Guitar Recommendations?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DAngelico-NYSD-9-ohsc-/111728349147?hash=item1a03874fdb

I never knew D'Angelico made solid-bodies...

She's beautiful

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DAngelico-NYSD-9-ohsc-/111728349147?hash=item1a03874fdb

I never knew D'Angelico made solid-bodies...

She's beautiful

they're new, someone bought the d'anfelico name... dunno if they're any good

From what I heard, they were starting to go under a few years back, but I never heard anything about anyone buying the name. Though the guy who manages the company sounded like he wasn't really doing his job well.

Nevertheless, D'Angelico's name is still really important.

From what I heard, they were starting to go under a few years back, but I never heard anything about anyone buying the name. Though the guy who manages the company sounded like he wasn't really doing his job well.

Nevertheless, D'Angelico's name is still really important.

I guess, After D'Angelico died his assistant took off and formed D'Aquisto to continue the great tradition of quality archtops for top jazz musicians. D'Angelico went downhill after that and I think someone bought the name up in the 90s and tried to revive the company but they have been limping along ever since... I don't know what's up with these new ones. I will have to try them whenever I see one. I do not have a lot of time for guitar stores and I couldn't afford to go to summer NAMM this year like I wanted to.

Nevertheless, the guitars certainly look like they were made with care. Their hollow-bodies and solid-bodies should have been sufficient enough to sweep that market... I'm surprised it hasn't.

Nevertheless, the guitars certainly look like they were made with care. Their hollow-bodies and solid-bodies should have been sufficient enough to sweep that market... I'm surprised it hasn't.

no one willever displace the big 2, the headstocks are so iconic people just want a gibby or fender

More so Fender than Gibson I think.

More so Fender than Gibson I think.

yeah, I second that... but the Gibson headstock is a big upcharge, which is why they got so uptight with Greco and tokai in the 70s and 80s

How could anyone not love that D'Angelico headstock? It looks so regal, like it was made for the kings and queens of music, I just love it. EVRYTHING about D'Angelico screams regal, and they certainly know how to make their guitars look miles different from an ES-335 or an Artcore.

But you're right about the Big Two, and it really bothers me. I'm sure people think, "Why get this guitar when this one is more popular?" and think it easier to just buy a Fender or Gibson and I get frustrated because It's NOT better to just go the easier and more popular way because there is such a thing as a diamond in the rough, and if you look hard enough, they're not so ordinary after all!

Wow, second rant for Equipboard. I'll keep count, just in case.

But you're right about the Big Two, and it really bothers me. I'm sure people think, "Why get this guitar when this one is more popular?" and think it easier to just buy a Fender or Gibson and I get frustrated because It's NOT better to just go the easier and more popular way because there is such a thing as a diamond in the rough, and if you look hard enough, they're not so ordinary after all!

Its also a resale thing... if I am in a financial bind my Gibbies always bail me out... and I know my other set-necks are as good or better, so its not impossibly heartbreaking to part with a Gibson if you need to. As a Gretsch guy though, I cna attest a good Gretsch can pay for emergency car surgery when thigns go seriously wrong). The big 2 are a very known quantity (although Gibson these days? not so much! I am underwhelmed with everything but the unobtainium Memphis guitars... I have to sift through so many Nashville axes to get a winner).

Jim, I think you're the only one here who has that many guitars, you lucky man.

For everybody else who does not have that many guitars, we keep ours close at hand because we cannot afford more than the few we own.

I'm sure even when I finally finish paying off my student loans, It'll be years until I think it safe to buy a brand new a GOOD guitar without going bankrupt for the month.

Jim, I think you're the only one here who has that many guitars, you lucky man.

For everybody else who does not have that many guitars, we keep ours close at hand because we cannot afford more than the few we own.

I'm sure even when I finally finish paying off my student loans, It'll be years until I think it safe to buy a brand new a GOOD guitar without going bankrupt for the month.

I think I have the least guitars of anyone I know LOL, but I run in that kind of crowd and I make a pretty solid living! I really thinned the herd lately I swear it! I think when Iw as your age I ahd 2 axes... you'll be able to afford 3 or 4 by the time you are 21 or 22, honest

I am actually playing guitar while typing this.

Besides the ones I have, there are a few others at church, including this old Applause by Ovation acoustic. It got cracked some time ago, and the pastor just left it with only five strings. Dullest string I'd ever heard. Just finished restringing them with Phosphor Bronze, and they sound phenomenal.

I secretly like ovations, plastic abck and all... they are their own thing. y'know Kaman, the guy who invented the Ovation guitar? He was actually a Helicopter parts mogul for his day job. The Kaman music group that also owned Hamer? That was his hobby when he wasn't engineering and inventing stuff for aircraft. Guy was like a mad scientist.

read the story from their own website http://dangelicoguitars.com/explore/history/

the current D'angelicos have nothing to do with John or his apprentice James D'aquisto other than the headstock shape and the name which was purchased by investors in 2011. the cool deco look of D'angelicos is great, but what made them special was the hand craftsmanship of 2 guys building one off guitars for top players.... they had 'models' back in the day, but its rare to find 2 d'angelicos or d'aquistos that are specced identically in every way. They were not a factory guitar. Not that there's anything wrong with factory guitars, just saying, its kinda sad the d'aquisto family fell on hard enough times to sell the name and trademark headstock to a bunch of sharks churning out factory copies... the whole thing about d'angelico was that you called him if your personal jazz instrument had to be better than a Gibson super 400

I'd go for the telecaster. It might just be me, but I hate SG (And basically most Gibson) necks. For me It's Gibson or nothing in terms of Les Pauls. Fender is definitely the way forward: If I had £5-900 pounds to spend on a guitar I'd be getting a fender.

I'd go for the telecaster. It might just be me, but I hate SG (And basically most Gibson) necks. For me It's Gibson or nothing in terms of Les Pauls. Fender is definitely the way forward: If I had £5-900 pounds to spend on a guitar I'd be getting a fender.

I assume you read the five pages of text to come to that conclusion?

I'd go for the telecaster. It might just be me, but I hate SG (And basically most Gibson) necks. For me It's Gibson or nothing in terms of Les Pauls. Fender is definitely the way forward: If I had £5-900 pounds to spend on a guitar I'd be getting a fender.

fender make an okay guitar to this day, it was really their design work that set them apart -- the tele is like Ford's Model T, but they charge a premium for the guitars that are built to the 50s standard that is unwarranted considering the limited craftsmanship required to build a good tele... hell, I did it

900 UK is like 1800 USD these days, even adjusting for your countries ludicrous import tariff you could do better than an American standard tele for that kinda scratch

you get yourself a #1 yet Narcy?

Got my heart set on a Jazzmaster, no doubt. But I had a few ideas going around while college holds me back.

http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp274/bonanzacity/gtr40a.jpg

This is one of them. Fact is, the guitar both feels and sounds fantastic. But who is to say that a pair of humbuckers won''t make it sound better?