Yeah. I've seen folks playing SX teles live and they seem to be amazing Telecasters for the money. I'd definitely go for one over a Squier.

Sad to hear.

Is it too late to mention that '60s Japanese guitars were, to put it nicely, a bit crap? Japan really started making good guitars in the mid-70s.

Combined with the tendency of 12 strings to warp, I wouldn't touch it.

5 electrics, 1 acoustic, and a banjo. Trying to stick to a one in, one out policy to stop myself buying more.

Buzz wrote: It is very different to my JMP amps - beautiful clean sound, haven't dared crank it up yet.

Make sure you do. These things aren't legendary for their clean sound ?

*cries with jealousy*

I don't quite understand about recovering. Is that the original cabinet?

Yeah. That's about right at the moment.

Nuthin' wrong with that. Congrats!

Stoffeltoo wrote:
I am still at logger heads whether I prefer humbuckers or single coils. Some of our songs need the single coil bite and other the fuller and lusher humbucker tone. (If all else fails, go to semi acoustic with LR Baggs with lined fishman amp. Absolute tone for country, rock and surf rock rhythm

My pick-ups worth

This is why P90s are great. They have a lot of cut, but they're also much meatier than Stratocaster pickups. The Who's live at Leeds is a classic example of how great that can work.

I've played in bands for the past 15 years, and regularly in the last 5. I've got two key bands going on now. I don't have kids, and neither will I, so I'd better be, right? There are still issues though. It used to be you'd hang out all day with your buddy and come up with ideas between talking kak. Now you have to schedule that time and song-writing becomes less collaborative.

I've learned a lot playing live, especially about what I don't want to play. In the rock 'n roll band you have to play a bunch of pretty well known tunes to the older people who make up a lot of your audience. You can't, however, play stuff that you don't enjoy. It'll just reflect in your performance. So it's a balance of finding tunes people will like that you want to play. I often say that there have been thousands of no.1 hits that grabbed people first time–there's no need to play from 20 song list of 'South African Cover Band Songs.' We will never play Mustang Sally or Brown Eyed Girl.

We also consciously avoid sounding like the record, which many bands are able to do now using modern kit with racks of drive pedals and vocal doublers etc.. Our aim is to sound like '60s and '70s bands sounded live–not in the studio. I don't believe the audience cares as long as they recognise the tune. Although it means we sound less tame, which may cost us some more profitable gigs.

With the other band I've learned this: no matter how old we get, no matter how long it's been, every new generation of kids thinks that surf-guitar is hip.

Cheating a bit, because my Tokai is still my fave guitar. But I've been playing this a lot this year since I finally finished modding it:



Can't let you eye-gougers have it all your own way now. ?

I like all types. What I don't like are super-hot pickups. I still want the guitar to have the identifiable twang of a string. Super-distortion type hums lose that. I have 2 double humbucker guitars, 1 p90 guitar, 1 Jazzmaster with JM pickups, and 1 with standard single coils with a double single coil humless boost in the bridge.

Yeah, people who think humbuckers lack definition have likely not played low-power, un-potted PAF style pickups.

Yeah. This avforum:

http://www.avforums.co.za/

People are selling cheap, reliable gear on a very regular basis. I bought a wonderful amplifier for under R1,000 and a superb pair of old speakers with 12" drivers for R1,300.

Our own lapdawg on this forum is a wonderful Cape Town builder of solid-body electric guitars. His attention to detail and his love of tradtional woods is top-notch. One day when I'm feeling super-rich (despite his guitars coming in at less than the gold-standard "custom-shop" electrics from big manufacturers) I'm going to commission that custom guitar from him.

There've been many discussions about this here.

In terms of camera gear, I thought that recently this had been corrected. Years ago, I discovered this, and found that I paid half price to order from the states. I did with many items. In one case, a Nikon 80-200 f2.8D, Orms offered me a used lens at R11,000 (this was a while back). By the time I had it in my hands, the brand new lens in the box from the USA had cost me R6,000.

As little as a year or so ago though, Orms prices didn't seem to differ that much from US prices. I remember comparing a very pricy lens someone asked about and found it was only about 15% more at Orms. My guess is that the recent exchange rate wobbles are being exploited here for extra profits.

I'll get to elite level at procrastination.


... one of these days.

briang wrote: It does and it doesn't
Maybe learning how to use what you have and learning how to play better is more important than "buying'' that elusive sound - so I would agree with Mr. Morelli

That. Gear is awesome and fun. Sometimes it's inspiring. But it's only about 10% of your sound. Most of is what you play and how you play. I think we talk a lot about that 10% because you can just buy it (or make) it. It's not the most important thing. But it is the thing that can't basically be summed up in one word: "practise"

PRSs look so great. But they've never worked for me when it comes to playing. Their scale-length between Fender and Gibson means they sound really indistinctive. They have neither the slinkiness of Gibson scale length, or the tight snap of a Fender. The rotary pickup switch is straight-up annoying. And they just don't sound like much IMO.

guidothepimmp wrote: Haters gonna hate..

My custom is currently my goto..


My only gripe, cant find any tokai tshirts, and there still isnt a " tokai's of gfsa thread" ?

Well there isn't a Fenders or Gibsons or Gretsches of GFSA either. ?

That is a smokin' pair of guitars guidothepimmp

This is not intended to restart the war here, but I just wanted to link a piece I wrote about the controversy that launches whenever Tokais or Gibsons get mentioned (never Fender, oddly).

I wrote this to bust some myths and give my take on some of the arguments. I'm sure I'm soon to get my first hate-comments. Can't wait! ?

https://singemonkey.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/why-tokai/