Celebrate!

[cozmik_cowboy]

I have just discovered that Nov 27 is National Electric Guitar Day!
So, play your electrics; change their strings; order a new Alembic - something.


Peter (who, alas, is in a position to only do 2 of those......)

[edwardofhuncote]

I just bought a set of AXY Fatboys and some Witch Hats... duzzat count? <snicker> 

*on the subject of restringing electrics, it occurs to me I should've run it past you Coz... how do you feel about flatwounds on a Les Paul? (I got this one shop customer who likes stupid-low action, but wants heavier strings...)

[cozmik_cowboy]

I don't have a LP, and none of the ones I had care of in my youth had flats, so I can't comment directly - but when LPs were invented, pretty much all strings were flat-wound (and a little later, when they came out with something as small as .012s, they were dubbed "Light" - still called that by most string companies), so I don't see a problem.
A friend gave me an open-ended loan of a Washburn jazzbox, and the first thing I did was switch it from his round .009s to flat .011s; gave it a little more warmth (from the flatness) and gravitas (from the gauge) is all.
Worst case?  The customer doesn't like them, and goes back to rounds.

Peter (who, in truth, would switch the jazzer to .010s, but can't find flat .010s with a wound G)

[edwardofhuncote]

I'll give it a rip. Yeah, they're D'Adarrio Chromes 11's, and I'm sure I can make them work... just hope I don't spend two more nights doing fretwork. 

FWIW, I did observe the Holiday last night and play a little bit... on bass guitar. 

~Gregory  (who would rather be horsewhipped with an actual horsewhip than do fretwork...)

[lbpesq]

Wow!  What an exhausting National Electric Guitar Day!  Who’s the clown that scheduled two huge national holidays back to back?  In the infamous works of Mr. Howard, “I’d moiderize ‘em!”  Nyuk, nyuk.

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

I also spread the news to a friend, who pointed out that there is also a National Guitar Day (Feb 11).  I told him that for National Guitar Day, I'd take a Tri-Cone, please.......

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Oh man, Coz... a wood-body Tricone is way up on my list. In a dusty corner of my shop, is a pile of projects that are destined for completion when I'm done with the PSA/Waterworks gig here - among them is a steel-body National Duolian. The story I got was it was backed-over by a 1946 Chrysler one Sunday morning, after being absent-mindedly left in a driveway. The steel body survived, even the spun aluminum cone, the wood neck... not so much. I roughed out a new one, and... parked it. Maybe 2/11/2020 is the day to pull it out and rethink that project.

[cozmik_cowboy]

I wouldn't say no to a wood one, but my tri-cone dream is German Silver.  I have a Duolian, but it's a recent Regal.
At one point Beard made a wood-bodied guitar with modular cones; a minute or three and you could switch it between biscuit, spider, and tri-cone.  Pretty slick, eh?

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Paul Beard is right up there with the Giants of the Guitar Making World as far as I'm concerned... pure genius, and a swell dude too. Doctor of Resophonics.

I'll dig mine out when I get home this evening... it's been a good while.

*couple pics... (aaachooo!!) ...little dusty.

I always forget how cool this thing would be if I'd just commit to finishing it up. I'm 85% done really... inlay, frets, finish, (I'd planned on painting this neck antique/oly white) and mount the hardware.

Hmmm. 

[David Houck]

Cool guitar!

[cozmik_cowboy]

Cool indeed!

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

I wouldn't say no to a wood one, but my tri-cone dream is German Silver.  I have a Duolian, but it's a recent Regal.
At one point Beard made a wood-bodied guitar with modular cones; a minute or three and you could switch it between biscuit, spider, and tri-cone.  Pretty slick, eh?

Peter

OK, it took awhile, but I found the picture page for the Beard Tri-Phonic; have not yet dug up the verbiage:
https://www.beardguitars.com/triconecustom

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Well I'll be dipped in sh... sugar.    Now that convertible guitar idea took some thinking. 

[lbpesq]

Looks like Popeil’s magic Dobro - “not only sounds good, but also slices and dices potatoes, onions, cheese, pepperoni slices for great homemade pizza, tomatoes so thin you can see through them!  And if you order now you get a free Popeils’ Pocket Fisherman, only pay S&H.”

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

[hankster]

Yup. Beards are great. Always love to see them at the Texas steel guitar player’s jamboree.