A new guitar! Awesome!
newbie308
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My son's birthday happens to be on Dec 31st, so we decided to buy him a new electric guitar since he has proven with his practice habbits that he will stick with it. Last year he wanted me to buy him guitar hero for his game station, and I said that if he wanted to play guitar that I'd buy him a guitar, but that playing guitar hero is fun and a complete waste of his time and my money. So, I picked up a cheap used starter Ibanez and a 10w amp. Flash foreward one year and he has absolutely loved playing guitar, and has one of the best instructors in Bucks PA teaching him. Sunday we went to Guitar center and he played a half dozen different guitars for about two hours before settling on a Gibson SG special in ebony with P90 pickups. I think he was in love because he wouldn't stop playing that guitar no matter what else I put in front of him! (Fender Strat, no, Gibson Les Paul, no, Fender Telecaser with humbugger pickups, no) I had to sit patiently until the store was about to close before he set it back into the stand. Now I had anticipated something in the $300-$400 range, but this guitar was close to $700. So I put a deposit on it, and told him he's gonna have to rake a lot of leaves for me to make up the difference! Did I mention that he will be 12 this year! Who knows, maybe he will get good enough to support me in my old age!
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Sweet man. I started my Guitar Playing in 1979 on a 1970 Fender Stratocaster and a Fender Champ amp later replaced by a Twin Reverb.
If he loves playing and loves the SG , you made a great move. Guitars last forever when they are taken care of. Gibson builds high quality Instruments and it's very fun to play.
Guitars pick there players , it talks to you when you play it , you know when it's the right one , thats why he sat there and played it for so long. Thats exactly what happens to me when I go out to check out a new guitar. You feel it when you play. Then you know it's the one. Price , looks and everything else come into play afterwards.Dan
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That SG is a sweet guitar! They play very nice! I just never cared for the body shape. I prefer strats, mainly a custom a friend built for me. And the old Kramer, ESP and Charvel guitars from the 80's. Congrats on having a son interested in playing a real guitar! I am 41 and started when I was 18, wish I had started earlier.
Also......they are known as "humbucker's" not "humbuggers". :cheesygrin:--Gary--
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Also......they are known as "humbucker's" not "humbuggers". :cheesygrin:
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Humbuckers! OK! Got it!
I've always liked Kramer guitars. They just looked realy cool with that long tuning head especialy when you can't find the wire cutters and the strings are flapping all over when you play. That just took me back to my friend Tony's attic jam room circa 1986!Sources: Technics SL1200MKII | SME3009 Tonearm | Monster Alpha 1 MC cartridge | Oppo UDP203 disk player | Nikko NT-790 analog tuner | Musical Fidelity Trivista 21 DAC | Preamp: Threshold SL-10 | Amplifier: Threshold Stasis 2 | Speakers: Snell Acoustics C/V | Kimber 12-TC bi wire speakers | Analysis plus Oval 1 preamp to amp | Wireworld Eclipse 7 DAC to Preamp | Wireworld eclipse digital IC Oppo to DAC | Audioquest Quartz tuner to preamp | -
Didn't know Telecasters came with humbucker pickups,being they are a Gibson product. Maybe someone customized that model? Anyway if they are still making them like they used to S Gs are a fine instrument to play!
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Didn't know Telecasters came with humbucker pickups,being they are a Gibson product. Maybe someone customized that model? Anyway if they are still making them like they used to S Gs are a fine instrument to play!
Ummmm huh? Telecasters are a Fender product. As with stratocasters, I see them with s/s/h, s/h, h/h pickup configurations. Nothing odd about that. I've got a Tele with minibuckers in it.
A quick Google search.....
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/fender-modern-player-telecaster-plus-electric-guitar/h76265000002001
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Cool axe! What year is it? The vintage fenders all used single coil pickups,humbuckers came later,believe it was a copyright thing ! Could be wrong,but I think CBS bought the company around 65 and changed everything,production specs ect.
