Samurai
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2242
Kiev, Ukraine
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 08:15 AM
Badger wrote:
Samurai wrote:
The green strat is cool - but I'm selling it cause the hot red one just tears it apart as for me. Seems to me that this heavy ash on deluxes is not for me...it weights the same as a les paul - 4,5 kilos.
UFF-da! 
Just out of curiosity, because I've never handled one, how much does the Yamaha weigh?
Yamaha is around 3,9
It's heavily chambered inside
However the red strat is 3,7
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 09:18 AM
Samurai wrote:
Yamaha is around 3,9
It's heavily chambered inside
However the red strat is 3,7
Thanks! Didn't know about the chambering.
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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Samurai
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2242
Kiev, Ukraine
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 10:55 AM
Badger wrote:
Samurai wrote:
Yamaha is around 3,9
It's heavily chambered inside
However the red strat is 3,7
Thanks! Didn't know about the chambering.
If you take off the pickguard - its the whole chamber almost all the way around, and also down from plates on the back
It gives nice acoustic tone like thinline telecasters that I like a lot
Also you may play unplugged pretty loud)
Love this axe)
— Waikiki Makaki surf-rock band from Ukraine
https://linktr.ee/waikikimakaki
Lost Diver
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 11:51 AM
Samurai wrote:
If you take off the pickguard - its the whole chamber almost all the way around, and also down from plates on the back
It gives nice acoustic tone like thinline telecasters that I like a lot
Also you may play unplugged pretty loud)
Love this axe)
Oh, boy.... I might be in trouble again with my "list".....
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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Samurai
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2242
Kiev, Ukraine
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 11:56 AM
Badger wrote:
Samurai wrote:
If you take off the pickguard - its the whole chamber almost all the way around, and also down from plates on the back
It gives nice acoustic tone like thinline telecasters that I like a lot
Also you may play unplugged pretty loud)
Love this axe)
Oh, boy.... I might be in trouble again with my "list".....
Thats a perpetual problem with me) got a one more strat and gibson les paul in january, my wife supports me totally in spite of having a $60 000 debt for a new flat, I feel like a bastard doing this - but cannot fight it(
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Lost Diver
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montereyjack66
Joined: Jul 23, 2014
Posts: 637
LA -ish
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 02:22 PM
Cruddy phone pic, but here be my basses. Some day I'll share my six strings (well, this one does include my Squire Bass VI). Love 'em all.
mj 
— mj
bent playing for benter results
Do not attempt to adjust your TV set.
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 03:35 PM
Samurai wrote:
...I feel like a bastard doing this - but cannot fight it
Ahh, the first step...
I don't want to own anything extraordinary or a great quantity but once in awhile a really rad but pretty guitar will get my fancy, like this one because it would be such a different sound.
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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Samurai
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2242
Kiev, Ukraine
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 03:50 PM
Badger wrote:
Samurai wrote:
...I feel like a bastard doing this - but cannot fight it
Ahh, the first step...
I don't want to own anything extraordinary or a great quantity but once in awhile a really rad but pretty guitar will get my fancy, like this one because it would be such a different sound.
Just take it) you really wont regret) this guitar got a sound several times more than it costs)
— Waikiki Makaki surf-rock band from Ukraine
https://linktr.ee/waikikimakaki
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LeeVanCleef
Joined: Oct 05, 2011
Posts: 744
France
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 05:02 PM
Samurai wrote:
Just take it) you really wont regret) this guitar got a sound several times more than it costs)
Yes, it's a fun and really nice sounding guitar... The quite narrow neck might not be everybody's cup of tea though.
— Old punks never die... They just become surf rockers.
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Jan 11 2015 05:29 PM
LeeVanCleef wrote:
Yes, it's a fun and really nice sounding guitar... The quite narrow neck might not be everybody's cup of tea though.
Yeah, there's the rub; I need a narrow neck like a 3rd eye and I think they're about a 9.5 radius when I'm actually trying to go the other way to a 7.25 with my Strat. They shore are purty, tho'. 
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 01:49 AM
I haven't posted here for quite a while, but I recently (last Sunday) added an interesting guitar to my little collection of oddballs, a very rare (only four built) JBD-400 that my wife secretly bought for me for my upcoming birthday next Friday...
Here it is, now hanging around with most of the rest of it's crazy family...
Last edited: Jan 20, 2015 02:00:00
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Noel
Joined: Mar 15, 2011
Posts: 8528
Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 08:52 AM
Literally fantastic!
— This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.
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kruelkats
Joined: Mar 26, 2012
Posts: 206
Bogor, West Java
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 09:46 AM
just WOAAAA.. Space station!
— Umar
The Mentawais
The Rentones
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Syndicateofsurf
Joined: Oct 08, 2014
Posts: 1073
Northern Ohio
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 11:13 AM
My mouth is in a permanent open-slack-jawed position. The drool is starting to annoy me.
BTW John, any chance I can meet your wife?
— Da Vinci Flinglestein,
The quest for the Tone, the tone of the Quest
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Gilette
Joined: May 04, 2014
Posts: 734
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 02:38 PM
We should start a topic on the guitars we got from our loving wives, don't you think?
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John_Backlund
Joined: Jan 20, 2012
Posts: 38
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 03:44 PM
Gilette wrote:
We should start a topic on the guitars we got from our loving wives, don't you think?
Well, such happenings are a pretty rare thing around here (our house), we usually don't spend much more than a dinner out for our birthdays, but Teresa (rightly) interpreted the opportunity to buy this guitar a worthwhile expenditure and blew over $3000 of her own money to get it for me. Her birthday is in April, but there's no way I can match her gift in a monetary sense, but I'll do what I'm able to.
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 03:50 PM
A vacation with surfing lessons in Costa Rica or something....
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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WoodyJ
Joined: Apr 05, 2006
Posts: 1544
Bethlehem, GA
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 04:26 PM
Gilette wrote:
We should start a topic on the guitars we got from our loving wives, don't you think?
Interesting that you should mention that...my wife surprised me on Christmas morning with a shiny new Epiphone Les Paul Standard Pro Plus Top (that's a mouthful...) in Heritage Cherry Sunburst.
I'd been through two Gibson Les Pauls in the past but didn't keep either one very long, mainly because they were so damn heavy and I didn't like their wide, flat neck profiles. Plus, I was playing 100% surf music back then and the Fenders I had were more suitable for that.
My brother and I were window shopping last November at Sam Ash. They were having a sale on the Epi versions, which I liked quite a bit because of less weight and a comfortable (for me) neck profile on the Standard Pro version. My brother bought one but since my wife Cindy and I were just starting a pretty extensive (and expensive) home interior renovation, I passed on buying the cherry sunburst one that "spoke" to me, as the timing just wasn't right.
Well, as it happened, a few days later, Cindy asked my brother what I wanted for Christmas. To say I was surprised would be a huge understatement. Fortunately I got her something nice for Christmas, otherwise I would have felt like an ass.
The home renovation was just completed and the past several days we've been putting stuff back where it belongs. Yesterday I hooked up the Epi LP to my trusty old Deluxe Reverb and...DANG!! I knew the playability was good but I didn't expect it to sound this good. It will come in very handy on an upcoming recording project.
Thank you, Cindy...I love you!
— Jack Booth
(aka WoodyJ)
The Mariners (1964-68, 1996-2005)
The Hula Hounds (1996-current)
The X-Rays (1997-2004)
The Surge! (2004, 2011-2012)
Various non-surf bands that actually made money (1978-1990)
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CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
Posts: 4052
Nashville, TN.
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 04:46 PM
About four years ago my wife saw me lusting after this Teisco monkey grip that had just been listed for sale online. She was on her way out the door to start a four day production manager job at a big yearly music festival in town, she used to take the gig for extra money.
On her way out she looked over my shoulder and said "you should get it, you've been working hard" I told her I probably had enough guitars and it would be frivolous to acquire another. A few hours later I checked the listing and it was sold.
She called me later that day and asked "did you buy the Teisco?" I responded no and that I was being "good" and besides, someone else had bought it.
She said "yeah, that was me and I used some of my extra money from this festival to buy it for you"
Easily my favorite Teisco ever!
I've got to admit though, she's pretty much always that great.
I am very fortunate.
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JakeDobner
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 12159
Seattle
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Posted on Jan 20 2015 04:55 PM
Your wife sounds awesome!
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