The Totally Miscellaneous non-Alembic Guitar and Bass Thread

[edwardofhuncote]

Caramel Pickups. (Seymour Duncan Hotstacks I think...) Courtesy of Bro. Elwood Blue... he loaded these into this cool old tortoise pickguard last year, just for me. It was just the ticket for my eighty-something Squier Strat.

[Greywolf]

My rarest non Alembic , an ALL Pernambuco custom Tonare Grand built by Steve Fischer for Ricky Skaggs when he was helping PRS develop their acoustics.  1 of 1 , they made 4 others with Pernambuco bodies.  Body, neck , fretboard and bridge are Pernambuco  .  This is the wood concert violin bows are made from . https://reverb.com/item/41891259-2010-prs-tonare-grand-pernambuco-adirondack-spruce

[edwardofhuncote]

An old friend came back last week... the guitar I learned to play my first chords on long, long ago. 1950 Martin D-18. Played left-handed for a lot of its life. Then right-handed by at least one heavy-handed ruffian. Since the mid-70's it's belonged to a music mentor of mine, and had a pretty easy life with us. He leaves it with me for extended spells, this time (it sounds like) for good. As rough as it is, player-grade condition, it is in absolutely perfect playing condition. Needs nothing but a better player than me. 

[edwardofhuncote]

Why, it's even been to an Alembic mini-meet-up!

This was in 2019, a year or two before I sent it home last time. As my hands began to fail again I found it too frustrating to play guitar... didn't make sense to keep it. 

It's nice getting reacquainted... lotta' history with this old box! 

[Nova Constellatio]

What a great thread.

I'm new here, and have just started learning about Alembics, but have been collecting other stuff for a while.

Since there are a bunch of great acoustics here, I was going to post some stuff here, but when I posted, the image links came up blank.

Oops.

I'm guessing new users probably need to get images approved?

[jazzyvee]

Why, it's even been to an Alembic mini-meet-up!

This was in 2019, a year or two before I sent it home last time. As my hands began to fail again I found it too frustrating to play guitar... didn't make sense to keep it.

It's nice getting reacquainted... lotta' history with this old box!

Well I think that may be a first for me, a bass with a capo, unless it is a string mute.👀🎶

[David Houck]

... I was going to post some stuff here, but when I posted, the image links came up blank ...

Welcome!

We just updated the board, and I don't remember if we have a picture limit for new members; but I don't think so.

Were you uploading a picture from your computer, or linking to a picture on another site?

[edwardofhuncote]

Why, it's even been to an Alembic mini-meet-up!

This was in 2019, a year or two before I sent it home last time. As my hands began to fail again I found it too frustrating to play guitar... didn't make sense to keep it.

It's nice getting reacquainted... lotta' history with this old box!

Well I think that may be a first for me, a bass with a capo, unless it is a string mute.👀🎶

I don't remember specifics of brand, but Dave's bass capo allowed for selectively capo'ing some strings at the fret while leaving others open. Especially useful for his compositions. 

I bet they make a 5-string version. 😉

... I was going to post some stuff here, but when I posted, the image links came up blank ...

Welcome!

We just updated the board, and I don't remember if we have a picture limit for new members; but I don't think so.

Were you uploading a picture from your computer, or linking to a picture on another site?

I think the size limit is still in place is all, Dave. I'm using the same resizing I was before and it seems to accept these just fine. I did get a "FILE TOO LARGE" (or something) warning for one I forgot to resize once. 

[Nova Constellatio]

I was linking images from a site — I'll try again here:

[David Houck]

Well I think that may be a first for me, a bass with a capo, unless it is a string mute.👀🎶

I don't remember specifics of brand, but Dave's bass capo allowed for selectively capo'ing some strings at the fret while leaving others open. Especially useful for his compositions.

Thanks Greg.  It's called a Spider capo.

[David Houck]

I was linking images from a site — I'll try again here:





There should be two images.

There's something wrong with your links.  Within your post, I was able to link to a picture from a different site, but I was unable to get your google drive links to work.  Perhaps there's a sharing setting on google drive.

[David Houck]

I was linking images from a site

There's something wrong with your links.  Within your post, I was able to link to a picture from a different site, but I was unable to get your google drive links to work.  Perhaps there's a sharing setting on google drive.

Try this (I don't know if this will work):  On your google drive page, can you right click and open the picture in a new tab?  If so, copy the link from the new tab and insert in your post.

[David Houck]

Sorry for the thread hijack Greg.

[edwardofhuncote]

Sorry for the thread hijack Greg.

No worries, Dave... the whole premise of this old thread was kind of a hijack. 🤣 Hopefully we can get the new David sorted out and see some pictures. 😉

[Nova Constellatio]

I was linking images from a site — I'll try again here:

Got it to work.