Author Topic: Neck design (Read 327 times)

kmh364 · « **Reply #30 on:** August 18, 2005, 11:02:53 AM »

Cool, Bill! Lot's O' luck with it. I like the couch disclaimer, LOL!

jacko · « **Reply #31 on:** August 19, 2005, 02:57:53 AM »

Good purchase bill. My family have a Hofner President deep bodied semi acoustic - looks alot like Gibsons L-5 in a deep tobacco sunburst with Bigsby tremeloe. Identical headstock inlay to yours. Unfortunately my brother took it to New Zealand to have it restored so I guess I'll never see it again;-(

Graeme

kmh364 · « **Reply #32 on:** August 19, 2005, 06:57:47 AM »

Jazz boxes are cool. You can approximate a half-way decent jazz tone on most solid body guitars by playing on the neck p/u with the tone rolled off, but nothing gives you that sweet woody sound and bass definition like a real jumbo archtop hollow body with heavy guage strings.

kmh364 · « **Reply #33 on:** August 19, 2005, 07:51:20 AM »

Wow, Just realized that was my 1000th post! Boy, do I like to Bullsh*t or what! LOL!

I think I've just joined an Elite Club with our friend Paul Lindemans from BeNeLux (palembic, from Belgium actually) as the most prolific poster, if memory serves me.

lbpesq · « **Reply #34 on:** August 19, 2005, 08:26:20 AM »

Kevin:

Don't get too excited. Paul, tobo, and Dave, our esteemed moderator, are both over 2000! Keep typing away. LOL

Bill, tgo

kmh364 · « **Reply #35 on:** August 19, 2005, 10:18:17 AM »

Understood, but I'm in the ballpark there with the same order of magnitude, LOL!

kmh364 · « **Reply #36 on:** August 26, 2005, 12:20:54 PM »

Got the Jazz box, and it is very nice! Nice low action, stable neck, and super clean acoustic tone. This thing actually has a better open-chord acoustic tone than a lot of the flat-top jumbo and dreadnought acoustic guitars (with a standard round soundhole and pin-style bridge) I've played lately. It must be the select spruce tap-tuned top and the solid carved figured maple sides and back. Once I get my new custom Lindy-Fralin floater put on there, along with my new THG knobs, it'll really be stylin' for sure, LOL! Now all I gotta do is learn how to play the damn thing, LOL!