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Post by brewmaster on May 17, 2018 8:58:24 GMT
Lakland signature Duck Dunn bass.. Designed in honour of the great Donald "Duck" Dunn, who was for many years the studio bass player for Stax, playing on such all time favourites as "Knock on Wood", "In the Midnight Hour", "Hold on I'm Coming" and many more. Here's Duck with Steve Cropper... Duck passed away in 2012.
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Post by ROCKY on May 17, 2018 13:14:20 GMT
Here's my Hendrix 'Black Beauty' that I finally finished replicating. Jimi is pictured holding it in the garden of his then girlfriend. He died the next day. Here is my replica of Jimi's '68 black strat that he called 'Black Beauty'. He used it at the Isle of Wight Concert and died 3 weeks later on Sept. 18,1970. I also have his Woodstock strap on it.
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Post by brewmaster on May 17, 2018 18:26:40 GMT
Rocky, what a great project. A nice tribute to Jimmi
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Post by pothos on May 17, 2018 22:09:49 GMT
Didn't Jimmy Page have a black beauty.
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Post by brewmaster on May 18, 2018 9:32:35 GMT
That's right, Pothos, it was a Gibson LP. David Gilmour had his famous black strat, which is the subject of an entire bookThis strat, which he bought to replace one stolen while touring, has been chopped, reworked and modified almost as much as Kim Kardashian! Fender now offer a David Gilmour Signature Model
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Post by ROCKY on May 18, 2018 12:54:41 GMT
and of course Eric had his 'Blackie'.
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Post by ROCKY on May 18, 2018 13:03:29 GMT
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Post by ROCKY on May 19, 2018 14:25:50 GMT
That's right, Pothos, it was a Gibson LP. David Gilmour had his famous black strat, which is the subject of an entire bookThis strat, which he bought to replace one stolen while touring, has been chopped, reworked and modified almost as much as Kim Kardashian! Fender now offer a David Gilmour Signature Model I have the hardcover of that book and it is excellent! btw the strap on that guitar in the picture was owned and used by Jimi Hendrix. Dave's wife won it for him at an auction for his birthday present. Nice wife!! I also made a left hand replica of this strat for my collection. A photo of my Gilmour left hand Black Strat. My strap was signed by jazz guitarist John Scofield.
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Post by brewmaster on May 19, 2018 17:24:44 GMT
Rocky, I too have the hardback, really terrific book. By the way, DG gave Guy Pratt a rare Fender bass as a wedding present. Nice gesture. I liked the bit in the book about the Hard Rock Cafe. mistreating the Black Strat
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Post by ROCKY on May 19, 2018 21:26:17 GMT
I remember that fiasco he had with the HRC. After he was told and seen what they had done to it he wanted it back and they said no you gave it to us.
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Post by brewmaster on May 22, 2018 9:21:34 GMT
Givson [not Gibson] GS-1000
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Post by henryj on May 22, 2018 11:11:13 GMT
Wow, Brewmaster!
Is "Givson" allowed to do that? With a G in that font, just like Gibson's?
I googled them and took a chance of visiting their website. The site looks more or less legit, but they are even calling their electric guitars "Electric Spanish," as in "ES" (e.g. ES-335). Except Givson's Electric Spanish line includes solid body models.
I hope I didn't get a virus from their site. It was a little too serious to be Onion-like.
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Post by ROCKY on May 22, 2018 13:23:31 GMT
Wow, Brewmaster! Is "Givson" allowed to do that? While they are located in West Bengal, India, so with Gibson in financial trouble now posting Chapter 11 they probably don't have the money or lawyers to pursue to stop it. There are Chinese Les Pauls that are fake that they slap the Gibson logo on and it hasn't been stopped.
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Post by brewmaster on May 22, 2018 17:38:40 GMT
I understand that the Givson is a very heavy piece of wood. They seem to have gotten away with the blatant name mischief, so I expect we'll soon see Femders, Hophners and Rickendackers for sale!
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Post by ROCKY on May 25, 2018 15:42:34 GMT
Guys what do you do with your left over guitar parts? You build a 'classic' one of one strat !! I wonder what kind of sound that string to that neck plate sounds like? lol I count 14 strings?
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Post by henryj on May 25, 2018 23:45:04 GMT
Guys what do you do with your left over guitar parts? You build a 'classic' one of one strat !! I wonder what kind of sound that string to that neck plate sounds like? lol I count 14 strings? Well, if there was a way to tune those strings, it might sound sort of like a Coral Electric Sitar, with the sympathetic strings. But you really need 12 extra strings for the sympathetic vibrations.
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Post by brewmaster on Jun 7, 2018 9:41:50 GMT
Interview with George about the Strat hereFender custom version of George's Rocky Strat
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Post by henryj on Jun 7, 2018 11:34:08 GMT
Brewmaster, when I zoomed in on that Rocky Strat, it was too grainy to read how the volume and tone controls were marked. However, my brother has an HSS version of the Rocky Strat and a knob marked "tone" was put back on the volume control, and the "volume" knob is on one of the tone controls. He says the actual volume control is where it needs to be.
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Post by henryj on Jun 7, 2018 11:52:30 GMT
Okay, I Googled around and found a site with a zoomable picture of a Rocky replica. The volume knob is on the bottom, but the actual volume CONTROL is on top. www.beatlesuits.com/rocky-strat-paintworks.htmlGo to the above link, click on the Strat body, and look where the volume knob is. Talk about interesting guitars!
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Post by ROCKY on Jun 7, 2018 13:29:04 GMT
That is true henryj the volume knob was put back on in the wrong position, weather it is where it works the volume or not I have not found that out. The volume knob on strats should be near the bridge pickup were this plain tone knob is in this picture of Rocky. (click on photo to enlarge.) btw this is going to be my next Beatle guitar replica that I purchase. I'm saving up my money now for one. I would do my own, but there's just too much jazz going on for me to do an excellent job. When I get mine I will fine tune and tweek it.
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