Thread: Any other guitar players here?

I started playing a Tenor Saxophone when I was 9 or 10 I think I played until I was 14...Then I picked up a guitar at 16. I have three guitars at the moment a Guild Acoustic, Samick hard body electric, and a Hollow Body Ibanez electric with flat wound strings. I bought a Peavey a few years back (can't remember the model) I really wanted a tube amp... Any way I haven't really picked any of them up in 10 years.
Not sure why I still have them, I have no time. I guess I'm hoping at some point I will have the time...

Been playing for 18 years.
Main guitars are Fender Lonestar Strat, Epi Sheraton, Seagull Cedar prototype E/A and a Freshman FA1DCE12.
Fave amp is my Fender FM212R but it's awaiting repairs at the mo so I've been using a Line6 Spider IV75. Other gear includes a Studiomaster PA with EV speakers, mic of choice is a trusty SM58, and I play keys - Technics P50 and a Roland AX7 run through various apps like Garage Band and Music Studio.
I can play bass, but usually tinker with my brother's gear - Fender P Bass and a huge Trace Elliot amp.
I studied music, focusing on Brass - BBb tuba was my main choice. I can get a tune out of most instruments and have played all the above, various other brass, banjo, uke, mandolin, double bass, cello, violin, various percussion, recorder and highland bagpipes in public at one stage or another.

Nice T type SRNoob. What kind of humbuckers did you use?

I tried to learn to play (kinda) on and off, mostly off, over the years and was actually trying seriously back before the crash in 2007-8, but a combination of nerve issues in my ring finger and pinky on my left hand and having to sell the ridiculous "collection" I had acquired put an end to that. I had what most would consider a crazy number of art and historic collection Les Paul reissues ('59 w Fralins, '58 VOS with WCR Fillmore, '57 VOS with the Green/Moore out of phase pickups, '54 Black Beauty with pickups from MJ at the Duncan custom shop) , Fender, ('51 Nocaster CS with Duncan CS pickups, '54 40th Anniversary Strat Reissue with Antiquities, '52 AV Tele with Fralins, 62 Start AV with Fralins), regular Gibson Firebird and a Martin HD28V. Had 5 amps, a Deluxe reverb, early Soultine 18w Marshall clone, '57 Fender Tweed Twin reissue, 50 watt hand wired Metroamp build stuffed into a Marshall box, and a real live '64 Vibrolux.. Almost all of the guitars had been upgraded in the electronics area. Yeah, I had GAS in a major way. All I have left now are the two original guitars, my brothers old early Mexican Tele which has been heavily upgraded with sDuncan Broadcasters and an old school bridge setup, the 18w clone and my old early 60's Gibson LG series acoustic that I have had since like 1978. Yeah, crazy, I know. I had actually just spent a week at Jeff Berlin's Player School of Music and was about ready to start looking for playing out opportunities when my hand went all spastic on me. If someone asked me which guitars I miss the most, oddly enough, it would not be the Les Pauls or CS Fender. I would be the '52 Tele and the Martin, with the '54 Strat as the runner up. The Tele was one of those real finds even before I dropped the Fralins and the RS Guitarworks pots, caps and such in it. After mods, it was the most versatile guitar I had. All of the amps loved it, even the finicky Vibrolux and when plugged into that Marshall, it was like it was channeling James Gang era Joe Walsh. I would have never expected that from a Tele and especially not from just boosting the pickup output a small amount. To my ear, the various WCR's were the best buckers I heard, but in a Fender, those Lindy Fralin Blues Specials can be magic!!!!

Originally Posted by BTgrin

Nice T type SRNoob. What kind of humbuckers did you use?

Thanks! They are GFS lookalikes of the old Fender type pickups that originally came in the '72 Deluxe. Sound like a standard PAF. IMO they sound great!