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Outstanding 575! Play it in good health.

Flame everywhere! Nice Dibbs

LOVELY Some lumber on that 575!

A friend of mine bought a natural 575 from a Guitar Center years ago. When he got it, he found some neck issue that could not be corrected by adjustment. He took it to the legendary Aaron Cowles, who was doing some upscale work for Heritage at the time. Aaron told him the neck needs replacement. I don't recall the details. Aaron did the replacement. Here's an interview with Aaron. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/gibson-guitar-oral-histories/1/ Aaron died quite a few years ago. I ended up hanging on to the guitar for my friend but didn't play it. Yesterday he sold it to me without ever taking it to his home. If you are feeling sorry for him, consider he has more guitars than anyone else I know. So this is has Schallers. I scoped the innards. It's parallel braced (not all are). Aaron made the neck and but a plain ebony board on it. It's a 3 piece maple. The only piece he got from Heritage is the headstock overlay. My friend requested a five piece neck but Aaron recommended a 3 piece. Aaron fretted it. There are no nibs. That's true with other Aaron builds. Aaron was one of the best of the Kalamazoo luthiers yet a simple man to understand. He always had his pistol handy in shop. He charged very little for his hard work. His humble presentation contradicted his master skills at making guitars and mandolins. The guitar plays well. The neck is to me a medium C carve, maybe a medium plus. It sounds good.

My small experience with Gibson (Memphis and Nashville) has been pretty good. There may have been some rough times in the beginning. Heritage has had its ups and downs but seems quite good the last decade. Most of the earlier guitars also were nicely done. It takes an occasional bad apple that inspires a post on some forum that takes the shine off a reputation.

I was thinking of those years in which Jeff was struggling to sleep and started posting some interesting topics and even the chaotic picture of his guitars and amps scattered and upside down...

Josh, I think JeffB's comments refers to some posts our friend Will (ElNumero) made several years ago about scoring a job as a gate guard at a retirement home in Florida. Or something like that.

Are you have bouts of insomnia again? 🤔 I'm still trying to make sense of this.... 😁

Please don’t harvest your HRW’s. If it came from Parsons that way, keep it as such. Thank you 🫵🤣🎸

Greg Koch is a real hoot. Just when I think I figure out something he's doing, he does something else that blow me away.

Not everyone has the wherewithall to put themselves in a position to rack up those hours on the gate and make the big bucks. More dumbles than I can shake a stick at.

No, not everyone has your budget for gear...😁

Dumble is a Dumble just like a dumbbell is a dumbbell

You mean, you never owned a Dumble amp? I thought everybody has.

That UA Enigmatic looks like a very cool 'Dumble-In_A-Pedal' device. With its expansive suite of controls it should offer something for any tone-seeking guitarist. That said, I've been very pleased with my original issue Hermida Zendrive pedal, getting me close to Carlton-Ford-Bonomassa tones. Now if only I had their other-worldly playing skills... 🙂

Looks really interesting for Carlton, Mayer, Santana tones. Now you’ve got me hunting for a used one on reverb. Dammit!

Lol

I’ve been watching. He has a nice H535 as well.

And which Dumble does it mimic? I thought one of the things about Dumble is that he customized it to match the player. John Meyer's SSS doesn't sound the same as Santana's SSS or Stevie Ray's SSS. Does Larry Carlton's ODS sound like Sonny Landreth's or Robben Ford's? Running an emulator pedal into a guitar amp won't give you a proper model. You should have a full range system like a PA or go into a recording setup which means it's simulating both the amp and the microphone, which is probably it's forte. An ODS fed through a Princeton Reverb or DSL40c probably won't sound much like a Dumble. It might give you a sound you like, but it won't be the real thing.

It's a shame I'm not working anymore. One of our instruments required liquid nitrogen. We would go by AirLiquide and get a Dewar Flask with about 2 quarts of nitrogen. I could have easily dropped a pickup down there after we finished our testing! We also had a storage tank of liquid CO2 that we used for tank blanketing to minimize fire hazards.

He twangs on some other ones too! Go check out all the videos in the recent guitar selection episodes he’s got going on now.

Well, I went and looked at the engineering data for alnico 5 magnets at cryogenic temperature. At liquid nitrogen temperature, the literature says they work in the cold, but there is a permanent 10% loss in magnetization after exposure. There are actual applications of magnets in instruments in cryogenic equipment. Alnico 5 is grain-oriented when cast. While the metal is cast, the cooling process is designed to orient the grains in the direction of intended magnetization. (anisotropic) Not sure what benefit, if any, of cryo treatment. Other than it makes a good story.

I bought UA’s OX pedal. It’s nothing like their OX Box, which I love. That thing wanted to know everything about me, including social security #, it seemed. I boxed it up & returned it; the o;ly gear I have ever done that to. Love UA analog stuff.

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