Posted on 04/05/2009 2:09:12 PM PDT by Liberty Valance
Why isn’t the Gibson name on it then?
What kind of nut does the Signature Jeff Beck have?
Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden has a gold top Les Paul. Things probably worth over $100,000, even though he’s had to remove some wood to switch out pickups.
I could look at my friends gold top cross eyed and get a great sound. I love that guitar!
Being a lefty makes it pretty difficult to get my hands on a good guitar. On top of that, I haven’t had a chance to crank any amps yet. Music shop I go to has a 5 watt tube amp that I wanna try on 8 or so, see if I could get some good saturation out of it.
I’d also like to put my Strat through it, whenever I get it back...
I dunno. I think the EXACT shape of the fender stratocaster is a little different. Im not a guitar player so i don’t get as picky about these things. But the generic american shape of the modern guitar was invented by gibson. The fender telecaster is the generic american shape. The gibson super 400 came out in the early 1930s, while the telecaster came out in about 1950, the stratocaster 1954.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Super400ces.png
telecaster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FenderTelecaster.jpg
In addition to those is the gibson les paul(1952), and the gibson SG(1961)
Gibson was first.
I don’t think it has to do with solid-body, more of the shape.
Ok, well I don’t know exactly what they mean by the “shape”. I assume they meant assymetrical, having the scratch guard, and lacking the large round hole in the center...in other words NOT like the classic spanish guitar. Using that as the definition, gibson guitar company was the first to invent that shape.
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