In a blindfold test, you couldn’t tell the difference between 2 Teles, 335’s, Les Pauls whatever the year. My Tokais sound just like my Fenders. Go figure. Nice channel though mate.
Beautiful guitars! I own a 1962 ES175, 1967 ES330, and a 1976 Les Paul Deluxe, which is now considered vintage I guess. It plays and sounds fantastic, but it's a boat anchor - 12 lbs. The 330 is my favorite, incredibly light and resonant. I play them all a lot at home, but rarely take them out. Totally agree on the 80s Japanese made guitars - I have a 1983 Japanese Squier strat that I have been gigging with for over 40 years and still gig with. Probably my most reliable guitar.
i like old stuff so yes, my 67 Gretsch feels very different. the idea that it is exactly my age, that it has been played so much, how I found it in the 80 and how it looks and sounds - i will never feel the same with a new guitar.
Its crazy that the 50's and 60's guitars only became desireable because of the fall in quality of a lot of 70's guitars. But because that started the trend of older is better now 70's guitars are sort after and highly priced
A few years ago I went to a bar in downtown Bowling Green KY that was having a benefit show featuring the KY Blues Society. Greg Martin of the Kentucky Headhunters was there and he hit an open chord during tuning / sound check that made me stop everything because it was unlike anything I'd ever heard. Even now, 15+ years later, I don't think I've ever heard a tone to rival it. He was playing a 58 Les Paul (P90s) through a '72 4x30 Marshall cab and yes, it was purely magical.
1965 for Gibson was the cut off for "vintage" to me and 1971 for Fender. The Beatles exploded the demand for guitar which companies responded to with an upsurge in production, massive orders to be filled meant the bean counters started to whittle away at quality. There's some outliers but that what I consider "real" vintage but that's for American made guitars, there seems to be specific eras where great instruments where made like late 70's to mid 80's Japan.
Love the finish on the Gibson. Love the 3-way switch placement too. I'm a Les Paul player so that would feel like home to me. I love the 70's LP and SG copies from Japan. They were ideal for modding and turning them into one power house of a guitar. I was born in 72 and in the eighties we were playing the Norlan era Les Paul guitars because they were dirt cheap. Zakk Wylde use those guitars. They were not good but with some love and a lot of work you could have a guitar to gig with. As for mojo, magic and soul, I look at what EVH did with a parts guitar and say it is all in the fingers and the guitar that inspires you. I have a 2018 Vintage V100AFD that I modded with a Dimarzio Tone Zone and PAF with Grover Kluson style tuners and a Tone Pro's bridge. It sounds, feels and plays amazing. It is my go to and inspires all those hard rock and metal riffs and solos everyday.
@@taz3672 Re NORLIN era guitars. They were not good, but also not “dirt cheap”when I bought mine in 1973. Paid over 950 pounds for it. A lot in those days! They were super cool to gig with)( looks only!) but massively heavy. I was playing full time then, and you had to go with what was popular at the time. My Les Paul Custom was ordered especially from America. In those days, you had to have either what was hanging in the music shop, usually crap! ( I refer to England) or they got you one. I swapped in a Les Paul Recording for mine. Stupid move. Anyway, my black Custom looked the business when it arrived. No case mind you, that was extra. I got it home. Tried it out through a Twin Reverb, and it sounded bloody awful! I had a gig that night. Thirteen pounds and 3 hours of heavy misery! Despite myriad replacement pickups, bridges, strings, set ups, it remained a DOG! Long story short, I still have in locked away to this day. At 81, I am still performing. When I discovered Kramers in the 1880’s, I have never played another guitar in anger. No wonder Eddie went for them.
A lot of 80s guys (Zakk Wylde and John Sykes) would only play Norlin LP Customs. They had the flat wide frets and much better action than any others besides fretless wonders, but those were a little too flat where you couldn't bend them. Zakk had a newer one, he just didn't like it as much. I wouldn't trade my '81 for a burst unless I could sell it.
@@shred5 Mine must have been a Friday night job then! It is a bad guitar. Even the ebony fretboard is wearing away between the nut ( another horrible yellow coloured piece of plastic) and the FIRST fret, where I have never played! I hate mine. I am keeping it until the price is right to sell, or give it to one of my grandsons. Or maybe donate it to Sykesy. He is a bit down on his luck at the moment. Whatever. My 93 Standard is way better. So is my Harley Benton 550, at 269 Euros. Just saying
@@lesbois53 I had the opposite experience, my '95s fret job was so bad I really just needed a new fretjob and a neck reset from the day it was new, and they put the bridge in the wrong place so the intonation was horrible... Everyone was like wow a straight Gibson neck when I got it, but it had all these other issues... typical 90s Gibson
@@shred5 I think his Gibson Zakk Wylde model is based off of a Norlin era custom. I could be wrong but the neck is maple just like the Nolins. I have an Aria Pro II custom based of off the Gibson Norlin era and I do have a hard time with bends with 9-42 strings. Cool copy though. Looks like a custom if you cover the logo. Even has an ABR-1 bridge.
It's so great what you are doing. Now every day I open you tube to see if you can follow up on the everyday video. Must require discipline. Keep the good work. Cheers bro.
After nasty Gibson cut ties with Fluff for speaking out about Randall Smith, I’ve sold all my Gibson crap. I will not and never will stand by a company of crybabies who either want to sue every step of the way or try to be a bully. They’ll manage to make Mesa Boogie fail. Bye bye losers at Gibson!!
I think well played (as in played a lot) guitars are magic, as there’s a reason they get played so much. The best vintage guitars are like that. There’s the stuff about better materials etc but the best guitars I’ve ever played were heavily gigged, maintained and used for years.
Nostalgia and hyperbole fill in most of the gaps. It used to be I would get Fender Custom Shop models and spend some extra time (hours man, hours) and some new parts (hardware) clean up the machining/tool marks and it’d be as good as any of the vintage stuff I had, often better if sound and feel were the goals. Now, I honestly think a Mod Shop guitar (they’re ~$2200 but worth about $1500 in my mind). Anyhow, I spent 20 hours and another $400 on my last one and I absolutely love it. Cool factor like a ‘59 Tele or a ‘61 Strat? Nope. I’d rather play it all day than either though. Just honest talk. These days I’d sell anything seriously valuable I had that was vintage and build/modify a $2-4k offering and be every bit as happy. To each their own, there’s some cool old stuff out there if that’s your thing.
Granted I have never played a guitar with PAF pickups but I have 2 early T-Tops. One I traded for 76' Dimarzio S.D. and the other I bought on Ebay. They are one of my favorite pickups.
I traded a mid-90s Martin at GC in '23 and they called it vintage. At some point, there was a general view point (not sure whose. Harmony Central? Can't remember) that vintage was 20-25+ years old.
Vintage is older than 20 years but less than 100 years. Over 100 years is considered antique. I’m so old my first good guitar I bought when I was 18 years old and had a job was a 1994 American Strat. I can say for sure it’s vintage now because the white pickup covers and knobs are now aged white.
I've said it before, it's not like these companies forgot how to make great instruments. If anything I think they've gotten better over the many years. Especially over the late 60s to the 80s.
I do agree, I think a lot of the vintage is better idea came about during period when guitar manufacturers did lots of cost cutting and quality fell, but today there are certainly many high high quality models made with lots of attention to detail.
@@ToneJunkieTV 100% man period. About 10 years ago. I almost bought a 1970 Fender Stratocaster, the year of my birth. The guy would had taken $2500. It was in really great shape, but it felt like a piece of junk so I didn't buy it. The only reason I regret it now is because it's worth so much more because people think age equals good.
1980’s Kramers still sound awesome. Bombproof as well. They sound No better though than when I bought mine in 1986 onwards. Just the same. I have eight now.
For me personally "Vintage" is anything older than 30 years. In germany you can get a "H-Kennzeichen" which is a numberplate for your car, which makes it an Oldtimer ie classic car the day it reaches it's 30 years of service. So if we apply this logic I own a 70s Strat and a 30 year old Yamaha pacifica which are both vintage haha.
It’s a lot more common than one would think… there is a tree estimated to be over 1,000 years old in Texas, many olive trees in the Middle East estimated to be 5-6k years old and the oldest living things on out planet are the ancient redwoods… and there are many redwoods that are not ancient but estimated to be a few 1,000 old. I’m not sure any of the wood that ended up in guitars was that old but definitely there were some couple hundred year old trees being used for lumber in The 1950s. You can google “old wood vs new wood” and see pictures of cross sections and the number of rings in old wood compared to new trees from tree farms that grow quickly on fertilizer. It’s interesting.
Good Voice- Hopefully you will get a Job offer from Kansas / Nice Fender Bass Heads / I have an 80 EVH / striped Guitar / Yellow and Black/ With whammy bar / and 2009 Wolfgang - Morris/Roberts Group-Reverberation- one major hit
Nope, you just feel they have something special. Anyone can feel an object is special if you persuade them it is or they persuade themselves it is. The bible and a trash novel like Harry Potter can be equally profound to different people. A squier and a 60s gibson can be profound to different people. None of it is universally special.
I just know what i like … example , i like beautiful wood , curly maple , spalt , ect .. do i think it makes a tonal difference? Dont know , dont care . I just like it . I like PRS especially cores because of the deep dish carve .. I feel like i have managed to survive on this planet 45 years and i dont have to explain Why i like something. I just do . If you like old beat guitars .. great . If you dont .. great . You do you ! What i dont like is getting used car salesman vibes when someone is talking about old guitar because it’s basically their retirement plan … i get why they do that 💰… but save the rhetoric. I cant say for sure but i find it very hard to believe that an old tele with bad frets and loose tolerances is objectively better than say a … Private Stock PRS … i find it very hard to believe. But maybe im wrong .
There's the possibility of magic in just about every guitar. If it moves you or inspires you to make the music you love, then it has magic to you. It could be a total junker to some else.
When you say every instrument company was doing the opposite of trying to improve the quality of the instrument in the 70's, you mean every AMERICAN instrument company was doing the opposite but, as you say, Japanese guitar companies were making superb instruments that advanced the quality and design of their products, such as Aria, Yamaha, Ibanez and later ESP. American made instruments are not the be all and end all.
With acoustics, guitars 10 years old or older usually sound the best as the top has opened up over time. With electronics? I could honestly care less. Late 70s or early 80s Les Paul Customs were my favorite Les Pauls, best neck shapes, frets, necks that didn't break if you ever drop them and best action of any era. 50s Les Pauls were alright, but let's be honest the PAF is overrated, I'd rather not deal with the feedback from unpotted pickups.
Sometimes I looks at old guitars like that and ai think… in 60 years I may not be here but someone will have that guitar after me and I guess whatever else I own that won’t be in a dump by then. Someone else will hopefully give it a good home after me.
@ToneJunkieTV I have a bunch of nice guitars. I have one that is a very inexpensive Mahar. I was in my office working in Fort Worth at the time. I looked out my office window and noticed some lady moving out of her apartment. She was tossing stuff in the dumpster. I saw she had this acoustic guitar in her hand and she threw it in the dumpster. I immediately went into rescue mode and grabbed it. I glued it back together and have kept it since. That was 14 years ago. It's my good luck charm.
Yes they sound really good, but would you have bought them if they sounded like crap? In the end there are a range of different sounding guitars around some are new some are vintage - best to use your ears to see what suits. Having said all that I personally love the look smell and feel of a nice played in guitar. Humans really are contrary 😂.
Charvel saved the day in the 70s cause, yes, 70s stuff was pretty mediocre, The Japanese copies were blowing the US stuff out. I have an 86 MIJ 57RI Strat that just rings like a bell….super light and resonant. And of course I have customized the crap out of it. The only thing original is the wood and the output jack. It loves my Tone Junkie profiles too!
It’s just electronics cased in wood. All the magic is mental not physical but in art… that matters. If you’re inspired by old guitars then yes it counts, if not then no. I personally don’t think they were made any better or worse than modern guitars.
@ well, I paid about 950 English pounds for mine. It came without a case as well. They were extra! The paintwork is still dull. We never knew about “ action’ in those days. Hard to play. Clubby neck. I should have sent it back, but I was full time and had to have it. I originally swapped ia LP Recording for it. Great guitar! I got it for looks! They are now worth 5,000 plus pounds, depending on condition. Mine has never sounded any good, despite having many changes of pickups. Up against my mate’s 68 Les, it sounded dead. The Norlin era for Gibson was a disaster. The QC was flawed. Bigger headstocks. The guitars were too heavy to gig with for 3 hours without booking a chiropractor appointment afterwards! I did! Fenders were also the same. Big heavy things. Big headstocks. Sought after now though. Moving on to 1999, I bought a Les Paul Standard and a Special. Both sustain for days. I suppose the moral is that sometimes you CAN polish a turd. Mine remains in the cupboard! Hope this helps.
Certainly an older instrument might feel different - or even better - to the player. But to the listener - no one is going to hear the difference. There is no magic in any guitar - the skill of the player is the biggest determining factor in the sound (the "toan"). Jim Lill proved that for sure with his videos. I am not saying that the feel in the player's hands is not meaningful - but it is not at all primary in what it sounds like.
It's like a politician that swings from left to right , first all of the seventies gibsons and fenders where crap and poorly build but now they are "vintage" and all of the sudden they sound and play great and many stupid idiots pay a lot off money for them ? that's such BS !
new guitars are built better. their more consistent. 50 grand for a guitar is ridicules. A local luthier built me a guitar recently its better than anything I've ever owned.
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In a blindfold test, you couldn’t tell the difference between 2 Teles, 335’s, Les Pauls whatever the year. My Tokais sound just like my Fenders. Go figure. Nice channel though mate.
That 1967 Trini Lopez Guitar sounds and looks amazing. So did the ⭐️ Starfire - and Casino
A Les Paul is not considered "Vintage" until it has had a head stock repair.
@@Fastlane05 😂 I like this definition!!
Beautiful guitars! I own a 1962 ES175, 1967 ES330, and a 1976 Les Paul Deluxe, which is now considered vintage I guess. It plays and sounds fantastic, but it's a boat anchor - 12 lbs. The 330 is my favorite, incredibly light and resonant. I play them all a lot at home, but rarely take them out. Totally agree on the 80s Japanese made guitars - I have a 1983 Japanese Squier strat that I have been gigging with for over 40 years and still gig with. Probably my most reliable guitar.
i like old stuff so yes, my 67 Gretsch feels very different. the idea that it is exactly my age, that it has been played so much, how I found it in the 80 and how it looks and sounds - i will never feel the same with a new guitar.
Its crazy that the 50's and 60's guitars only became desireable because of the fall in quality of a lot of 70's guitars. But because that started the trend of older is better now 70's guitars are sort after and highly priced
Loving these videos!! Keep them coming!!
Also loving your IRs😎🤩
Thanks dude.... New IRs out this week!
A few years ago I went to a bar in downtown Bowling Green KY that was having a benefit show featuring the KY Blues Society. Greg Martin of the Kentucky Headhunters was there and he hit an open chord during tuning / sound check that made me stop everything because it was unlike anything I'd ever heard. Even now, 15+ years later, I don't think I've ever heard a tone to rival it. He was playing a 58 Les Paul (P90s) through a '72 4x30 Marshall cab and yes, it was purely magical.
Keep up the daily uploads! Commenting for the algorithm boost lol.
Appreciate that, thanks for the help!
1965 for Gibson was the cut off for "vintage" to me and 1971 for Fender.
The Beatles exploded the demand for guitar which companies responded to with an upsurge in production, massive orders to be filled meant the bean counters started to whittle away at quality.
There's some outliers but that what I consider "real" vintage but that's for American made guitars, there seems to be specific eras where great instruments where made like late 70's to mid 80's Japan.
Love the finish on the Gibson. Love the 3-way switch placement too. I'm a Les Paul player so that would feel like home to me. I love the 70's LP and SG copies from Japan. They were ideal for modding and turning them into one power house of a guitar. I was born in 72 and in the eighties we were playing the Norlan era Les Paul guitars because they were dirt cheap. Zakk Wylde use those guitars. They were not good but with some love and a lot of work you could have a guitar to gig with. As for mojo, magic and soul, I look at what EVH did with a parts guitar and say it is all in the fingers and the guitar that inspires you. I have a 2018 Vintage V100AFD that I modded with a Dimarzio Tone Zone and PAF with Grover Kluson style tuners and a Tone Pro's bridge. It sounds, feels and plays amazing. It is my go to and inspires all those hard rock and metal riffs and solos everyday.
@@taz3672 Re NORLIN era guitars. They were not good, but also not “dirt cheap”when I bought mine in 1973. Paid over 950 pounds for it. A lot in those days! They were super cool to gig with)( looks only!) but massively heavy. I was playing full time then, and you had to go with what was popular at the time. My Les Paul Custom was ordered especially from America. In those days, you had to have either what was hanging in the music shop, usually crap! ( I refer to England) or they got you one. I swapped in a Les Paul Recording for mine. Stupid move. Anyway, my black Custom looked the business when it arrived. No case mind you, that was extra. I got it home. Tried it out through a Twin Reverb, and it sounded bloody awful! I had a gig that night. Thirteen pounds and 3 hours of heavy misery! Despite myriad replacement pickups, bridges, strings, set ups, it remained a DOG! Long story short, I still have in locked away to this day. At 81, I am still performing. When I discovered Kramers in the 1880’s, I have never played another guitar in anger. No wonder Eddie went for them.
A lot of 80s guys (Zakk Wylde and John Sykes) would only play Norlin LP Customs. They had the flat wide frets and much better action than any others besides fretless wonders, but those were a little too flat where you couldn't bend them. Zakk had a newer one, he just didn't like it as much. I wouldn't trade my '81 for a burst unless I could sell it.
@@shred5 Mine must have been a Friday night job then! It is a bad guitar. Even the ebony fretboard is wearing away between the nut ( another horrible yellow coloured piece of plastic) and the FIRST fret, where I have never played! I hate mine. I am keeping it until the price is right to sell, or give it to one of my grandsons. Or maybe donate it to Sykesy. He is a bit down on his luck at the moment. Whatever. My 93 Standard is way better. So is my Harley Benton 550, at 269 Euros. Just saying
@@lesbois53 I had the opposite experience, my '95s fret job was so bad I really just needed a new fretjob and a neck reset from the day it was new, and they put the bridge in the wrong place so the intonation was horrible...
Everyone was like wow a straight Gibson neck when I got it, but it had all these other issues... typical 90s Gibson
@@shred5 I think his Gibson Zakk Wylde model is based off of a Norlin era custom. I could be wrong but the neck is maple just like the Nolins. I have an Aria Pro II custom based of off the Gibson Norlin era and I do have a hard time with bends with 9-42 strings. Cool copy though. Looks like a custom if you cover the logo. Even has an ABR-1 bridge.
It's so great what you are doing. Now every day I open you tube to see if you can follow up on the everyday video. Must require discipline. Keep the good work. Cheers bro.
Thanks for the encouragement! Makes me feel good to do this.
After nasty Gibson cut ties with Fluff for speaking out about Randall Smith, I’ve sold all my Gibson crap. I will not and never will stand by a company of crybabies who either want to sue every step of the way or try to be a bully. They’ll manage to make Mesa Boogie fail. Bye bye losers at Gibson!!
I think well played (as in played a lot) guitars are magic, as there’s a reason they get played so much. The best vintage guitars are like that. There’s the stuff about better materials etc but the best guitars I’ve ever played were heavily gigged, maintained and used for years.
Awesome..playing all the instruments...Ty Sir
Nostalgia and hyperbole fill in most of the gaps. It used to be I would get Fender Custom Shop models and spend some extra time (hours man, hours) and some new parts (hardware) clean up the machining/tool marks and it’d be as good as any of the vintage stuff I had, often better if sound and feel were the goals. Now, I honestly think a Mod Shop guitar (they’re ~$2200 but worth about $1500 in my mind). Anyhow, I spent 20 hours and another $400 on my last one and I absolutely love it. Cool factor like a ‘59 Tele or a ‘61 Strat? Nope. I’d rather play it all day than either though. Just honest talk. These days I’d sell anything seriously valuable I had that was vintage and build/modify a $2-4k offering and be every bit as happy. To each their own, there’s some cool old stuff out there if that’s your thing.
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Granted I have never played a guitar with PAF pickups but I have 2 early T-Tops. One I traded for 76' Dimarzio S.D. and the other I bought on Ebay. They are one of my favorite pickups.
I like the sound of that Guild man.
Me too… those are sleeper guitars
I traded a mid-90s Martin at GC in '23 and they called it vintage. At some point, there was a general view point (not sure whose. Harmony Central? Can't remember) that vintage was 20-25+ years old.
Vintage is older than 20 years but less than 100 years. Over 100 years is considered antique.
I’m so old my first good guitar I bought when I was 18 years old and had a job was a 1994 American Strat. I can say for sure it’s vintage now because the white pickup covers and knobs are now aged white.
Interesting!
Gosh, that guitar looks beautiful
I love it!
I've said it before, it's not like these companies forgot how to make great instruments. If anything I think they've gotten better over the many years. Especially over the late 60s to the 80s.
I do agree, I think a lot of the vintage is better idea came about during period when guitar manufacturers did lots of cost cutting and quality fell, but today there are certainly many high high quality models made with lots of attention to detail.
@@ToneJunkieTV 100% man period. About 10 years ago. I almost bought a 1970 Fender Stratocaster, the year of my birth. The guy would had taken $2500. It was in really great shape, but it felt like a piece of junk so I didn't buy it. The only reason I regret it now is because it's worth so much more because people think age equals good.
I didn't know the Dust in the Wind was written by Creed. Huh. Who knew
Recently got a Casino and I love it. Sad I never tried it before…
You play how you feel if makes you feel it you will play how you want to doesn’t matter vintage or not
1980’s Kramers still sound awesome. Bombproof as well. They sound No better though than when I bought mine in 1986 onwards. Just the same. I have eight now.
If you play 10 guitars through 1 amp and play the same thing, won’t it sound the same?
Love that Trini Lopez
players talking about stuff that luthiers specialize in seems kinda odd. i like the demo as a stand alone of your guitars. very cool collection.
For me personally "Vintage" is anything older than 30 years. In germany you can get a "H-Kennzeichen" which is a numberplate for your car, which makes it an Oldtimer ie classic car the day it reaches it's 30 years of service. So if we apply this logic I own a 70s Strat and a 30 year old Yamaha pacifica which are both vintage haha.
Its not just the dryness of the wood, the density of the wood is different. 1000 year old trees versus 20 year old trees
It’s a lot more common than one would think… there is a tree estimated to be over 1,000 years old in Texas, many olive trees in the Middle East estimated to be 5-6k years old and the oldest living things on out planet are the ancient redwoods… and there are many redwoods that are not ancient but estimated to be a few 1,000 old.
I’m not sure any of the wood that ended up in guitars was that old but definitely there were some couple hundred year old trees being used for lumber in The 1950s.
You can google “old wood vs new wood” and see pictures of cross sections and the number of rings in old wood compared to new trees from tree farms that grow quickly on fertilizer. It’s interesting.
@ToneJunkieTV yes thats my point
@@davidyelland908 no, not old wood, old trees, do you have adhd?
Good Voice- Hopefully you will get a Job offer from Kansas / Nice Fender Bass Heads / I have an 80 EVH / striped Guitar / Yellow and Black/ With whammy bar / and 2009 Wolfgang - Morris/Roberts Group-Reverberation- one major hit
Nope, you just feel they have something special. Anyone can feel an object is special if you persuade them it is or they persuade themselves it is. The bible and a trash novel like Harry Potter can be equally profound to different people. A squier and a 60s gibson can be profound to different people. None of it is universally special.
I just know what i like … example , i like beautiful wood , curly maple , spalt , ect .. do i think it makes a tonal difference? Dont know , dont care . I just like it . I like PRS especially cores because of the deep dish carve .. I feel like i have managed to survive on this planet 45 years and i dont have to explain Why i like something. I just do . If you like old beat guitars .. great . If you dont .. great . You do you ! What i dont like is getting used car salesman vibes when someone is talking about old guitar because it’s basically their retirement plan … i get why they do that 💰… but save the rhetoric. I cant say for sure but i find it very hard to believe that an old tele with bad frets and loose tolerances is objectively better than say a … Private Stock PRS … i find it very hard to believe. But maybe im wrong .
There's the possibility of magic in just about every guitar. If it moves you or inspires you to make the music you love, then it has magic to you. It could be a total junker to some else.
When you say every instrument company was doing the opposite of trying to improve the quality of the instrument in the 70's, you mean every AMERICAN instrument company was doing the opposite but, as you say, Japanese guitar companies were making superb instruments that advanced the quality and design of their products, such as Aria, Yamaha, Ibanez and later ESP. American made instruments are not the be all and end all.
VINATGE! Gotta do a little spell check gentlemen.
Hard to spell check an image and a little dyslexia helps. Thanks for the head up we just fixed it.
@ToneJunkieTV hahaha all good fam. Just messing about, I had a bit of a giggle
With acoustics, guitars 10 years old or older usually sound the best as the top has opened up over time. With electronics? I could honestly care less. Late 70s or early 80s Les Paul Customs were my favorite Les Pauls, best neck shapes, frets, necks that didn't break if you ever drop them and best action of any era. 50s Les Pauls were alright, but let's be honest the PAF is overrated, I'd rather not deal with the feedback from unpotted pickups.
No…but vintage PAFs are!
Glad it went to a good home.
Sometimes I looks at old guitars like that and ai think… in 60 years I may not be here but someone will have that guitar after me and I guess whatever else I own that won’t be in a dump by then.
Someone else will hopefully give it a good home after me.
@ToneJunkieTV I have a bunch of nice guitars. I have one that is a very inexpensive Mahar. I was in my office working in Fort Worth at the time. I looked out my office window and noticed some lady moving out of her apartment. She was tossing stuff in the dumpster. I saw she had this acoustic guitar in her hand and she threw it in the dumpster. I immediately went into rescue mode and grabbed it. I glued it back together and have kept it since. That was 14 years ago. It's my good luck charm.
Depends, some are and some aren't.
Yes they sound really good, but would you have bought them if they sounded like crap? In the end there are a range of different sounding guitars around some are new some are vintage - best to use your ears to see what suits. Having said all that I personally love the look smell and feel of a nice played in guitar. Humans really are contrary 😂.
That’s a good point, vintage stuff also has a feel and smell that is only really noticed by the player which is part of the experience.
Charvel saved the day in the 70s cause, yes, 70s stuff was pretty mediocre, The Japanese copies were blowing the US stuff out. I have an 86 MIJ 57RI Strat that just rings like a bell….super light and resonant. And of course I have customized the crap out of it. The only thing original is the wood and the output jack. It loves my Tone Junkie profiles too!
Guitars are subjective. The magic comes from within the player. Guitars that cost as much as a car or house are all just a gimmick.
It’s just electronics cased in wood. All the magic is mental not physical but in art… that matters. If you’re inspired by old guitars then yes it counts, if not then no. I personally don’t think they were made any better or worse than modern guitars.
If there is magic in your playing or not depends on one's fingers. Period! I do have a Fender and a Gibson, but can't hear any magic.
Vintage guitars are NOT magic! My 1973 Les Paul Custom STILL sounds like a DOG!
Are 73s sought after or just old? Honest question.
Serious question. Have you thought about any changes to it, i.e., new pickups etc.? Or are you concerned about mods devaluing it?
@ well, I paid about 950 English pounds for mine. It came without a case as well. They were extra! The paintwork is still dull. We never knew about “ action’ in those days. Hard to play. Clubby neck. I should have sent it back, but I was full time and had to have it. I originally swapped ia LP Recording for it. Great guitar! I got it for looks! They are now worth 5,000 plus pounds, depending on condition. Mine has never sounded any good, despite having many changes of pickups. Up against my mate’s 68 Les, it sounded dead. The Norlin era for Gibson was a disaster. The QC was flawed. Bigger headstocks. The guitars were too heavy to gig with for 3 hours without booking a chiropractor appointment afterwards! I did! Fenders were also the same. Big heavy things. Big headstocks. Sought after now though. Moving on to 1999, I bought a Les Paul Standard and a Special. Both sustain for days. I suppose the moral is that sometimes you CAN polish a turd. Mine remains in the cupboard! Hope this helps.
@ thanks. Sounds like you’ve done everything to make it play better. Yeah, the Norlin era was a dud.
@@lesbois53 So just old. Got it.
Certainly an older instrument might feel different - or even better - to the player. But to the listener - no one is going to hear the difference. There is no magic in any guitar - the skill of the player is the biggest determining factor in the sound (the "toan"). Jim Lill proved that for sure with his videos. I am not saying that the feel in the player's hands is not meaningful - but it is not at all primary in what it sounds like.
It's like a politician that swings from left to right , first all of the seventies gibsons and fenders where crap and poorly build but now they are "vintage" and all of the sudden they sound and play great and many stupid idiots pay a lot off money for them ? that's such BS !
new guitars are built better. their more consistent. 50 grand for a guitar is ridicules. A local luthier built me a guitar recently its better than anything I've ever owned.