Custom Guitar Build

[dana]

Ya dood. It's the green one with red knob in the pic above.

[Alfa Spirit]

I don' t like so much BCRich, Dean, .... style guitars. I have 3 guitars, 1957 French jazz guitar, an €piphone with P90 pickups and my favorite is my Gibson SG Standard Ltd Edition full stock year 2000
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[dana]

I don' t like so much BCRich, Dean, .... style guitars. I have 3 guitars, 1957 French jazz guitar, an €piphone with P90 pickups and my favorite is my Gibson SG Standard Ltd Edition full stock year 2000
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Well then my guitars wouldn't suit you, but they play and sound awesome. Different strokes for different folks man. I am not a fan of Gibson or epiphone really. Theyre machined pieces, mine are hand carved necks and bodies, and the routing and machining is done by hand too... They have their own personalities.

[siberianhusky]

Nice build! Currently rebuilding a Neopolitain Bent top mandolin from the late 1800's. Quite the piece, real tortoise shell pickguard, mother of pearl butterfly inlay..
I'm with you on the Gibsons, unless it's a pre '72 acoustic, my studio acoustic is an old J-45. Inherited a early 70's SG that just a dust collecting decoration.
Current main electric is an 83 american standard strat body with a custom Birdseye/spalted maple neck loaded with a set of real 1963 pickups, not the reissues, real ones!
The neck for that one was a barter deal with a guy who has worked for Furlinetto for about 20 years. Pre CBS headstock, brazillian rosewood board.
On stage I generally play about 700$ guitars, lol playing in bars it makes no difference to sound, as long as it plays nice and has good sustain I don't care what the headstock says. Too many guitars get stolen for me to risk it anymore, had a really nice strat swiped in Whistler about 20 years ago!
LOL you should hear our hillbilly cover of Number of the Beast, Upright bass, guitar and I play lead on Mandolin! Actually most of our stuff has some pretty strange arrangements, washboard percussion for jazz standards?
Going back into the studio this weekend, after I get some stuff back I'll post a couple tunes.

http://www.baertracs.ca/bio.html

This is who is doing our recording, LOL also our bass player. Great guy!
LOL kinda hard to miss when you have somebody in your band with that history and the number of contacts he has.
Plus he also has 3 huskies! Actually it was the huskies that did the introduction! I had mine at a pub and he showed up with his at the same pub! The rest was history.
Kind of place I live in, you find out the drunk guy wanting to get on stage and do a tune is Ron Sexsmith, Neil Young shows up after hours at your favorite guitar shop, you run into Ronnie Hawkins at the beer store. You find out the place next to where you're working is owned by Alana Miles. You meet Shania Twain visiting her horse at the leahey farm.........
Small sh*t hole town that is loaded full of musical talent!

[Alfa Spirit]

Your 70's SG was build during Norlin area, not the best Gibson....

[siberianhusky]

I've played a real flying v owned by a buddy of mine (not a reissue, was in his shop one day when he turned down 100k US for it!), a pile of ES's, real gold top les pauls, les paul Jr's, customs, standards and studio and don't like any of them for electric guitars!
The newer they are the worse they are! At least the old ones were hand built, not like the CAM based crap the have been turning out for about 20 years. Some might claim some hand assembly but 95% of the guitar is a basic off the line machine made guitar that might have a nice top and hand rubbed paint job. Still just a parts bin guitar. Same as Fender, even their "custom shop" stuff is just selected parts bin stuff. Nobody is hand carving the necks and bodies. Both companies are relying on the name to sell mid grade guitars at inflated prices. At least you can get an American strat for well under a grand.

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2011/07/20/eds-music-to-close

This is the guy who owned the V, that day in august I was in there when Neil bought the martin!
he has closed his shop but still deals vintage stuff, he has a world class Gretsch collection you wouldn't believe!
The V might still be in Capsule Music in Toronto, he loaned it to them for a while.
I've played a lot of high end very rare stuff I could never afford in a million years, Never met a Gibson electric I liked enough to buy. They are nowhere near what the old acoustics and mandolins are.
The only reason I play a Strat is they are cheap, play well and I can play everything from metal to country on the same guitar. And I can repair anything that breaks including a neck in about half an hour. Built for the stage and road!
Every Gibson I've played is a one trick pony, you get that Les Paul sound (or whatever) and nothing else. Not going to spend that kind of money to sound like Slash or Angus young! The whole reason I never play that SG (Aside from the fact it is uncomfortable, heavy and the knobs have a *!***!***!***!**ty layout)
Want a real guitar check out these http://duesenberg.de Good chance one of the hollow bodies will be my next guitar.

[dana]

Siberian, I agree with you 100%. You've nailed it. Although there are still some luthiers out there who are still carving necks by hand like myself, and more notably Neil Moser,who has his own line of guitars now, but designed and built for bc rich and some others over his years. He still carves every neck by hand. Very cool. They just feel better. Gibsons don't stay in tune well due to their inferior, yet unchanged, abr-1 bridge. You would think they would have made a change, but no. Just silly if you ask me.

[dana]

Siberian, feel free to post pics of you axes man.guitar and Rc boats are my two favorite pastimes

[Alfa Spirit]

siberianhusky. you are a Strat guy. Dues' are great guitars and they have very good sounding pickups. I played a vintage Gretsch, if I remamber it was a Duo Jet, awesome guitar
What' s wrong with this one? http://www.gretschguitars.org/gretsc...y-not-reissue/

[siberianhusky]

Like the old gretsches, not big on the double cut away models but I wouldn't turn one down. A buddy of mine Yves has a nice old Country Gentleman.
I'm not a strat guy, just a guitar player who demands versatilty and quite a few styles of guitar don't offer that. I think both Gibson and Fender have gone downhill badly since the early 70's or before that.
Gretsch since the were bought by Fender are not the guitars they once were. I'm not a fan of anything post CBS. With the exception of the original tele deluxe. The reissue custom shop ones blow!
Basically for me it has to pretty much be pre 1970 or built by a luthier. Pre 70 is mostly a collector thing as they will appreciate in value.
I'm even worse when it comes to amps, I must have dragged 15 home before I found one I liked, that doesn't include the number I played in store and didn't bother with.
I didn't even buy the first Traynor GuitarMate I brought home. For about a week I had a Mesa Boogie that almost made the cut, then got a call about another Traynor, ended up with that one then retubed it with about a grand worth of vintage Mullards.
Can't describe it, kinda sounds like fender and marshall had a baby that got the best of both sounds.
Tons of good old amps out there, some made by some odd companies. If you ever get a chance try playing through a mid 50's supro, hopefully with a better speaker. 5 watts of pure tone! SOme of them were sold under the SIlvertone label through Simpson Sears in the 50's and 60's.

[Alfa Spirit]

I like the Gibson SG, SG Standard and SG Custom, this guitar is light, sound incredible, easy neck for me and what a beauty!! Very good vibrations. I played some SG Custom different feeling with ebony fretboard, Classic '57 HB s sound is magic! I' m very satisfied with my Gibson SG Standard Ltd Edition (2000), if I have to buy a new solid body it will be an Ivory SG Custom

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[dana]

Les paul hated the SG.

[Alfa Spirit]

Yes, Sg was a Les Paul during 2 years 1961 and 1962

[dana]

indeed. again, different stroke for different folks. its funny, alot of people think just because a guitar is custom, that everyone is gonna like it. couldnt be further from the truth… i know what i like, and share that with many others. then there are plenty of guys who dont like my stuff, and opt for guitars i dont care for. all a matter of taste )

[Make-a-Wake]

Les paul hated the SG.

Dont tell Angus young and Tony Iommi that.......................... they made that guitar scream............and it made them alot of $$

Some guy named Clapton used one in Cream starting in 1967