A 1972 Oddball has arrived....

[JSett]

Cool guitar! My gf had the '62 style melody maker. It was labeled MANN which i think was for the Canadian market. It was a great guitar. It was $250 in 2007.

I just looked those up. Definitely the same factory...even the headstock has the same abalone style inlay.

[Pacafeliz]

I remember my old Univox looked like a set neck, but had the bolts hidden under the guard "from the inside", pretty creative and cool


(Sorry for ancient photobucket zombie pic)

[JSett]

I remember my old Univox looked like a set neck, but had the bolts hidden under the guard "from the inside", pretty creative and cool

What an odd idea. I'll have to look it up, sounds ingenious

[OffYourFace]

this cool thing popped up. Not for me but it looks like it could be a sweet guitar.

Ibanez L6S

[DaddyDom]

this cool thing popped up. Not for me but it looks like it could be a sweet guitar.

Ibanez L6S

My El Maya version was the business. The only humbucker guitar I owned that I liked because every setting on the 6-way sounded like something from Marquee Moon.
They're great until someone swaps that for a 3-way.

[JSett]

This had a new brain delivered today: an AlNiCo rod P90, wound to 8.5k-ish?



Sounds great, took 2 weeks from ordering. Would recommend Toltec (yet again). Custom wound, with cover, including delivery...£85. Perfect.

Tuners seem better after a light service but could do with nice, more stable ones still. No rush on those though.

[OffYourFace]

AlNiCo rod P90, wound to 8.5k-ish

Do you prefer that to a real P90?

[JSett]

AlNiCo rod P90, wound to 8.5k-ish

Do you prefer that to a real P90?

I like the bump in sparkle on the top they seem to have. They sound a bit brasher too in my experience.

I'd say I like them equal amounts, for different reasons/purposes. I'll be keeping the original obviously... It does sound great but what little potting it might have had must have broken down and it's pretty microphonic.

It might get changed again, I don't know, it does sound a bit Jazzmastery (which would make sense) but the lower mids are definitely still more prominent.

[garyptaszek]

I’ve got basically the same pickup from Toltec (maybe a bit hotter) in the neck position of both of my baritones and they sound lush

[mynameisjonas]

Nice score!
I had an Arbiter single cut Junior back in the late 90s, it was a killer guitar. I had no idea they were made by Ibanez.

[JSett]

Nice score!
I had an Arbiter single cut Junior back in the late 90s, it was a killer guitar. I had no idea they were made by Ibanez.

I think a lot of that sort of thing was worked out later as the Internet became a bigger thing. Back in the 90s my only resources for gear knowledge was shops, friends or magazines so there was a lot of unknowns

[cestlamort]

I love this. I’d never known what guitars he’d played until the internet era, so neat to see. Funny how it makes total sense in retrospect.

Billy Bragg has always been a favorite, even making it onto our wedding party favor CD. He did a retrospective tour a couple of years back and we went to all (or almost all) of the nights here. Sadly he’s playing the exact same night as Johnny Marr later this month, across town but I still hold out faint hope for “greetings from the new brunette” or “Jeanne”.

Random recommendation (that we only discovered later) for a different punk/folk thing: Patrik Fitzgerald