Guitars
This is from 2015...
• Aggregate shipments of electric and acoustic guitars dip 0.7% to 2.47 million units.
•Retail value increased 7.0% to $1.07 billion, compared with $1.00 billion in the previous year. This is a reflection of an increase in guitar sales of over $1,000.
•Unit shipments of acoustic guitars and acoustic guitars with pick-up assemblies advanced 2.7% to 1.36 million units.
•Retail dollar value advanced 13.3% to $603.2 million.
•Shipments of electric guitars declined 4.6% to 1.10 million units, but the retail value of electric guitars declined only 0.3% to $467.1 million.
•Acoustic guitars saw an increase in sales for the 5th consecutive year, topping 1.2 million units sold for the highest levels of incoming revenue since 2004.
•The strength of acoustics has pushed its share of the market to 34.7%, a full 10 percentage points above electric guitars.
•Ukuleles account for 4% of the total guitar sales that occur every year.
•Acoustic guitars appear in the Billboard 200 2x more often today than electric guitars.
•Over the last 10 years, the average price of a guitar has risen by 48%. Unit sales are down 15% over that period of time, but retail sales are up 24.6% overall.
•The USA accounts for 40% of the global music trade.
•Germany and the United States makes up the biggest share of global sales.
•About 2.3 million guitars are sold in the United States every year.
•According to the US treasury, college-related debt has risen 275% since 2003, cutting into money that would be spent on guitars.
•In the UK, more than 750,000 guitars are sold every year, bringing in the equivalent of about $225 million on the currency conversion from pounds to dollars.
•Sales volumes in the UK are off by nearly 10% in a year over year basis.
•Fretted products dominate the industry, bringing in double the amount of the next music industry category, which is sound reinforcements.
•The total music industry value for instruments and associated products: $6.81 billion. That means about $1 out of every $6 is spent on guitars.
Who's breaking all these guitars?
The unexpected story of how Gary Clark Jr learned to play.
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Who's breaking all these guitars?
Just more kids finding out they can get money for nothin' and chicks for free.
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10 steps to play jazz guitar.
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Nice, I hadn't heard that in years.
When your fingers get tired, or the neighbors are threatening to call the cops, pull out your jackknife and whittle a mite.
Mutant Bodies & Experimental Electronics: Navigating the Unmapped Territory of Soviet Guitars
Beyond the Iron Curtain in the 60s, reference to the ‘capitalist’ guitars that had taken prominence in our zeitgeist was forbidden. The Soviets had to make their guitars from scratch with barely any Western influence, resulting in a sort of convergent evolution of the instrument – they looked similar, had to fulfill the same purposes, but were an entirely different breed.
Soviet practitioners’ focus on the circuitry over build in many ways imparted a wholly different sound to what we are used to. Soviet guitars mainly used cheap woods or laminates, wacky shapes, experimental forms, and a mess of circuitry.
Wallpaper design, must be inspired by a po boy's gitfiddle...
Nocaster?
From
Sweetwater Sound
This is the second version of the Fender Broadcaster, the forerunner of the Telecaster. Shortly after Fender introduced the Broadcaster in 1950, Gretsch sued over the name, as they’d already registered the “Broadkaster” name for a line of drums. So for a brief period in 1951 until the legal case was resolved, Fender released the Broadcaster with no model name. The guitars made during this period became known as “Nocaster” guitars. Later, in 1951, Fender changed the name to “Telecaster,” as the guitar model has been known ever since.
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4-string Barn-O-Caster:
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I want that amp.
I can see a shitload of art and craft went into this Fender Aztec but I don't like it.
I think it's too busy, yucky colors, but I'm sure there are people who would be crazy about it.
Hard to believe that came outta the Fender custom shop.
Hideous.
Lovely knob camouflage, though.
Yeah, I wondered about that too.
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Fender Guitar Factory museum
12. Custom Aztec body
Date 9 November 2011, 16:26:54
Source Flickr: Fender Guitar Factory custom Aztec body
electric guitar...
That guy has a lot of hilarious videos.
Mark Knopfler on guitar
If you have a spare 14 minutes, this old gentleman will take you right through...
A) how he developed his unique fingerstyle technique
B) how the major different guitars sound
C) how the Stratocaster sound changed "Sultans of Swing"
D) how the National guitar caused him to write "Romeo and Juliet".
He was a guitar teacher before getting famous... you can tell
meanwhile his remarkable talent is on display
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I was hoping that would go somewhere. Interesting, though.
thanks that was enjoyable
That right there is an articulate human who has refined something to perfection. Imagine MK as your guitar teacher.
..and now we're bingeing Mark Knopfler. All praise be unto Spotify.
Mark knopfler + James Taylor Sailing to Philadelphia
Highly recommend.
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I am agog. 99% by hand. he breaks out the dremel twice for inlay work. But Jeesus.
That made me wonder if Roy Underhill (DC native! I think he went to my elementary school) was still around.
He is! And still making new episodes!Oh, I see, cut away everything that doesn't look like what to want to end up with. :thumb:
That made me wonder if Roy Underhill (DC native! I think he went to my elementary school) was still around. He is! And still making new episodes!
I've never seen that guy before.
36 seasons. I just watched the Sloyd episode.
He's a character. The Bob Ross of woodworking.
Thanks in advance.. I'll be binging that show.
I need a bench hook. I've seen wide ones. Like 10". I can see needing a variety of sizes. And with holes to peg to the bench.
I am agog. 99% by hand. he breaks out the dremel twice for inlay work. But Jeesus.
He sure did everything the hard way (except inlaying the pentapus ;)), I wonder how may hours he actually had in it.
Also, he must have spent a lot of time setting up and editing video, lot's of artsy angles and lighting. Excellent job on both.
I liked when he shook his hand when he was cutting the ebony... And then when it's finally cut, he slumps against it. I lolled. I guess he saved that bowl of ebony dust for packing in the inlay. I should have maybe done that with my dots. I'll remember to save my dust in future.
The edit where he strokes once with the hand saw, and then zip, it's through-- was cool too. They did that a few times.
That made me wonder if Roy Underhill (DC native! I think he went to my elementary school) was still around. He is! And still making new episodes!
Cool.
I miss him being on the local channel. My local PBS station has gone full in on the British TV, completely turning its back on American greats like Underhill.
The edit where he strokes once with the hand saw, and then zip, it's through-- was cool too. They did that a few times.
That was very clever, show the start and end, there's no reason to show him stroking away all through the cut....
or he has a minion do most of the cut. :haha:
His chisels are sharp, and he knows how to use them, no faking that.
If you watch the Crimson guitar build videos, and you should they're pretty great once you get used to adult Stewie, he harps on that, shows you how to sharpen and polish them. Seems to have a mildly perverse affection for sharpening things.
That's a chore to most, like sanding is. I find that I enjoy sanding a hell of a lot more when I'm doing something fun like building a gittar. When you're sanding a door or a window frame or a boring... thing.... it's pretty much torture.
I think in one of the early episodes of the 90 hour Complication build, he sharpens gouges. Makes me want expensive hand tools that I'll probably never use. What with the dremel and Router and all...
His videos are half wood work, half luthiery. He loves crafting and he keeps noticing that he loves his job. I like that.
When you're sanding a project like the guitar body you're shaping, creating, thinking about what to do next, and how close you are to being able to play it and show it off.
When you're sanding a door or window frame you're thinking about how you don't want to be.
Thanks for that. Good read.
Play like a pro with Emenee...
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Wowwww. Those were Not the good old days.
I think I briefly had one of those organs I got at a garage sale or out of the trash when I was a kid.
Emenee was a slightly better than average toy company, after all you can't make any money on air guitars. :lol:
I had an Emenee trumpet, I could give a poor rendition of taps on and the was my entire repertoire.
I remember that commercial.
I heard kick ass drum for Big Bash...
I heard bass, as in the fish.
I saw these pictures of Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars...
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Some of them look pretty nice and there were many many more.
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So now I'm intrigued and start digging.
Turns out it's a
company in Japan. :(
If you have an old hollow body that doesn't cut it any more, make it a lamp.
Not really a guitar, kind of a teenager, but I like the inlays.
I thought it was unique, but wouldn't want anyone to see me holding it.
not hideous.
I like it. looks old
The top binding is, well, hideous is the word that comes to mind...
I bet that one sounds on the tinny, brittle side.
A bargain
It's not exactly like having a painting that has changed art; this is not the art itself, this is the paintbrush. But it's a cultural artifact that will remain important well beyond our lives, possibly for hundreds of years. I'ma say, worth it.
I wonder if it will ever be played again, if the strings will ever be tight again?
Why wouldn't you play it? It's built to be played, after all. Like the cars in Jay Leno's garage, priceless, but rolling stock not just inanimate lumps.
I'd rather have Jimmy page's les paul.
Gilmour's Black Strat...
very rarely an object can actually have a soul...
Unlike J Leno, there are hundreds of car collections (a dozen cars or more) that are never driven. The more expensive the car the less chance of being driven.
Who paid $4 million for the Black Strat? The lead guitar in a garage band? No, it was someone(s) with big bucks who probably doesn't even play. It's a museum piece now and I'll bet the insurance company covering it has all sorts of rules too.
I'd rather have Jimmy page's les paul.
Joe Walsh sold Page that guitar.
Just learnt that a few weeks ago.
Whoa, put that away before you wake the Rooster...
Bass-ic getting around can be a problem...
That is going to end badly.
You can imagine how difficult it must be to signal a turn.
That bike is a fixie, as in fixed gear ratio and no brakes. That fiddle is a goner.
Prolly one o'them hipster doofuses ya hear about...
What a difference a couple hundred years make...
This gold one looks like the oval head screws have been in and out a number of times.
Mr. Clod and I were debating last night about the various modifications on this guy's acoustic/electric hybrid. Dude's cool.
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I don't see any modifications. Tuning the guitar while playing it is impressive. He's got that pick up turned up to 11 so his thumb smacking it is percussive. I wonder if he's got something under his heel that is adding to that, but we don't see his feet. Nice find though. I enjoyed it
I spent part of last week in Maine with some of my favorite people on this planet. He has also been bitten by the guitar build and repair bug.
MMMM, guitar room.
Haven't figured out which room in the new house will be decorated with them yet....
Which room? How are you going to get the bazillion guitars you're going to build in one room?
Show room, work room, storage room, practice room...
I think you're on to it. Guitars in use in the living room, in process out in the shop, storage in the 3rd bedroom, display throughout
you'll need some bongos or congas or a cajon as well. let the people percuss with you
I was looking at cajons today as a gift for ElderSon
I've got a Conga Drum and a couple smallish drums laying about
That's tasty. Looks like you should wear a tuxedo when you play it.
reminds me of Sonor's "Stratawood"
Bass...
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and not bass.
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Wylde...
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Gibson...
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Damifino?
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Gonna need my...
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to customize my axe...
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Probably more to do with the wiring than the color.
I used the Hendrix wiring schematic for my first guitar. 3 position switch with the middle tone knob used to blend the middle pickup in and out.
Might have the tuner pegs on the opposite side too, but the picture doesn't show that.
You're right, comes in a slew of colors.
I keep stumbling on these odd ones...
Couple more, the blue Ash Strat is interesting because you can see exactly how it's shaped.
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This guy has an almost famous name going for him...
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I like that blue. I'm not sure about that pick guard though.
That pick guard...
Is that a mirror?
I am not windexing my gear dammit.
That pick guard...
Is that a mirror?
Looks like it.
From the inside...
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Vintage movie poster pickguards would be cool, too.
I like that and it seems like an easy upgrade.
With a tittle like this it sounds like it qualifies for AKC, Jockey Club or The Roll of Peerage. :rolleyes:
I like that and it seems like an easy upgrade.
I think it looks tacky. Not a pick guard buff, though. I like the small ones like on a les Paul or none like a PRS.
Smells like Teen Ghetto...
And the winner was(2017)...
FWIW...
I'm presently watching 'Billy Connolly's Great American Trail' on TV.
The second episode of three was on a couple of days ago in which he visited the Martin Guitar factory in Nazareth PA.
Might be of interest to the guitar aficionados among you if it's shown in the US.
Not the episode in question, but it should give you a flavour of the series...
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This baby has a lot of miles on her...
People be intentionally distressing guitars, I thought I saw that here?
Yes but the strap and wear on the headstock looks like mileage. If it's faked they did a good job.
it's faked. look at the finger board. the frets stand out like a sore thumb. The inlay dots are crystal clean white, they'd be yellowed....Even if it had been re-fretted, you'd see some scalloping on the fingerboard if it was actually as well used as it tries to appear. I think it's gay. They do all kinds of stupid shit to make guitars look well played. Including corroding screw heads and tarnishing hardware. I wonder if they also rip holes in the knees of their blue jeans.
it's faked. look at the finger board. the frets stand out like a sore thumb. The inlay dots are crystal clean white, they'd be yellowed....Even if it had been re-fretted, you'd see some scalloping on the fingerboard if it was actually as well used as it tries to appear. ...
Should have used an Yngwie Malmsteen fretboard. weedle deedle deelde dEEeeEEeeEEeeEEee
it's faked. look at the finger board. the frets stand out like a sore thumb. The inlay dots are crystal clean white, they'd be yellowed....Even if it had been re-fretted, you'd see some scalloping on the fingerboard if it was actually as well used as it tries to appear. I think it's gay. They do all kinds of stupid shit to make guitars look well played. Including corroding screw heads and tarnishing hardware.
Why, it can't make the guitar more valuable, does it give the player creds?
Basics...
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Pick three and it's money for nothing and sex or free.*
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* I know it was "chicks for free" but that would be sexist and exclusionary by precluding the possibility of female guitar players on MTV.
Why, it can't make the guitar more valuable, does it give the player creds?
I don't think it adds value... But then value is determined by how much any buyer is willing to pay. I guess the idea is to give the false impression that you've been playing so many shows or hours that you've worn out your guitar. I think it's dishonest. Does a tattoo make you tougher? Or just look tough?
What, you don't think my tattoo of Tinkerbell and the fairies in the flower garden makes me badass. :lol:
Speaking of guitars...My semi local classic rock station is playing
Ramon's Blues by Roy Buchanon RFN.
I swear I think he's hurting that guitar.
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Sort of a 22nd century guitar... I wonder if there's a app to control a vibrator?
Convert your air guitar back into a physical instrument.
"Traditional playing experience" my ass. If you need a portable electronic instrument to work out ideas and do scratch recordings, get a small keyboard. If you want a small guitar, this isn't even smaller than an actual small electric guitar with no headstock.
He's got it down cold...
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Les Paul meets Billy Gibbons, Les didn't know who Gibbons was.
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I saw a video of a guitar with three necks, and instead of spots between frets there were bar codes. You play it with a hand held bar code reader.:facepalm:
I showed that vid to Popdigr a few years ago, and he was just agog that Les Paul said 'god damn'.
Talked about it for weeks.
I used to use those hangers, and it does look cool but it means you have to dust the instruments that you don't play every once in a while :D
Don't know who it was but looks like they choked on a boner...
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neat
Now that's a pretty guitar.
Rickenbackers all have a look. I've liked most of them I've seen.
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Damn, he rambled over a lot of ground. Think I'd have to watch it a few more times.
I Googled the 21 rules of tone, but apparently it's a secret. I dig what he says about a good instrument being less subtractive. My dad has a PRS. It's immaculate. And plays like butter. Great balance, a slippery neck with an easy light feel.
I didn't even know they made acoustic guitars.
So, stainless steel nuts, bridges, frets...
Keep your personal life out of this
So, stainless steel nuts, bridges, frets...
Somehow I managed to read the word “ferrets” in amongst these words ....
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It's the year of the metal rat so why not stainless ferret. ;)
Another Fender...
Ever wonder where picks come from?
I guess that's a clip to hold your smoldering Chesterfield or Lucky Strike while you pick the blues. ;)
That's called a string tree. It puts tension on the strings above the nut. When the headstock doesn't have a break angle you need them on the lighter strings. Gibsons use an angled head, fender does the trees.
Your cigarette goes between the 1st and 2nd strings up above the tree. Or tucked under the 6th like Clapton used to do. The strings are numbered upside down as you hold it 6: thickest, Low E 5: A 4: D 3: G 2: B 1: high E
Jim Hetfield the frontman for Metallica acquired a few bucks and had a number of custom cars built.
He's is loaning 10 of them to the Peterson Museum.
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What? This is the guitars thread? Ok, I'm getting there.
He also donated two of his guitars to be auctioned off for the benefit of the museum.
The prices are list new, I don't know what was bid for them, I'd imagine more.
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He's got a "type", doesn't he?
Those are the two he's giving away so that may not be his type. I'm assuming he gets them for nothing, being a big star has its perks.
Here is a list of the 85 guitars he plays the most.
On that page are links to the others he doesn't play as often, his acoustic guitars, and guitars he used in concerts.
I haven't seen a fur finished instrument before. :lol:
A strat...
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The body is strat shaped, but there's no contour, and the pickups and bridge are like a Gibson. SuperStrat. The inlay on the fret board is involved.
Yes, the inlay work is fantastic on the last one.
And the American Ultra, I was just saying two years ago in the LJ tellyou thread that Fender doesn't do transparent dye colors, well now they do. That one above is $1900 but they even do it on a $1000 model.
Better chemistry, better materials available I guess. They have to consider how it affects the sound as well as appearance.
yes and I was figuring, if they just go opaque they can use any piece of wood, they don't have to worry if the grain is purty or not. For mass production they want everything to look roughly the same...
Somebody had a lot of fun... maybe even money for nothing and at least some chicks for free.
given the exact matching turquoise color, I'd say they were 'relic'ed on purpose
Could they not have started out together the same color, like two guys in the same band sharing a can of paint?
LJ you should complete your next guitar, and then, drag it around on a chain behind your cycle for a while! Then leave your sander on and accidentally move part of the body into it.
And only then, put fresh new pickups, pickguard, knobs and switches on it.
I love the look of this-- the natural wood grain, the simplicity of the design. One knob!
Ernie Ball Music Man and Vulfpeck Announce Joe Dart Signature BassI like it too, I think Mr. Dart is making a statement that bass is not about any tone that doesn't come out of your fingers.
Beautiful instrument. :thumb:
I like it too, I think Mr. Dart is making a statement that bass is not about any tone that doesn't come out of your fingers.
I agree & had the same thought.. as a 'signature' piece, this makes a LOUD statement. It's literally just a piece of wood with four strings, that you can plug in. EVERYTHING about it is what you DO with it.
Could they not have started out together the same color, like two guys in the same band sharing a can of paint?
the places the paint is worn through don't make a lot of sense either. and the rust in the bridge and input jack on the other one.... affected. Not a fan.
LJ you should complete your next guitar, and then, drag it around on a chain behind your cycle for a while! Then leave your sander on and accidentally move part of the body into it.
And only then, put fresh new pickups, pickguard, knobs and switches on it.
and then I'll go rip holes in the knees of my jeans
And then grow an ironic bea--oh, wait...
:p::stickpoke
Well hell, you can build an imitation Les Paul in 24 minutes. .;)
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A $10 drafting aid that lets you do a little work on your side gig right under the boss-man's nose.
Or as a tactile aid to daydreaming your stardom, money for nothing, and chicks discount.
They are never free, ever. :headshake
Bluegrass music has been strong in Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, for well over 100 years.
Looks like a Canadian Mountie on the guitar.
Well hell, you can build an imitation Les Paul in 24 minutes. .;)
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That was interesting. He's got a few interesting jigs he uses. Looks like he used reclaimed pine studs. Might have been one of those barn-caster challenges. Looks like my mom's kitchen table. Except it doesn't have my brother's initials carved in it.
This is a timelapse video of a Les Paul style guitar that is made of reclaimed wood that has been salvaged from deconstructed buildings in Chicago. The neck is made from an old mahogany table leaf.
You can see more of my work at -
Strackwoodworking.com
@strackwoodworking on instagram
Video, music and guitar by Dan Strack
Check out my telecaster timelapse build too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnEM6...
If you really screw up the face, and don't feel like it or have the wherewithal to fix it, the are a hundred vinyl overlays.
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A few years ago I would have doubted a vinyl overlay would take any abuse, but the green on this truck is vinyl.
I saw it 9 years ago and again last fall... it looks the same.
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You don't see a lot of that though. durability may be an issue. you could always poly over a wrap to make it permanent.
Would poly stick to Vinyl?
Would poly stick to Vinyl?
I know it's not the same, but i believe that it will.
When in doubt, a coat of shellac between. Larned that the hard way
Would poly stick to Vinyl?
I would think so, but, then I'm a tree trimmer, not a painter.
I thought those vinyl (whole car) wraps were good for several years, too, so...
When in doubt, a coat of shellac between. Larned that the hard way
I don't follow, does that mean shellac will stick to anything and anything will stick to shellac?
That's what I keep seeing. That it won't react either. Remember when I put lacquer over enamel?
The finish guys said I could have used shellac between and been ok
I've head that numerous times about shellac too.
Only problem with shellac is that alcohol removes it, and it's not terribly water resistant either. But it has its place.
Ladies and gentlemen... the beetles!
When you're hot, you're hot...
This must be for a special occasion, too hard to maintain and a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Yah, maybe just paint the whammy bar on..
...shellac...
... the beetles!
I see what you did there.;)
Watch out for that devil music, if you find it please let me know where.:blush:
I was amazed how many guitars are on Amazon.
I'm a stranger in these parts so please don't tell me to get off your land. ;)
However, earlier this month a guitar was brought in for valuation on the Antiques Road Show and I thought that the story might be of interest to the assembled throng.
Guitar once owned by The Beatles valued at £400,000 on Antiques Roadshow
The guitar is now owned by a man who once worked with George Harrison.
A guitar that once belonged to Beatles members John Lennon and George Harrison received a valuation of up to £400,000 on BBC One’s Antiques Roadshow.
The instrument is unique in that it doesn’t have any frets, making it more challenging to play than a regular guitar.
The current owner, Ray, recalled that even Beatles guitarist George Harrison couldn’t get along with its unconventional design.
“You’re definitely getting more out of it than I am. It’s doing better for you, why don’t you have it,” he reportedly told Ray, who was then recording sessions for a film company that Harrison co-founded.
Little did he know that several decades later it would be worth a small fortune, with Antiques Roadshow expert Jon Baddeley giving it a staggering estimate between £300,000 and £400,000.
He explained: “To a guitar collector, it’s initially a very rare guitar.
Then to somebody who’s a Beatles fan, to own a guitar that was once owned by both John Lennon and George Harrison, can you get a better history? Two of the most important rock stars of the 20th Century.”
Nonetheless, Ray expressed no intention to sell the cherished item which he said he still plays regularly to this day.
The episode was filmed at Battle Abbey in Sussex, which was built on the site of the Battle of Hastings.
Link
There's a four minute clip of the appraisal in the link below.
As such I don't think it will fall foul of the copyright rules that prevent complete programmes being viewable outside the UK.
Anyway, I hope that there is something of interest to you guitar aficionados and I'll now get off your land. :)
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PS £1 = $1.19 as of this morning.
This land is my land, this land is your land
From the California, to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
This land welcomes Bro Carruthers cheer.
Gotta leave something to the imagination.
I'd love to see it too, but I've searched and searched without success.
But I did find some Wylde designs...
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Of course once the shop is set up you can make lots of things...
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You can buy this one, or copy it, or copy some of it, or reject it, because this is the land of the free where you can do any damn thing you want... unless somebody is offended.
I think they coulda got one more pick up in there.
Somewhere.
Somehow.
It had to cost 10 grand in order to pay all the licensing.
And the tach only goes to 8, should be 11.
HA!
Of course, good catch.
I wonder if this guitar is really brass or some trick like a polymer overlay?
Why d'ya think it's brass?
I wonder if this guitar is really brass or some trick like a polymer overlay?
There is a booming industry of after-market drum wraps. I didn't see a "brass" or "gold" in glossy finish with a quick search, but "chrome" finish is pretty common. These wraps are deigned to not interfere with the resonance of a drum shell, so I imagine a guitar would respond similarly.
Here's a good source on drum wraps:
https://jamminsam.com/drum-wrap-pricing/Why d'ya think it's brass?
his old eyes. it's a black guitar with a yellow light reflecting off it
That's not a black guitar, this is a black guitar...
The pinched neck on the back, but not the front, of the neck is strange.
unlikely the neck is pinched. I believe we're seeing a white reflection from the two equally spaced long shoplight-style lights lighting it from above, the same ones we see reflected just a little higher up the neck.
Nope I don't think that's it...
OK, I think I've got it. Looking a pictures of that model I think we're looking at the step.
I call that the heel of the neck. at the top, there is sometimes a volute to reinforce the head stock on an angled head.
Heel is a most excellent name for it.:thumb:
Another guitar build but a hollow body, or semi-hollow body, from Sapele Mahogany with mucho hand work. Doesn't get boring though, he moves right along.
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Very different methods. And the edit skips a bunch. Like how did he get the pots inside? Was the back not glued on yet? Doesn't really show it.
Yeah, I was wondering how that happened. After he had the pots all connected and working the next thing he's fishing wires out.
I thought
this was an interesting article about Fender, Paul, and Bigsby trying to build
the Rock 'n Roll guitar.
Here's a challenge for ya:
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might need a bigger garage.
"slightly eccentric character"
understatement.
Hey, look, it's a bass lute!
When the music teacher or Aunt Betty make you play that shit you don't like...