Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Looks amazing. Your board is a thing of terrible beauty.

I missed out on the Rat. Thought in BIN'd it but apparently not. Was outbid by £2. Hey ho. Totally don't need it.

Gonna do a gig out here in the spring, thinking I'm going to GO ELECTRIC. Practiced a set the other day just playing with feedback textures by holding chords down and switching pedals in and out. Sounded righteous.

Think i'm going to hold off with pedal purchases and do my other pickup and tuners next. Hoping to get some back-pay coming soon. will have another look at amps if that leaves anything after paying the old credit card

I just bought a pedalboard. I need to fill the empty space

In your soul?

Brilliant, I'm a big fan of Earthless and this pedal.

Yeah, I love them too... They were here a week or two back but I was too sick to go, gutted... I was really looking forward to chatting with Mario again, I got pissed with them after their show last time around, good guys... Here they are with Tim and J the other day, they were both playing in Brisbane on the same night... Tim was doing a lot of running around that evening... 😂

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Deep

really please with this warmoth 24.75" gibson scale conversion neck i've fitted to my starcaster. compound radius is awesome.

Want to fit vintage starcaster knobs and a gibson vari-tone where the master vol is on the originals

That’s fucking rad

Wow that is a really awesome looking guitar.

That is lovely, one popped up here for $800 recently, I had to use all my powers to resist...

Chuck some Lollar wide range humbuckers in there and Bob's your uncle... Are they the Fender pups in there?

Took my acoustic in to be looked at today... The guy I went to is a bit of a fanatic for early twentieth century guitars... I've always believed mine was a rebadged Kalamazoo but he reckons it's a legit Gibson!!! This made my heart thump a little faster... I'm still not convinced, but hey... Gibson L0?

It's gone in for a neck reset and fret dress once that's done... $400, pleased with that... Thought it was gonna cost way more...

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This logo inlay doesn't look right at all but guitar guy didn't bat an eyelid...

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Yeah which to be honest sound fine, i'll try the vari-tone circuitry before i go changing the pickups.

Seems to be quite a lot of variation in inlays in the pre-war years, so could be. Either way it's lovely. My dad's got a mandolin confidently branded as Givson, which definitely isn't.

Got another project on the go, should arrive today and i'm swapping out the original neck for a warmoth Baritone neck i have for 2 octaves of sustainer fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-qq8RvFscY

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Holy shit Joe. How long have you had that gem?

Must've had it for close to twenty years now, cost me four hundred quid from Wunjo... Brian Wunjo had it up for loads more, the shop (the very first one, it was touch and go for him at the time) was empty so we chatted while I fingerpicked for a couple of hours... Turned out he went to the luthiers course in East London with my mate, Andy, who made my mandolin, blah, blah, blah, he let me have it cheap... He did all the work on it himself, I should send him an email to get the backstory on it, he's a lovely guy...

Yeah, I should do a bit more research... All the ones I've seen don't look like they were cut by an apprentice on his first day tho'!!

Ha. And actually, that headstock shape doesn't scream Gibson, but I do know naff all about the topic.

Apparently they crossed over quite a bit, maybe more than I'd realised...

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I'm thinking of getting me a nice 12-string acoustic for general sofa playing (/beautiful wall ornament.) Any reason to look beyond a Takamine GJ72CE-12? Gets good reviews, I think it looks fantastic and the all-important cutaway to access the 17th fret (Genesis, "Cinema Show" intro!)

Takamine are great! Personally I'd go for a non-cutaway but if you think you're going to make good use of it then go for it (to be fair my Taylor 12-string is a cutaway and I use the extra access all the time for John Butler type antics...)!

Guild, Gretsch and D'Angelico have guitars in the same price range worth a look too.

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I have a lovely 80s norman B20, I'm pretty sure it's solid throughout and i read somewhere that the old ones were so highly regarded that Jimmy Page owned one but that could be bullshit

They don't cost a lot so i'd recommend checking out gumtree or Ebay, or i could sell you mine and bring it down to london next time i'm that way. The nice thing is the satin finish on the wood throughout

Ah thanks, looks nice but I reckon I'm set on a cutaway, will make a nice companion piece to my Sigma 6-string. (That's a reminder, Over the Hills and Far Away on the practise list.)