Enhanced August photo comp Discussion Thread....!

Well Dizi - what a smashing subject you have chosen this month. Wish I had a clue what to do !!

Looking forward to seeing everyone's entries.

 

Thank you Kryssy, I'm sure you will think of something you usually have such good ideas, good luck anyway

 

That's a really effective photo LOL. Could be be a jacket on an LP.

You've given me an idea too :D :D

 

Now you see, while I'm still sitting here wondering what the heck to do, you clever folks are getting on with it. Well done both LoL and Dave W - I'll have to get my thinking cap on. Tempus Fugit :eek:

 

Thank you Dave and kryssy. I was going to do more but liked it as it is! Yours is stunning again Dave. I'm working on No 2.

 

Hi, Kev, see you've entered the comp ... well done, nice effects.

I know you like guitars ... any guesses on what t'other's half's are ???????

 

Hi lol, looked at guitars and not sure the electric with the single pickup :confused: , will need a bit of time to suss out........

 

lol, ok, not my words, i sort the advice of a hippy guitar freak friend of mine, his words:

One is a so-called "parlour guitar" note that it is a 12 fret to the body style which is quite correct for this style of instrument. It also has the correct slotted headstock. A bit awkward to re-string but oh-so cool. These instruments are becoming quite popular again with most manufacturers getting in on the act! I'd like one.

The other guitar is a Gibson "Melody Maker" Fair to state that it could be an Epiphone. It is precisely the guitar that influenced me to get my simgle pick-up Gordon Smith. The GS was definitely influemced by this design. There is no point re-inventing the wheel is there? Notice the "P90" pick-up. This one is known as the dog ear variant because of the lugs where the assy is mounted. The other type is known as "soap bar" and does not have the lugs. It could be a new guitar. If it is an old one then an Epiphone could be worth more than the Gibson, maybe. These guitars are fab. Be aware of the shorter scale length when compared to Leo's designs. You can bend strings much easier. Notice the single "Wrap around" combo bridge / tailpiece. Never a stellar performer as far as intonation goes but the preset staggers on the bridge (if it even has them!) were set up for wound thirds (g strings) and so with modern un wound 3rds will be almost impossible to intonate. I'd like one of these as well.

Any guitar boffs comments and lol's other half!

Kev

 

Hi Kev ...

The acoustic is a turn of the century / early 1900s Martin which belonged to t'other half's grandfather.

The electric is a 1962 re-issue of a 1954 Les Paul Junior. The difference being the '62 has Grover machine heads instead of Gibson and has gold-plated machine heads and bridge as opposed to nickle-plated. Obviously I am quoting the latter sentence.

 

I wish I understood guitars.

I wish I understood music.

I wish I understood basic arithmetic.

 

Hi, Sarraceniac ... you can learn it all here at the University of GC ... we are an absolute font of knowledge and useless information between us. :rolleyes:

 

lol. will pass this onto my hippy guitar friend, we had a 20 minute conversation today at work on your guitars, he was very excited.

 

Evening Kev ... I forwarded your hippy friend's comment to t'other half (we are networked as t'other half was a network specialist within the motor industry) and he laughed his head off saying somthing like "he doesn't have a clue" ... :D

I'm a messenger ... Want to talk guitars .. I'll put you onto t'other ...

 

lol. would be interested to hear his comments, then i can challenge him and sound like i know what i was talking about. maybe not such a guitar boff!

[ 09. August 2007, 11:31 PM: Message edited by: Keving ]