Guitars

[Jake]

What's with the black tape over part of the headstock of the Black Tyler Strat ?

Well, I didn't know either, but I did find the answer. He doesn't like the graphics on the headstock.

Maybe his last name is Kerr...

[Tweaky]

I was at the newsagent browsing a guitar mag which had a interview with Ricky Gervais, about the David Brent movie, and how long he had been playing guitar.

The interviewer ask Gervais, have you seen 'The Angriest guitar player in the world' video, he said yes, it was hilarious....I'd never seen it till just now.

 

Oh God this is funny.

 

[Muad Dib]

Weeping with laughter at that [emoji1][emoji1]

Here's the end product.
http://thetreeman.bandcamp.com/album/the-magic-man-7-vinyl


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[Tweaky]

Here's another of him still trying to get 'Magic Man' right....another guitar dies in the process, big time.

 

[Two Flies]

21 hours ago, Tweaky said:

Here's another of him still trying to get 'Magic Man' right....another guitar dies in the process, big time.

 

 

 

Farrrrk imagine being that blokes apprentice back in the day, I vote him worlds oldest tantrum chucking child not worlds angriest  guitar player

[Jake]

That is several things:
Fake
Not funny
Annoying

[Tweaky]

I can understand 1 & 2 on your list, as what somebody finds funny or annoying is purely subjective.

 

I found it funny at first, but I must admit, upon repeated viewings I find his tantrums are cringe worthy now

 

But Fake?

Edited October 27, 2016 by Tweaky

[Jake]

New guitar arrived this morning.

Fujigen (FGN) NTL100 Telecaster



Fujigen have been making real Fenders almost as long as Fender has, as well as a whole swag of other brands. Not seen in Aus much and I imported this myself for much cheaper than a "real" Fender.

Interestingly Fujigen have their own fretting system called Circular Fretting System, where the frets are slightly curved across the fretboard, not just over them, supposedly resulting in perfect intonation.

I will know after a light fret dress and setup.



So far the pickups sound ok, but not outstanding. Great finish.

[Tweaky]

Cool

I see Music Connection is the supposed distributor of this brand in Aus, and has been since 2010, but I'd never heard of the brand till your post.

 

What's the radius of the fretboard, it looks flatter than the Strat neck on the right.

 

And how are the electrics ?

The pots MIJ or China?

 

When I opened up my new MIJ Tokai S.G. the other day, I found the pots were the large style MIJ, and neatly hardwired in the traditional manner, but the Caps are tiny nondescript brownish things, it sounds fine, but I'm tempted to swap them out for some orange drop or bumblebee ones, as it's a very easy and very cheap upgrade to do.

 

Looking at a photo of one, I doubt it would be so easy to do this sort of thing if you have a newer Gibson style circuit board installed for the electrics, like the one below......... I don't know about you, but I bet a lot of people have messed their circuit board up trying to do just that.

 

On another note.

I see KINMAN has finally got their new website up after what seemed a eternity.

They are now based in the Philippines, as according to the website they found they could no longer make the pickup's at a reasonable price if they stayed in Australia.

Plus the fact that Chris Kinman had a pretty severe Heart attack [stress related]

http://kinman.com/index.php

Edited November 2, 2016 by Tweaky

[Jake]

Cool
I see Music Connection is the supposed distributor of this brand in Aus, and has been since 2010, but I'd never heard of the brand till your post.
 
What's the radius of the fretboard, it looks flatter than the Strat neck on the right.
 
And how are the electrics ?
The pots MIJ or China?
 
When I opened up my new MIJ Tokai S.G. the other day, I found the pots were the large style MIJ, and neatly hardwired in the traditional manner, but the Caps are tiny nondescript brownish things, it sounds fine, but I'm tempted to swap them out for some orange drop or bumblebee ones, as it's a very easy and very cheap upgrade to do.
 
Looking at a photo of one, I doubt it would be so easy to do this sort of thing if you have a newer Gibson style circuit board installed for the electrics, like the one below......... I don't know about you, but I bet a lot of people have messed their circuit board up trying to do just that.

 
On another note.
I see KINMAN has finally got their new website up after what seemed a eternity.
They are now based in the Philippines, as according to the website they found they could no longer make the pickup's at a reasonable price if they stayed in Australia.
Plus the fact that Chris Kinman had a pretty severe Heart attack [stress related]
http://kinman.com/index.php

I owned a Kinman Blueprint Strat back in the 80's, a lovely guitar which I foolishly sold to make a mortgage payment.

As soon as I started my guitar endeavours a few months ago I went straight to Kinman for some pickups. So I have his SRV set in my first partscaster and they are bloody awesome! They growl and snarl like a cornered wildebeest, and that's on the clean channel.

Pickup height with these is critical.

Will be buying some for this Tele too

[Jake]

I haven't pulled the pickguard off the Tele yet@Tweaky, will have a look tomoz.

[Tweaky]

Yeah the Kinman pickups are definitely worth the $$ asked, I've bought three different sets off him over the years.

 

I've got a MKIII Traditional set with the K9 pickups harness installed in my partcaster, and a set of P90's for a ES-335 build, and some Humbuckers for a ES-175 build, both of the latter two builds , still unfinished due to  losing my working space to do them in for a few months.

 

Also got a Bass kit that hasn't even been started at all

 

[betocool]

Couldn't find any prices on the Kinman... look interesting... but no prices is for me a showstopper.

 

For my next build I'll get me some soapbars from a Melbourne dude, "Mr. Fabulous Guitars". We'll see how that goes. Always happy to give a local manufacturer a go and the price seems good enough.

[Tweaky]

On the Kinman Site.

Click on Products > Guitars > then select pickup type interested in [Strat/ Tele / P90 etc]

It will go to that page, at the top left will be OVERVIEW, that gives you the basic description of those style of pickups.

Beneath that overview for each Pickup section will be the various "Flavours" I suppose you could call them, that those pickup's can be ordered in, the price will show in U.S. Dollars, but right beside that price is the option to choose any other currency.

The prices of every pickup are available to be seen.

 

The thing is with Kinman pickups, with a lot of them, when placing a order you are also given a lot of choices about string spacings, cover types & colours, if you use a wound G string etc, some of these options do attract a additional charge..... the usual ones like Gold pickup covers etc.

You also are given the option to order the pre-wired harnesses that Kinman also make [worth it for Strats IMHO, especially the K-9 one ] if you order at the same time, the pickups and wiring harness are all put together for you, all you have to do is just screw the pickups, tone/volume control knobs, and pickup selector switch to the scratch plate, screw that to the guitar, and that's it, string her up and play

 

With my first order, I went through the order process several times before I actually clicked the Cart checkout, I wanted to check out all the options, and find out by how much each of those options differed $$$ wise.

 

The Kinman Nasty P90 soapbars are AUS$245 each by the way.....seems the price has gone up by around AUS$ 35 per pickup since I bought mine a year ago, then again, the Aussie dollar has dropped.

http://kinman.com/model-products.php?pid=6&products=P-90&modelid=54&model=Nasty+90&group=

But again, you have seven different "Flavours" of P-90's available, and each of those have different options when ordering them.....I see he even has a new P-90 [Gold Foil HX] designed specifically for slide guitarist ....Oh, crap, I wish I hadn't seen that.

Edited November 2, 2016 by Tweaky

[jamesg11]

So that Kinman new P-90 for slide -

any idea how would it compare sonics-wise to the Jason Lollar's which I've got on my LP? Got my bridge one set very hot.

[Tweaky]

If you read Kinman's design philosophy behind his P-90 pickups, and the vast majority of his pickups generally, he designs for tone and very quick response to a players actions with his P-90 range.

To get that, his pickups, for the most part, are not over wound 'Hot" pickups, or pickups with a strong magnetic force to them.

You can hear a audio comparison between Lollar and Kinman P-90's at the link below.....mind you, this is NOT the new Kinman P-90 designed for slide.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=826585

And a comparison review from a customers that has bought both, plus others.

http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/topic/40027-kinman-hxp90-review/

 

Well think about it, compare two pickups, one with high magnetic force to one with a lower magnetic force, the high magnetic force pickup is going to stop the string vibrating more so than the one with a lower magnetic force.

This works equally with initial string attack, as it does with sustain.

You can hear this quite easily in this YouTube video of his first P-90 pickups [I couldn't believe just how much he has increased his product range in the last few months when viewing the new website - there is around 35% more NEW products than when I bought my P-90's almost exactly 12 months ago ]

 

 

I use the advice given in the Nov 1992 'How to play slide' issue of Guitar Player magazine, especially the interview with Ry Cooder.

He goes into what sort of setup you need to get the best from slide, pickups like above, a very clean amp with a large speaker, like a 15" inch one.

[jamesg11]

Thanks a lot for this - for me, really informative.

Is there a link anywhere for that Cooder Guitar Player?

[Tweaky]

There used to be a link to a PDF version that somebody at the informal Martin guitar forum posted back in 2012, but the link is now broken sadly.

I did see Amazon have 3 copies available, priced around US$6

 

I'll see if I can scan/copy the relevant pages from my copy and post them as a ZIP file attachment here, or as a PM in case of copyright problems

 

In the mean time, check out the link below where the interviewer from 1992 Guitar Player magazine had compiled a tape of 10 classic slide players from different eras for Ry to listen to and comment on.

http://www.rylanders.free-online.co.uk/DMlisten.html

 

If you open up another instance of your browser at YouTube, copy and paste the title of each song in turn into the search function and you can listen to the tracks yourself, and read Ry's comments at the same time.

I've checked a few minutes ago, and all tracks listed [the 1992 list] are available to listen / watch in some instances.

I'd post the links, but it would make this post unreadable with too much info.

[MusicOne]

This guy is the master of guitar technique, when it comes to scales.

 

Watch this short video and see what there is to know:

 

 

Edited November 3, 2016 by MusicOne

[betocool]

I could never wear so long fingernails. Still can't. Tried once.. got tired pretty quick.

[Guest jakeyb77]

Have a go at this....

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[Two Flies]

^ Very very tidy

[LogicprObe]

 

He's having a go!..............the mug!

[Jake]

Have a go at this....




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Talented bastard.

[MusicOne]

Just comparing strings for my classical guitar. I've been using Galli strings (from Italy):

 

 

but I've just completed a re-string using these Pro Arte strings:

 

 

The new Pro Arte strings are soooo different from the Galli. The sound is much more subdued and each set comes with two G strings....one of nylon and one composite. I've used the composite just for a trial and it does feel and sound quite different from nylon.....not sure whether it will be a keeper, though.

 

Any other suggestions for quality classical guitar strings?