Show Your Acoustics!

[MechaBulletBill]

here is a large version of the pic of all my acoustics 15800x7000:
http://www.offsetguitars.com/personal/s ... 2JAN20.jpg

this is more like it! are you, like me, a big fan of the tiny gibson necks from mid-late 60s?

[sookwinder]

I like 1 5/8" necks or just around them.... but the thing with Gibson/Epiphone necks of the 60s it is not only the nut width, it is the shape of the neck.
Some of those mid to (mid)late 60s necks have a really strong D shape neck and after a few minutes the thinner nut width is forgotten.

I mainly like the Gibson/Epiphone acoustics of the 60s for the harmonic content and the adjustable ceramic saddles that give a really nice snap to the note (i.e stones sound)

[windmill]

Been having a bit of a bash on the acoustics lately



The resonator is the " round the house and on the porch" player, it can make a righteous, raucous noise when needed, but it is mainly used for fingerpicking. Been playing some chord/melody style jazz songs on it lately.
A warped neck means cowboy chords and perhaps it will be just be a slide guitar one day



The cheapest all wood Martin and only OM guitar in town at the time I bought it. Light as a feather and has a small, electric guitar style neck. Satin finish. A step up on the resonator in feel and sound.



Made for fingerpicking, the rosewood smells wonderful.

A lesson I 've learnt in life, buy the best you can afford.
Quality pays for itself.

[Larry Mal]

Nice- is your Collings OM long scale? I would still like a Guild F30 or something to fill that slot.

[windmill]

the Collings is standard scale.

[Scout]

My all time favorite : maker, shape, materials. Gibson J-180 from Bozeman circa 1993, maple back and sides, obligatory spruce top, a little blingy but I bought it for the tone. My first real acoustic was a 60’s hummingbird, mahogany back and sides, which now lives with my daughter. Great guitar , one of the ones with songs hidden inside but the mahogany has a vanilla? quality while not unappealing doesn’t keep up with vocal nuances. I had a Larivee in Brazilian , outstanding guitar but too grand if there could be such a thing, more suitable to the opera house than the coffee house. Then I played a 50’s Gibson J-185 at Mandolin Brothers . There it was, the maple articulates and enhances the ordinary human vocal range like no other wood I’ve found. Of course it was $5000 and I was a broke parent but I always new it was the right combination for a man ( or woman)and his guitar. I did sound for years at a famous listening room and got into interesting discussions about tonewoods and playing with traveling pros , the discussion about balance and power led to maple , of course the Martin players stuck up for them ,rightfully so ,but the real singers loved the maple Gibson’s. My local guitar store was a high end acoustic shop and got this right from the factory, it’s a sample of a model J-185 special order of 25 shipped to Germany. I played it once and knew immediately it was the one, traded some good things included the Larivee to get it. The Everly Brothers thing is neither a plus or a minus, it has the tone . Plus I could sell it to some guitar slinger in Nashville for a pretty penny if I ever became destitute, which in today’s world is a possibility .

[Larry Mal]

That's beautiful. I'm a big Everly Brothers fan, though. Don Everly is a hell of a guitar player, also.

[Scout]

Thanks, I’m a Everly Brothers fan but not a tribute guitar fan, if you know what I mean.

[Scout]

Except, of course, the Tommy Iommi signature SG.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

My initial thoughts were, it should have a pickguard that matches the headstock...
...but then I thought that was a bit too bling...
...but then I realised it had fucking star inlays...
...none more bling...

...and why has everybody got so many cool keyboards?
... all I've got is a melodica that's full of spit, probably.

I'm on the Mezcal tonight, innit.

Hasta luego.

[Larry Mal]

"Mezcal: For when you really don't give a fuck if you get out of quarantine or what"

[PorkyPrimeCut]

"Mezcal: For when you really don't give a fuck if you get out of quarantine or what"

What?

[Larry Mal]

Mezcal? I'm assuming you are talking about the liquor?

[Pacafeliz]

...oh man I love mezcal.

And here's my lovely acoustic, too.



1970s MIJ Epiphone FT-165
These things are sleepers, I tell you!

[PorkyPrimeCut]

"Mezcal: For when you really don't give a fuck if you get out of quarantine or what"

What?

Mezcal? I'm assuming you are talking about the liquor?

Yeah, I was being drunk. You gave me a choice of not giving a fuck or "what". I chose the latter.