The guitar corner

[Dan Gould]

51 minutes ago, six string said:

I hope my comment didn't come off snarky or anything.  It wasn't meant to be.  I'm surprised you've run out of room to tighten it which males me wonder of you have a smallish guitar neck.  I use mine on both electric and acoustic guitars (Taylor, Fender and Yamaha) and I've never had that issue.

Don't worry about it ... I don't think the neck is especially small. I'd probably play better if it was.   But the spring is definitely engaged as far as it will go and its not giving the same results as before.

[Dan Gould]

On 5/27/2016 at 8:24 PM, skeith said:

No that is not the one I use.   Mine is like this..never had a problem and it is much smaller....easy to fit in your case....never got why anyone would use anything else.

Saw this at Guitar Center, $20, and figured what the hell. I really don't know why my old one stopped functioning (and to be clear the real problem was on the first fret where the strings are highest) but this works perfectly and I actually like the two-handed positioning. Thanks for the recommendation!

[skeith]

2 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

Saw this at Guitar Center, $20, and figured what the hell. I really don't know why my old one stopped functioning (and to be clear the real problem was on the first fret where the strings are highest) but this works perfectly and I actually like the two-handed positioning. Thanks for the recommendation!

You are welcome Dan....glad that it worked for you.

[7/4]

I use a Kyser capo when I need one. More of a clamp.

http://www.kysermusical.com/store/electric-guitars/

Handy for checking intonation quickly or, as I found out lately, nice to use in the middle of the neck and limit the guitar to more of a mandolin range.

 

 

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Edited May 29, 2016 by 7/4

[Dan Gould]

Does this apply to anyone here?

 

[Brad]

Interesting story about some very expensive guitars. 

How 10 high-end guitars on their way to Hong Kong wound up in Anchorage classrooms

[sgcim]

If that happened in the inner city HS I taught at in NY, the kids would have found a way to break in to the storage room where they kept them and steal them before the first semester was finished. 

[EveryMann]

Great thread! I have skimmed through many of the pages today to while away the idle moments here at work (shhhhh).

I've cashed out of my high-dollar guitars long ago, keeping only a Frankenberry guitar I made out of parts from City Lights Music in the 1980s, and for sake of sentimentality, the very first (1970s) Telecaster I bought second-hand back in high school.

And this 1965 Mosrite bass.

I'm not much of a bass player--and the only amp I own now is a little 1960s Ampeg Jet--but it's relaxing to pull this out every few months and wheedle out some Tommy Cogbill runs through those ancient flatwounds that date back to the Clinton administration. It has an interesting history and I have some old emails I exchanged with Andy Moseley where he remembers this one being custom-ordered in 1964/65, and they ended up making 3 guitars and 2 other basses in this color out of the same can of paint. Maybe not a concentric-knob Jazz Bass in terms of value or playability, but as for coolness, it's the barometer by which all else is measured.

PS-- Here's the Frankenberry I made in the 1980s. Coffin case made by someone named Strang Rodstiehl, current whereabouts unknown.

[7/4]

1 hour ago, EveryMann said:

Great thread! I have skimmed through many of the pages today to while away the idle moments here at work (shhhhh).

I've cashed out of my high-dollar guitars long ago, keeping only a Frankenberry guitar I made out of parts from City Lights Music in the 1980s,

City Lights in New Brunswick, NJ? I used to drop in there quite a bit. I must have bought something there, maybe an Epiphone Granada.

[EveryMann]

2 minutes ago, 7/4 said:

City Lights in New Brunswick, NJ? I used to drop in there quite a bit. I must have bought something there, maybe an Epiphone Granada.

Yup--Easton Avenue in New Brunswick. I still have copies of his Black Sun Tabloid quarterly mailings stashed away somewhere.

[7/4]

3 hours ago, EveryMann said:

Yup--Easton Avenue in New Brunswick. I still have copies of his Black Sun Tabloid quarterly mailings stashed away somewhere.

I did for years...all gone now. I grew up in North Brunswick.

[sgcim]

It's too late to to bid, but Walter Becker's 'collection' was just auctioned off at a Beverley Hills auction house, if you hadn't heard about it. WB owned 650 guitars and close to 400 amps. Certifiable GAS!!!!!!

[OliverM]

After 5-6 years without an electric, got a latter period Jacobacci strat model with Schaller pickups (SSH configuration) and a Fender Champ 12 tube amp (red knob) to work again. Very happy with this.