different purple in every spot and totally impossible to photograph properly.

Finishing will be interesting.

Also, @Fatberg his playing sounds amazing. Gotta watch some of that.

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i can watch that guy all day, very engaging, very informative, great talent.
I have always wanted to play guitar. Nothing major, just play tunes i love.
one day I will visit Nashville

https://youtu.be/kGc5uyZRz-c

Nashville ain't all that, trust me... Go to Memphis instead... Or NOLA...

In other news, switched to single ply truss rod covers on all my Juniors, much prefer the look...

In other, other news... Flame guitar will be ready this weekend, it's taken eighteen months to get the job to this stage and potentially lost me a couple of friends but who needs friends when you've got beautiful guitars, right? I hope I'm joking... 😬😓

New scratchplate, refret, neck shim, bridge moved 2mm towards the bass side and might switch the volume pot... What I thought was a very weak Fender Dearmond pickup is actually measuring 11.7k, still sounds a bit too hollow tho'... It's been a long road, can't wait to have it in my hands again...

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always wanted to go to NOLa, Memphis, St Louis and then Chicago
that's a mississippi boat trip then road trip methinks

i'd skip Nashville.. but I do like country music..

Stick Clarksdale in between Nola and Memphis!

Just got some nice new switch tips in the post and it's such a drastic improvement over the horrible, gigantic chrome plated brass one that came fitted on this that it inspired me to push the button on the other upgrades I had planned for this guitar so just ordered a Callaham vintage style 3-saddle bridge, Kluson no stamp plastic butterbean tuners (with some bushes to fit) and booked in for a bone nut and setup with local guitar geniuses at Some Neck Music. It's going to be so good!

Only had one day there, but loved Nashville. The music was great if you don't take it too seriously. Was pretty pissed tho.

I do occasionally seem to have great times in average places and average times in great places.

I just had some pictures of my Les Paul back from Rich, who's lacquering it for me. It's not been cleared or polished yet - just colour.

Man's a wizard - he's made the grain do something quite dramatic...

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Guy at work who's always complaining about how little he's paid has just bought a brand new custom shop les paul worth approx 20% of my net salary. He sent me a picture and everything! Might tell him to shove it up his arse. (not jealous at all!)

Since I discovered Seger Guitars a few months ago I've run the gamut from finding them utterly hideous to now desperately wanting and needing one in my life. What's happening to me?

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That's hot! Something vaguely medieval about the shape. In a good way.

Christianspaceman - yours too. That's going to be beautiful!

I like that too!

I’ve been playing loads over the winter, working on my vibrato and learning new phrases and tricks. Finally got round to recording a track on which I might be able to unleash some of it and.... I suuuuck. Just cannot get into the groove.

I think the lesson is to start practicing over backing tracks rather than just solo sofa noodling

Is it the shift to a click that's throwing you? It always took me a few days to make the switch from 'rehearsal room singing' to 'recording studio singing' and I always put that down to the fact that we were always playing to a click track which felt constrained to begin with.

Yeah, I think it’s just red light fever to be honest. Mixture of rabbit in the headlights “oh god what do I play?!” from not having Lead parts worked out and the dangerous knowledge that I can endless re-do just causes me to widdle aimlessly over everything. Some structure required I think.

Love the Homeschoolin' guy, watched a bunch of back to back episodes last night... I enjoy his talking more than I do his playing, he's a great player and everything but it's his old gun slinger stories that make it for me...