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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Recommendations for a good chunky blues Hollow-body for under 500.00???? |
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Location: closely held secret | Cliff. |
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Location: NJ | hamer echotone |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Cliff. :D :D |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by alpep:
hamer echotone And there is one right now on ebay with a $400 BIN.
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Location: NJ | quote:
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AssWipe.
That IS a very nice Hamer, btw!! |
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Location: GA USA | Wow. I may have just figured out my next guitar. Jeff, buy this one and send it around the country too. Put me on the list. Thanks.
Try to have it here by next weekend and I'll take to the gathering. Thanks again. You're a real pal. |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by cliff:
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That IS a very nice Hamer, btw!! Yep, it sure is!
The upgraded tuners takes care of the main complaint with these guitars as they come stock. I don't have any use for the Bigsby, but a nice upgrade for those that do.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by cliff:
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | That's WFKAWaskel for ya... Always ready to give ya a pat on the back... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'll have to put that on my list to buy if I ever learn to play electric guitar. I still wish I'd kept my first guitar, a Univox knockoff of the ES335. I don't know if I want to suffer enough to learn to play the blues, though. |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I'll have to put that on my list to buy ..... I don't know if I want to suffer enough to learn to play the blues, though. Tell your wife you just put another guitar on the "to buy" list. That could bring on some suffering :)
Personally, i'm waiting for an Improv to pop up.
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Location: Fairfax, VA | I keep beating the Ibanez drum, but stop by a GC and play some of the artcore series. Ugly headstock logo, I know, but sweet, sweet tones for the price. Like a lot of lower end guitars, they can usually benefit from an upgrade to the tuning machines. Other than that, mine was right near perfect straight from the store. |
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Location: GA USA | I have played the Artcore. I liked it.
Mark, my first electric was a Univox Les Paul. Bought it and sold it for $100. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I did better. I bought mine for $35 and sold it with a WahWah pedal that someone gave me for $125. That paid for about half of my first Ovation. |
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Location: NJ | I really think y'need to buy that Hamer there, Jeffy . . . |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Another possibility might be something from the Epiphone Elitist series, although they might be a bit above your price. |
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Location: New York, NY | I love the Artcore series and most of them are significantly under 500 bucks. Also, the Epi dots are nice and really reasonably priced. If you're set at spending around 500 I bet you could buy a nice dot and toss in some new pickups and tuners...
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Location: Fairfax, VA | You know I was looking at a dot (and I'm an epiphone fan)--but when I compared them with the Artcore, I liked the artcore sound better. Now if you can spring another C-note, there's always this:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Epiphone-Casino-Electric-Gui... |
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Location: PDX | Sweet! Is that the one with the upgraded tuners? How do you like it?
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | yes, it has Grover tuners, roller bridge, Bigsby trem modifications...
I'm waiting for it to arrive, so no reviews yet... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Where did that one come from? |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by stephent28:
Where did that one come from? Here
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | got it for the opening bid on the bay... |
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Location: Fairfax, VA | Mighty pretty guitar. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Nice grab, Jeff. Someday I'll learn to play some blues and get me one of them. Since my wife just bought me a 30th Anniversary CL, it may be awhile before I suffer enough. Should have learned when the kids were teenagers. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Wow is right - nice git, JW. Nice price too. Hope it sounds as niuce as it looks! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Should have learned when the kids were teenagers. I could dent your porsche... |
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Location: ranson,wva | pretty one jeff..jason |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Someday I'll learn to play some blues.. Semis also work very good for nice authentic Rockabilly. And go well with black string ties... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Should have learned when the kids were teenagers. I could dent your porsche...
The Porsches have been dented before. I got them fixed. The kids have both been in wrecks with my classic convertibles of other makes, however. Took me a long time to get over the wreck of the VW Convertible. That's when I should have learned the blues. |
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Good Bluesy Hollow Body?