Anyone see/hear about the Epiphone Futura series coming spring? They looking kinda sweet imo.
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Stainless steel frets btw
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Everyone, i finally found the guitar for me, long story (let me know if ya’ll wanna hear it.) But here’s my new baby 
Epiphone - Crestwood Custom
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I was actually thinking that would be a nice one for you. It looks sweet and I’ve heard good things about it
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It shocked me, everything ive felt I learned i like in a guitar it had it, I also realized from it I like 10 gauge strings more than 9s. The neck wasnt satin but the finish wasnt sticky at all to me, the tones were beautiful and the mini humbuckers had a perfect balance of not so much drive that loses tone and not so little drive that it has low output.
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The specific one I chose i think was probably one of the best out the batch from the factory, one of the workers was surprised too.
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Crestwoods and Wilshires are genuinely my favorite Epiphone models. They don’t get enough love
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Excellent and I would agree with 10’s. With the shorter scale length 9’s would annoy me and probably have a lot of broken strings. So happy you got a choice one and loving it.
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Upgraded my old Ibanez finally with some 10 gauges and a new Nickel cover Dimarzio pickup, full setup. Plays so sweet now!
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They really are hard to beat. I think everyone in our local “blues society” plays through one. My brother has a funky blue and purple one. My favorite has always been my Kustom tuck n roll with the back taken off.
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Me and my brother found some time to record a 3 song tribute to the original guitarist for Cake, Greg Brown… We broke out the 4 track and recorded covers of 3 of his post Cake, Deathray songs.
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My Blues Jr is pretty heavily modified. Beyond the 30 watt conversion, I wired the unused triode in V2 as a cathode follower after the tone stack, modified the capacitors in the power stage and tone stack, I also wired in a Tiny Terror tone circuit that can be switched on or off. The tiny terror uses a capacitor and volume pot wired across the input to the output tubes. This creates a “misalignment” that gives a more resonant tone control to it. The flexibility that adds to the tone is crazy. I have also a presence control wired in. The result is I can go from insanely ear piercing sparkle to incredibly Marshall-esque mid heavy crunch with the TT tone on, and a harder Fender crunch than the amp was ever capable of. It’ll now accept a wide range of power tubes from the original EL-84 to KM66/EL-34 and many in between. I’ve been loving it with EL34s. If I had a stack to hook it to…
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I’m guessing you’re not big on pedals. Sounds like that amp will get any sound you would need out of it! I like a spring reverb and maybe trem on my amp, but I don’t have to have it. I had a Fender Musicmaster and an old Magnatone with just volume and tone knobs, and got some good sounds out of them. I know I’ve never had a pedal that stuck. They get used more for my keyboards… Chorus to thicken them up. And Casio beats sound really cool through a wah pedal! I was playing a disco version of Rocketman before Elton himself went and remixed it.
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No.. I like pedals too. The amp has a spring reverb built in which is always on a tad. I love a Pink Floyd echo.
I’ve wanted to upgrade the reverb tank in that amp for a long time. So long I can’t even remember the tank I was considering. 
Quite honestly, for me it’s just that I never was able to leave things alone. Always tinkering.
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Not sure how I haven’t chimed in on this one yet lol. Before I got so deep into collecting yo-yos, I had a LOT of guitars. I worked at a handful of music stores over the course of 20 years or so and played in a few bands. Here is a photo from 2010 when I was 20 years old and working at Guitar Center in Florence KY.
Here is one from 2016ish when I had a practice space in my basement.
My current collection consists of:
-1969 Gibson ES-340
-1948 Gibson L50
-2009 Fender Mexi Standard Tele - Bigsby added
-1981 Ibanez IC50 Iceman
-1978 Ibanex IC100 Iceman
-2000ish Ibanez IC300 Iceman
-Probably 3 or 4 other random Icemen that are in various stages of disassembly
-1980 Ibanez RS800 Roadster Bass
My main band was a prog doom band called Troll, based in Portland, OR. We put out two full albums and toured around the US a bit. Most of my main stage guitars were Icemen, which is why I still have so many of them. About 4 years ago I was playing guitar in a band and our drummer quit, so I sat in on drums “until we found a replacement.” We never found a replacement. I left that band and joined a new one, and now I am a drummer. Current band is Big Joke.
Here are some photos of the more significant guitars I have had over the years.
I bought this Ric 481 slant fret from Peter Buck (REM) and did a few mods to it. Eventually swapped it all back to original and traded it for a '65 Pontiac Catalina. The Tele was a '62 reissue.
Here is my '69 ES-340
MOONSAULT
Ibanez has always been my favorite guitar company. Specifically the Iceman. I think I had 14 of them at one point. No, I am not a KISS fan. The green and purple metal flake ones I painted myself in my back yard. I also painted the black and red Destroyer.
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Time for slide guitar 
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Ahhh you can still form power chords, you’re good
Maybe even a pentatonic scale or two to tie them together
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Cruel irony, I just got a new 7 string
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I LOVE reverb. It’s on everything. I’m dangerous with it. Good delay is always a nice touch. I’ve been really into glitchy sounds lately for a nice ambient feel.
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