Rebosbro
Member
Thanks, Walrus. Is this club how we differentiate the old farts in the forum?
Paul
1993 F30CE at GC Richmond
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Paul
Not really, there's plenty of old farts on LTG with perfectly good right shoulders...
walrus
Rebosbro
Member
They need to eat more and join the club. It’s not so much the with of the GUITAR body, but the width of MY body!!Not really, there's plenty of old farts on LTG with perfectly good right shoulders...
walrus
Paul
adorshki
Reverential Member
Congrats sir!! Agreed about the shoulder, why my Blondie became my go-to for comfortability.My right shoulder is happiest of all! I’m gonna miss the volume of the dread, but I’ll still play it too,
Now need a S-60D or S-70 and then I’ll be through buying guitars forever
Paul
Anxiously awaiting your review.
I think you're gonna be pleasantly surprised.
Although being a shortscale it might not be quite as loud as my F65ce, basically a blinged-up version of the F30ce. (But being an '01, mine's long scale.)
Still Blondie never gave up much to Hallie for volume and in fact was just as loud as the D40 when the '40 was only 3 or 4 years old ('til it finally opened up a few years later..
)Another tip since I don't know how much you know about 'em, but they were built for custom lights .010-.047(!) Supposed to feel almost like an electric and respond to the same light touch.
Having never really played electric, took me like 2 years to figure that out, especially bein' a heavy-handed strummer. I was bendin' 'em right off the fretboard, there!
So I did go to .011-.052 and varied between standard and tuned down a half step for a few years. Then went searching for the mellowest tone possible from maple and used silk'n'steel lights tuned down a whole step. Been doing that for 3 or 4 years now. To my ear it gives louder but shorter sustain, and real easy bending for me, now.
I play "bareback" semi-fingerpicking style a lot. But 'hold that note' at the end of a scale and it rings bell-like sweet and clear for even 3-4 seconds depending on where you are on the neck and what string(s) you're hitting before fading quick, but for anything I might do that's long enough anyway. So I Iike it.
With a shortscale I bet you could get away with the 11-52's at standard pitch as a starting point, for optimum volume without over-torqueing the top.. Factory was actually D'Addario PB, the 11's be D'Addario EJ-26 these days.
After that I defer to @Westerly Wood 's known intimate knowledge of a number of string compositions and gauges, as he's been known to change strings more than once in a day. He's got hefty bags full of empty string packs in his basement and lord knows what he does with the carcasses?
Enjoy, sir!
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adorshki
Reverential Member
It's a 16" F-body, buddy. In spite of the model number. You know how it is.
Rich Cohen
Senior Member
That's what I keep saying.....My right shoulder is happiest of all! I’m gonna miss the volume of the dread, but I’ll still play it too,
Now need a S-60D or S-70 and then I’ll be through buying guitars forever
Paul