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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 20, 2006 15:29:28 GMT -7
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Post by quinto on Jan 20, 2006 17:17:03 GMT -7
Nice. Did you get it at A# ?
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 20, 2006 17:26:33 GMT -7
Maybe if you saved up you could buy a good guitar! Joking, it looks fabulous!
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Post by Bill on Jan 20, 2006 17:41:33 GMT -7
Wow!! That is a BEAUTY. Combined with your new Mazerati you're hooking up bigtime lately! Nothing like cool gear to keep the musical spirit moving forward. :-)
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 20, 2006 18:05:16 GMT -7
Nice. Did you get it at A# ? Yeah. My third Grosh from there actually...
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 20, 2006 18:06:31 GMT -7
Maybe if you saved up you could buy a good guitar! Joking, it looks fabulous! I get to try it out tomorrow night - pity I won't have the Mazerati there too, but I suppose it's better to change one thing at a time.
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 20, 2006 18:06:59 GMT -7
Wow!! That is a BEAUTY. Combined with your new Mazerati you're hooking up bigtime lately! Nothing like cool gear to keep the musical spirit moving forward. :-) You said it! New gear always gets my blood up!
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Post by taswegian on Jan 20, 2006 19:49:57 GMT -7
Love the birdseye maple that Don uses! Nice. I would love a Hollow carve top T or a semi-hollow set neck to go with my Grosh. I bet you're hanging to fang it through the Mazerati! Happy playing.
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 21, 2006 10:07:06 GMT -7
Love the birdseye maple that Don uses! Nice. I would love a Hollow carve top T or a semi-hollow set neck to go with my Grosh. I bet you're hanging to fang it through the Mazerati! Happy playing. Yeah, that birdseye maple is to die for! Too much planned here to get the Mazerati before I play tonight, which is probably better anyway. I want to give it a moment to win me over before I actually perform with it! But everything sounds different once on the stage, so the real test will be next month - then the fun begins!
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 22, 2006 20:46:20 GMT -7
Well I played the Grosh Tele on a gig last night, and holy cow! What a great sounding guitar - I was thinking why didn't I do this a long time ago! I get the Mazerati tomorrow, and I'm expecting that amp will be just the right mate for this guitar.
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Post by nickg on Jan 24, 2006 12:25:51 GMT -7
Nice! Did it come with a five-way switch for stratish tones? What are the pickups?
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 24, 2006 13:18:22 GMT -7
Nice! Did it come with a five-way switch for stratish tones? What are the pickups? Yep. Five way switch, with Fralin Blues specials in all three slots. I'm struggling a bit with the neck sound, but the bridge pickup sounds GREAT. I may consider something a tad brighter on the neck side, but we shall see. If I get the Mazerati tamed, it may be just perfect as is.
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 25, 2006 12:38:08 GMT -7
Well this is a cross post I guess - here is a sound clip I did this morning with the Grosh Tele and my new Mazerati. Please forgive the sloppy playing as I had intended to do one pass for levels and then cut a decent track, but the recorder died just after I made this, so I present the sloppy one: www.gear.strayca.com/audio/MazeratiGrosh001.mp3I think both the guitar and amp get to stay...
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 25, 2006 16:26:15 GMT -7
Somehow Grosh can get that 7-1/2" radius neck to play well and still allow good bending. Big frets help I guess.
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 25, 2006 16:34:01 GMT -7
Somehow Grosh can get that 7-1/2" radius neck to play well and still allow good bending. Big frets help I guess. Yeah, they help, but I also raised the action quite a bit. I'm appreciating a slightly higher action than I did in my youth - you can bend better, and the guitar sustains better. Yeah, it tears up your fingers, but we're going for tone here, not skin, right?
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Post by propellr on Jan 26, 2006 7:21:33 GMT -7
Good looking birdseye-- Nice details on that one. Color, pickguard, dot inlays-- It all works together. You have managed to get a red guitar without it being red, you know? I've been looking at Fender Strats lately, and the only ones I've seen with birdseye necks have been foreign made. Do you know why more American Fender guitars aren't coming with birdseye necks?
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 26, 2006 7:37:57 GMT -7
Probably all the botique builders have bought up all the birdseye, inflating the price and making it impossible to find on a Fender. Just speculation....
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Post by propellr on Jan 26, 2006 8:12:04 GMT -7
I love a birdseye neck! Just saw that G&L does a birdseye neck with a gloss-over-gun-metal finish that makes it look so greasy!
Just checked out Grosh, G&L, and Tom Anderson online. Guess these shops popped up like Z's, giving the options that players want and the personal touches the giants could no longer offer. As well, these builders have moved on from working at Fender or wherever and are now paying themselves. I think it's great to have so many options-- I'm just glad I no longer have G.A.S., or I'd be inclined to start dreaming. Have fun with your new lady... and the Mazerati!
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Jan 26, 2006 10:18:15 GMT -7
I love a birdseye neck! Just saw that G&L does a birdseye neck with a gloss-over-gun-metal finish that makes it look so greasy! Just checked out Grosh, G&L, and Tom Anderson online. Guess these shops popped up like Z's, giving the options that players want and the personal touches the giants could no longer offer. As well, these builders have moved on from working at Fender or wherever and are now paying themselves. I think it's great to have so many options-- I'm just glad I no longer have G.A.S., or I'd be inclined to start dreaming. Have fun with your new lady... and the Mazerati! Oh baby! I've been GASing for a G&L Tele for a long time. But there aren't any dealers near me that carry much of their lineup. This is a buddy of mine - I took this image at a benefit concert we both played (by the way, he has three Z amps): Look at that guitar - man oh man... YIKES! Can't do one of those now for a loooooong time!
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 26, 2006 11:46:33 GMT -7
Tom Anderson won't do a figured wood neck. They maintain that it's inherently unstable. I don't have a personal opinion about it except I know it looks good.
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Post by propellr on Feb 20, 2006 14:14:14 GMT -7
When I looked at Grosh, Anderson, and G&L online, I have to say that, by and large, I appreciated the look of the Don Grosh lineup over the others. I like the subtle color schemes and the details, like the necks and the pickguards. I've been gazing at some more birdseye necks. I saw a couple of Strats a while back (Korean fenders, I think) that seemed to have a seperate birdseye maple fretboard, birdseye maple neck, and a skunk stripe down the back. I thought the point of a seperate fretboard was to hide the truss rod route. Are they just using stock too thin to do a whole neck and fretboard? Is it just an optical illusion?
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Post by Curt on Feb 20, 2006 14:44:00 GMT -7
Tom Anderson won't do a figured wood neck. They maintain that it's inherently unstable. I don't have a personal opinion about it except I know it looks good. FWIW My TAG hollow T has slight birds eye in the maple cap on the neck, zero in the structural part of the neck though. I jonesed over Grosh for quite awhile but no one here carries 'em, I immeadiately bought the first Tom Anderson I touched !!!!
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Post by billyguitar on Feb 20, 2006 19:41:46 GMT -7
To me the most obvious difference between Grosh and Anderson is that Anderson uses the stainless steel frets and their own design pickups. lately I've been daydreaming about at TA Tele with a p-90 at the bridge and a full size humbucking at the neck.
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Post by propellr on Feb 21, 2006 6:59:40 GMT -7
To me the most obvious difference between Grosh and Anderson is that Anderson uses the stainless steel frets and their own design pickups. lately I've been daydreaming about at TA Tele with a p-90 at the bridge and a full size humbucking at the neck. Hmmm. Interesting. That's a great way for them to distance themselves from their competitors.
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