Author Topic: Inverted Flying V (Read 15634 times)

PhilKing · « **Reply #30 on:** August 10, 2007, 12:37:25 PM »

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I'm afaraid I'm totally in love with minibuckers.

I like 'em too, especially as neck pickups. I bought a pair a couple of weeks ago, just because they were quite cheap. Not sure what I'll do with them, but I have a few ideas.

Well you have to put one in the neck position of a tele (though PAFs work well too)

I have one in the neck on my 59 Esquire, with a Brown Sugar bridge, it is a great combination. I also have one in the neck of a superstrat with MQ/Slowhand, it is a bit overpowered there though.

I have a firebird and really don't like the things Gibson are doing to the guitars nowadays. There is another with Zebrawood topped wings - really horrible! Like you say Wez, sunburst looks best (though I like white firebirds too!).

I have a Thunderbird bass too - they are really the most amazingly solid bass sound around, though they have the most delicate headstock! Mine has had a neck repair but it still sounds great.

WezV · « **Reply #31 on:** August 11, 2007, 06:02:14 PM »

white firebirds...

this was my 3rd or 4th guitar;

probably one of the coolest looking things i have made!! Shame it wasnt one of the best playing!!

Kilby · « **Reply #32 on:** August 11, 2007, 07:16:41 PM »

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I have a firebird and really don't like the things Gibson are doing to the guitars nowadays. There is another with Zebrawood topped wings - really horrible! Like you say Wez, sunburst looks best (though I like white firebirds too!).

Although flash looking I like Phil Manzaneras red firebird, the non reverse ones for some reason look real good in white.

Hmmm I really like the Fender Blonde finish (the Mary Ford strat being an example), now a firebird in that finish (as well as a Tele with mini Humbuckers with that finish too Hmmmm)

Wez: It cerainly looks nice, still the next one it ill be better :)

I am beginning to think that Gibson are relying almost purely on 'bling' as if they are trying to arm the urban youth with their instruments, and thats not good.

WezV · « **Reply #33 on:** August 11, 2007, 07:26:59 PM »

yeah, i wouldnt mind doing one of these again now i know i can do it justice. I dont think gibson have ever done a firebird junior but i reckon its pretty cool

bucketshred · « **Reply #34 on:** August 11, 2007, 07:32:26 PM »

I'd love a firebird - in white

Philly Q · « **Reply #35 on:** August 11, 2007, 07:35:29 PM »

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I dont think gibson have ever done a firebird junior but i reckon its pretty cool

The Firebird I was a sort of Firebird Jr, but yours is cool too!

Kilby · « **Reply #36 on:** August 11, 2007, 07:36:32 PM »

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yeah, i wouldnt mind doing one of these again now i know i can do it justice. I dont think gibson have ever done a firebird junior but i reckon its pretty cool

Depends on what you mean by a Jr version as Clapton used the firebird 1 for the last Cream gig (single pickup and wrapover tailpiece) theres one here http://www.guitargonauts.com/pick-36.html

I'd personally love one of these, except for the banjo tuners, and perhaps a through neck ?

Thinking about it this is the only one I have seen a decent picture of.

WezV · « **Reply #37 on:** August 11, 2007, 07:46:06 PM »

yeah the firebird 1 is pretty much a jnr but is constructed the same way as a normal firebird with less hardware - it still pretty much looks like a normal firebird

PhilKing · « **Reply #38 on:** August 12, 2007, 12:54:37 PM »

I had a custom shop firebird 1 & 7, but sold them to get my original firebird 3. The big difference with the first custom shop guitars was they all used a tune-o-matic with a stop. I'm just debating whether to put the lyre vibrola that I have onto the firebird. It is an original 60's long tailpiece lyre, and there are only 2 guitars I think that they really look good on, one is the SG Custom, and the other the firebird. However the 5 had the lyre not the 3, it had the maestro (short) vibrola.

I think the firebirds have a great sound because of the mini-hb and neck through. They are sort of like a strat on steroids with no hum. BK used to make the mini-mule hb but I think they don't any more (though I have one!). I know a lot of people aren't that keen on the sound which is why so many LP Deluxes have full size hb's.

Will · « **Reply #39 on:** August 16, 2007, 10:39:04 PM »

http://www.jjm.ch/t-bolt.htm

even worse!

Nadz1lla · « **Reply #40 on:** August 17, 2007, 12:15:59 AM »

Dunno if this has been covered yet but has anyone seen that monstrosity that Zakk Wylde has been playing of late? How can anyone think that shape is cool?

Kepu · « **Reply #41 on:** August 17, 2007, 12:40:53 AM »

^I like it :oops:

WezV · « **Reply #42 on:** August 17, 2007, 07:47:44 AM »

when i first saw those new dean guitars it was from a very arty angle and i thought it looked like a really cool idea, if not something i would choose.

but look at it from straight on:
http://www.deanguitars.com/dean_winter_07/splittail_en.htm

that looks like bad and lazy design to me!!

Nadz1lla · « **Reply #43 on:** August 17, 2007, 08:42:18 AM »

Yeah that's what I thought. Someone at dean has gone "Hmmm, can't be arsed today, lets take a Rhodes V and an SG, cut 'em both in half at the waist and glue them together, job done!"

Very lazy. :P

Lol Kepu, well Zakk likes it so at least you got a heavyweight on your side. :D

If they had put literally 10 more seconds of thought into it (like I just did on photoshop, hehe) they would have come out with something that is 10 times cooler. I think it's the SG's curves that irritate me, they're just 2 completely different shapes and I don't think they go all that well together.

At least my version has a slightly original design to it, hehe.

Ratrod · « **Reply #44 on:** August 18, 2007, 04:42:44 PM »

Zakk used one of those made by Gibson on the Jonathan Ross show. That looked alot better than the Dean.