Guitar gear

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 2, 2024

  One half of my guitars and amps.

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 12, 2024

  First Gretsch and first hollow body guitar . This baby for delivered this morning and I am luvin it already. Gretsch Guitars G2420T Streamliner Single-Cutaway Hollowbody Electric Guitar With Bigsby Walnut Stain. Dark Ruby color finish My first Gretsch and first hollow body guitar today. It came earlier than anticipated from Musicians Friends nod to their service and price. Always thought my first hollow body/semi hollow would be an Ibanez as long time fan of George Benson. However, a hollow body with tremolo recently began to be super attractive.

  So out of the box this looks really great very happy with the look and finish. It plays pretty good out of the box as well there is some buzzing on the higher strings above the ninth fret. I am thinking a pro setup should fix that. But overall I am happy with warm tone I get for jazz and bright mids for rockabilly or blues which is why I wanted a guitar like this in the first place. Still think I want to own an Ibanez but that for another time for now enjoying first Gretsch.

  Anyone else own guitar?

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• KA

  

  Karen

  Oct 12, 2024

  I didn't own this one and have never played anything but acoustic Guilds which are "made to be played". My oldest is a mahogany small acoustic M-20 made in 1960 with the old headstock with the "lip" top.

  Sadly, I have developed trigger finger in my right thumb and haven't played for a long time.

  Your new guitar is a beauty, though, and I share in your excitement.

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 12, 2024

  Thank you. Didnt realize you play guitar? Those old Guild are special. Along with Martins they were the acoustics guitars to own back in the day[quote] Your new guitar is a beauty, though, and I share in your excitement.[/quote]

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 13, 2024

  My Squier Strat given to me about 10 years ago by someone who wanted to learn how to play but gave up. Don't use it much because I prefer the Tele you can see behind it and I really dislike maple fretboards. I am playing it in video I uploaded recently to my profile page.

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• HA

  

  HaddingtonBare

  Oct 13, 2024

  Well. My previous guitars have been a Vintage parlour acoustic, Squier Affinity strat, Gretsch G5222, and currently a '74 Telecaster, Sire L7V, and Ovation Celebrity Electro acoustic. Also an Ibanez GR200 bass.

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 13, 2024

  Nice group of guitars. How do you like the Sire. I have seen a bunch of Larry Carlton Sires at local guitar store and online. A Tele and Ovation Celeb are both in my current set of often used guitars just got the Ovation this summer. It is a super shallow body that I use for moving around and outdoor stuff instead of my Taylor which requires a bit more gentle usage. [quote]Well. My previous guitars have been a Vintage parlour acoustic, Squier Affinity strat, Gretsch G5222, and currently a '74 Telecaster, Sire L7V, and Ovation Celebrity Electro acoustic. Also an Ibanez GR200 bass.[/quote]

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• J.

  

  J.

  Oct 13, 2024

  Most of my collection. Have a second amp and pedalboard at our site at the nudist resort.

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 14, 2024

  Nice what make are the two semi hollows dont recognize the headstock?

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• J.

  

  J.

  Oct 14, 2024

  [quote]Nice what make are the two semi hollows dont recognize the headstock?[/quote] Neither is an actual semi hollow Paul Gilbert (from Mr. Big) is one of my instructors and his signature guitars have painted on f-holes. He endorses Ibanez guitars and the natural one is a PGM80P that he gave me and the white one is a short scale Mikro. The acoustic is a Breedlove, the other hanging one is an EVH Wolfgang Special, and lined up in the stand are a Les Paul Gold Top Classic, an AVRI Tele, a PRS Custom 24-08, a Ciari Ascender Standard+ folding guitar, and a Standard Strat. My tube amp is a Laney Cub 12R (clone) and next to it is a Fender Mustang for when I dont want to wait for the tubes to warm up in the Cub. All of it funded when I sold my '53 Tele. Im not a good enough player for the '53 so now it lives in Nashville and has been on stage at the Grand Ole Opry and Ryman.

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 15, 2024

  Cool story about 53 Tele. Whats the story behind painted on F holes?

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 15, 2024

  Whats on your pedal board?

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• EA

  

  EarlDOriginal Poster

  Oct 15, 2024

  This is the pedal board I threw together after I started playing again. Nothing special just figured I should have something. That was before I got some of the new solid state amps with effects on board.

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• J.

  

  J.

  May 17, 2025

  [quote]Cool story about 53 Tele. Whats the story behind painted on F holes?[/quote] Paul Gilbert just thought they looked cool so he did it on one of his first guitars when he was in Racer X, and it became his thing. Now most of his guitars except his Fireman series have them. The guitar he gave me was one of his Super Strat models, so it has them. It hides the volume knob pretty well (his older guitar models dont have tone knobs).

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• J.

  

  J.

  May 17, 2025

  [quote]Whats on your pedal board?[/quote] My board starts with a Bad Horsie 2 wah pedal, then a PolyTune mini tuner, a Keeley Compressor Plus, a Wampler Hot Wired overdrive/distortion, up to the top row with a cheap Donner noise gate, an EHX Pitch Fork pitch shifter, an MXR Micro Flanger, an MXR Phase 95 phaser, a Flashback II delay, and back down to the bottom row with a clone of the Ditto looper.

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• J.

  

  J.

  May 17, 2025

  [quote]Cool story about 53 Tele. Whats the story behind painted on F holes?[/quote] Paul Gilbert just thought they looked cool so he did it on one of his first guitars when he was in Racer X, and it became his thing. Now most of his guitars except his Fireman series have them. The guitar he gave me was one of his Super Strat models, so it has them. It hides the volume knob pretty well (his older guitar models dont have tone knobs).

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