GreatDane
"up yours, baby."
if you get a chance, try one. maybe the one i have is extra-special, but it's literally an un-stoppable instrument. it makes me play better than i am.
What's the best "old" guitar you've ever played?
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if you get a chance, try one. maybe the one i have is extra-special, but it's literally an un-stoppable instrument. it makes me play better than i am.
Scott_Abene
Resident Noodge
Speaking of Gretsch... My Buddies 1961 was a great play. Not the best but close for that style.
Elias Graves
Common misfit
Foo's old Jazz bass is a pretty amazing guitar. That's probably my favorite.
To be perfectly honest, I'd lie cheat and steal to own his 70s Norlin Marauder. That guitar is pretty amazing, too. I like it a lot. Yeah I know, it's a cheap 70s low end Gibson with a bolt on neck. Yes, and it's a damn good one, too. It happened that a good one snuck through from time to time. About like today.
There was a 1930s Gibson oval hole archtop I played once. It was player grade but sound. It sounded really cool and was fun to play.
A 52 ES125 was memorable, mainly for the pickup. For me, it had "that" sound a P90 should have. It was a sweet filthy whore of a pickup.
(The Duncan antiquity is a dead on copy of that pickup to my recollection.)
To be perfectly honest, I'd lie cheat and steal to own his 70s Norlin Marauder. That guitar is pretty amazing, too. I like it a lot. Yeah I know, it's a cheap 70s low end Gibson with a bolt on neck. Yes, and it's a damn good one, too. It happened that a good one snuck through from time to time. About like today.
There was a 1930s Gibson oval hole archtop I played once. It was player grade but sound. It sounded really cool and was fun to play.
A 52 ES125 was memorable, mainly for the pickup. For me, it had "that" sound a P90 should have. It was a sweet filthy whore of a pickup.
(The Duncan antiquity is a dead on copy of that pickup to my recollection.)
GreatDane
"up yours, baby."
Speaking of Gretsch... My Buddies 1961 was a great play. Not the best but close for that style.
haha - i had a '61 double-annie for a while. GREAT guitar!
Scott_Abene
Resident Noodge
haha - i had a '61 double-annie for a while. GREAT guitar!
Beauty... They both have nicks in the same area
Stratguy
Coffee Junky
Man, you guys have been fortunate to play some nice old guitars. The oldest I ever played was a '96 Strat that I bought off of eBay. 
Still got it, though. Maybe one of my guitars will be on an oldie guitar thread some day. My son is showing an interest, and my granddaughter definitely loves the one I got her for Christmas.
Still got it, though. Maybe one of my guitars will be on an oldie guitar thread some day. My son is showing an interest, and my granddaughter definitely loves the one I got her for Christmas.
Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
Funny that most of these oldie guitars were new when I started playing. 
Scott Powell
Blackmore Wannabe
Hubert Stumblin
I ain't even mad.
A '60 or '61 Strat that my guitar teacher owned. He let me play it through a full size Leslie cab that he had. Amazing.
aliensporebomb
Fretted instrument fan
The one that comes to mind was the old Martin acoustic I tried at Lavonnes in Savage, Minnesota maybe eight or ten years ago?
Basically the people in the store were just making everyone who came in play the thing even though it was extremely expensive. I'm guessing that it was well over 50 years old and possibly older - I can't remember the date it was made.
It ended up being consigned by the grandkids of the original owner - he passed away and nobody else in the family played guitar. It was very worn but had a lifetime of experience played into it since the guy played all his life mostly. It was in good shape for a very old guitar but make no mistake it had been well used.
They would just go "don't ask, just play this and let us know what you think".
The thing had this uncanny ability to make kernels of new songs drop right out of your hands one after the other. In 15 minutes I'd written the frameworks of something like 4 or 5 songs. Apparently it had that effect on everyone who picked it up.
One guy who had a dry spell that lasted a few years almost wrote a whole record on it in an hour if the salespeople are to be believed.
I always wondered who ended up with that guitar.
I keep wondering about some instruments that are magic like that.
Basically the people in the store were just making everyone who came in play the thing even though it was extremely expensive. I'm guessing that it was well over 50 years old and possibly older - I can't remember the date it was made.
It ended up being consigned by the grandkids of the original owner - he passed away and nobody else in the family played guitar. It was very worn but had a lifetime of experience played into it since the guy played all his life mostly. It was in good shape for a very old guitar but make no mistake it had been well used.
They would just go "don't ask, just play this and let us know what you think".
The thing had this uncanny ability to make kernels of new songs drop right out of your hands one after the other. In 15 minutes I'd written the frameworks of something like 4 or 5 songs. Apparently it had that effect on everyone who picked it up.
One guy who had a dry spell that lasted a few years almost wrote a whole record on it in an hour if the salespeople are to be believed.
I always wondered who ended up with that guitar.
I keep wondering about some instruments that are magic like that.
Scott_Abene
Resident Noodge
some pieces are definitely magical...
el diablo
I'll take an A for $1000, Alex.
I had that happen with a D'Aquisto Excel. It played ME.