LucSulla

Lol, it's a good damn thing that I hate talking on the phone, or I might be picking that up. I've had a Super Pro but never an Elite.

I almost bought that. I have one just like that already and thought long and hard about having a twin.

Going to be in Roanoke this weekend. Wish I had some cash and faith in Delta to not destroy a guitar in getting back to MS.

I deeply appreciate this comment. Love old Pontiac V8s.

Being a fairly competent guitarist really is going from feeling like one of the best to ever do it one show to feeling like you should just sell all your gear and never mentioned every having been a musician the next.

For once, twas not me.

I have a couple of dedicated metal guitars for the metal band that I'm not in, lol. But someday... I was probably pushing about 105 dB out of the Shiva last night, which isn't unusual. Whatever it is will definitely get to eat. I tend to agree about nuts. I've gone back to using nylon nuts on Lesters. I think @murkat once said that those 50s LPs didn't tend to bind in the nut on the D and G strings as badly due to using nylon nuts back then. I've started using them when I replace a nut on a Lester, and low and behold...

I'm kind of looking at getting another Studio, but I've also had GAS for an Artist for a while. Not really in a position to buy one of each, so it would be one or the other if anything at all. I was curious what the differences were in tone for those of you who have played both.

I'd also be open to possibly trading for a Hamer Studio.

If I'm still doing this that well for that many people at that age, I'll count myself a very lucky man.

I'm trying hard not to bite on it. I'm playing the Hamer Studio a lot again b/c, in my humble opinion, they are arguably the best work horse, HH guitar out there. As much as I love Lesters, Studios do it all with less weight and better tuning stability, and so I find it is going to more and more gigs. Which means I want a back up of course. If I wasn't waiting to see if the LP I just sold makes it in one piece to Michigan and for another one of the two I have up for sale to sell, I probably would do it.

I don't know. I'm taking it in the neck on some stuff I'm selling myself. Lessons from my finance classes from years ago are starting to come back I guess.

2022 Charvel So-Cal USA Custom Select Style 1 - $1650 More pics here: https://reverb.com/item/88807038-charvel-usa-select-so-cal-style-1-hss-fr-2016-present-satin-plum This is an almost mint condition 2022 Charvel So-Cal Style 1 in Satin Plum. The pick guard has some swirling from doing its job, but that's it. The other smudges in the picture are just from handling it for pictures. The satin plum absolutely pops as much in person as it does in pictures, and the pickup positions are super cool. If you want, you can do anything from metal to country twang on this guitar. Neck is every bit as good as the neck on my two custom shop Charvels. I just have too many Charvels! This one is the least painful of the bunch to sell, so that's how it ended up here. My understanding is that the Charvel USA Select stuff is built by the guys in the Custom Shop, which makes them a little different than the Jackson Selects. I believe that's why the certificate specifies that it is a "Custom Shop Select." All around cool guitar. Charvel's Website for more specs: https://www.charvel.com/gear/series/usa-select/usa-select-so-cal-style-1-hss-fr/2836203752

2014 Les Paul Traditional - $1750 For more pics: https://reverb.com/item/88806800-gibson-les-paul-traditional-2014-ocean-blue Up for sale is a 2014 Les Paul Traditional in Ocean Blue. The only modification to the guitar was swapping in some Carondolet Dreambuckers, which I found preserved the clean chime and note separation that you could get with the originals while having a lot more growl with the guitar volume all the way up. If they are classic enough for Rickey Medlocke and Joe Perry, they should make anyone happy. The only other thing I did was take the pick guard off, which is in the case w/ screws. The main ding on the guitar is the usual from the screw on the bottom of the pick guard hitting the body of the guitar. There are some more dings, swirling, and a little bit of worming on the back, but not enough so that they are easy to pick up on camera. Comes with the OHSC as well. More stats: WOOD & CONSTRUCTION BODY: mahogany Type: Solid Body Pieces: – TOP: maple Class: – NECK: mahogany Profile: ’50s Nut Width: 1.695” ( 1 11/16” ) / 43mm FINGERBOARD: rosewood ELECTRONICS Bridge Pickup: Carondelet Dreambucker (Bridge - 11.2 DCR) Neck Pickup: Carondelet Dreambucker (Neck - 7.75 DC) Potentiometers Vol: 500K Non-Linear Potentiometers Tone: 500K Non-Linear Split Coils: no Booster: no HARDWARE Tuners: ‘Modern-style kluson’ TonePros 16:1 Bridge: Nashville T-O-M Tailpiece: Stop Bar Color: Chrome

Final price drop on that Gibson.

No doubt coming to a property tax bill in the near future. If they hike the gas tax like planned, they will likely get their 4% back out of me like that.

It's an auto-generated message Facebook gives as an option when you click to message the seller. My guess that the reason it is so common is that it ranges from laziness to people of Facebook not understanding that you can actually type something to just being semi-literate.

Peak.

This is an actual, for real, not trolling, conversation:

Craigslist is pretty much dead around here, so I end up using Facebook for local sales. Is there anyone left on that sight who posts regularly who isn't an idiot. I state clearly I'm not interested in trades, which slows down I guess absolutely no one from offering anything from their shitty old Crate to a lawnmower. Hell yeah man, I changed my mind. Your set of lawn darts and the Jim Beam vintage General Lee decanter (car or person? could be either because Mississippi) has 100% made me rethink that. "Never hurst to ask!" No, my guy, it fucking hurts. Trust me. Today I get, "Hey man, you still got this? What does this amp sound like? Why do you have power tubes for it, is it blowing fuses a lot of something?" I don't know dude, it's the fucking internet. If only there was some place you could go to read about the amp or, even better yet, listen to literal hours of high quality demos before hitting me up with no idea what this even is while also figuring out if my throwing in some NOS tubes, that I clearly state I have no use for after selling this hence including them, is really just trying to trick you.

It doubles as his murder gallery. The Vs demand a sacrifice. The austerity really ties the horror together for the victim.

It took so much cheap beer on my porch in South Austin back in my 20s just to realize the first Boston album didn't actually suck. "Enough High Life, and these songs kick ass!" Same conversion therapy did not work for Grand Funk, Foghat, or Styx though. And I'm not even getting into the Great-Painted-Face Ones for fear of being banned, or maybe outright hunted down and murdered.

I'm with you. I like all the Gibson pickups I have with the exception of the 59 Tributes I had a 2014 Les Paul Trad. Ironically, those are apparently highly desirable due to a bunch of lore around them being discontinued in production guitars, relabelled, and what goes into the reissue custom shop stuff now. Not sure I believe that or even care to think about it (happy @Steve Haynie?). I know I like the pickups I bought from @Jeff R more. Still have the original 57/57+ combo in one guitar and the BB1/BB2s in another. I really like most Gibby pups that live in that 7k-9k range a lot. I'll tell you what I don't like though - Double Creams in a Clown Burst Lester. I know I'm pissing on some core memories for y'all a decade older than me, but that aesthetic lives in the same drawer in my head as every classic rock song Z106 used to play that made me change the channel as fast as my brain could recognize the song and make my hand move to the radio and tubbed-out, 72 Novas in primer gray and bondo white.

You don't know the half of it, bub, lol.

While procrastinating over doing some actual work today, I started thinking about why I won't buy Chinese guitars. Is there any real reason not to, or is it just jingoism? That kind of thing. I finally landed on finding the thought exercise pointless because there are a blue billion used guitars out there - I mean, why buy anything new if you already know what you like and it is usually just a search away? I'm in a strat phase at the moment for example, and there are all kinds of American-made options for around $1k still. So another question popped into my head - why does anyone buy a new guitar at all, especially in a market that is notorious for hating very much evolution in the product? I'm not super into totalizing narratives, but my instincts tell me it is largely due at least in part to: 1. Being able to try before you buy. 2. Counterfeits or other misrepresentations. I'm skipping a third reason, "lack of product knowledge," because I think that plays quite a bit into the first two existing as considerations. I used to worry a lot about #1 myself before I started buying online. Since then, I've found that if a guitar is structurally sound, the frets aren't worn out, and everything works as it should, it's pretty rare to run into a total dog from a known manufacturer, and this is coming from a guy who has bought quite a few Gibsons in the 2008 to 2021 range in the last decade (obviously, the newer they were, the more recent they were bought). Gibson can't set a back angle on a nut to save their lives, but otherwise, they've all been fine. Outright shipping scams caught me once, but I'm pretty comfortable that I can vet guitars and sellers and haven't been stung by a counterfeit instrument either. But I, and everyone else here, has been doing this a long time. If I was 18, had one shot at getting it right, and didn't know a ton, I'd probably feel differently. To that end, I started to consider the utility of those two points in selling new guitars and why companies may what those fears to presist. It makes good business sense make people think you need to be able to play the instrument before knowing if it's good, or, at the very least, have a good return policy. Likewise, for manufacturers, it's probably not a bad idea to not totally squash the idea that there are still lemons in every bunch. The more people who believe lemons are super common, the more they may be likely to stay in the dealer-direct, "certified pre-owned" (god I hate that), or GC/Sweetwater world and buy new gear. So I can see some utility in guitar manufacturers allowing the perception to persist that QC issues are a thing, so you better make purchases accordingly. That's also not all that interesting. What I think is interesting is that there is arguably a benefit in having a certain number of counterfeit guitars out there as well. You don't want them to hurt sales or brand value, but if they are just common enough to be an issue, it's reasonable to assume that pushes possible customers toward buying new product from known sellers. Better to spend a little (or a lot) more than take the risk. Obviously, I don't know that they do either of these things or selectively not intervene to some extent out of their own interests and am not necessarily saying I believe that they do. Likewise, there is definitely some risk of things getting out of hand if you take this approach. I did find it an interesting thought experiment though. And companies have done worse. And it burned off about 20 minutes of time that I will never have back! haha.