• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT...AND SHAPE+MODEL

The title of the topic tells us enough.
This is about "ranking the guitars". I made my personal top 5 of acoustics. I have Gibson and Martin. WHY AM or was I,  and I am not the only one, SO OBSESSED IN A DREADNOUGHT shape?
1) Gibson SJ-200 Montana Gold: greatest sounding guitar of all
2) Martin (HD-28, D-45V) having real great guitars
3) COLLINGS
4) SANTA CRUZ
5) TAYLOR.
I focussed maybe too much on dreadnoughts, and neglecting other sizes like 000, or Jumbo.
The sound of a Dreadnought is sometimes too limited about producing a "harder sound" maybe the only guitars from my list are Martin D-45V and Gibson SJ-200.
It's also amazing to see that all these top brands, in fact 75% are made with the same wood.
So there must be MORE to produce different sounds. My opinion is the "inner structure"but I really don't know why.
Who has experience with these guitars, like Santa Cruz, Collings and Taylor. What I don't like are the CUTAWAYS, what is the purpose? to play 1 or 2 extra frets?
It sounds silly but some songs are sounding better with a dreadnought, others with a "jumbo-like"

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  • From: Renfrewshire, Scotland
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
  • Posts: 1,359

Re: IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT...AND SHAPE+MODEL

I love this kind of thread. What it does for me is really show me that my knowlege of guitars is just about nil. Yeah, I've heard of these makes and models, but that's about it. It really makes me see that there is a whole universe of guitars out there that I haven't discovered yet. And would they make a difference to my playing? I fear I'm destined to sound bad on any guitar.

I can only dream of touching the guitars you mentiond, Lieven, but my Holy Grail is definitely Gibson. But only because the man who inspired me to play uses a J200. Other than that my knowlege isn't great enough to compile a top 5. I've got a lot of catching up to do.

I'm sure I've given you this link before but I'll give it to you again. It is a collection of guitars with a little story about each. This is not the man who inspired me, but he plays in the same band.

http://www.jamesstevenson.info/tools.htm

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT...AND SHAPE+MODEL

Alvee thanks for your comment. It's always so difficult to discuss about guitars. AGREE, I should be the last to discuss about this, having a pretty nice collection, 50% luck, 25% coincidence and 25% a must-have-it.
Just like you told, I knew what an acoustic guitar was and an electric. I surfed, compared days and days, and still too difficult.
- What about other "holy grails"? A Gretsch WHITE PENGUIN (origin 50-ties), sold on eBay, 56 bids for about 175.000$ IS THIS REAL, it looks surrealistic, but so is a STRADIVARIUS too. a 1958-1960 Gibson LP Standard, estimated price > 150.000$, while a custom, the top of the line goes 50.000-75.000$ Acoustics in high price class: same woods, resulting in a difficult to hear the difference situation. The sky isn't the limit. I ask myself many times the question, why keeping my US 1964 Fender? A piece of wood with strings. AND,yet I can't kep distance from them.

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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