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Rob Ford posted:Given the source I assumed that, I'm just curious what kind of bullshit snake-oil guitar geeks buy. stuff like fast fret is just scented mineral oil, which you can get a huge bottle of for like $3, and the thick polyurethane finishes on most guitars don't really need to be polished, just wiped off with a t-shirt or rag once in a blue moon maybe after years if you got hyperhidrosis your sweat can wear down a finish, but it's more likely friction or belt buckles or something else will do the job first. i remember reading that woody weatherman from corrosion of conformity wore down the finish on an sg from sweat but it took like 10-15 years quote:And why do Bigsby's suck? I kinda want a Gretsch. Wikipedia says it's non adjustable so I'm guessing intonation is a bitch, but any other problems? throws your tuning out of whack if you do anything more than a slight flutter
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That's a really cool way to make a really ugly instrument. e- the dipping, that is
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the process for swirling is pretty neat, though they look really dumb
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Dr. Faustus posted:Y'all! I'm a HUGE guitar nerd! Look! I came on this thread to poo poo on ugly guitars, not people, and the dual white pickguard acoustic is loving awful. Spraypaint over them if you have to The rest are honestly pretty inoffensive in comparison. e: nvm, haven't read all through the thread. Forget the question. Manky fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Manky posted:I came on this thread to poo poo on ugly guitars, not people, and the dual white pickguard acoustic is loving awful. Spraypaint over them if you have to he's answered that poo poo over and over in the most spergy of way already if you just click his post history
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comes along bort posted:the process for swirling is pretty neat, though they look really dumb I look the look, but the problem is do that and you cannot possibly show up to a gig without everyone expecting you to play like Vai. Gig time game time! Do a set of Van Halen covers with a swirled Ibanez. Spot the guitar player in the audience. He'll be the guy screaming, "WHAT THE gently caress ARE YOU DOING!?" Oscar Romeo Romeo fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Feb 5, 2014 22:15
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Gibson did a limited run of Les Paul Studio's with a swirl finish. I thought they looked pretty cool, especially the blue one. 
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El Estrago Bonito posted:...Psychobilly band (synonymous with being a douchebag). Gun Club rule sorry.
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Feb 5, 2014 22:31
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Gun Club rule sorry. That dude needs to shut the gently caress up and spend the next hour-and-a-half atoning for his sins by watching Reverend Horton Heat live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9IzpKctrg edit: Also I'd never watched that particular performance before, and Jim seems particularly coked-up there. I mean holy poo poo, slow down man.
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I don't know, I'm not really into goofy cosplay. unless it's metal.
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Snowy posted:I don't know, I'm not really into goofy cosplay. Surely the rarest of metal fans are the self-aware metal fans.
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Irradiation posted:That's duct tape. Duct tape? Where's the fun in that? I'm not sticking my dick in a glory hole without fear of ripping my dick open, that'd be weird. I've done this before, it's an awesome way to get a kickin' rad pattern for no effort, it's also pretty easy and cheap to do as well. All you need is a barrel, some detergent (borax is best), some oil paints and a stick. Good fun too.
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Snowy posted:I don't know, I'm not really into goofy cosplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VBdAY8eA9w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoczznMM-Sw I loving love metal.
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:I look the look, but the problem is do that and you cannot possibly show up to a gig without everyone expecting you to play like Vai. I got ya beat. Play punk covers with an 1974 Alembic bass (with a metal pick ,no less) and watch the bass player in the crowd lose his loving mind.
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Manky posted:I came on this thread to poo poo on ugly guitars, not people, and the dual white pickguard acoustic is loving awful. Spraypaint over them if you have to Did you just white-knight Dr. Faustus? 
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A) I don't think Gun Club are Psychobilly are they? If we're opening up the genre that wide are World Inferno also a psychobilly band (their lead singer does have Vampire teeth)? B) I've seen Horton Heat live several times and it's a good show, but I still think he's probably a douchebag or an exception to the rule (I guess Unknown Hinson is as well?). C) While were on the subject of Psychobilly, does Nekroman's bass count for this thread? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17CJcHKMsRk If his doesn't his wife's sure does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuOe01gb3o0
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This guitar has a dick You're in luck, it's for sale.
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for some reason I typed 'why so serious guitar' into google. Not as fruitful as one would fear! I found this, which is ugly but mostly meh:   but it was definitely all worth it in the end cuz it led me to this: 
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El Estrago Bonito posted:B) I've seen Horton Heat live several times and it's a good show, but I still think he's probably a douchebag or an exception to the rule (I guess Unknown Hinson is as well?). unknown hinson's just a character though and he's more country than rockabilly or whatever Rev4n posted:but it was definitely all worth it in the end cuz it led me to this: now i really want to see a michael keaton batman guitar
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hey white dog eggs would it be possible to put a picture of michael keaton on the ultimate guitar? batman or not it doesn't matter
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Saw a Gibson Zoot Suit for the first time the other day, and they actually look pretty cool in person. I understand if this ruins any potential cred I have in this thread but whatev PS: jesus loving christ are you guys seriously still baiting Faustus two months later?
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Radio Help posted:Saw a Gibson Zoot Suit for the first time the other day, and they actually look pretty cool in person.  Gibson posted:Species I actually think they look pretty cool, but birch laminate? That is literally plywood. They are charging $1,999 for a plywood guitar with TONE GLUE FOR SUSTAIN. loving Gibson.
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comes along bort posted:hey white dog eggs would it be possible to put a picture of michael keaton on the ultimate guitar? batman or not it doesn't matter I can't think of a single reason not to. I saw Hecate Enthroned play at a pub in Coventry (I think it might have been the jailhouse? It was ages ago), no one was on the floor because Black Metal ist Kreig no smiling. All of a sudden this drunk middle aged guy throws himself infront of the stage wearing a bin-bag as a cape and screams "I'M loving DRACULA, I'M EVIL BECAUSE I'M DRACULA AND I WILL BITE YOU!!!! CAN SOMEONE LEND ME SOME MAKEUP BECAUSE I'M DRACULA. SATAN IS MY BEST MATE.... I'M THE NEIGHBOUR OF THE BEAST" whilst running around in circles flapping his bin-liner cape. No one stopped him and he kept it up for about 3 songs without the band saying anything. He got a bigger applause than the band did.
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BLACK WITCHERY CHICKEN KICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P09-TWBdt0Y
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I hate guitars with no inlays or fancy inlays. Just give me dots or diamonds or Gibson Trapezoids and Squares (whatever the hell they put on Les Paul Customs).
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check out this poo poo. Would this work or is it retarded -  http://deanzelinsky.com/pages/z-glide ok it might feel slinkier, but wouldn't the notches fill up with gross sweat&skin grime but most importantly, will it KILL MY TONE
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Fair Hallion posted:check out this poo poo. Would this work or is it retarded - Edit: Didn't read the article because I'm an idiot, assumed it was like an air hockey table. Air hockey neck is the best neck. Those aren't air holes, they are TONE HOLES. wwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm On a semi-related note, due to my workshop being half an inch underwater I can't do anything requiring powertools and it's driving me insane, so I decided to finish my frying pan guitar. It needed a new front as the 'deliberately horrible but perhaps too horrible' paint job on the existing one is just ew, so I spent today sawing up a chunk of 80-year old plywood I took from a worm-eaten wardrobe and cutting the pickup/neck routs out with a penknife and I am about to gouge out holes for the controls with a screw-driver. I make quality instruments, honestly. Barnaby Rudge fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Feb 6, 2014 |
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El Estrago Bonito posted:B) I've seen Horton Heat live several times and it's a good show, but I still think he's probably a douchebag or an exception to the rule (I guess Unknown Hinson is as well?). If you've seen any interviews with Jim Heath he's actually a pretty well-spoken and level-headed guy, the onstage and recording persona is pretty much just that, a character he's playing. That isn't to say he doesn't party or do drugs backstage, but he's more of a cool uncle than a douchebag or bluesdad. As for C, yeah, I was in a brief Psychobilly "phase" at one time and looking back at Nekromantix they were pretty awful and that bass is ugly as sin. Incidentally, they're opening for Reverend Horton Heat on their current tour. Fair Hallion posted:check out this poo poo. Would this work or is it retarded - I guess the idea of that is sound, but considering it only comes on guitars from the company that invented it, and all their guitars are pretty characterless, the whole thing comes across like orthopedic shoes or something. It's like that neck and those guitars were invented for septuagenarians who want to take up the guitar but don't want their wrinkly hands to stick to the neck.
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p4vl posted:I hate guitars with no inlays or fancy inlays. Just give me dots or diamonds or Gibson Trapezoids and Squares (whatever the hell they put on Les Paul Customs). Crazy talk. No inlays look awesome on an ebony fretboard. Especially it the guitar is black. I only like dots on Strats or Teles. Every other guitar should have squares or whatever.
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Black binding and blocks on a maple board bass neck is WOOOOOOOO sexy
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King Vidiot posted:I guess the idea of that is sound, but considering it only comes on guitars from the company that invented it, and all their guitars are pretty characterless, the whole thing comes across like orthopedic shoes or something. It's like that neck and those guitars were invented for septuagenarians who want to take up the guitar but don't want their wrinkly hands to stick to the neck. I'd try it before I dismissed it out of hand
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Declan MacManus posted:I'd try it before I dismissed it out of hand I mean, the problem statement is correct, that some people hate high-gloss necks because they do the stick-and-slip thing. But those people have plenty of solutions, including sanding off the thick finish, using a rosewood neck, talc, etc. Regardless of how nice this is, it's definitely a highly-engineered solution to a low-tech and minor problem with existing solutions.
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Cobalt60 posted:I mean, the problem statement is correct, that some people hate high-gloss necks because they do the stick-and-slip thing. But those people have plenty of solutions, including sanding off the thick finish, using a rosewood neck, talc, etc. An oil finish solves most of those problems, you can get a very, very smooth finish pretty easily. As I understand it, big guitar companies don't offer them as it fairly labour intensive compared to just spraying on a nitro/poly finish.
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White Dog Eggs posted:An oil finish solves most of those problems, you can get a very, very smooth finish pretty easily. As I understand it, big guitar companies don't offer them as it fairly labour intensive compared to just spraying on a nitro/poly finish. I don't see how. It still takes a couple days either way with drying time between coats, and anyone can rub an oil finish on with no prior training. It's pretty much impossible to screw up. The other explanation I've heard is that oiled necks are more susceptible to warp during shipping/storage from changes in climate. But companies ship out raw necks all the time.
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comes along bort posted:I don't see how. It still takes a couple days either way with drying time between coats, and anyone can rub an oil finish on with no prior training. It's pretty much impossible to screw up. Depends on the oil, and whether you're really just using oil or an oil/varnish blend. The drying times can be prohibitive, it needs to be sanded to a finer grit and multiple coats are always better. If I'm finishing a piece of furniture with oil it usually takes me at least a week.
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