Any body playing a guitar w/f holes in it that's not a Telecaster?
lol
Any archtops?
Any body playing a guitar w/f holes in it that's not a Telecaster?
lol
Any archtops?
RJ, pull out that Gretsch!
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
Besides 9 acoustics (which have BIG holes in them) I have an ES 335 and this bad boy - which quickly became one of my favorites... (it weighs 7.2 pounds!)
"We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness." Mark Twain
I use a '59 Gibson ES-225TD and a new Epiphone ES-335 Pro. The ES-225 has a big fat sound- great for old timey stuff and slide. I prefer the sound and feel of an ES-335 over a Les Paul.
Here are some more F holes. I only have the ES-225 and mandolin out of these guitars. The ES-225 replaced the Sorento and the ES-135. The Carvin AE-185 was a great, versatile guitar that played like a dream but I really didn't like that the active preamp couldn't be bypassed.
Hamer Echotone and Epiphone Elitist ES-335. I like my new ES-335 Pro better than either of these.
Notice that these are all thinline guitars? I guess I have a thing for thinlines.
I love the sound of ES335s, casinos, and such, but those guitars are uncomfortable for my body size.
they're big and often wide, I look like a midget with one of them.
Strats and Lesters fit me like a glove.
I gotta try an epiphone casino coupe.
de Melo, Gibson makes a smaller body semi-hollow. That's one of the choices right handers have that make me jealous.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
I would, but to day I'm within a firewall that seems to be blocking photobucket...Originally Posted by ch willie
It's an orange Gretsch Electromatic Hollowbody with aftermarket TV Jones Classic P'ups and some really cool pinstripes...
I call it the Tangerine. (Though Creamsicle might be more apropos).
"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..."
I have the Dot, but also have this one - full hollowbody-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/Ken/IMG_5415_zpsgm2zipwd.jpg
And still need to have some fretboard issues addressed on this one- a bump in the rosewood at fret 1 and 2/3 probably be removed to smooth it down right
Kenny Belmont
>:^{I)>
Which model?
How tall are you? I'm a little over 5'8" and find ES-335s and similar guitars to be a good fit.
ES 339
"We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness." Mark Twain
Don, I'm interested in your impressions of the 135-
Here is my big box I love it's sound for blues...
I had the ES-135 for about 12 years- I bought in new when they closed them out in 2001 or so and sold it a couple of years ago.
Even though the body is the same profile as the Sorento and ES-225 with a similar shaped lower bout as an ES-3X5 and Casino (they all will fit in the same case), the body was about 1/2" thicker. Between that and the balsa center block, it was more hollow sounding than a typical thinline semi-hollow (though not as hollow sounding as the fully hollow guitars).
I liked the '57 Classic humbuckers a lot. They were very warm and smooth. I put the Bigsby on it in place of the trapeze tailpiece.
The three piece maple neck was incredible feeling- bigger and rounder than the neck on my '59 ES-225.
My one real concern was the weight- it weighed over 9 pounds. That was compounded by the thicker body. I couldn't last the night playing it.
My real desire was a fully hollow thinline guitar. When the ES-225 TD came up for sale for a little over twice what I could sell the ES-135 for I went for it and haven't looked back.
It was a cool guitar, though!
That's kind of what I thought. They look great, & I knew they played great, but the maple neck made me think it added to the weight of the thing. A guitar that size & design shouldn't be over 8 lbs imo
Gibson has priced this lefty out of the 335 market, and I suspect a lefty 335 would serve just about everything I need that Fenders can't do. When I can buy and if I decide to go that route, I'll get a good copy--if I can find something not caked with poly, has good hardware including tuners that don't slip, and decent pups and electronics. For lefties, I don't know what that would be.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
i'm 5'5"' juSt a little bit taller and stronger than Angus Young.
My ES-335 Pro weighs almost exactly 8 pounds. That seems about right for that type of guitar. The ES-225 weighs WAY less!
I'm probably near the lower limit of fitting an ES thinline. I've found ES-339s to be slightly lacking in "hollowness" and "fatness" but I'm intrigued by the Casino Coupe.
http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Ele...ino-Coupe.aspx
I feel the same way about them. It tried to like them. The price was great! I just really like ES-335s.I had a 339 when they first came out. I've always said, "It was one of the nicest guitars that I never liked"... A lot of people love them, but for me, it was lacking in all the areas that it's bigger brother, the 335, has in abundance... It's quite possible that I was just too 335 crazy...
That's it! Pretty cool! I'd have to play one but I'll bet, being fully hollow, the smaller body won't have the same loss as the ES-339 compared to the ES-335. Probably some loss compared to a full size Casino, but sometimes a full size Casino can be too hollow.
You guys will think I'm crazy, but sometimes I think about replacing my '59 ES-225 with a recent Casino. Mostly due to higher fret access, a little due to fear of damaging an antique at a bar gig or bbq.
Then I come to my senses.
Buy a used Casino and keep the Gibson.
Yeah, that's a good plan.Buy a used Casino and keep the Gibson.
All right, here's mine:
"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..."
Yeah, that's a good plan.
All right, here's mine:
Gorgeous!
What year is it, John?
I'm not 110% sure on the year - but I googled it and it looks like about 2009.
The red Gretsch in my Avatar is no longer mine - I found myself playing the Tangerine more and more as time went on after I got the TV Jones pickups installed - and got it set up properly.
Here's a nice two-shot with the Tangerine and the Falcon...
"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..."
I considered that but I keep a tight budget and would consider the guitars to be redundant and I don't keep a guitar just to keep a guitar. Either it's my first choice for the kind of sound/experience that it provides or it's gone.Buy a used Casino and keep the Gibson.
That guitar is "you"!Yeah, that's a good plan.
All right, here's mine:
I was a Strat only player for about 25 years, but the last 10 years i´ve discovered pretty much everything else out there
Boxes has been the most exciting, here is some vids with 2 of my boxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmPrqyp6--0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMiLRy84ats
That was sweet. You fellers get a drummer & you could make a lot of money!
Thanks Cogs!
Well, that´s one of the purposes with the project, make it swing without a drummer.
And... drummers are so difficult
Seriously, we are getting older, and a drummer force you to play loud, we don´t like loud anymore
Those were great! Thanks!
Yup.
Here's my Washburn HB-30. It originally had the stock Washburn pick ups, 250K pots, and .033 mF caps.
I've upgraded it with 500K Bourns pots, .022 microfarad caps, and Seymour Duncan '59s. It can easily go toe-to-toe with my Les Paul for tone and overall power. It's a very easy and fun guitar to play.
I've been known to bust out my AF-75 with Tweed Super from time to time:
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
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