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guitar1580

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Well it seems that some of us knife lovers are into guitars too, with some nice pics turning up in a thread about ebony. I actually have better guitars than I do knives or camera, but I thought it would be interesting to pair a few up. Feel free to show your favorites also. :cool:
JT

1971 blonde Fender Telecaster / 2007 Buck 119 hunting knife
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1978 Kramer DMZ-5000 Bass / 2005 Buck 102 Woodsman, Cocobolo handle
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Vintage French bayo, inscribed 1876. The Kramer bass contained some interesting engineering and technology for the time period. The neck is an aluminum T-beam, with walnut inlays, and ebonol fingerboard. Ebonol is a very stable "micarta like" phenolic resin material used in the making of bowling balls. The body is walnut with strips of maple sandwiched down the center. The bass has incredible tone and sustain.
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some nice looking guitars ya'll have here, I'm quite jealous. To keep the merriment going I present Raven and my Tele.

Raven - Epiphone Special II with GFS Mean 90's (similar to SD P90's) BM53; this month's EDC.
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My Tele - Squier made, soon to have either SD Tele 52's or SD Tele Classics and new hardware (needs to be sanded, new pickguard, possibly gold tuners and saddles to help match the pots). BM42; just in a Bali mood I suppose.
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Thanks guys, I knew we had some axemen here. Nice flame on that Van Halen model. And I like the tortise pickguard and flat saddles on the Tele. The screws on my old ones tend to dig into the right hand at times. Love Les Pauls too.

No knife in this one, my early 90s Ibanez Voyager with Floyd Rose trem. It is very versatile, and one of few red ones.
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JT
 
no pic right now but play a black guild polara s-100 (discontinued so pretty proud of her) and my mom's ibanez acoustic from her high school/college years. also have a no name 12-string (also was mom's) and a epiphone strat model in manilla/yellow. nice pics everyone!
 
Blarrrg I'll take some pictures of my guitar and amp later this week.

Very cool idea for a thread. :thumbup:
 
guitar1580 said:
Well it seems that some of us knife lovers are into guitars too, with some nice pics turning up in a thread about ebony. I actually have better guitars than I do knives or camera, but I thought it would be interesting to pair a few up. Feel free to show your favorites also. :cool:
JT

1971 blonde Fender Telecaster / 2007 Buck 119 hunting knife
SSCN2173.jpg


1978 Kramer DMZ-5000 Bass / 2005 Buck 102 Woodsman, Cocobolo handle
SSCN2162.jpg


Vintage French bayo, inscribed 1876. The Kramer bass contained some interesting engineering and technology for the time period. The neck is an aluminum T-beam, with walnut inlays, and ebonol fingerboard. Ebonol is a very stable "micarta like" phenolic resin material used in the making of bowling balls. The body is walnut with strips of maple sandwiched down the center. The bass has incredible tone and sustain.
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GREAT IDEA FOR A THREAD!:thumbup:

And the first pick is an amazingly insane pairing:eek: Two classics indeed. '71 was a great year.
Only way it could be better is if the buck was vintage too.

I gotta pair some of mine up for pics too.
 
Don't have any pics of the guitars, but if I were pairing mine up, I'd put my small WC Sebenza with my Yairi sunburst acoustic and my digcam Para 2 with my D-28. My wife's dog paw Sebbie would go with her autoharp. Don't play electric so the rest of the knives will just have to hum along.
 
Cool thread! I like guitars and knives both for the aesthetics and usefulness. Old amps too, I have lots of small ancient tube amps.

I have a big collection of cheap funky guitars, fun stuff...
 
Great pics, guys. I'm glad I bumped the thread up, it almost fell through the cracks Sunday nite. Thanks for joining in, and thanks for the compliments on my old Tele.

Looking forward to more pics. The guitars do look nice with a nice knife, in the same way that a gun looks nice with a knife.

I'm going to try to pair some more up and get a few more pics this week. I'm a bit of a guitar geek too, with a good handful of amps and guits layin around.

Dale , I'll bet you like the D-28. Is it newer or older? The Yairis are cool too. I have an early 80s classical by him.

JT
 
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Dale , I'll bet you like the D-28. Is it newer or older? The Yairis are cool too. I have an early 80s classical by him.
JT
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I love Mother (the Martin). I used to sell them in WV when I was a college student back in the late 70's. If you're a Martin guy, you'll remember that they used to have a beautiful sound but played like you were driving a Mack truck with no PS. Since then, Martin has softened the action on their dreadnought bodies and managed to keep most of the sound. Mine is an early 2001 off-the-rack D-28, not a herringbone or heritage or vintage model. I bought it for the action and the sound. I looked for 20 years before I found a D-28 that I was comfortable playing right off the rack and still had a good D-28 sound. We do mostly traditional Appalachian music and mountain / southern gospel, so that's the sound I was interested in.

The Yairi was a surprise. I stopped in a local music shop one day when I had been guitarless for about a year and saw it on the wall. I asked the guy if I could play it and it never went back on the wall. It's an older WY-1-SB (1999 or 2000). That's the folk sized single cutaway with flamed maple back and sides and a sunburst finish. It is absolutely the sweetest sounding acoustic I have ever heard, but Yairi's famous for that. It is my favorite to play for hours on end because it's so easy to play and sound good. Mother gives you "that Martin sound", but you have to coax it out of her. The Yairi is always there ready to give more than you ask of her.
 
I had a D-28 for a few years, it was actually my 20th anniversary present from my wife. It had a nice full sound, but I just didn't like the action as much as my first love. I learned to play on my dad's mid 60's Gibson Dove, and nothing has ever felt as good to me. When I joined the Air Force, he gave it to me, and I've had it ever since. It's really VERY similar to a Martin dreadnought, and I think that's where Gibson got the design. I had lusted after a D-28 for years, but after owning it and going back and forth between the two for three or four years, I ended up passing the Martin to my son to replace the beat up old Taylor he was playing on.
 
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