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Post Re: 32 Guitars Ranked By Moral Virtue
on: October 20, 2012, 14:37
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Quote from soggybag on October 17, 2012, 08:10
The concept is a great idea, the actual info graphic and commentary came across a little shallow. Who says everyone that played a Tele is virtuous?

This is for humor's sake. It's not meant to inform or shape the opinions of anyone. It's just a joke.

Quote from soggybag on October 17, 2012, 08:10The real tell tale here is the fact that it's been reliced. This is a sin against musicianship. All of the history and experience this instrument portrays is a sham.

If people like the way it looks, they're more than welcome to get exactly what their little hearts desire. If someone sees a relic'ed guitar and think that automatically equates to history and experience in the person playing it, they're stupid enough to live with that. Let's not be all superior about having "put in our time." People can do what they want. That's what music is about.
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Post Re: 32 Guitars Ranked By Moral Virtue
on: October 21, 2012, 05:12
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Remember a guitar is an "Instrument" def - an implement used to facilitate work.And I am required to put square pegs in round holes , so I will be putting a Strat neck on my imitation Tele. Pocket shape isn't that big a deal it is just the corners that don't match (Strat = rounded , Tele = square). Remember the first electric guitar was basically a 4x4. If You like it , then it is good and that is all that matters for the most part.
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Post Re: 32 Guitars Ranked By Moral Virtue
on: October 21, 2012, 21:27
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I suppose, I was making the point that the premise "Guitars Ranked By Moral Virtue" has a lot of potential. The actual article, in my opinion, fell well short what is possible.

On the subject of relic'ed instruments, if it makes you happy buy one. For myself, I'd rather make it and break it myself. I guess I'm not really so much down on the people buying these things, as I am on the marketing that produced them. It really gets to this idea I have that Fender and Gibson are over priced in general. Selling a scale replica of a guitar played by Joe Strummer is interesting to some degree, but it has whiff of snake oil.

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on: October 21, 2012, 23:39
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Soggybag, I'm with you on the over-priced Fender point; I can't see why any of 'em should cost more than four hundred bucks. That people pay thousands blows my fragile mind- it's two pieces of machined wood bolted together with a few dollars worth of hardware, and the final assembly isn't rocket science. How can anyone justify a two thousand dollar tele? Did you whittle the body out of an ash tree with your pen-knife and stain it with golden-goose pee? 'Cuz otherwise, I ain't payin'...
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Post Re: 32 Guitars Ranked By Moral Virtue
on: October 22, 2012, 04:26
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Fender and Gibson make less then quality instruments now and charge ridiculous prices , it is that whole "name = quality" new fangled hipster wannabe mentality garbage.I have been way more impressed by things like cheap, low end Godins myself. 2k is way low for a "custom shop" quality Tele too https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/fender-custom-shop-master-built-by-dale-wilson-50s-heavy-relic-telecaster-electric-guitar
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Post Re: 32 Guitars Ranked By Moral Virtue
on: October 22, 2012, 11:36
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Whoa! 6K for a butcher board and a baseball bat, something is wrong there! I'm sure it's a fine guitar. I feel you could buy a Korean knock off, and take to a shop, have them give a good tune up, replace some parts, and you'd have something that plays and sounds as good.

That said the one thing you can't seem to get from the machine made knock offs is an old school finish.

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