8k one would be, but not sure if that matters to me. The difference between the F5 Pro and Satin are: F5 Pro Double bound top and back Single bound fingerboard and peghead Gloss Varnish Finish F5 Satin Single bound top Unbound fingerboard and peghead Satin Lacquer Finish Aren’t those differences mostly cosmetic? I have been thinking of getting the Satin, with rose headstock inlay, and not sure on adding a gloss finish. I have a true beater I can sell for cheap right now. It’s a Kentucky KM 149 or 150. Student model from 1995 I think. I think I paid $149 for it like 5 years ago. Since then one of the tuners started slipping. Instead of changing them, the local shop just put some kind of adhesive in the screw so it would hold again. Otherwise in good shape. Would be good enough to see if you take to it, but if you do you would outgrow it fast.
I'm not a huge fan of a gloss finish or overly plasticy finish. I have guitars like that and it doesn't stop me from playing them but I prefer a more natural finish I have on other guitars. Feel like my hand slides up and down the neck better on a natural finish Idk the principle but I'm sure you know with musical instruments... there can be a be difference between a $200 guitar and $1,000 guitar. And very little difference in a $4,000 guitar and an $8,000 guitar. Basically there's diminishing returns on your money the more you spend. Just keep that in mind
These are built in the same shop as Ellis mandolins, which would be twice as much or more. Made by a long time builder of his, with him still having input. It’s a way to get close to his build quality for this price. This will be a big step up from my current Eastman 315.
Well, thought I was all in on a Pava mandolin but I happened across a Wienman F5 this weekend and fell in love. Small shop near Asheville builds them. I commissioned a build with them that will take a year or a little more.
Seemed like a good way to go about it. Takes about 20% down when the build starts, and then if I don’t like it when it’s done the sale is void.
Trying to learn Hide and Seek by Billy Strings on guitar and I really should have learned how to flat pick much sooner Makes it that much harder trying to break out of bad habits
the youtube algorithm hid this from me for far too long. probably the most impactful gear related video i've ever watched.
He's got a number of them about cabinets, amps, mics, guitars, strings, etc .. it's really interesting
Finally back playing music after about a year of my shit being in a "junk room" in our house once my fiance moved in and my music room turned into a storage room. I have reclaimed the room and made it music again. Jesus Christ my knowledge retention on piano is horrible. Could hardly remember how to play most of the songs I knew. Guitar though can just put some Blue Sky on a sonos and jam along until my fingers are blistered to death without missing a note. Feels great to be back playing again though. Trying to figure out a song I can play/sing for the wedding that's kinda cool / not incredibly cheesy. Got 6 months to figure that out
I think if I put that on my wedding registry someone may mistake the "Handpan" for a really fancy kitchen utility item and I could sneak that into the arsenal.
I should send this to an ex coworker who was giving me grief for building an electric guitar body out of plywood instead of some traditional guitar wood (ash, rosewood, some critically endangered hardwood from a clear cut Brazilian rainforest, etc.). Simple truth is if your electric* guitar is set up correctly, the only thing that really affects tone on the guitar itself are what's touching the strings (bone nut will sound different than synthetic, brass, or plastic -- ditto the bridge materials, and the pick or fingertips), the pickups, and the electronics. And even with the pups, a single turn of a screwdriver raising or lowering the height of them in relation to the strings can mean the difference between a muddy tone and a bright one. *obviously wood type makes a difference with acoustic guitars
yep this makes all those heavy les pauls seem pretty unnecessary. that maple cap isnt adding snappiness or whatever it is they market. makes me want to ditch my guitars for a pine tele
Made up a riff. Feel like it's definitely derivative of a riff I've heard before. Went through three albums of likely suspects track by track and couldn't find what I'm thinking of. I listen to too much shit on shuffle.
I did that one time where I was sure I was ripping off something. Went years without figuring it out. Then I realized it was King of Pain and not really all that similar at all
Paul hummed "Yesterday" all over town convinced he had stolen it from somewhere. Nobody recognized it so he kept it
I'll like deliberately take the chord changes and a lick or 2 from a song and just play it in a different rhythm and switch up where the changes come in (sit on a chord for an extra bar or something) "that's pretty cool, did you just come up with that?" "yeah, totally, just came up with that" [just ripped off "heard it through the grapevine" or some shit]
On the flipside, I hate "that guy" that tries to compare anything to something they've already heard. Me: [demonstrates riff] Them: Wow, Blink 182 much?
Not sure if this will embed properly but amusing if you know theory. Bro breaks down which scale degrees are most epic
Haha, I also enjoyed that. I started off thinking they were the same thing and left mystified about the overtone series
it's the kind of music theory stuff that *always* breaks my brain, and is almost always best clarified by a musical example.
Or how about this: Me: Screwing around jamming, nothing in particular, not playing an actual song Them: What song is that? If you leave me to my own devices, I'm probably not going to play an actual song. Probably just going to fuck around with some chords and bluesy stuff.