collapse

* Member Info

 
 
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
Baby, when I die, don't bury daddy at all... Well, pickle daddy's bones, baby, in alcohol - Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve Reed, France Blues

Author Topic: whats the best gigging guitar?  (Read 4369 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Roscoe

  • Member
  • Posts: 74
whats the best gigging guitar?
« on: March 05, 2009, 06:16:17 AM »
what guitar do you all take out to the honky tonk and beat on, spill beer in and let the "hey man u wanna jam?" beaters bang on?  do you all take your good guitars out and play? im a snob and dont much like imports thats why i got the omcx1ke martin. ive been seeing a few import parlors and slotheads. any one tried one?
roscoe

Offline Parlor Picker

  • Member
  • Posts: 1672
  • Aloha
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2009, 07:18:45 AM »
If you intend spilling beer (or worse) on it you might consider one of those (horrible in my opinion) composite guitars.
"I ain't good looking, teeth don't shine like pearls,
So glad good looks don't take you through this world."
Barbecue Bob

Offline blueshome

  • Member
  • Posts: 1469
  • Step on it!
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2009, 07:28:04 AM »
I take out the one that sounds best for the gig - they're meant to be played, banged and drenched in beer - so in most cases it's my Fine Resophonic tricone. No point in having a guitar you are afraid to play.

Offline Mr.OMuck

  • Member
  • Posts: 2596
    • MuckOVision
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2009, 07:39:25 AM »
Quote
ive been seeing a few import parlors and slotheads. any one tried one?

Blueridges are insanely good for the money. You can get a solid East Indian Rosewood, solid spruce top 000 shape that plays nicely and sounds as good as the higher price spreads for around $650. If I had money I'd buy ten stick them in cold storage and pull them out in twenty years or so.They're made in China under the supervision of an ex Martin employee. Nothing wrong with Chinese craftsmanship btw, they were doing far more sophisticated things with wood far earlier than anyone in the west.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

http://www.youtube.com/user/MuckOVision

Offline Slack

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 9213
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2009, 07:54:49 AM »
O'Muck, I thought for sure you would recommend your version of the John Miller Model  ;D

http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?amp;Itemid=128&topic=5252.msg40608#msg40608

Offline Mr.OMuck

  • Member
  • Posts: 2596
    • MuckOVision
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2009, 08:00:46 AM »
Yes of course! But Pouring Beer over such a masterpiece would be a sacrilege!
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

http://www.youtube.com/user/MuckOVision

Offline Coyote Slim

  • Member
  • Posts: 268
    • coyoteslim.com
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2009, 10:51:43 AM »
Yes of course! But Pouring Beer over such a masterpiece would be a sacrilege!

Just wipe a little whiskey on the headstock to baptize it.
Puttin' on my Carrhartts, I gotta work out in the field.

Coyote Slim's Youtube Channel

Offline Rivers

  • Tech Support
  • Member
  • Posts: 7274
  • I like chicken pie
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2009, 04:20:36 PM »
A Made in China small mahogany body, spruce sunburst Guild GAD-series I played today, $650, if I were shopping right now. Which I am definitely not doing, no way. Amazing value for money, played great, loud and I hate to say it probably sounded better all round than my Martin. Neck was a tad low profile, and nut was 1 11/16", but otherwise...

I take my Martin 000-16 everywhere. Must... not... weaken...  :-\

Offline dave stott

  • Member
  • Posts: 186
  • Howdy!
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2009, 06:10:03 AM »
if there is beer and a party environment going on, I bring my 1965 Epiphone FT-45 Cortez...

It's riddled with lacquer cracks and 40 plus years of wear and a little beer spilled on it won't concern me......

If there is a jam or open mic, etc...going on, I'll bring my Froggy Bottom H-12

Dave

Offline ozrkreb

  • Member
  • Posts: 51
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2009, 02:39:15 PM »
I agree with MR.OMuck....you can't beat the Blueridges. Greg Rich recently left Blueridge and designed a slothead for Recording King....the RK 626...also produced in China. I picked one up several months ago and haven't quit playing it. I like it better than Blueridge's slothead parlor. Both are unbeatable for the money though.

Doc Wood
myspace.com/docwoodjugband
My hook's on bottom, but my cork's on top

Offline uncle bud

  • Member
  • Posts: 8306
  • Rank amateur
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2009, 06:24:12 PM »
I'm curious. What are the Blueridge necks like? I thought they were narrow (less than 1 3/4") and had a shallow profile. The only one I've played before fit that bill, as I recall.

Offline Mike Brosnan

  • Member
  • Posts: 376
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2009, 09:09:00 PM »
I believe my BR-163 has a 1 11/16" nut and shallow profile also seems accurate.  I learned to play on a similar neck, so it's never been an issue for me. 

Offline Mr.OMuck

  • Member
  • Posts: 2596
    • MuckOVision
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2009, 09:43:48 PM »
Yeah the necks do feel slightly anemic but certainly not out of the range of normal. Its a $3000 guitar for $650..
Whaddaya want? Perfection?
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

http://www.youtube.com/user/MuckOVision

Offline uncle bud

  • Member
  • Posts: 8306
  • Rank amateur
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2009, 06:26:24 AM »
Yeah the necks do feel slightly anemic but certainly not out of the range of normal. Its a $3000 guitar for $650..
Whaddaya want? Perfection?

Yes.  :P

Well, my problem is I get tendinitis in both hands. It has mostly been the right hand but increasingly I get left hand issues as well. The shallow neck profile seems to aggravate this. I've got a guitar that's great which I'm I'm not afraid to toss on a plane, but it too has a modern shallow neck. So I keep my eye out for bigger necks.

Offline Blue in VT

  • Member
  • Posts: 309
  • Howdy!
Re: whats the best gigging guitar?
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2009, 08:36:05 AM »
While most BR guitars have that 1 11/16ths neck they do have a new series out that has 1 3/4 and I beleieve that parlor mentioned about has a 1 13/16th neck....I'd love to try one out myself...they seem to get great reviews...but no one in VT carrys them!

Blue
Blue in VT

Tags:
 


anything
SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2024, SimplePortal