Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: gwEm on December 22, 2008, 12:06:50 PM
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took the missus away for a few days to munich, it been planned for some time, so it was really cr@p that the pound/euro exchange rate bombed making everything expensive :/ anyway, i had a chance to do some stuff i wanted to do as well, like drinking lots of the good german beer, eating lots of heavy (delicious) bavarian food and checking out the lovely german girls. heres a picture of fat gwem:
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/munich6.jpg)
oh, and i went to MJ guitars, the guitar shop of mattias jabs from the scorpions. the proprietor was a typical munich capitalist. it seemed like for him everything had its price, and i don't like this attitude really, but nevertheless he was a friendly guy, and had some cool items in his shop. i tried (for the first time) a V2. it was exceptionally well setup, a great player and i really liked it. there was some bits wrong with it though (some plugged holes, missing a scratchplate, and the frets were dressed almost to the fingerboard), and in the end i decided to pass on it considering the price. it was a difficult decision but i'll be looking out for other V2s in the future. i tried it through the darker channel of a plexi and the boomerang pickups sounded quite nice - like minihumbuckers - not evilly bright as people say. the guy tried to put pressure on me - "rudolf schenker doesn't have a V2, and he was here in the shop and tried it. hes thinking about it, but i know him - he'll be back soon to buy it"... i found this hard to believe, i'm fairly sure one of the famous pictures of schenker and his Vs has a V2 in it. salesmen always try the same tricks, its laughable really.
they had a lot of Dommenget guitars in the shop. i must say they were amazingly well made, not to mention expensive. i asked the guy if Dommenget guitars were as good as people said "no.... they are better!" he replied ;)
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/munich0.jpg)
single pickup mastercaster - really cool guitar
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/munich1.jpg)
single pickup explorer, made from "old korina wood", i think the single pickup look works well here
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/munich2.jpg)
Jabs explorer... considering the price i think i'd much rather ask Jabs fan Jonathan at Feline guitars to make me one ;)
they had other guitar makes - some vintage fender and gibson. also this caught my girlfriends eye:
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/munich3.jpg)
the plexiglass roachcaster - its a real giant c--kroach which is cut into the acrylic. looks cooler in real life.
and some amps:
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/munich4.jpg)
8 input marshall
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/munich5.jpg)
jabs signature engl
i'd love to drop some more classic quotes from the proprietor, but i'll restrain myself. he was ultimately a friendly guy, and knew his stuff well.. but real salesman pressure for sure. not keen on that sort of thing at all.
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Took the missus away is equal or unequal "carry missus away"? :lol:
Great guitars and nice wild boar :D
(the c--kroach thing is weird :?)
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Took the missus away is equal or unequal "carry missus away"? :lol:
;) maybe it looks like it was a trip just for me from this description! but of course we did some female-friendly activities too
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heheheheh bad boy
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and yet no pictures of the V2.... did it crack the camera lens!
i like them because they are odd - but there is no getting away from the fact they are fugly
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and yet no pictures of the V2.... did it crack the camera lens!
i like them because they are odd - but there is no getting away from the fact they are fugly
just thought people would prefer pictures of the uber-boutique Dommengets... in retrospect i should definitely have taken pics of the V2. yeah, it is kind of odd/ugly/beautiful looking. i was surprised to see it wasn't string-through-body. i think the explorer-2 really works as a guitar shape though. they had one of those in denmark street last year, it was a really sexy looking instrument.
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I was thinking V2 and for a few moments did a double take ( vergeltungswaffen) but I am glad to see it is guitar related and that you had a great time.
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Nice pics, gwEm. I couldn't see them in work, had to wait until I got home this evening.
and yet no pictures of the V2.... did it crack the camera lens!
i like them because they are odd - but there is no getting away from the fact they are fugly
I really like the V2 look (apart from that ridiculous little scratchplate they have). It's very un-Gibson, reminds me of early '80s Arias more than anything else. I think it's the hardware.
I have a soft spot for them because I used to admire them (and "The V") in music shops in the days when I was a student and only had one guitar. Wouldn't really want to own one though, mainly due to the pickups.