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Guitar shopping in Nashville

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Had a sweet day guitar shopping in Nashville today .

At Gruhns I tried an early 1960 Les Paul standard, a 1957 Les Paul custom, two 1955 Teles, an exceptionally clean 58 strat, a couple of pre war martins and a 1931 Nick Lucas Gibson all of these guitars sounded incredible.

At Carters I tried a 1958 Player grade Les Paul standard, and the full range of bridge options on the early P90 gold tops stop tail, stop bar and trapeze which was a Glaser top wrap which was actually the pick of the Les Paul’s there for sound and playability and by far the cheapest as it had a headstock break and refin gold on the back, I’m thinking about getting even though it’s a bit over priced killer killer guitar, apart from the trapeze gold top the other vintage Les Paul’s at carters were a bit average needed fret jobs etc.

At rumble seat I played a few guitars but a 1965 epiphone Olympic was the pick of the whole store that thing was alive I’m thinking of getting that also.

At guitar centre I tried some of the rare and hard to find PRS private stock, Suhr and Tom Andersons.

Gibson garage was cool two acoustics were killer like ridiculously better than all the others, and their 59 Murphy labs were also better than average, they must keep the pick of the litter, because so many of them were really exceptional examples. All in all a fun day will have to post photos when I get home to my laptop I don’t know how to do it from my phone.

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Oh fuck if you get a trapeze Goldtop I'm dibsing.

Sounds like a helluva trip!
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robthemac wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:04 am Oh fuck if you get a trapeze Goldtop I'm dibsing.

Sounds like a helluva trip!
Its 2022, you don't have to have a crap bridge anymore...

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Jops wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:31 am
robthemac wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:04 am Oh fuck if you get a trapeze Goldtop I'm dibsing.

Sounds like a helluva trip!
Its 2022, you don't have to have a crap bridge anymore...
Oh don't worry, I'd immediately route it for a Floyd Rose.
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Sounds like serious fun!
Voxshall wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:02 am Gibson garage was cool two acoustics were killer like ridiculously better than all the others...
Good to see Gibson are "authentically" keeping the tradition of inconsistent acoustics alive!

I wandered into the Ithaca, NY location of Rumble Seat a few years ago. Their collection was most impressive.

I'd be wary of buying from Carter's. They tried to sell a dodgy Bluesbreaker a few years ago (unsure if ultimately successful), and stood by it when the discrepancies were pointed out.

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robthemac wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:42 am
Jops wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:31 am
robthemac wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:04 am Oh fuck if you get a trapeze Goldtop I'm dibsing.

Sounds like a helluva trip!
Its 2022, you don't have to have a crap bridge anymore...
Oh don't worry, I'd immediately route it for a Licensed by Floyd Rose Patents.
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wavesofffear wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:45 am Sounds like serious fun!

I'd be wary of buying from Carter's. They tried to sell a dodgy Bluesbreaker a few years ago (unsure if ultimately successful), and stood by it when the discrepancies were pointed out.
They disclosed everything there is to disclose on this particular guitar, don’t think there is anything else left🤣, but man it plays and sounds how a good vintage guitar should, like an old pair of worn in jeans everything is effortless to play and just flows out of it.
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Damn, time of your life stuff right there. Keep on having fun and look forward to seeing some pic uploads
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Nice work! Those early p90 GT’s are every bit as great, if not better, than 58/59’s.

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Man, that's a good time right there. Hope you're having ball :thumbup:

Any more pics? 🧐

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More pics. :-)

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I’ll post more pictures once I get home just finishing up Cuba, Bahamas and New Orleans, but got to see a couple of Dumble amps and an original Trainwreck and a lot of sweet other guitars including old Tele boardcaster and nocaster, one of them was owned by G.E Smith and Mary Kaye’s strat which I swear looks shell pink despite it being blond, unless she also owned a shell pink one, in which case I’m stoked to see what an original shell pink strat looks like.

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Sounds like you've hit some amazing places! I have fond memories of the Bahamas, the beaches there are just ridiculous

What were the Dumble's and Trainwreck that you saw? I'd hate to think what the pricetags were on those amps ?!
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Can't wait to see some pictures and hear your thoughts! Especially on Dumbles compared to your Two Rock.
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