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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Cool! You guys rock for having banjos!
Tom, I had to look up the Gibson 120T. I had never heard of it. You're right: it looks totally different. Is it totally hollow or a semi-solid? I once fell in love with a 125C, but couldn't afford it at that time. I guess that it wasn't such a big loss. |
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
The 120T showed up in a San Luis Obispo vintage guitar store. The same seller also brought in an Epiphone version of the same guitar, and several other guitars. Apparently their son had been a touring musician, stored his guitars while going to war, and the rest of story is too common.
Anyhow, it is completely hollow and has a very fat tone. It is a great jazz guitar. I gladly sacrifice the cutaway access to higher frets for the tone and aesthetic. I once held in my hands one of very first electric guitars ever built. I missed buying it due to haggling over $10 in the price and lack of knowledge of what it was. It was one of the eight original electric guitars built in a garage workshop from archtop pieces by the guy fired from Gibson for trying to make an electric guitar. He thought the electric would be bigger than acoustic some day. |
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nucinud Inner circle New York, New York 1298 Posts |
I love my 1971 Les Paul, but I also have a bunch of other guitars that are my second favorite, ....
"We are what we pretend to be" Kurt Vonnegut, jr.
Now U C It Now U Don't Harry Mandel www.mandelmagic.com |
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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Still my 1962 Guild is my "keeper". (After all these years, still have four guitars!)
Bob Sanders Magic By Sander |
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jazzy snazzy Inner circle run off by a mob of Villagers wielding 2109 Posts |
Linda Manzer is one of my favorite luthiers.
Her Pat Metheny Signature 6 is very cool. Only $32,000. http://www.manzer.com/limited/ Sigh, maybe next week.
"The secret of life is to look good from a distance."
-Charles Schulz |
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Regan Inner circle U.S.A. 5726 Posts |
Wow.....don't know if I can pick a favorite. I currently own 3 acoustics, 4 electrics and an electric bass. Picking a favorite would be hard.....or impossible for me. They all have their place. I really need to sell some of them, but I can't bring myself to let go. I consider guitars, especially acoustic guitars, to be living, breathing creatures. You can find 2 identical models that sound very, very different.
I have 3 acoustic-electric guitars. My favorite is my Taylor Custom GA (Premium Sitka Spruce Top with "AA" Indian Rosewood back & sides, Adirondeck Spruce bracing with Taylor Expression System) A pretty close second is my Seagull S6 with L.R. Baggs Duet System My only pure acoustic is a Washburn dreadnought. It is cheap guitar, but I would not sell it. I use it as my "beater" guitar. I don't have much money in it so I don't have to worry so much when I take it to the beach or camping, or wherever. I have had quite a few offers but I would not sell it. I need one like it for travel and I found a jewel. Of my 4 electrics, I guess I'd place them in this order: 1962 Gibson SG Jr. (In some ways I regret modifying this guitar, but at the same time it is way better now than it was. It had the stock tremelo bridge and it would not stay in tune. You could pick it softly and never tough the bar and it would go out of tune in a couple of minutes. I replaced the bridge, added a hotter pickup, added a "kill" switch and repainted it. It plays and sounds fantastic, and it will stay in tune! I also modified my 1965 Fender Jaguar. I recently restored it back to stock. It was my first refinishing project, and it turned out really well. I painted it as close as I could to how Leo Fender painted them back in that era. I used nitrocellulose Olympic White lacquer. I even found the old sanding sealer called Fullerplast that Fender used. (I only found 1 source for this, and it is expensive) I used the same yellow stain underneath that Leo had sprayed on most all of the Fender guitar bodies back then. Anyway, this was my first guitar and it will always have a special place in my heart. I have a 1979 Fender Strat....also modified. I used it more than any of my guitars back in my rock 'n roll daze....er....days. I installed a Dimarzio PAF pickup at the bridge location, and a Seymour Duncan (I think) single coil in the mid spot. I believe the the neck pickup is original. I also installed a momentary kill switch on it, and a Kahler tremelo bridge system. This guitar would be my favorite, but it needs some work now. The frets are gone, and in fact I probably need to replace the neck. My other guitar is my only electric I never modified. It is a 1984 B.C. Rich Warlock. It was made in the B.C. Rich custom shop, and is a one-of-a-kind instrument. It is definitely a rocker! Man, it plays so good. It is a single pickup, neck-thru-body model, solid black except for the wooden, custom shop headstock with the patented "R". You don't see many B.C. Rich guitars with the custom shop headstock, and people often think I had the "R" put on there as my initial. I also have a 1977 Fender Mustang Bass. (Actually I co-own it along with my daughter) It is all original, and I love that guitar! It has a 2-piece ash body in 3-color sunburst, and I think it is beautiful. We were lucky and found one in fantastic condition. I also have 2 banjos. And I bought a little friend of ours a First Act guitar that stays here at the house so he can have it when he comes over. My daughter also has a Bib Baby Taylor, but she doesn't play it as much since she got her Taylor Custom GA! Hers is just like mine (see description above)except for the inlay design on the headstock and on the bridge. So, as you can see I am guitar poor! Counting the banjos, we have 13 stringed-instruments right now. I told you I needed to sell some of them! My wife would certainly agree with that statement! Regan
Mister Mystery
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I've always wanted a cigar box guitar too. Although then I'd have to learn to play slide.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Since Tom said he's owned some 50 guitars, I thought it might be interesting to add that question to the original topic. How many have you owned?
I may be forgetting one, but I count 13 guitars altogether. I currently have the two mentioned above and a cheap nylon string for campfire music. So I've owned and sold ten others. I also have two mandolins, a Kamaka Uke, an accordian I can't play, and my banjos. I only have three banjos. I want more. I would like to collect banjos. You can never have enough banjos. |
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jazzy snazzy Inner circle run off by a mob of Villagers wielding 2109 Posts |
Yipes! There are 8 here in the room now. Plus a banjo, bass fiddle, trombone, flute, clarinet (sold the sax), 3 native flutes, my New Yorker lap steel thrift shop find and a Yamaha PSR9000 keyboard.
Oh, and the drums. No wonder I'm broke.
"The secret of life is to look good from a distance."
-Charles Schulz |
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ASW Inner circle 1879 Posts |
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On 2011-06-25 00:14, Tom Cutts wrote: Is this the small scale archtop with two P90s? There's a guy on Youtube who has a series of Chicago style lessons that uses one of those. Great Chess-era sound through a Masco PA head. I want one. His user ID is 'gassertrucks'. I have a Nocaster and Gibson 54 Goldtop reissue, and a 65 ES330. But there's always room for more.
Whenever I find myself gripping anything too tightly I just ask myself "How would Guy Hollingworth hold this?"
A magician on the Genii Forum "I would respect VIPs if they respect history." Hideo Kato |
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
Many have been modified, changing the pickup or removing the unique guard. This one looks mostly original.
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KiKi Inner circle GERMANY/ Hannover 1143 Posts |
In the past my favourite was Ibanez. I still play and like them, but now if I could choose just one brand, I guess I would go with musicman!
kiki |
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ASW Inner circle 1879 Posts |
Ah, I see. It's the 60s version of the Charlie Christian guitar. I was thinking of the cutaway with one or two P90s.
Whenever I find myself gripping anything too tightly I just ask myself "How would Guy Hollingworth hold this?"
A magician on the Genii Forum "I would respect VIPs if they respect history." Hideo Kato |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
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On 2011-06-29 03:00, KiKi wrote: I really wanted a John Petrucci Music Man. The action was so nice.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
I've had about 7 or 8...down to 2 now, one electric & one acoustic. Waiting until I play better than a total hack to get one that I'll really fall in love with.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I have an interesting relationship with a Martin Backpacker. That guitar almost got me arrested once.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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dpe666 Inner circle 2895 Posts |
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On 2011-06-29 11:17, critter wrote: Do tell... |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Well I posted the story when it happened so anybody who's heard this before may as well skip this
I was taking my Backpacker to school every day because I was practicing in the park while waiting for my carpool. Well this was a mellow day so I was walking slowly. I stopped and watched some squirrels, watched some construction on the new building, just kind of meandered about. I went into the internet Café and sat down and opened my laptop. I few seconds later a policeman poked his head in the door and yells to me "how you doin'?" I said "Good," and as soon as I got it out he had his tazer drawn and several other cops burst in with him (and one more through the back door) yelling "Hands up! Put your ****ing hands up! What's in the bag?! What's in the bag?!" "A guitar," I very calmly replied, so as not to provoke a tazing (or is it tasing? I don't know.) They searched me and the bag and when they discovered it was, in fact, a guitar (it even says guitar on the bag,) they explained that somebody had called and reported someone fitting my description was skulking about campus with an assault rifle. Fun times. That night I went to the mall and had a t-shirt made that says "It's Just a Guitar! don't taze me, bro!"
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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SmittyWitty Veteran user Fairhaven, MA 324 Posts |
Years ago (in the 60's) I owned a Rickenbacker solid body 12-string. Absolutely beautiful. Wish I still had it.
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amerigo Veteran user Can't believe I only have 318 Posts |
Didn't know we had so many guitar owners , uh make that players here. Me I am a newbie but I've got two acoustic guitars a Guild JF55 and a Gibson L4A . The Gibson has a plug-in and sounds great with an amp, but I absolutely love the deep mellow sound of the Guild.
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