Kuz Posted November 15, 2008 Posted November 15, 2008 Well, since we are talking about 150 GTs with p-90s this hack is now using his more! (Original Parsons St. Gibson) :afro: http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff205/jjkuz/544158jpg.jpg[/img] Heard it all over his "On an Island" album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD1-j5ZWOmw
Kuz Posted November 16, 2008 Author Posted November 16, 2008 if only I could be a hack like that Exactly! ;D
Gitfiddler Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 10.5 - 50's sound like gauge I'd like to try!!
yoslate Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 10.5 - 50's sound like gauge I'd like to try!! Never used 'em, always .011's for me, but I have a friend who played with Bonnie Raitt for years, an out-of-this-world player, and he swears by that set! Will's a Tele player and bends those things all over the fretboard....
VJonathan Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 I've got 11s on my GT LP and it sustains like hell! It's such a wonderful instrument! 54LP.jpg 54LP.jpg_thumb
ShrimpStew Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 That looks like a good one VJ. Maybe it's the light in the pic but is that a gold top or a natural ?
tulk1 Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 That looks like a good one VJ. Maybe it's the light in the pic but is that a gold top or a natural ? SS, click on the pic and it'll expand. You can see it's a GT.
Gitfiddler Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 I've got 11s on my GT LP and it sustains like hell! It's such a wonderful instrument! VJ, nice Goldtop. Is that an R4? I see yours is topwrapped. That could give you additonal flex in your 11's.
yoslate Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 I see yours is topwrapped. 'fiddler.... It has to be top wrapped. It's just the stop tailpiece; there's no bridge.
High Flying Bird Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 'fiddler.... It has to be top wrapped. It's just the stop tailpiece; there's no bridge. Good eye Slate. :wink: My Melody Maker had one of these and a guy put a Badass wrap around Bridge on it. Great little design. Joe has a bridge similar to this on his '58 Jr.
yoslate Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 My custom 150 has that set up. No TOM. It's the setup of the LP juniors; Heritage 137's; and the mid-fifties, post-trapeze, pre tune-o-matic Les Pauls. Intonation on my 150, by the way, is dead on.
ShrimpStew Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 Does it help the sustain with only a tailpiece ?
yoslate Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 Does it help the sustain with only a tailpiece ? Shrimp.... There are some who would assert so. There have been a few threads here at the HOC about that. Very interesting stuff, and some very, very knowledgeable cats here. Worth doing a word search on the HOC homepage to see what you could dig up. Do that, and then see what you might conclude. I'm a big advocate of "less is more" in just about everything. I am very fond of the sheer simplicity of the setup on my 150. I have no empirical information on anything technical about it.
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