On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:48:29 +0000, Nathan Ace <nathanace75@gmx.com>
wrote:
I would rather Buckingham's Rick Turner maybe
a Godin [but] you have to ask yourself, What would Jesus do?
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Possibly a lot of money, very, even marked down a third, for a
beautifully playing guitar, still, that might not be exactly what's
with RicK Turner;. . . Last sentence withstanding for what Godin's perspective is for his own personal Jesus: Hard tensioned strings are exactly that and what he likes, hard, for rather fast but somewhat
added slop if lighter strung or a lower tension substituted.
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I did play a Godin when I had the money for even that extravagance, and
I think I regret not going for one. I was a bit bothered that it did
still make a loud plinky sound acoustically which felt at odds with the >cardboard-walled flats I live in, which the Anygig isn't.
I also had a Crafter CT-120, a plywood kind of knock-off of the Godins
which I probably shouldn't have sold, but I'm happy with this plank and
feel motivated to pursue it now I'm over the initial disappointment and >discomfort, after a few years of getting a bit bored and stagnated
regarding the guitar.
Still spent half an hour watching YouTube videos of the Rick Turner
guitars today though. something to look forward to for my 70th birthday >maybe, in 2041.
I bought one of these two ears ago and very soon came to hate it and
make a couple of attempts to sell it. But now I love it, possibly
assisted by lockdown pushing me back to it.
I bought the nylon-stringed version but have in the last fortnight gone against the wisdom regarding putting steel on an instrument not designed
for it. It has a truss rod and is a plank, and the placing of the tuners means they act like the added tailpiece does on a baritone ukulele I've strung with steel - the bridge isn't going to be pulled off. The
intonation was more than fine with nylon strings and of course the slot
and bridge placing is in line with that use - I have to have 11-49 gauge strings and quite a low saddle to get good intonation but only in
relation to what I'm used to, not to others' preferences. 2 1/4 mm bass
side at 12th fret, 1.75 mm on the treble. as sold they are pretty high,
3.5 to 4.5 mm.
It's not that well made - assuming I don't have a counterfeit one, and
maybe these exist, which would equate with the 'Fishman' pickups on
eBay. The lead jack isn't tight enough to properly grip a lead, but this
will be easy to belatedly replace. The saddle and nut are like cheese,
the worst plastic they could have used. The pickup that came with it
meant the bottom E wasn't connecting right, and has been replaced by an
Artec that has a cable on it so long that I've really had to cram it in.
Tuning this was part of why I cam to hate it once, but I seem to
genuinely be evolving a natural feel for it now, though ono stage it
would look like you were scratching your arse, which might be a bonus if
you have not yet found the best laundry detergent.
You pretty much have to play it standing up, and strumming it is a bit
weird, though maybe becoming good at that would feed back into strumming style on a regular guitar - you're really asked to not lean on anything because there's very little you can lean on, so the false anchor of a
regular guitar's body that can instead be constricting is not available. Fingerpicking is fine and soloing is.
I'm using it with a Yamaha TR5A amp that has taken me a long time to
learn to love also, but they are very well matched. Considering the
money he's got, the sounds Lindsey Buckingham uses on his often lo-fi
solo albums are not as good.
The line seems to have been updated a couple of times and my model seems slightly to have been improved - even a thin piece of plastic to hold
the strings between bridge and tuners is a good move - I've used a file
to make string slots similar to what some put on their bridges to
improve break angle. Without them the strings had been popping out of
place when playing, when I still used nylon.
Some of us might sometimes itch to make our own guitar, even a uke from
a kit. I am tempted to try and replicate the Anygig because it is almost ridiculously simple, a plank with a piezo on it, with the minimum of therapeutic sanding and a bit of Tru-Oil; and maybe the novelty of this invention and the fact that it is just really useful is how they get
away with charging as much as they do for these.
I would rather have one of Buckingham's Rick Turner guitars or maybe
even a Godin and a Fishman SA330X for the same purposes, but I have silverfish, sleep in my living room and my headphones shut out drunken activity and sirens, occasionally a stabbing, so things are a good match
all round - when picking a convenience electro-acoustic guitar with
travel possibilities you have to ask yourself, What would Jesus do?
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