It's distributed by FMIC, so I guess it counts:
Got it from Rocky at Street Sounds in Brooklyn for an amazing price.
This is my last guitar purchase for quite some time, I think.
It's distributed by FMIC, so I guess it counts:
Got it from Rocky at Street Sounds in Brooklyn for an amazing price.
This is my last guitar purchase for quite some time, I think.
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That is ultra. Congrats!
Wow! That is super cool!
I've wanted one for ages, but really couldn't justify the cash. I was going to bite the bullet at bonus time later this year, but it came up.
StreetSounds gets a handful of 'cosmetic seconds' in, sold as used, but minty-fresh at big discounts. I saw this one, and made the drive down and snagged it. The flaw - one of the tuners is off by a couple of degrees rotation. An extremely simple fix, if I bother. I saved several hundred dollars.
It plays and sounds like a dream!
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That green color is fabulous! Congratulations!
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And we'll fill in the missing colors
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someone get me a towel! clean up aisle 6.
i've always loved those.
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
Shweeeeeeeeeet!
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More pix from the StreetSounds listing.
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Hmmm...I noticed that some pix have D'Addario strings.....and some don't. Mine came with the D'Addarios.
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*gulp*
Again, I'll say: ultra.
Wow! That's very cool!
I am having sooooo much fun playing this thing. It breaks all the preconcieved notions in my head. Short scale, set neck, hollowed body. But it just shames my Fenders in the whole percussive snappy attack thing. I also find myself doing Nels Cline-type stuff with the Bigsby. I find myself overplaying with it.
I may swap the big Melita/Sychrosonic screws for ones with smaller heads. The stock ones are just big enough to change your right hand technique a bit.
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That is one spectacularly beautiful guitar!
I <3 that green color!!
Congratulations Kap'n! It's NGW (new guitar weekend) for both of us. I just wish I had some buddies around to jam with!
"I'm gonna find myself a girl
that can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams..."
VM
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Very nice! That is a stunning color.
btw Vince I'm stealing that Animal pic!
OK, I am a month in, and I am still loving it as much as the day I brought it home, or more.
I'm still resolving some bridge issues - the SynchroSonic is beautiful to look at and period correct, but it had design-related rattling issues that I could never get right. I've got a tuneomatic on it now* that fixes the problem, but the radius is slightly off. Even so, it just plays feels, and sounds amazing.
Santa might be bringing me a brass 9 1/2" radius Truarc bridge. That would just be the icing on the cake for setup.
*The Melita/Synchrosonic has a non-standard bridge post spread. I bought the tuneomatic/base because it was essentially the same price as the base, knowing I could swap the metal parts for anything I wanted.
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awesome, dude !
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Just got it back from the luthier today after being setup with the TruArc.
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I wondered what happened..."no more purchases for a while" then saw this once again.
Congratulations and thank you for sharing.
I have a couple of virtual "holes" on the guitar wall and this is one of them.
Along with the right Tele!
Wow!
There are some unusual bridge choices on Gretsches.
Is the TruArc the solid compensated one that has some clearance in the post holes for Bigsby movement?
I've liked those on Starfires I've lusted after.
Or is it the sausage shaped bar? On a 120th Anniversar i was looking at some years back one of those gave off a bad zzzing from the B and G strings. I imagine the factory setup was part of the prob.
Mad, that's a sweet guitar!!
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Happy New Year, Bill!
The TruArc is a modification of the "Rocking Bar Bridge" used on various Gretsches.
http://jefjamdesign.com/truarc/2483_AL95.jpg
It was brought about because the current Gretsch reissue bridge of this type is a lot flatter than the radius of the guitars it's put on - hence the "True Arc" name. It has a bit of back and forth give to help add tuning stability with a Bigsby. Of course, they offer all sorts of different metals to give different sounds. I admit I picked the brass because it matches the gold hardware - but the original Gretsch versions were plated brass, so it's not altogether a bad choice.
Having a 9.5" radius limits my options as to what I can use. On the other hand, Gretsches - using archtop style bridges, gives you a lot of non-invasive bridge options that you just can't get on other guitars.
My other option was a Compton bridge, which is sort of similar in concept. There was a bit of a backorder, and Mrs. Kap'n wanted to give me something to unwrap under the tree.
First impressions are that it sounds great! I'm having a bit of tuning issues with the Bigsby, but that's because I didn't put the strings on. I've got a whole ritual of pulling slack out of windings, etc. that gives me really good tuning stability.
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A little 3 in 1 oil on the bridge and nut wouldn't hurt either... And I too have my string stretching ritual.
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Nice, I love that color on a Gretsch.
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