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LeonC

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brandtkronholm said:
What are you playing it through?

How does is compare to your red 335?

Do you do any Cold Blood?
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I'm playing it through a Fractal FM9 into a Mackie DLM8 (full range flat response speaker). Super convenient, super consistent and sounds great to me.

The neck has a bit more chunk to it, and it's a bit narrower at the nut. The '61 is a bit wider than 1 11/16th at the nut, and the '65 is a little bit narrower. The pickups are quite similar but the bridge on the '61 is a wee bit brighter and the neck is a little darker compared to the '65. They both play really well but the '61 is a little easier to play (bending strings is easier, at any rate) with the shorter string length.

We don't do any Cold Blood...but we do several Tower of Power tunes including What is Hip, This Time It's Real and So Very Hard to Go. We just got charts for Soul Vaccination too and I can't wait to work on that. Our singer is great and has a tenor range...but we've never discussed doing any Cold Blood, largely because we just haven't done any tunes that feature female singers.
 
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LeonC said:
I'm playing it through a Fractal FM9 into a Mackie DLM8 (full range flat response speaker). Super convenient, super consistent and sounds great to me.

The neck has a bit more chunk to it, and it's a bit narrower at the nut. The '61 is a bit wider than 1 11/16th at the nut, and the '65 is a little bit narrower. The pickups are quite similar but the bridge on the '61 is a wee bit brighter and the neck is a little darker compared to the '65. They both play really well but the '61 is a little easier to play (bending strings is easier, at any rate) with the shorter string length.

We don't do any Cold Blood...but we do several Tower of Power tunes including What is Hip, This Time It's Real and So Very Hard to Go. We just got charts for Soul Vaccination too and I can't wait to work on that. Our singer is great and has a tenor range...but we've never discussed doing any Cold Blood, largely because we just haven't done any tunes that feature female singers.
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Fractal…Mackie… I’ll have to look this up!

‘61 - as in made in Kalamazoo in 1961, or reissue ‘61?

Shorter string length? I don’t understand.

I’m bet you guys could do some Cold Blood with a make singer. It’ll work. “Baby I Love You” is the one!

Also, Squibcakes… Do it.
 
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brandtkronholm said:
Fractal…Mackie… I’ll have to look this up!

‘61 - as in made in Kalamazoo in 1961, or reissue ‘61?

Shorter string length? I don’t understand.

I’m bet you guys could do some Cold Blood with a make singer. It’ll work. “Baby I Love You” is the one!

Also, Squibcakes… Do it.
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No, it's not a reissue, it is a 1961--made in Kalamazoo--guitar.

The strings--when they have to be threaded through the Bixby on my '65--are much longer than the strings that just go as far as the stop tail on my '61. And longer strings=more tension, making them a bit harder to play.

Squib Cakes is excellent! Check out ToP's track, A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing (when Tom Bowes was singing)..that's the one I'd like to learn after Soul Vaccination!
 
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LeonC said:
No, it's not a reissue, it is a 1961--made in Kalamazoo--guitar.

The strings--when they have to be threaded through the Bixby on my '65--are much longer than the strings that just go as far as the stop tail on my '61. And longer strings=more tension, making them a bit harder to play.

Squib Cakes is excellent! Check out ToP's track, A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing (when Tom Bowes was singing)..that's the one I'd like to learn after Soul Vaccination!
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Have you posted pictures of your 1961? If not, let’s see it!

The way I understand it, the additional string length due to the Bigsby would make the string more compliant and perhaps easier to play - but maybe you’d have to bend the string just a tic further to get to pitch…

Thanks for the ToP recommendation. I can’t recall that tune immediately. Soul Vaccination! A classic! Do it!
 
LeonC

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brandtkronholm said:
Have you posted pictures of your 1961? If not, let’s see it!

The way I understand it, the additional string length due to the Bigsby would make the string more compliant and perhaps easier to play - but maybe you’d have to bend the string just a tic further to get to pitch…

Thanks for the ToP recommendation. I can’t recall that tune immediately. Soul Vaccination! A classic! Do it!
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Here's my '61. New pics. I've currently got a replacement bridge (ABM, bell-brass) which I'm digging while I have its original bridge on my '65 which is getting new saddles on its bridge notched. The ABM is really nice; seems to sound a bit "softer" or "warmer"...very subtle though. You can tell that the neck is at a lower angle and mounted a bit lower...the bridge is almost sitting on the top. I tried top-wrapping this a long time ago but the break angle was too shallow.

Color looks a bit washed out in the "full body" photos. But the color is much more accurate in the close up photos, FWIW.

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Nice!
I've got an early 1959 ES345 and I don't think its bridge sits as low as yours! I can (and do) top-wrap it.
I see that you've "corrected" the neck pickup ring!
 
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My bridge is very low on the '65. Flipped the neck ring:

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tonedrip said:
It’s actually a 61 Super .. but it’s the shit too ! I’d love a brown face deluxe one day
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I had a 61 or 62 Super..freaking awesome amp but nowhere in Myrtle Beach to turn it up past 1. Even the HOB breaks balls now on volume even on the big outdoor stage
 
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tonedrip said:
It’s actually a 61 Super .. but it’s the shit too ! I’d love a brown face deluxe one day
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OT but...maybe a dozen years ago, I built an amp with the Normal channel set up like a 6G3 Deluxe and the Vibrato channel of a 6G4-A. I called it a "Super Duper" :)

Here's a clip I did with one of my old '68 LP Customs...

 
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LeonC said:
OT but...maybe a dozen years ago, I built an amp with the Normal channel set up like a 6G3 Deluxe and the Vibrato channel of a 6G4-A. I called it a "Super Duper" :)

Here's a clip I did with one of my old '68 LP Customs...

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Outstanding clip … I would think you could sell a bunch of those amps
 
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