Re: So who is playing Gretsch guitars?
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2019 8:24 pm
I've owned one old Orange '69 Nashville double cut, that had been monstered, violated with a Gibson-style bucker in the neck slot, Schallers, and an old plastic saddle Gibbo bridge. Oh, and a trapeze TP.
Then it had been left out of it's case, and various inclement temperature shifts had seen the binding crumble to powder.
Then it was put aside by the previous owner, or perhaps the previous two before me...
My cousin bought it off me when I first got into some bad space with an ex-partner (now known as "the Stalker") because...well, 15 years is just WAAY too long to be carrying on arguments and recriminations after a relationship has ended. Right?
Anyway... I had arranged with mah cuzzy to have first refusal if he decided to sell it again.
He did a great job rebinding it and replaced most of the foreign/non-original parts.
I wouldn't have put gold White Falcon tuners on it but, hey it wasn't mine at the time.
And they were cheap, possibly a trade for something?? I forget
But I never PLAYED that guitar while I owned it.
Mostly down to the fragility and EXTREME decrepitude... I think the wiring had been gacked when the pickup was swapped too.
If memory serves.
But after Cuzzin Jeppy rebound it and set it up, it sounded better unplugged than most acoustics I've owned.
Then HE got into some bad financial air when HIS wife took ill, so the Nashville got liquidated just before I could raise the scratch.
Bugger.
There's only a few guitars I've TRULY regretted selling or had wanted to not sell, and the neck on that old Nashville was beautiful feeling in the hand.
Then there was an Asian made (Korean?) silver Electromatic that I put late FilterTrons on... But I just wasn't feeling it.
Basically it was a trial & dial test but I just wasn't super happy with that guitar.
SUPER stressed and depressed about my relationship with my kid at the time as well.
Even with the 'Trons it still felt and sounded a bit like an Epi Les Paul of my friend's... In my mind at least, at that time.
Next!!
Also had a brief fling with a MIJ Champagne Sparkle double cut Sparkle Jet like Unicorn Warrior's from a few pages back (but with silver hardware)
I forget the Model No, but the colour and shape was identical to UW's.
It had a beautiful neck, but i wasn't thrilled with the huge Bigsby on such a small body
That one got liquidated to pay for another useless court hearing/barrister fee. That whole stalking thing had gone SEVERELY batshit by that point.
I ended up just folding mentally and then I took the bolt from all of it in the interests of improving my overall health.
Which is pretty good now, at 53. I was completely miserable and exhausted at 45. Never again.
Have been seriously considering getting another Hollow body again lately.
Has anyone played one of the Jupiter Thunderbird/ Billy Bo things?
Are they semi-hollow or solid body?
Peace.
Then it had been left out of it's case, and various inclement temperature shifts had seen the binding crumble to powder.
Then it was put aside by the previous owner, or perhaps the previous two before me...
My cousin bought it off me when I first got into some bad space with an ex-partner (now known as "the Stalker") because...well, 15 years is just WAAY too long to be carrying on arguments and recriminations after a relationship has ended. Right?
Anyway... I had arranged with mah cuzzy to have first refusal if he decided to sell it again.
He did a great job rebinding it and replaced most of the foreign/non-original parts.
I wouldn't have put gold White Falcon tuners on it but, hey it wasn't mine at the time.
And they were cheap, possibly a trade for something?? I forget
But I never PLAYED that guitar while I owned it.
Mostly down to the fragility and EXTREME decrepitude... I think the wiring had been gacked when the pickup was swapped too.
If memory serves.
But after Cuzzin Jeppy rebound it and set it up, it sounded better unplugged than most acoustics I've owned.
Then HE got into some bad financial air when HIS wife took ill, so the Nashville got liquidated just before I could raise the scratch.
Bugger.
There's only a few guitars I've TRULY regretted selling or had wanted to not sell, and the neck on that old Nashville was beautiful feeling in the hand.
Then there was an Asian made (Korean?) silver Electromatic that I put late FilterTrons on... But I just wasn't feeling it.
Basically it was a trial & dial test but I just wasn't super happy with that guitar.
SUPER stressed and depressed about my relationship with my kid at the time as well.
Even with the 'Trons it still felt and sounded a bit like an Epi Les Paul of my friend's... In my mind at least, at that time.
Next!!
Also had a brief fling with a MIJ Champagne Sparkle double cut Sparkle Jet like Unicorn Warrior's from a few pages back (but with silver hardware)
I forget the Model No, but the colour and shape was identical to UW's.
It had a beautiful neck, but i wasn't thrilled with the huge Bigsby on such a small body
That one got liquidated to pay for another useless court hearing/barrister fee. That whole stalking thing had gone SEVERELY batshit by that point.
I ended up just folding mentally and then I took the bolt from all of it in the interests of improving my overall health.
Which is pretty good now, at 53. I was completely miserable and exhausted at 45. Never again.
Have been seriously considering getting another Hollow body again lately.
Has anyone played one of the Jupiter Thunderbird/ Billy Bo things?
Are they semi-hollow or solid body?
Peace.