Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Lew on May 14, 2009, 03:10:01 PM
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It was a bad idea going into the guitar shop! This chunk of wood has been unloved and waiting for a buyer for a few years, I picked it up and couldn't put it down... you know how it goes :lol:
I'll save you all the sycophancy - it's HAWT, the cocobola fretboard is wild, feels almost like ebony 8)
More pics to come 8)
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/876/p5140025k.jpg)
(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1463/p5140026i.jpg)
http://www.briggsguitars.com
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Nice guitar! Well done on the acquisition :) It's great to get something distinctive that hardly anyone else will have...
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Cool! :D
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Nice! :D
But....
..... obviously it's a different guitar and may sound/feel infinitely better, but isn't it pretty similar (at least in basic construction style) to the Fibenare you're selling?
(Not trying to be a WUM, just curious!)
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Whats a WUM? :lol:
It's a fair question, they look pretty similar at face value and they're both set-neck and double cutawat.
The Fib is semi hollow, apart from a center block it's empty, the pickups are super low output, it has a 12-20 radius and of-course a maple top whereas the Briggs is a solid plank of hog with fairly hot pups (duncan custom custom and alnico pro 2) with a 5 way.
It all seems to adds up to a big difference tone wise :)
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Fair enough! :D Briggs is one of the brands our friend Ed Roman raves about, isn't it?
(WUM = Wind Up Merchant. A mild form of trolling, I suppose!)
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oh forgot that the scale length is different too!
I've no idea if Ed Roman praises him (not that I'd give a shiteeeee what he thought). WUM, I'll remember that 8).
I've never played a cocobola fretboard before today, it feels awesome! The neck is carbon fibre reinforced too.
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excellent! :D
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It looks good to me. I like the position markers.
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Looks real nice Lew, very classy.
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Like it 8)!Is it expensive?
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1800 reduced from 2300 likely because... (copy paste from another forum cba to re write it again)
it was stolen from the shop when they were all out the back and it ended up being returned by a hotel maid as it was left in a room as payment for the room... haha
I'm a bit sore that it was Jack Briggs that told me it had been reported as stolen and not the shop that sold it to me... but it doesn't look like a screw has been turned on it and there's not one mark on the frets, so I'm not too pissed off, just has a story behind it ;P
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Here it is with 5 years worth of cr@p cleaned off of it! Different shades of colour is because of my shadow. nvm the dvd it's a joke because some over at musicradar took the piss out of the book in my first pic 8)
(http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/4231/p5140022.jpg)
(http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2876/p5140027.jpg)
(http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2351/p5140028.jpg)
(http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6893/p5140032.jpg)
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I was about to take the pizz about your book, but you beat me to it. well played sir
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Is that the first Teak guitar I have seen?
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Is that the first Teak guitar I have seen?
Nope, that's mahogany.
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Hehe I know I was Jking it is a little red for Teak but the graining is Teakish and it is not as dark or red as most mahogony
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I think that looks class. Its made me very happy because I'm picking up a Gibson smartwood today,that's almost the same colour. The smartwood instead of chrome/nickle and black is festooned with gold hardware. Yuk. Luckily I have some Gibbo stock in my spares. :D
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That'sa beauty, man. If it sounds half as nice as it looks, you're onto winner before you even start there.
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That's a lovely piece of axe. :)
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Hehe I know I was Jking it is a little red for Teak but the graining is Teakish and it is not as dark or red as most mahogony
That's what hog looks like. Honduran (possibly old growth on the Briggs) is plain looking compared to african hog though. The finish is a clear laquer, it hasn't been dyed red like the back of a Lespaul or an SG ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swietenia_macrophylla_wood.jpg
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Is that the first Teak guitar I have seen?
its not used often but bob at legra did one
http://www.legraguitars.co.uk/ab602.htm
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My Smartwood.I just have to make it look like yours.The colour almost the same. (http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/marantz1300/smartwood.jpg)
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I think the natural and gold works 8)
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Nice, I used to have a Smartwood. Do you know what wood the top is?
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No.The guy I got it from did tell me,but I've forgotten already.
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I played one years ago with a zebra wood thing happening, looked great
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Peroba. I remembered. (http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/marantz1300/Pic_5.jpg)
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Peroba. I remembered.
I was having trouble remembering what the different woods were, thought it might be Cancharana, but looking at the second picture I can see it's Peroba. :)
Mine had a Curupay top, the same as the fingerboard. I didn't like the gold hardware, which was probably the main reason I sold it - if I still had it now I'd just change it all to nickel.
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Yep.The gold must go. The Briggs looks right.
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How do I make it shiny? Polish,Varnish?
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there's a thread on this over at b@m where a guy made his satin sc a gloss, seems like a lot of work though!
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I like the matt finish, but I think if you polish it with T-Cut it'll come up shiny.
Never tried it on a UV-cured finish like the Smartwood has, but it certainly works on normal matt-finish Gibsons like the Faded models (or Fenders like the Highway Ones!).
But proceed with caution!!!
(Edit: If I remember right, the finish feels like it's pretty thin and has sunk into the grain somewhat? Might not give you a perfectly even, pretty gloss if you polish it)
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Peroba is a damn hard wood from Brazil, used to make the roof and etc on houses here, maily... But some guys abroad use it on musical instruments... I think it would be at least as tough as bubinga to work...