What guitar are you playing today?

My newly acquired Taylor T5z Spruce Natural. Looks cool next to my Strats and Teles. Got a good deal and it's pretty much mint with an ok case.
It's got the electric strings on it now and it plays great but I bought it to play as an acoustic so I am going to try tomorrow with some D'Addario Nickel Bronze, which I have used on my Martin OM28e for years.
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Stratman68 said:
My newly acquired Taylor T5z Spruce Natural. Looks cool next to my Strats and Teles. Got a good deal and it's pretty much mint with an ok case.
It's got the electric strings on it now and it plays great but I bought it to play as an acoustic so I am going to try tomorrow with some D'Addario Nickel Bronze, which I have used on my Martin OM28e for years.
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Enjoy! Those are nice guitars - I've had a few.
 
Stratman68 said:
My newly acquired Taylor T5z Spruce Natural. Looks cool next to my Strats and Teles. Got a good deal and it's pretty much mint with an ok case.
It's got the electric strings on it now and it plays great but I bought it to play as an acoustic so I am going to try tomorrow with some D'Addario Nickel Bronze, which I have used on my Martin OM28e for years.
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Elegance in a nutshell. (Or a in a guitar case.)
 
Playing the Yamaha my wife of 42 years gave me for our first Christmas in 1983. I love it, but not near as much as I love her! Drop D. Really fast. Kim Shomaker in Burlington NC did the fret job and Martin Goldwire pick up on it back about '90. It is sweet treasure, and reminds me every time I pick it up.
 

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Sup? :)

Tonight I've been shredding the crap out of the green monster from this set of Twin bodies ( I call them War Machine) I just finished making earlier this month. I can make bodies, but I haven't taught myself how to make a neck yet. I do have a small stash of old Jackson necks to go through till I figure it out ;-)

MSOHON
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I had my PRS 509 out last night and had a lot of fun.

It got a long overdue scrubbing and new strings yesterday, and I noticed the truss-rod needed a minor adjustment to drop the string height. I'm not sure whether that tweak was what did it, but the humbucker settings of the guitar got more guts, much closer to a Les Paul sound than I've been able to achieve before. Tapping the pickups still gave me a good single-coil Strat-ish sound so I was having fun flicking switches depending on the song.


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Greg Ferguson said:
I had my PRS 509 out last night and had a lot of fun.

It got a long overdue scrubbing and new strings yesterday, and I noticed the truss-rod needed a minor adjustment to drop the string height. I'm not sure whether that tweak was what did it, but the humbucker settings of the guitar got more guts, much closer to a Les Paul sound than I've been able to achieve before. Tapping the pickups still gave me a good single-coil Strat-ish sound so I was having fun flicking switches depending on the song.


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Nice flame!
 
secondwindow said:
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Thanks. It was one of those "it was sitting there for too long online and nobody wanted it so I bought it" things.

The action and setup were totally screwed up and, while returning it back to factory specs on the neck pickup, I accidentally tore out one of the wires and broke the pickup. SOooo, PRS, being PRS, the only way to replace the pickup was to send it in. And, while it was there I decided to waste some money and have them do a full tune-up to it because I wanted to switch to NYXL 9.5 gauge strings.

Yeah, it was an expensive repair and tuneup, but it was worth it. I've enjoyed the guitar, and now, after that little tweak, it's really a keeper. I understand the 509 magic now.

I'll have it and my friends will come over to caress it and moan over it, and I'll be like "Get your hands away you!" :)
 
Greg Ferguson said:
I had my PRS 509 out last night and had a lot of fun.

It got a long overdue scrubbing and new strings yesterday, and I noticed the truss-rod needed a minor adjustment to drop the string height. I'm not sure whether that tweak was what did it, but the humbucker settings of the guitar got more guts, much closer to a Les Paul sound than I've been able to achieve before. Tapping the pickups still gave me a good single-coil Strat-ish sound so I was having fun flicking switches depending on the song.


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If that finish isn't called Bengal Tiger, then it should be.
 
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