It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
The Magic Sam clip I posted is all about character to me, you'd really struggle to pull that off with any modern twin humbucker guitar.
All of us oldies battled with shite guitars like these when we wanted real pro gear, but they have their place when you have the pro bit covered many time over.
I removed the hum-sonic pickups; I put a DiMarzio Tele pickup at the bridge and a Mighty Mite strat pickup at the neck and I re-strung it with Nashville stringing (the high set of a 12-string). It sounded very different.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Your Columbus/Satellite LP copy is a fibreglass Ferrari replica kit-car built on a Yugo chassis.
On another note, if anybody wants to buy this very well-preserved (and I understand all-original - 4k pickups, etc.) original guitar, let me know! It has a 'vintage' hard case, so posting it isn't beyond the realms of possibility.
My band, Red For Dissent
Plays very nicely, I think. I also think it sounds pretty good, too, although a modern budget LP (Vintage Lemon Drop, or whatever) is a much more authentic LP copy.
I think there's probably a fair bit of variation, since mine has many of the features mentioned by others -- plywood pressed top, crappy tuners, substandard bridge, etc. -- but not others. It sustains just fine. Makes a nice noise.
As I intimated earlier, if you don’t expect too much (or pay too much!), enjoy them for what they are and live with their foibles, they’re fun to tinker with and render playable.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
I think my major issue with such guitars is when they're talked up into something they very definitely aren't.
From £0.00 - £50.00, they can be a mildly entertaining nostalgic diversion, but once "mojo", "vintage", "lawsuit", blahblahblah are mentioned (along with a commensurate price hike*), then I'm totally with you.
*Just the fact of knowing that they are still out there for £Peanuts in plentiful quantities would prevent me from spending crazy money on them.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
You missed Kay from that list
The only 1 on that list I can't recall who imported them was Jedson - might have been Arbiter