Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
I'd LOVE a Surfcaster. :
Heck if I would have known, a buddy just sold his at a pretty nice price.
GPOTD Guitar Pic Of The Day 5/12/2011
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Heck if I would have known, a buddy just sold his at a pretty nice price.
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
That's alright. My budget is pretty tight for the next few months. I had to pass on the Dano bass I found even :(
John Watt
Banned
I know Godin, even Robert Godin, and they're getting too shoved up their electronic screens lately.
Talking about their P.A.F. by saying it has "bite", as opposed to the "creamy" sound of the single coil is just wrong.
P.A.F. humbuckers weren't known for any kind of bite at all. That's not what Les Pauls were all about.
Back then, Teles, with single coil pickups, were what country artists, and most bluesers used, for not only bite, but sting.
Godin further references 50's Les Pauls by saying the neck has the same feel, but is thinner.
Why not say they gave it a Strat or Tele feel, the log-like neck being what turned off a lot of guitarists to Les Pauls.
Even Fender thinned their necks, losing the dowel-like feel, unless you're getting hipster recreations of vintage year production.
Just looking overall, the headstock is angled opposite to the scallops of the body. Sure, who cares?
But if you've been looking at Les Pauls and S.G.'s since the sixties, this deviation from norm is apparent.
Considering all the comments, mostly wondering, when I was the first to have a reverse headstock,
using right-handed Strat and Tele necks with self-made left-handed bodies, starting in '72, I care.
Yeah, this guitar is hitting some nasty nerves right away, and so is this ad you are looking at.
How come there's no "French", and as a true Canadian, I type there is no Quebecois.
Not only is that the law in Canada, but Godin is a Quebec company that practices "bilingual" language restrictions.
There is as much musical soul in this guitar as there is stone grey stain in the wood.
If the single coil pickups are placed so they're in tune, so you can use them as extra frets,
that's better than single coil pickups you can't press the strings down on.
So that may be okay if they work that way, but soapbar pickups still look like steel guitar pickups to me,
and never have the versatility of sound original Strat and Tele pickups have.
Godin? I go down dat road before.
Talking about their P.A.F. by saying it has "bite", as opposed to the "creamy" sound of the single coil is just wrong.
P.A.F. humbuckers weren't known for any kind of bite at all. That's not what Les Pauls were all about.
Back then, Teles, with single coil pickups, were what country artists, and most bluesers used, for not only bite, but sting.
Godin further references 50's Les Pauls by saying the neck has the same feel, but is thinner.
Why not say they gave it a Strat or Tele feel, the log-like neck being what turned off a lot of guitarists to Les Pauls.
Even Fender thinned their necks, losing the dowel-like feel, unless you're getting hipster recreations of vintage year production.
Just looking overall, the headstock is angled opposite to the scallops of the body. Sure, who cares?
But if you've been looking at Les Pauls and S.G.'s since the sixties, this deviation from norm is apparent.
Considering all the comments, mostly wondering, when I was the first to have a reverse headstock,
using right-handed Strat and Tele necks with self-made left-handed bodies, starting in '72, I care.
Yeah, this guitar is hitting some nasty nerves right away, and so is this ad you are looking at.
How come there's no "French", and as a true Canadian, I type there is no Quebecois.
Not only is that the law in Canada, but Godin is a Quebec company that practices "bilingual" language restrictions.
There is as much musical soul in this guitar as there is stone grey stain in the wood.
If the single coil pickups are placed so they're in tune, so you can use them as extra frets,
that's better than single coil pickups you can't press the strings down on.
So that may be okay if they work that way, but soapbar pickups still look like steel guitar pickups to me,
and never have the versatility of sound original Strat and Tele pickups have.
Godin? I go down dat road before.
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Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
"without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" - FZ
reverend1
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Apparently the world should only consist of '64 strats and Jimi Hendrix.
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
let's not forget that Mr Watt sawed new cutaways into his strat (deviation from the norm, indeed) and then sold it for peanuts when he wore out the frets instead of replacing the neck (or simply refretting) like Leo had intended.
John Watt
Banned
Not only that, but I made sure I sold it to someone from over two hundred miles away,
so odds were I'd never see it again. I loved that guitar, but it wasn't the guitar I bought by then.
It was totally beat up, not worth rebuilding, considering I had the neck cloned with better wood and frets,
making my own left-hand bodies.
And I am left-handed, so the opposing angles of the headstock to the body may look more out of place for me than you.
And I didn't sell my guitar for peanuts, even if I helped another Jimi lover out. He travelled far.
The only time I treated a possession of mine the same way, is the first engagement ring I asked to have back.
I didn't want to see that again, either. It was totally worn out, in much the same way as my '64 Stratocaster.
so odds were I'd never see it again. I loved that guitar, but it wasn't the guitar I bought by then.
It was totally beat up, not worth rebuilding, considering I had the neck cloned with better wood and frets,
making my own left-hand bodies.
And I am left-handed, so the opposing angles of the headstock to the body may look more out of place for me than you.
And I didn't sell my guitar for peanuts, even if I helped another Jimi lover out. He travelled far.
The only time I treated a possession of mine the same way, is the first engagement ring I asked to have back.
I didn't want to see that again, either. It was totally worn out, in much the same way as my '64 Stratocaster.
semimental
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I'd give it a go, not crazy about how it looks though