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Post by Keith Ambridge on Mar 24, 2014 18:16:49 GMT
Hi folks,
I've just got down to visit my brother and have been playing his MM Blues 28 this morning.
Then, took my mum to Street in Somerset to get shoes, found a guitar shop in Street called Jaywalk Guitars and they had a lightning and a 12 fret Blues in stock, the manager is a slide player and is keenly awaiting a 28. He also has Diamond bottle necks in stock.
What a great morning!!
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Post by wezzywest on Mar 26, 2014 12:32:11 GMT
Keith, sounds like a proper days shopping. How did the guitars compare, playing them in the same environment and one after the other?
Cheers.
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Post by Keith Ambridge on Mar 26, 2014 14:19:46 GMT
I only played the MM Blues in the shop not the lightning, and I've never had the opportunity to play any vintage resonators. I did like the blues, it just felt right and compared to the cheap bling metal reso's I've tried in tha past there's just no competition.
However, I prefer the wood body look and sound by a mile!
I haven't played my blue reso for 10 days now and I'm a bit anxious about how it will sound and feel when I get back to it tomorow.
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Post by Matt on Mar 26, 2014 16:10:42 GMT
Keith, sounds like a proper days shopping. How did the guitars compare, playing them in the same environment and one after the other? Cheers. When I bought my MM Blues I was fortunate enough to be in a shop that had 2 Lightnings and 2 Blues in stock. I had originally wanted a lightning, however ended up preferring the Blues that I bought. Interestingly, however, I ranked them in order of preference and came to: 1) Blues A 2) Lightning A 3) Blues B 4) Lightning B This reinforced a feeling I have always had that you can't get a proper measure of an instrument without playing it, however many facts and specs you know, or even if you've played another identical guitar before. I have also played a number of vintage Nationals. Some (a certain forum member's style 0, for example) were the most beautiful sounding instruments I've every played, others (such as one I found for sale in a well known music shop) played and sounded like rubbish. The rest ranged form decent but no better than an MM instrument to better but not so mind-blowing that I'd buy them for the price a seller would want. |
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Post by wezzywest on Mar 26, 2014 18:57:06 GMT
Thanks for the replies. Yes, nothing like playing the guitar before you make your mind up. I honestly don't think I could go wrong with buying a Blues or Lightning blind though, as I have not seen a bad review of them anywhere.
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 26, 2014 20:12:39 GMT
..."This reinforced a feeling I have always had that you can't get a proper measure of an instrument without playing it"...
+1.
i have bought many amps electronically/shipped. don't place much stock in sound clips on the web, partly because my computer sound card is DOA, but mostly because too many variables exist. covering the extreme ends of the spectrum, from poor recording methods for good amps, to excellent recordings of bad amps, then all the way through bad recordings of good amps.
[itself lives well out in the boonies of NETEX, where brick-n-mortar music stores are few and far between].
rely more on user reviews obtained by extended digging on the 'web. many venues exist with vast stores of info along those lines.
but a buying guitar is just too subjective/personal. i do buy some of them by long distance, but usually they are cheap enough that a poor choice can just be flipped if found unsatisfactory.
the glaring exception to this was an 1133 bought from elderly instruments mid-'90's from deepest darkest alaska. the chances of finding one of those for sale there was only slightly better than for seeing big foot. the risk was mitigated some by elderly's reputation for accurate/honest product description. also, the tilt adjust neck and intended slide only use removed many risks.
even with all of the guitar's action concerns voided out, string spacing for finger picking is an intangible that [IMO] has to be felt to be approved. different neck profiles, depth, thicknesses, etc don't seem nearly as hard to adjust to as string spacing. and nut dimensions don't really reflect the string spacing where the picking takes place with any form of reliability.
<$0.02,
mitchfit
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Post by televiking on Mar 27, 2014 8:16:28 GMT
I was looking for a MM 12, and after reading this contacted Jaywalk Guitars. The MM Blues you played there is now mine  Televiking |
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Post by thebluesbear( al) on Mar 27, 2014 8:51:09 GMT
televiking
im glad you found your MM guitar ....can you tell us what youthink..id be interested in your impression
al
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Post by wezzywest on Mar 27, 2014 12:09:35 GMT
I was looking for a MM 12, and after reading this contacted Jaywalk Guitars. The MM Blues you played there is now mine Televiking And i have bought the Lightning. After the shop owner confirning that it was set up for slide and fingerstyle, i had to go for it. It is now in my hands!! Couldn`t be happier. Oh yes. Thanks for the OP Keith. |
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Post by televiking on Mar 27, 2014 16:24:10 GMT
televiking im glad you found your MM guitar ....can you tell us what youthink..id be interested in your impression al I sure will, as soon I get it in my hands nxt week. |
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Post by Keith Ambridge on Mar 27, 2014 22:25:17 GMT
I'm very happy that my day out with Mum was of benefit to you guys. Mum even got a pair of shoes!
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