Frankfurt Musikmesse 2012 Vintage Guitar Show Part 3

Mr-M

vic

Many thanks for posting this Mr T. (Is there an icon for drooooling? :? )
Tell us more about the show please...are these guitars for sale or just show pieces ?

studmissile

Thanx for sharing!

AlanRatcliffe

Thanks for that.

Anything new and exciting catch your eye while you were there?

Tokai-SA

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Anything new and exciting catch your eye while you were there?

+ 1

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Tokai-SA

Here's a cool photo taken at Musikmesse.

Robin Gallagher and Brent Mason...can you imagine these two having a jam. 8)

Manfred-Klose

i suppose this is not the section where you start testing out guitars ?

Mr-M

Vic wrote: Many thanks for posting this Mr T. (Is there an icon for drooooling? :? )
Tell us more about the show please...are these guitars for sale or just show pieces ?

Glad to help expand the GAS of my fellow forum members. ?
The Vintage Guitar Show had European guitar dealers exhibiting, so I would have to conclude most of these guitars were for sale. I doubt guitar stores would do this if here was no money to be made, although they probably got some good publicity out of it.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Thanks for that.

Anything new and exciting catch your eye while you were there?

Actually, I am rather hard to excite when it comes to gear. Lots of new stuff, but very little actual revolutionary, game-changing gear. Maybe I am just a jaded industry insider... :-[ That Fishman MIDI system you were interested in was very impressive, although the guy's Mac stopped working halfway into the demo which brought things to a halt. Sadly I didn't get a chance to go back for another look when it was working.
Lots of cool boutique stuff that we will probably never see in SA, like Vigier and Trussart. The Flaxwoood guitars were fantastic IMO. Possibly one of the few environmentally friendly products in the modern world that actually matches the regular products they are competing with
On the more affordable side of things, Ibanez came out with a nowadays out of character guitar for them which I think was called the FGR, which I quite liked.
Cort also surprised me with a cool semi-hollow guitar with TV Jones pickups. I'll post some pics of these later if anyone is interested.

MikeM

This reminds me of a forum member ?

Lucky dude, must have been fun!

AlanRatcliffe

Mr T wrote: Actually, I am rather hard to excite when it comes to gear. Lots of new stuff, but very little actual revolutionary, game-changing gear. Maybe I am just a jaded industry insider...

I know exactly what you mean. It's the beginning of the end when you get bored at somewhere like Frankfurt though. ?

Cort also surprised me with a cool semi-hollow guitar with TV Jones pickups. I'll post some pics of these later if anyone is interested.

The Sunset I?

We think alike. ? I've had my eye on that since Winter NAMM... I also like that it's available in CAR, which is a very unusual colour for an archtop and about the only solid colour aside from black that I like.

Mr-M

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: I know exactly what you mean. It's the beginning of the end when you get bored at somewhere like Frankfurt though. ?

Indeed... :'(

The Sunset I?

We think alike. ? I've had my eye on that since Winter NAMM... I also like that it's available in CAR, which is a very unusual colour for an archtop and about the only solid colour aside from black that I like.

That's the one. Cort really seem to have the right idea with this model. I liked it. ?

For those interested, here's a very small selection of the 1GB of photos I took this year. Things I liked at Musikmesse 2012: http://www.guitarforum.co.za/general-discussion/gear-i-liked-at-frankfurt-musikmesse/