spupilup
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Free time can be dangerous.
Early this morning I was killing time perusing the AMS Outlet Zone when I saw a Southern Fade 1959 Les Paul that would look so nice on the guitar stand next to my ADB 1959. I was able to get it for $699 with one of my coupons. Normally, I wouldn't buy two of the same guitar but my ADB has become one of my favorites and I figured I could go with 9's on the Southern Fade and leave it tuned differently. It could, conceivably, arrive tomorrow but I'm not really concerned as I have so much going on I wouldn't have much of a chance to play with it until after Christmas.
I also scheduled the big bridge swap for later next week as I will finally have all the pieces from Faber to install and ABRM and tail piece on my ADB. I went for everything so I'll have a really great opportunity to A/B the ADB with all the Faber hardware against the Southern Fade and its stock hardware. I even included a few titanium saddles for the round wound strings. I know there are people who will think I'm crazy for "wasting money" on these sorts of things but, hey, I'm 63, having fun and, in the grand scheme of things, this is all really just chump change. One could spend their money in far worse ways.
I don't have a Marshall or Hiwatt stack but do have a really nice old (1968) Ampeg 18 watt Reverbojet that's all original and a Tone King Gremlin which I find can be a very revealing little 5 watter that does a nice job approximating both tweed and blackface amps. So between the two I should be able to get a good idea of what the hardware upgrades do for the sound of these great guitars. We'll see.
Early this morning I was killing time perusing the AMS Outlet Zone when I saw a Southern Fade 1959 Les Paul that would look so nice on the guitar stand next to my ADB 1959. I was able to get it for $699 with one of my coupons. Normally, I wouldn't buy two of the same guitar but my ADB has become one of my favorites and I figured I could go with 9's on the Southern Fade and leave it tuned differently. It could, conceivably, arrive tomorrow but I'm not really concerned as I have so much going on I wouldn't have much of a chance to play with it until after Christmas.
I also scheduled the big bridge swap for later next week as I will finally have all the pieces from Faber to install and ABRM and tail piece on my ADB. I went for everything so I'll have a really great opportunity to A/B the ADB with all the Faber hardware against the Southern Fade and its stock hardware. I even included a few titanium saddles for the round wound strings. I know there are people who will think I'm crazy for "wasting money" on these sorts of things but, hey, I'm 63, having fun and, in the grand scheme of things, this is all really just chump change. One could spend their money in far worse ways.
I don't have a Marshall or Hiwatt stack but do have a really nice old (1968) Ampeg 18 watt Reverbojet that's all original and a Tone King Gremlin which I find can be a very revealing little 5 watter that does a nice job approximating both tweed and blackface amps. So between the two I should be able to get a good idea of what the hardware upgrades do for the sound of these great guitars. We'll see.