David Lewis
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Joined Mar 2015
Multi-instrumentalist and teacher.
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Create your EquipboardGuitars 8
Very cheap, yet exceptionally well made. As good as the Epiphone. Came ready straight out of the box.
Versatile, easy to play, smooth neck. Slight mods on mine: re-wired to enable bridge and neck pickups on, and a wilkinson tempered 3-saddle bridge.
Simple yet complex. Can rock, jazz or blues. Has a bigsby. One volume knob, yet versatile. Highly playable.
Great feel. Great sound. Great playability. I probably don’t need another strat. This is so good.
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But watch the tuning - make sure you get it professionally set up. Otherwise it's a great guitar for rock and roll, jazz, country and rockabilly. Neck is nice, and guitar is well appointed.
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It has a thin line body, and is joined at the 14 fret. Most nylon strings have large bodies and are joined at the 12th fret. It has 21 frets, rather than 19. It has a tapered neck. If you play primarily electric, or like thin bodies, this is an excellent guitar with exceptional value for money. It sounds great plugged in, or unplugged. Great for jazz, pop, or classical or flamenco music. Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed played nylon thin lines, so there's no reason for you not to.
It may even become my main acoustic...
Basses 3
I’ve had mine since 1992. Great bass. Single file jazz and with the push pull switches making them hum buckers it’s an incredibly versatile bass. Criminally undervalued and despite it being a 1985 model. It has an extremely playable neck, much like a jazz neck. Can do a P facsimile, and slaps like a funk machine.
Actually it’s more than entry level. I’ve gigged and recorded with this. It plays beautifully and the active pickups work nicely.
Great neck, great pickups. Plays extremely well. Versatile. Looks fantastic with the natural finish and maple fingerboard. The neck is bound which looks great.
Amps 7
I use it to practice. It’s reliable, fun, and has a nice drive sound. Not great with a Gretsch, but fantastic with telecasters.
Sounds great. Light. Banjo sounds like a banjo. Guitar sounds like a guitar. Microphone works beautifully.
Mandolins 5
Versatile as all get out, easy to play, sounds great - the JBovier ELS never lets me down. You can jazz on it - you can rock on it, you can country on it, you can blues on it. Two pickups, when combined they are a humbucker. Great response on the controls, great tuners, and looks great.
Great value. Lovely bright tone, deep lows, bright highs, strong mids. Great mandolin
Bought mine in Guitar Centre on 4th Avenue, New York - a nice souvenir. May need a set up if you buy one, but a lovely tone, playable neck and sturdy build. Recommended.
Effects and sundry 64
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It's a little fiddly, but it has some wonderful sounds. Expensive now, but if you can get hold of one, worth having.
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