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Topic: comfort colors, mica & lacquer guitars ? |
Billy Carr
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Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 10 May 2013 5:54 am |
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| How does guitar colors affect the comfort zone, glare factors and personal feel for different players? Personally, it's the black, navy, burgundy and rosewood micas, I can get used to and comfortable sitting behind. Lacquers, I always liked the black on the Super Pro's back when Sho-Bud was turning them out. The red lacquer Sho_bud had was nice to me. I remember looking at the SB catalog with the black & red guitars on the cover and then the blue Pro I and of course, the green LDG also there. Carters are the only guitars I had a glare problem with. Just the U-12's though. On stage with overhead lights was a real problem in the area between the pu and the fretboard. I also had a LDG with the wood neck I'd take if going back to the same place, which happened often years ago. This probably sounds crazy but the one guitar I played that I really liked years ago was a black lacquer D-10 Super Pro with the small body. Don't think they made many. When I got older and could buy what I wanted. I tried several colors. Two I'll order and that's the port red mica that Rains was using and the black mica. That's the colors I've got picked for a new Justice guitar, which is down the road. I'll hush now!! Thanks. |
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Bill L. Wilson
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Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 10 May 2013 6:35 am The Color.
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| I've never paid attention to the color of a guitar, but the mirror chrome fretboard on my Emmons LeGrande is a real problem under stage lights. Also, I have a rosewood fingerboard w/ abalone dots on a custom made Strat, that is impossible to see under stage lights. My Fender Tele w/the maple neck and black dots, never a problem. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 10 May 2013 11:10 am
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| My Shobuds are lacquer. My main workhorse is my Kline. Off white, leather-grained mica. Not fancy, but no glare, and,,,, it changes color with the stage lights, which is pretty cool-lookin'! |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 10 May 2013 11:13 am
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| John Billings wrote: |
| My Shobuds are lacquer. My main workhorse is my Kline. Off white, leather-grained mica. Not fancy, but no glare, and,,,, it changes color with the stage lights, which is pretty cool-lookin'! |
Good choice John. (I added the blue highlight)
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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