Monat: Januar 2019

Dear reader a new blog called Monthly Guitar. A blog for guitar´s friend or guitar aficionados. There have been lots of emails asking about guitars and gear. So I ´ll post a monthly blog referring to all the stuff.

Monthly Guitar/ February

2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard USA –

This was the last Les Paul USA Standard I bought back in 2006 @ musik-butik/ Germany. It´s weight relieved, 9 holes drilled out of the mahogany body. It has got a beautiful back and some aging by myself while using it. Pick up´s middle position gives a percussive tone similar to a semi hollow. Pickups are burstbucker pros, which were first introduced in 2002 on Gary Moore`s Signature model. I put the pick guard on. The 50s neck, not a chunky Custom Shop one, got thin high frets. It´s tiger flamed but not highly figured with the typical peek a poo to be found on Custom Shop Les Pauls.

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Buy and sell

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Back in 1975 I bought a used Framus Stratocaster and had a Tokai Strat while playing for Klopstock. 1984 I bought my first real Fender , a white one, but mainly used Les Pauls that time. I sold the Strat for a Gibson US1. In “Wired” I went for a dark-blue metallic Fender Strat Plus with Lace Sensor pickups and the JB saddle. It sounded really great and so I acquired a red Fender 40^th Anniversary Strat. Both were sold around 1997, cause I used my Schon guitars again. 2009 I got a nice 2006 Jeff Beck Strat seafoam green and 2014 a Fender 60^th Anniversary Commemorative Strat with maple fingerboard, that I really like most. All Strat tones on my cd “On Scrambled Tunes”are played with that guitar. A new addition is a white blonde Fender American Original `50s Stratocaster. It´s got a really chunky maple neck with small frets and an one piece ash body with nitro lacquer. The three 59s single coils and the light weight ash body deliver true vintage tones like the Fender custom shop models. It sounds awesome.

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The Squier Vintage Vibe Telecaster is a nice axe, too. It´s got a one piece pine body.

Getting into Fender tube amps

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After listening to lots of Fender amps while being in New Orleans and Nashville I got impressed by the Fender sound. 2016 I got a Fender Superchamp limited edition in Daphne Blue, not bad but missing some more vintage tone. Back in Germany I listened to Fender amp vids on youtube and so I  ordered that little Fender Blues Junior Tweed amp and later on the new Fender Blues Junior IV. Great little amps, easy two carry and a real blues tone with a classic spring reverb.

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All photos by cmartin