Spontaneous Damage? What Happened to my Vintage Guitar?!
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- In this video I tell the story of my only remaining vintage guitar, my 1951 Epiphone, how I came to own it, what's been done over the years, and how it came to acquire some unexpected, spontaneous damage.
Of course you'll hear about it's playability as well, and get a healthy dose of vintage archtop blues.
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these kind of guitars are where you get to be a good player. nothing to play with just plug and play. great sounding a wonderful story. thank you for sharing.
And thank you so much for watching.
Grand old lady. Almost as vintage as me. Your slow blues bit at +/- 7 minutes reminds me of Mike Bloomfield
Thank you my friend. Appreciated.
That sneaky Allison😱
Those girls can really sneak things up on us when we don’t expect it!!
Love that great playing!! Dare I say Jazzy??🤔 Great guitar !!!
Thanks my man.
Lovely guitar, lovely backstory! Glad it's still working for you! I have a great 1978 Yairi Nylon String that someone managed to put their foot thru back in the '80s but a local NZ luthier managed to patch it up for me - virtually invisible fix. It still records beautifully, incredibly rich harmonics . . . like a Steinway or Bosendorfer with the sustain pedal held down! 😀
Very nice. It’s been decades and it still amazes me what good luthiers can accomplish.
Thanks so much for watching.
Looks and sounds spectacular. These little bumps along the journey always seem to give these old beauties more character in my view. can't explain why, but the guitars i own that are a bit beat up and well loved play the best and even make me sound like a decent player (at times) Cheers Len.
Thanks so much.
I think the guitar looks better without a pick guard. Your guitar was born the same year as me. Would you like to hear a long story about all the stuff that's gone to crapola with my body?
Probably similar to mine! Take care my friend.
That's one sweet sounding guitar.
It is nice. Thanks so much for watching.
I think it's aged beautifully......as has your your attitude regarding the 'little things'. Oh, and it also sounds great in your hands.
Thanks so much.
i love your conclusion
@@darlacurrey-colter3844 Thank you my friend, and thanks for watching.
Beautiful guitar!
Thanks.
Beautiful guitar Leonard, for what it’s worth I think it looks better without the pick guard, I have an old epiphone arch top acoustic and I took the pickguard off , but I do understand that yours has a sentimental value, keep thinking of it as another part of the guitar’s story, take care
✌️🎸🧷
Thank you so much my friend.
Beautiful guitar
Thanks so much.
Damn! What a touching story -- and great tone!
Thanks. I’d use it live if I was playing nothing but old school, traditional blues.
Nice wife ❗
Great playing 🎸🎵🎶👍
I don't understand why someone wants to pay extra for a " relic " worn guitar ‼️ I'm buying a new guitar, I want it looking and feeling new and I will make it relic myself ‼️ It's like buying a new car, are you going to buy a brand new car off the lot , with bald tires , dents on it for extra money ⁉️🤣😂
That’s pretty much where I am. The fact is, it can be made with a worn in feel without looking beat up, which seems the best of both worlds. Thanks for watching.
Your comment about relicing of new instruments made me laugh. Beautiful instrument and gorgeous sound.
Thanks so much. Glad you got a chuckle. 😊
Nice One Leonard! Happy 4th 🍻
And a happy 4th to you my friend.
Thanks for sharing this story with us Leonard. Your touch is still on the top. 🎉
Thank you my friend.
@@leonardgriffieblues5845 Will you make a play test on a Gibson Les Paul Standard 60's one day ? 🥰
I did exactly that about four months ago:
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@@leonardgriffieblues5845 I'm sorry. Thank you Leonard 🙂
Great story and it still sounds fantastic!
Thanks. Yeah, it’s a nice one.
Poignant story - plays great though!
Yes, it plays wonderfully. Thanks.
Hi. Have a mid 60s Broadway with a similar c/v neck (its old headstock shape so probably sat in the Gibson takeover for a few years) and New York pick ups. Is the replacement p/u a New York copy - sounds really good and deep!!!! Nice plaking.
Yes, Gibson used up all the New York parts before making their own. I’m a little surprised to hear of them in the mid 60s since I thought they’d pretty much exhausted the old stock by about 62, but the history’s pretty murky from back then.
Thanks so much for watching.
I have a bigsby with whammy bar and tail piece my 339 pro but I never installed because I felt like it may deface my beautiful red guitar.
Well, I’d say, unless you like the look with the Bigsby, and more importantly, need a Bigsby, then you’ve made a wise choice.
Nice old Zephyr and a great story. I had identical model for twenty some years. For some time it was my only guitar. Eventually I went in a different direction and sold it though. One thing about it I never understood was the tone circuit. It didn’t use a cap as one would expect but had stacked pots and an iron coil resistor. As far as I know it was original. It had a serial number of 602xx
Any insight into the tone circuit would be awesome
Thanks
I believe you’re right, but those pots are long gone. It’s been a couple decades or so but I seem to recall the pots were going bad when the pickup died. At first my Luther replaced the pots with a conventional arrangement and the pickup with a 70s Gibson mini humbucker. It sounded nice but ultimately I wanted it to look original so I had the custom pickup built into the old housing, which I was glad I’d kept. This pickup suits the guitar really well. I told Pete what I was after and he describes it as a cross between a Charlie Christian and a gold foil.
it does sound sweet for sure
Thanks Leonard.
What a great sound. Are you using your Tonemaster?.
Thank you, I am.
Epiphone did some cool guitars.
What do you think about the recent 150th anniversary Zephyr?
Haven’t gotten that one in my hands. The general consensus seems to be it’s a nice guitar, which I would expect since I own the 150th Sheraton. That said, I’d expect a very different experience to an original.
Great sounding guitar ! Does it have a floating bridge ?
It does. Thanks so much for watching.
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day also happy independence day to the United states ❤😊
Thanks so much my friend.
Wow, that’s really old
Hey, I resemble that remark! LOL
Thanks for watching.
@@leonardgriffieblues5845 I’m 66 so I’m old too
Ooooo
Yaaaa 😊
Long story short: Not much, blemish in the finish.
That would have been a short video. LOL