Starise


 ... I'm just curious, how does one determine the "sex" of a guitar when naming it?

It was easy with my beautiful 'Spacey' masterpiece
 
 
I reckon it's pretty obvious that anything as gorgeous as my RUBY just has to be a lady
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Starise-  With curves like those, could it be anything BUT a woman??  LOL

When I was a kid, I loved the tone of Dickey Betts' Les Paul so much in the song "Melissa", that when I finally got mine (a 1972 Custom), I named her Melissa.

Unfortunately, I had to trade ol' Melissa off to help pay for my studio a couple of years ago.  :-(

I identify my guitars with acknowledgement of their pickups.

I've got all kinds of pickups... and they happen to be sitting in guitars.



For example; It may look like a Gibson SG but it's also a pair of 490s.

Stuff like that.

Mike can you also identify the guitar by the pots or the wiring?

How about pick guard or tuning pegs?

Hey that's Grover hanging on the wall there:

bapu


Mike can you also identify the guitar by the pots or the wiring?

How about pick guard or tuning pegs?

Hey that's Grover hanging on the wall there:

There's a easy to hear difference in the tone circuit if you swap out a 250k pot for 500k pot... but I don't think about that stuff often... I just turn the knobs.

I'm not to worried about the capacitor either... If I had a bumblebee capacitor I'd gladly give it to you if you thought it was something special.


I think you can document the difference in the capacitor's tonal contribution but I don't think I can hear that difference.

Its the string gauge combined with the pickup magnets and the winding characteristics that make the differences I appreciate and listen for.


I had lunch, yesterday, with a guitar broker buddy that owns one of those big national scale guitar shows. We had a great time talking about our favorite pickups and the wood they were mounted to. He's owned and traded several thousand top grade guitars... we always end up talking about how they sound and if they are fun to play. Some things matter... some things don't. Having access to play on his collection and stock has provided occasional inspiration that causes me to expand my own selection and it lets me make more variety available to guests. He's 2 generations older than I so he had a great head start learning about stuff I had to learn of in a historical context. I think he has some of them bumblebee caps. :-)



best regards,
mike

YEAH!!!!

Wood, pups, historical context.

YEAH!!!

I can't tell if your making fun of me or just doing a Mooch impression.




In either case... don't forget string gauge and the "fun to play" part is kinda important too.




:-)

guitars not so much , but I do have a name for my organ ..
 
 

McQ,

When in doubt, consider it a Mooch impression my friend.

+THX