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CrazyAces Joined: Jul 31, 2012 Posts: 4052 Nashville, TN.	Posted on Jun 11 2013 08:39 AM toninho, great collection. You're speaking my gear language. — http://www.facebook.com/CrazyAcesMusic http://www.youtube.com/user/crazyacesrock http://www.reverbnation.com/crazyacesmusic Top
PrestonRice Joined: Oct 05, 2012 Posts: 1725 Austin, Texas	Posted on Jun 11 2013 11:08 AM Love that teisco! — IMO. Top
toninho Joined: Oct 03, 2009 Posts: 35	Posted on Jun 11 2013 01:54 PM Im speak spanish, sorry for my english i recent buy a victoria guitar... love guitar body! very jetson body. but is in restoration process. this is a video of the sound of yamaha Your text to link here... — Viernes De Hongos Top
toninho Joined: Oct 03, 2009 Posts: 35	Posted on Jun 12 2013 12:18 AM of course CrazyAces! love vintage guitars! — Viernes De Hongos Top
JObeast Joined: Jul 24, 2012 Posts: 2762 Finknabad, Squinkistan	Posted on Jun 12 2013 02:03 AM I really like the over-the-top visual statement of this Strat. You can NEVER have too many pickups! The mods look really well-crafted and idiosyncratically considered, bespeaking a very personal relationship between axe and player. Squid wrote: I just finished modifying this stock Monoprice strat. I thinned the neck, weighted the vibrato block, changed pickups and added 2 more to make 5, added a pickup selector, and added flash. The tone controls cover all pickups. The white bridge PU is very surfy. The adjacent black PU is a Carvin AP11 which sounds thicker and less chimey, some say it is similar to a Mosrite PU. I lowered the gold PU to be less than half the tone when combined with the white bridge PU, giving a bridge like tone but with more bottom and smoother top. — Squink Out! Top
ElBirkerio Joined: Dec 17, 2012 Posts: 519 Vienna	Posted on Jul 12 2013 09:20 AM hi! not too sure whether my slight modifications to this Firebird Studio are art or porn, but here it is: my favourite surf guitar, the Surfin' Bird image yours wolfi — http://www.surfgrammeln-san.org https://www.facebook.com/BaluUndSurfgrammeln http://greencookierecords.bandcamp.com/album/coming-out-soon-los-chicharrones-del-surf-10 Top
Kian Joined: Apr 05, 2013 Posts: 64 Franklinton	Posted on Jul 17 2013 06:04 AM That's a hot 'Bird, Wolfie!! Nice to see one surf. I've always had an affinity for offsets, of which I also include Fire/Thunderbirds and Explorers. Last edited: Jul 17, 2013 06:05:04 Top
JohnnyA Joined: Apr 25, 2011 Posts: 52	Posted on Jul 17 2013 07:35 AM Love that Firebird with the Bigsby B5 on it. Just ordered a B5 for my Firebird as well. Was inspired by Elliot Easton when I saw his Tikibird. Top
ElBirkerio Joined: Dec 17, 2012 Posts: 519 Vienna	Posted on Jul 17 2013 09:05 AM Kian wrote: That's a hot 'Bird, Wolfie!! Nice to see one surf. thanks a lot however, it has a pretty atypical sound for a gibson. good sustain, but the pickups (a M3 guitars Mosrite-wannabe singlecoil in the neck and a TVJones Powertron in the bridge position) give it a pretty characteristic sound ... at least in my opinion ... yours wolfi — http://www.surfgrammeln-san.org https://www.facebook.com/BaluUndSurfgrammeln http://greencookierecords.bandcamp.com/album/coming-out-soon-los-chicharrones-del-surf-10 Top
togergo Joined: Jan 23, 2012 Posts: 282 Budapest	Posted on Jul 17 2013 10:09 AM ugh, http://www.gak.co.uk/en/gibson-limited-edition-elliot-easton-tikibird-firebird-golden-mist-poly/85142 that's a price :O — original compositions (low-level demo stuff /out of tune, etc) myStuff not my best, but i don't like to be in a musician community without anything to show Top
Kian Joined: Apr 05, 2013 Posts: 64 Franklinton	Posted on Jul 17 2013 02:14 PM ElBirkerio wrote: thanks a lot however, it has a pretty atypical sound for a gibson. good sustain, but the pickups (a M3 guitars Mosrite-wannabe singlecoil in the neck and a TVJones Powertron in the bridge position) give it a pretty characteristic sound ... at least in my opinion ... Oh I saw that it had some special somethings for pickups. I do think minibuckers could work for surf, but maybe not so much for doing lots of leads. A firebird neck profile just screams for leads however. I bet it slides like butter. Last edited: Jul 17, 2013 14:18:44 Top
ElBirkerio Joined: Dec 17, 2012 Posts: 519 Vienna	Posted on Jul 18 2013 02:45 AM hi! "Oh I saw that it had some special somethings for pickups. I do think minibuckers could work for surf, but maybe not so much for doing lots of leads. A firebird neck profile just screams for leads however." They do, actually, as it is (at least in bridge position) hard to tell them from Fenderish-SCs ... I once made a sample recording (for all the experts out there), where the original version of that guitar with miniHBs is compared to a few other guitars including a strat, a jag, a P90 LesPaul and an SG - see for yourself: https://soundcloud.com/gisela-gramml/pupcheck no. 2 is the Firebird with miniHBs, no. 3 is the Jag as far as playability is concerned - the funny thing is how huge that guitar is ... yours wolfi — http://www.surfgrammeln-san.org https://www.facebook.com/BaluUndSurfgrammeln http://greencookierecords.bandcamp.com/album/coming-out-soon-los-chicharrones-del-surf-10 Last edited: Jul 18, 2013 02:45:52 Top
Kian Joined: Apr 05, 2013 Posts: 64 Franklinton	Posted on Jul 18 2013 02:54 PM Actually now that you mention it, I'm getting SG and 'Bird mixed up. However, I generally like the old "baseball bat" necks on Explorers, so if a Firebird is similar to it I'd probably be in heaven. Top
Guitardmm Joined: Jun 02, 2013 Posts: 61 Alicante	Posted on Aug 01 2013 02:30 AM What do you think about Dipinto Galaxie 4? Its more similar a Jazzmaster or a stratocaster? The tone of this guitar is very surfer and its for me a great guitar. Someone have one? Top
rickvox Joined: Jul 13, 2012 Posts: 82	Posted on Aug 04 2013 02:25 PM Guitardmm ,A whole bunch of us have them . The are VERY cool .I own two of them A pink Sparkle and a Los Straitjacksts model . My absolute favorite solid body guitar! Last edited: Aug 04, 2013 22:34:37 Top
JakeDobner Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle	Posted on Aug 04 2013 03:44 PM Ah... the favorite surf guitar thread. Is there anybody here that chose a guitar they didn't own? Top
PrestonRice Joined: Oct 05, 2012 Posts: 1725 Austin, Texas	Posted on Aug 04 2013 03:50 PM Gold guard JM? Especially Bruce's "Hobie" JM... — IMO. Top
Guitardmm Joined: Jun 02, 2013 Posts: 61 Alicante	Posted on Aug 05 2013 04:03 PM rickvox wrote: Guitardmm ,A whole bunch of us have them . The are VERY cool .I own two of them A pink Sparkle and a Los Straitjacksts model . My absolute favorite solid body guitar! Do you have any recorded demo? Is a good guitar of course. Top
rickvox Joined: Jul 13, 2012 Posts: 82	Posted on Aug 06 2013 06:10 PM Here at an outdoor park gig with my band. Sing, Sing, Sing Pacifica/My heart will go on Last edited: Aug 06, 2013 18:15:08 Top
Noel Joined: Mar 15, 2011 Posts: 8528 Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.	Posted on Aug 06 2013 06:55 PM rickvox wrote: Here at an outdoor park gig with my band. Sing, Sing, Sing Pacifica/My heart will go on Very nice! Your Sing, Sing, Sing really swings! — This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got. Top

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