Oh Dear - A very sad story

WezV

that Jedson got lucky.... each upgrade must be worth double the base guitar!

guitars4you

@HarrySeven - those look cool in a way - distinctive and individual - and as @WezV hinted above, hard to devalue a Jedson

jumping@shadows

The late ‘50s B7 Bigsby fitted is a good £850  

Octafish

WezV said:

Octafish said:

WezV said:

not so much active, at least i don;t think so.   Read the catalogue i posted above.   He believed the most important factor was a stable neck and all tone shaping came from the wiring.   Its one i often bring up in the tonewood debates as I think its totally possible to factor out the wood by choosing a stable and consistent species to build from... he chose rock maple.   I think he preferred to start bright and use the tone shaping to do the rest

when mine turned up it had missing wood from the jack socket and a couple of massive splits going right through the body.  clearly it had suffered a massive impact  and been stored badly, the finish had a lot of water damage and was peeling off in razor sharp chips... and yet it played really well and stayed in tune.   weight was only 9lbs. 

Only!

.... For a solid rock maple Les Paul.   

Ah ok, fair point!

HarrySeven

jumping@shadows said:

The late ‘50s B7 Bigsby fitted is a good £850  

Really?!!

NelsonP

Is this guy related to John Birch?

ICBM

NelsonP said:

Is this guy related to John Birch?

Probably not, but his name is Phillips so I can think of someone else he might be...

jumping@shadows

HarrySeven said:

jumping@shadows said:

The late ‘50s B7 Bigsby fitted is a good £850  

Really?!!

At a minimum ;-)

HarrySeven

jumping@shadows said:

HarrySeven said:

jumping@shadows said:

The late ‘50s B7 Bigsby fitted is a good £850  

Really?!!

At a minimum ;-)

To whom?

*heads out to the workshop with some sidecutters and a screwdriver*