Trombone ? Nahhh ... new guitar and amp day.

[DPaulCustom]

Nice score BGood, anything south of $500 would be a deal, if you got both for the price of the 57s, you've won the Score of the Year Award.
As for changing the guts between the amps, I don't know about alignment, but it should'nt be too hard to modify.
You could always add a switched jack for an extension cab.

Congrats on the dirty new T+, Enjoy!

 

[PeterOeh]

Mom says kid doesn't want to play guitar anymore, he wants to try trombone.
Me says, good idea kid ! I'll take the guitar off your hands, I don't like trombone anyway.

So I got this Sapphire LP 60's Tribute Plus F serial, with Epi hard case ... and a small Vox VT20+ amp. All barely played, but filthy. All for less than the price of the Gibson USA 57's Classic set in the guitar.

Not a bad deal ...

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By the way, F313481 serial. Watzit say about it ?

oooh ya.. congratz..

 

[NoBucks]

Nope, that's the conversation I had with the mom when I got there. She posted it and 20 minutes later I was on the case. Drove 1h15 to get there.

This is the add content that got me hooked for the drive:
Hardly used. Son decided to change instruments

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By then I knew I wanted it, but asked for what the amp was anyway, and she sent me these.

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I don't need to tell you I exceeded the speed limit a few times on my way there.

EDIT - Oh yeah, that's my first hard case. I think I'll keep that too.

Thanks for the additional details! Again, great score!

 

[John]

Its sucks he doesn't want to play guitar anymore but thumbs up for wanting to stay with music and picked the trombone.

 

[BGood]

Thanks everybody. I'm stoked !

It cleans up real nice. Frets needed a good polishing. Fretboard oiled. Body cleaned.

I'm tempted to bring down the luster on the poly, no relicing here, just get it more satiny, give it a little class. Scotch Brite should do that well. Anybody went that way ? I usually do it on all my necks and it comes out great.

 

[BGood]

Its sucks he doesn't want to play guitar anymore but thumbs up for wanting to stay with music and picked the trombone.

Maybe if they had bought him a lighter guitar to start with, like a Special LP or even a SG, the skinny kid might have enjoyed it more. That thing is heavy.

 

[NoBucks]

Thanks everybody. I'm stoked !

It cleans up real nice. Frets needed a good polishing. Fretboard oiled. Body cleaned.

I'm tempted to bring down the luster on the poly, no relicing here, just get it more satiny, give it a little class. Scotch Brite should do that well. Anybody went that way ? I usually do it on all my necks and it comes out great.

I'd hate to see that go South, but I think a light hand, and throw in some lemon oil, and then rub it with a cloth diaper...Better to go soft first, because once you go too far in sanding or polishing wood, well, then, you've gone too far.

 

[BGood]

I think it'd be hard to go too far by hand, on poly.

Probably next string change. I will have had time to make my mind about it.

 

[IGRocker]

Very, very nice.

A boy choosing trombone instead of guitar? There must be some really hot girls in the high school marching band.

... or at band camp.

I stuck a flute in my.... uh, never mind. Mmmm, pie.

 

[Raiyn]

I stuck a flute in my.... uh, never mind. Mmmm, pie.

(Insert Jethro Tull joke here)

 

[TheKurdtz]

@BGood how would you go about turning that poly coat in a more satinny one? would it work on a semi-hollow too?

 

[BGood]

Something in that line of thoughts. Why wouldn't it work on a semi-hollow ?

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[Raiyn]

Something in that line of thoughts. Why wouldn't it work on a semi-hollow ?

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So, he's a fraudster. Are we sure he's not secretly French?

 

[BGood]

Fret 13 is high, can't get a low action. I successfully did some leveling on other guitars, but I'm kind of weary for this one ... I never had a luthier do a setup on one of my guitars. This could be the first one, if only to see what they can do better than I.

 

[elephantrider]

man, you got a deal there !

 

[BGood]

man, you got a deal there !

Yep, you could call that a deal

You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking, like mister Floyd would say.

 

[Raiyn]

Fret 13 is high, can't get a low action. I successfully did some leveling on other guitars, but I'm kind of weary for this one ... I never had a luthier do a setup on one of my guitars. This could be the first one, if only to see what they can do better than I.

Besides keep your workbench clean and give you time for something else?

 

[BGood]

It found its niche in the blue side of the family.

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[John]

It blends well BG.

 

[Parabar]

Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears, Tower of Power, Cold Blood, the Crusaders, the Loading Zone, Boz Scaggs, Azteca, Malo

Every one of 'em had horn sections with trombones. SOMEBODY's gotta play 'em!