Kent

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:23 pm

Hey, I thought I already had the Wilczynski!

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brammy · Post by **brammy** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:31 pm

Paul - the difference between a Kent guitar and a Wilczynski guitar is that someone in his right mind might actually want to own a Wilczynski.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:31 pm

Thank you both, but I recall an old blues legend guy who played a Kent...

Anybody know who I'm referring to? (I myself cannot recall who it was.)

brianb · Post by **brianb** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:39 pm

Willie Kent ?

cwk · Post by **cwk** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:20 pm

BB Kent?

marty · Post by **marty** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 5:39 am

Well it wasn't me that's for sure..

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:07 pm

hey daddy-o, dig them crazy pickups and switches!
(buy it now for $826 on ebay)

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:22 pm

Looks like an explosion in a knob factory...

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:19 pm

ha.... or a marjon game gone terribly wrong.

I'm guessing that the tilted pickups has something to do with the allowing the thinner strings to be "picked up" farther away from the bridge.

I somehow doubt this has much of an effect, but am not really sure. Other guitars have taken this approach too.

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:37 pm

All things Kent eh!

And not to be out done:

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:42 pm

Ha. By "marjon" you mean Mah-Jongg, I believe, Kent...

The tilted pups on these guitars mean nothing--the "designers" just saw it on some Fenders and decided to do them one better...

On occasion, pickups are tilted to allow the magnets on a wider pickup to fit narrower string spacing closer to the neck. Sometimes they are tilted to provide a better sonic footprint, too, as you have described.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:16 pm

Perhaps a little obscure, but definitely relates to my name...........

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:57 pm

Nice hat Howard,

I thought you said you worked in IT. I didn't realize that you were it. Er, I mean a bishop in the true sense of the word.

Isn't that a Cardinals mitre though? You're really only one step away from the top post mate.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:11 pm

I wouldn't know if it was a Smurf's mitre, Brian!! How do you tell them apart?

All I know is that Bishop's wear 'em.... and the label I use when home bottling wine has the mitre as part of the coat of arms (designed by my father nearly 40 years ago).

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:07 pm

Telling them apart and their specific usages according to the mass being offered is a subject unto itself and I am not the expert on those matters.

I am pretty sure though that Bishops wear red ornament accents to their vestments.

So hopefully your wine label denotes the correct colour.