Let's see your GUITAR!

[darthbatman]

Me again, from page 116 of this thread.
Here's some more pics! Lots of progress has been made




























Jake is the man!!!!!!
















These dudes are professionals






More routing and work to be done.
That control plate will match the macassar ebony headstock.





Body looks to be fully routed and is starting to get contoured! That's gonna be my baby

[Baxandall]

Sweeeeeeeeet!

[mathias]

Me again, from page 116 of this thread.
Here's some more pics! Lots of progress has been made
[..images..]
Body looks to be fully routed and is starting to get contoured! That's gonna be my baby

ROCK

[bob the r0bot]

I'm getting a very les claypool vibe

[darthbatman]

I'm getting a very les claypool vibe

Quite right. He was basically the reason I wanted to start playing bass,
back when I was like thirteen or so
He plays Carl Thompson basses, those are way more expensive.
But Birdsong is a company I really feel good supporting, it just feels right.
The designs are unique in a number of ways. But yeah, don't think for a second
that I'm not gonna jam some Primus tunes out the day I get this thing

[Bassus Sanguinis]

lots of lovely instruments been here lately...

[Heavy_Soul]

Here's another one of mine, it's got a sad story behind it: there's a little village not far away from where my parents live and there was a family having a garage sale, my parents were going along the weekend I was over visiting them and I went with them, I got this guitar from there, it belonged to the parents' son who had passed away a couple of years ago, we got talking to them (my parents knew them from somewhere) and eventually they gave it to me for free, under the proviso that I play it and look after it.

Somewhere in it's life this guitar has been beaten to near-destruction and has had some serious play-time on it, the pickups are American-made Telecaster pickups, looks like they are from a Standard? The controls are all wired backwards, the switch is in reverse order, the tone pot and volume pot both now only control volume, the strap-pins are gold-coloured and look like Les Paul pins, the neck-plate is missing...






The input jack has been duct-taped and wood-glued into the cavity


You can see the extent of how it's been used...

But I love this guitar, it sounds so woody and honky, not like other Telecasters I've played, also the wood on the back of the neck has been sanded down by a fair bit and plays really nicely, it's just got character and personality, 2 things I cherish in guitars!

[Gozu]

i'd fix it up a wee bit, jack/pickups/etc, but leave the neck/body as is and get his name on it somewhere.

[ashdown]

that tele looks amazing

[musiqueer]

I, too, have one of those and I really love mine. If You dig down-tuning, that's one affordable DOOM-tool for thrashing chords by a bass >> series of fuzzes.

Which strings are you using? It seems to be hard to find strings thick and long enough.

Mine's tuned actually to C-drop , so that's considerably lower than even the Bass VI. It needs a tad lighter touch to playing than what I'm used to, or out of tune it dives, but, You know, at the moment it works for me a-okay. My bass playing style has come for long now mostly in chords with dirts, distortions and fuzz so I have lots of old bass string set around.

Still rocking the original set. Nowadays, I've been really lazy changing the strings, but, compared to yesteryears, I don't play that many hours a day anyhow. I've got a LaBella baritone set waiting - AND leftovers from the light D'Addario 8-string set and Hamer 12-string sets, which MIGHT work better for the low end. I'll tell You guys if I broke the saddle - like with my Hamer Chaparal-12 - or not.

Fin-jävel, perkele, olenkin jo jonkin aikaa peräänkuyuluttanut Suomalaista jengiä! Hauska tutustua. MIssä bändissä skulaat?

This guitar in C + Chords + dirt, definitely =

I've noticed the same with bass strings. I tend to change them quite infrequently nowadays.

Moi, moi. Oon pidempään seuraillut etenkin tätä kamapuolta, mutta vihdoin toimeuduin myös osallistumaan. Ei muita suomalaisia? Soitan Ritual Smoker -bändissä. Linkki alla.

[StudioShutIn]

Moi, moi. Oon pidempään seuraillut etenkin tätä kamapuolta, mutta vihdoin toimeuduin myös osallistumaan. Ei muita suomalaisia? Soitan Ritual Smoker -bändissä. Linkki alla.

Oh...wait, you were talking to Bassus Sanguinus in Finnish I guess

[musiqueer]

Moi, moi. Oon pidempään seuraillut etenkin tätä kamapuolta, mutta vihdoin toimeuduin myös osallistumaan. Ei muita suomalaisia? Soitan Ritual Smoker -bändissä. Linkki alla.

Oh...wait, you were talking to Bassus Sanguinus in Finnish I guess

Yes, a reply to him. Try using a translator on it and get some nonsense as a result. Haha.

[kosta]

It's an old Global (never heard of the brand) SG knockoff with a bolton maple neck (stained to look like rosewood.)

I had an old Global Les Paul copy that was waaaaaay better than the $75 I paid for it. Not a bad guitar at all. Have fun bangin' on that SG man!

[mathias]

It's an old Global (never heard of the brand) SG knockoff with a bolton maple neck (stained to look like rosewood.)

I had an old Global Les Paul copy that was waaaaaay better than the $75 I paid for it. Not a bad guitar at all. Have fun bangin' on that SG man!

Thanks! I've been playing it exclusively for the past couple days, and while it has some roughness compared to the refined Gibson SG Standard I've got, I think it is becoming my favorite guitar. The single coils are a lot more twangy.. I've been playing old Wilco song riffs (go find Casino Queen on youtube if you don't know what I mean) into Garageband with the "Honky Tonk" model and loving it.

This old plywood plank rocks!

[kosta]

That Global that I had would leave tiny cuts all along the side of my index finger from playing bar chords over the rough edges of the frets, and the pickups were so strong that this steel bracelet I used to wear would stick to them and the strings while I played! That thing was a beast! And loud as hell.