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Lew

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NGD
« on: May 14, 2009, 03:10:01 PM »
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://www.briggsguitars.com
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Re: NGD
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2009, 03:23:20 PM »
Nice guitar!  Well done on the acquisition :)  It's great to get something distinctive that hardly anyone else will have...
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Re: NGD
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2009, 03:30:11 PM »
Cool! :D
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Philly Q

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Re: NGD
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 03:35:04 PM »
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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Lew

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Re: NGD
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2009, 05:26:54 PM »
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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Philly Q

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Re: NGD
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2009, 05:41:05 PM »
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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Lew

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Re: NGD
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2009, 05:47:58 PM »
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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Re: NGD
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2009, 06:14:41 PM »
excellent! :D
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Re: NGD
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2009, 06:56:28 PM »
It looks good to me. I like the position markers.
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Re: NGD
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2009, 08:34:43 PM »
Looks real nice Lew, very classy.
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Re: NGD
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2009, 08:43:24 PM »
Like it  8)!Is it expensive?
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Lew

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Re: NGD
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2009, 09:21:39 PM »
1800 reduced from 2300 likely because... (copy paste from another forum cba to re write it again)

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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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Lew

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Re: NGD
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2009, 09:26:33 PM »
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)







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Re: NGD
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2009, 09:42:24 PM »
I was about to take the pizz about your book, but you beat me to it. well played sir
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Re: NGD
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2009, 10:11:28 PM »
Is that the first Teak guitar I have seen?
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