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Big Six Bias
- Thread starter Cork Evertonian
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Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
OK. Here's the most recent Gibson Les Pauls I've had and gigged with:
2009 '08 Standard
2009 Custom Shop '57 VOS Junior
1976 all-original Deluxe
1991 Custom
With scratchplate removed:
After I stopped gigging in September 2022, I sold the Standard, Junior and Deluxe, and now just have the Custom, and a 2002 Taylor 314 and a 1971 Eko Rio Bravo 12-string.
Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
I post under 'Old Blue 2' here, but I'm 73 now, so don't give a toss if people know my real name or not. So here's what might be described as a hobby that I've done for the last 43 years (research and writing). Given the books I've written/co-written on the subject, I'm considered the world's No.1 expert on the Messerschmit Bf 110 by many. I hate the word 'expert' - I just conducted research and had the fruits of that research published in book form.
So there you have it...
yeah I'm pretty OCD about stringing and all the other Gibbo style necks are fine (the SG has locking tuners) but the DC G string is troublesome. I'll try a nut change too, I've re filed the nut which made small improvement
fabulous, I can never work out whether I prefer the plain or figured tops, they both look lovely. What is the colour on the first? A cherry burst?
Does your watch not scratch the tops?
Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
Cherry sunburst. But the other guitarist in the band called it a 'bloodburst'! He plays Banjocasters!
No, the watch strap never came into contact with the tops.
Moonlight dribbler
Player Valuation: £6m
A life well lived thank you for sharing. I am truly inspired and will begin...
Cork Evertonian
Player Valuation: £50m
A very pleasant thread diversion indeed i have to say.
tommye
Player Valuation: £100m
Cork Evertonian
Player Valuation: £50m
And long may it continue to stay that way.lolGOT is the best for off topic waffle.
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Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
One thing I always did which was borne out of many hundreds of hours gigging, was that I tuned the 3rd and 6th strings down a few cents. On open chords there was always the ever so slight 'dissonance' one hears from a 12-string. Once you move up the neck with barre chords, the tuning is fine.
Now, read this, and realise that tuning a guitar cannot be done perfectly. Most I've posted it to have come back to me with a kind of 'Road to Damascus' viewpoint. It's well worth reading in full:
I generally tune a touch flat open strings and bang on at the 5th fret, that tends to work for me with the pressure I use.
I'll give that site a read though, cheers blue, every day is a school day after all
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Rich 6
I see the PL prize money is to distributed differently from 2024/25. The teams finishing in the top six places will get a bigger percentage than they do now. Nice touch announcing that so soon after we get docked ten points.
Shevin Keedy
Player Valuation: £35m
Or "luftwaffle" - given @Old Blue 2 's accomplished research!
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