Your next guitar?

[james0tucson]

My next guitar will be semi-hollow, like an ES-335 (an Epiphone will be just fine) or one of the f-hole Telecasters. I'm not too picky (I'm a woodwinds player not a guitarist but I'm very sure I want something semi-hollow.

[KrisM]

I don't always play guitar. But when I do, I prefer a Carvin.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

I've love to get a guitar again, but I have house-mates and disturbing them in the middle of the night is a non-starter..

Don't want to wake up dead..

[hibidy]

I don't always play guitar. But when I do, I prefer a Carvin.

Ah, so you are THAT guy?

[justin3am]

I've had this Saga Guitar kit for about 2 years now and I still haven't put it together.
http://www.sagamusic.com/catalog/detail ... ctID=LC-10

I finally went ahead and ordered a finishing kit, so I'm hoping I have time over the next month to get this project rolling.

In the process of researching how to customize the guitar I find myself lusting after a Fernandez Sustainer kit. I love using my ebow, since I don't typically play guitar as a "guitar" I figure this would be fun to play with.

Anybody using one? Would you recommend it to guitar newb who really just wants something to play through synths?

[susiwong]

Banjos are like ukes and violins, imo, people should need a license to own one, a license costing twice as much to play one in private and one costing ten times as much to play one in public. In the right hands all three instrument are generally awful, in the wrong hands

Completely agreed, we need more mandolins and fiddles instead !
Lol,
susiwong

[Hink]

Banjos are like ukes and violins, imo, people should need a license to own one, a license costing twice as much to play one in private and one costing ten times as much to play one in public. In the right hands all three instrument are generally awful, in the wrong hands

Completely agreed, we need more mandolins and fiddles instead !
Lol,
susiwong

and dulcimers, especially hammered dulcimers

[susiwong]

I've had this Saga Guitar kit for about 2 years now and I still haven't put it together.
http://www.sagamusic.com/catalog/detail ... ctID=LC-10

I finally went ahead and ordered a finishing kit, so I'm hoping I have time over the next month to get this project rolling.

In the process of researching how to customize the guitar I find myself lusting after a Fernandez Sustainer kit. I love using my ebow, since I don't typically play guitar as a "guitar" I figure this would be fun to play with.

Anybody using one? Would you recommend it to guitar newb who really just wants something to play through synths?

Only you can decide.
If used as an extension of a guitar's sonic options a Sustainer is cool.
If you're hoping for a (partial) substitute for learning the instrument it's pretty lame.

That said, they work quite well but require some compromises regarding neck PU tone, there is only one "half string length" position.
So I wouldn't want one in my main guitar, a typical mod for a 2nd or 3rd guitar imho.

Ymmv,
susiwong

[trimph1]

The guitar I picked up to do some modding on has a humbucker--albeit a weak one ---has said pick up just 2" from the fixed bridge--with the 2 humbuckers I got--and the Floyd Rose trem bridge I am now thinking--just how close to the neck can I go with this set up?

I'm going on a research hunt now---

[susiwong]

and dulcimers, especially hammered dulcimers

Hope you're using one of these to make the strings resonate !

A passive one is sooo last century ...


Lol,
susiwong

[susiwong]

The guitar I picked up to do some modding on has a humbucker--albeit a weak one ---has said pick up just 2" from the fixed bridge--with the 2 humbuckers I got--and the Floyd Rose trem bridge I am now thinking--just how close to the neck can I go with this set up?

[justin3am]

Only you can decide.
If used as an extension of a guitar's sonic options a Sustainer is cool.
If you're hoping for a (partial) substitute for learning the instrument it's pretty lame.

Fair enough. Lame is my M.O. for the most part.

I'd say I'm learning the instrument, but I'm not focusing on established technique. I'm not pretentious enough to say that I'm doing something "new", just that over the years I've figured out that I learn best by doing things my own way.

I think I have decided already but I'm thinking out loud. My question was more if the Sustainer is different enough from using an ebow to justify the cost. If the difference is in the playing technique that is cool, I have no qualms about learning. I just don't want to spend $250 to find that I was satisfied with the ebow and my regular guitar. I went to all three local Guitar Centers :suicide: and none of them had a rig I could demo.

Thanks.

[Hink]

and dulcimers, especially hammered dulcimers

Hope you're using one of these to make the strings resonate !

A passive one is sooo last century ...


Lol,
susiwong

now you've done it, you insulted the hammers

[susiwong]

now you've done it, you insulted the hammers

We need
MORE POWER !

Lol,
susiwong

[trimph1]

The guitar I picked up to do some modding on has a humbucker--albeit a weak one ---has said pick up just 2" from the fixed bridge--with the 2 humbuckers I got--and the Floyd Rose trem bridge I am now thinking--just how close to the neck can I go with this set up?

Bolt on neck---

I've seen some that were right up to the neck but is this good idea to have it right at the neck?

oh, I'm just asking about one of the humbuckers being placed there---