NGD now with pics (was: Of out to buy a guitar, brb)

TimmyO · May 2018

Hitting the road to go do a transaction.

Service stations are like a GAS holy meeting place...

stickyfiddle · May 2018

Woop! What's incoming?

Hattigol · May 2018

Whenever I go to meet someone to collect a guitar, my wife makes me give her a note with the location and seller details.

To humour her, I always put as headings:

Murder Location
Murderer's Name

TimmyO · May 2018

Murder Location: East Midlands Airport services
Murderer’s name: daddyash
Murder Weapon: Gibson J45

TimmyO · May 2018

Pics when I get home - just stopped for Kentucky Fried Rat on the way back

stickyfiddle · May 2018

Noice!

daddyash · May 2018

Good to meet you today Tim. Hope you enjoy the gibbo.

TimmyO · May 2018

and we are home

I loves it!

https://imgur.com/gallery/f3p8nmG

TimmyO · May 2018

It will have Strap pin and K&K Mini surgery imminently

TimmyO · May 2018

Honeymoon-evening is VERY positive.

I was toying with a few different options but really glad I went mahogany - enjoying the dryness of the bass notes under a plectrum (cue enthusiastic heavy-handed playing)

Lewy · May 2018

TimmyO said:

It will have Strap pin and K&K Mini surgery imminently

Congrats! Very much a do-anything axe.

Caution with the K&K...the bridge plate is too small on a TV for the transducers to all totally fit on when using the standard positioning/supplied jig. Led to weak output when I tried one in mine. Make sure it’s installed by someone competent who understand the issue and has some ideas as to how to deal with it.

TimmyO · May 2018

Ooh - thanks for the heads up - what sort of workarounds are there?

Lewy · May 2018

Not sure. I ended up taking it out because the output was so different to my Collings with the same pickup that I would have needed separate preamps to use them on the same gig and I couldn’t be arsed.

I had a lyric in there for a while but hated having all the gubbins (battery, preamp etc) inside such a lightly built guitar.

So in the end I just used a M1A any time I wanted to amplify it, and only put it in when I was going to have to.

stickyfiddle · May 2018

Looks lovely. And I'm assuming plays & sounds amazing, since hearing the difference between a regular and TV Hummingbird last week. J45s sound better in the first place, so the TV must be phenomenal

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(and +1 for the M1A if the KK isn't going to work. Great no-nonsense pickup. There's a reason half the pros all jumped on it when it was released)

BigLicks67 · May 2018

Lovely stuff. Terrific guitars J45's. HNGD.

TimmyO · May 2018

Yep - lovely playing action, nice and light too.

I’d made the ‘mistake’ of A/B ing a Standard and a TV some while back the the ones I tried showed the TV to be lighter, more responsive, just 'more'

re the pickup it might make more sense to get an M80 (that's the new version of the M1A right?) and share it across both guitars for when they get played out (although the idea is the J45 is the main 'playing out' guitar for open mics etc.)

I presume still a good idea to get a jack fitted - actually yes I will I reckon

TimmyO · June 2018

Update: The honeymoon period turned out to just be the start of a long-term love period.

I've bought a used Baggs M80 (for roughly what a used M1A costs) and found a fella who says he can fit the jack and whatnot.

I love this thing so much

SimpleSimon · June 2018

Great GAS and score, definately on my list when i can afford one!

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