My tele is having a vacation at the back of closet with the Roland keyboards...

Alex is tapping into his inner white trash, but you have to ask yourself if you can look at the bigsby without THAT image in your head. My experence with a whammy bar goes back to a department store in NZ called Farmers where I bought my first guitar for $49 (back in the 70's) thinking it was fantastic. Its best feature was a tuning randomizer function built into the big silver bar. It turned Smoke on the Water into Balinese tunings, but you never knew which one in advance.

You're still lusting after a Les Paul OVM. Do the american economy a favour and buy one. Your kids will thank you - my dad saved the americans from recession! Could even be a tax benefit, but check your local tax laws.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/division...20the%20Month/

I think Miss April is the one you are after.

B

Nah! Not a Les Paul, I wanna Gretsch!

Not gonna chop the Tele anymore now. Next year's guitar is one of these:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/prod_bdb_AR...3.html?image=0

The strong euro's pushing down the price of Gibsons in Europe now. You can get a new Flying V for under 600€ these days.

Very nice, and no sarcasm in this post for a change. I always thought Gretsch was a brand of Gibson :) However I am practically a member of the family after seeing the down home history and pics on the Gretsch website.

Good idea to aim for something you can't afford. Why would anyone make a guitar that expensive? The point is that if you appreciate it, can you justify the cost? If I only bought what I wanted to pay for, I'd have a very dull life.

Cheers,
B

Bryan, it's dirt cheap.

http://www.thomann.de/fi/gretsch_g51...atic_ltdor.htm

Gretsch moved its entire production to Japan years ago, even the expensive ones. Now they've started in China. Been reading Gretsch owners' message boards etc and it's supposed to be pretty good.

How about this, too:
http://www.thomann.de/fi/ibanez_af75tdgiv.htm

Very very tempted. That with some TV Jones PU's.. <wanks furiously..>

I can get all Thomann stuff 22% cheaper too cos I order through my company, so no tax on an import from Germany.

No, that's not a lot. When you said 'next year' I thought it must be a little expensive. Skippng the huge VAT is quite a coup. Plus you keep the tele intact.

Click the 'lisaa ostoskoriin' button quick before the kids get home from school.

B

No, that's not a lot. When you said 'next year' I thought it must be a little expensive. Skippng the huge VAT is quite a coup. Plus you keep the tele intact.

Click the lisaa ostoskoriin button quick before the kids get home from school...

B

Going to bloody IKEA tomorrow getting furniture stuff for the kids' rooms, so no new music stuff till next year - unless I can hide it from the kids. They'll go ballistic if they find I've blown the wad on another guitar..

Really don't like buying guitars online though. I remember when I bought the Telly, there were 4 in the shop, all identical in appearance but there was just the one that stood out from a playing perspective. Makes me laugh thinking about how the bloke in the shop said something like "Oh yeah! This ones really outstanding, you're right!" Man, I fell for that hook, line and sinker, and just had to get it before someone else "discovered" it. I fucking rushed to the bank in a panic to withdraw the cash (remember those days?) and actually legged it back to the shop!

Yes! The rush to the bank for the cash because you gotta have it :) They were the best days, for all the wrong reasons. I bought a Korg M3r which cost me $1,800 - a fortune for me in the late 80s. It was the most exciting thing at the time. But of course it hardly did anything, not worth programming because the few samples in rom sounded the same no matter what you did with the envelopes. These days I can afford a TI which does an amazing number of things but the acquisition was not the same :(

Guitars are different of course, but after my 'Farmer's special' I was wary of not paying enough money. However I got caught trying a few teles in a shop and then ordering a specific colour. The damn thing is way too heavy and picks up too much hum and buzz to be unusable. I am sure I held a lighter guitar in the shop but got home with something bigger and heavier. And I am sure guitar shops have special eletrical noise dampening because even the $49 ones aren't noisy in the shop :)

What was my point? No idea, but there's something great about walking into a shop, loving something so much you can't live without it, and borrowing your kids inheritance for it...

B

A lighter guitar. I'm waiting for the lighter Nokia. With a bottle opener too.

Just got back from the pub, so, hello.

Never enough ashtrays either