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Anyone got a stash of 3mm (or thereabouts) fibreglass board/g10 F-R4
Have some in various shopping baskets but as its pretty pricey I thought Id see if anyone was holding.
Thanks

Link to an older clip.
This is the jensen alnico. At clean lounge levels with a vintage JM i have to admit it does what it does well...
https://youtu.be/uofyEVKrgs4?si=0UW9epJkqN2QyKoV

kdawg2a wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 2:36 am Beautiful guitar there my friend. There's not many things on earth more special than a good 335.

Thanks
Yes, its a model thats been on the bucket list for a long time. Was a bit nervous buying sight unseen due to the pretty dicey variability in late 70s 335s but it would seem I got lucky

After this test I loaded the v30 in the tremolux cab, got my spring reverb tank and some my clean boost/dirt pedal. Ive had the jensen alnico in there for years and once the thing starts to get loud it looses itself in compression and low end boom. The tremolux 6g9-a has a lot of bass on tap, and t...

jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:18 pm Surely has to be the Jensen, you're not playing death metal

Let’s see what the blind test brings

Class, nice to see something different from red and sunburst! The 70s are making a come back ! Picked up a village people style leather daddy outfit to go with it. Unforgiving in the guitar sauna I have to say but I’ll be ahead of the fashion curve I thought you had sufficient leather outfits alrea...

hercules wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 1:39 pm Oh my. A year younger than mine!

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Phoarrr!
Yep was just discussing the merits of a bigsby
Mine lacks the screw holes / name plate thingo so would be a bit of a hatchet job…
That looks epic tho

So it would seem the preferred candidates are the Jensen alnico jet 100 and the celestion v30

I think a blind test with the genre and set up I’ll most likely use.

A/B with clean surf with reverb tank jazzmaster mid position + a little bit of bridge position boost with a hair of dirt

jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:16 pm Class, nice to see something different from red and sunburst!

The 70s are making a come back !
Picked up a village people style leather daddy outfit to go with it. Unforgiving in the guitar sauna I have to say but I’ll be ahead of the fashion curve

TmcB wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 11:21 am Did that come from the Wairarapa perchance?

I bought it off a bloke in Dunedin. He bought it over from LA about 25 yrs ago. The case has old painted over stenciling just visible wi the the name ‘Leo Valenzuela’ just visible

murky wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 11:22 am Coil tap - cool!

Ahh yeh. Sort of
The bridge pickup is the only one wired for it and it just sounds thin on its own. But mid position with coil tapped bridge it’s kinda nice

Well, the another one off the guitar bucket list.... belated entry 1979 Gibson es-335 walnut 45 years young. Appears to have spent much of that resting on a wall in Dunedin. Fresh from Grants re-fretorium shes playing and sounding beautiful. What to say: 1. Not a boat anchor 2. In very good conditio...

You wanting this for gigs or home? Well a bit of both Bruce To be fair tho I’ve got some smaller amps so I’m mostly testing this for big live sound Righto. So mid forward is a desirable characteristic for this test then? After this test I loaded the v30 in the tremolux cab, got my spring reverb tan...

robthemac wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 10:15 pm Really interesting to hear all the difference. Love the Jensens for clean. Love the Greenback for overdrive. That JBL is a fantastic speaker in the right context... but this wasn't it.

Yeo you are right about the JBL
Its niche, but when its in the right context its pretty special

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