man you gotta try them all before you spent bunch of money on something. it can be hit and miss situation, i was looking for years for the right picking guitar and tried many many than i found solid body 660, it is all well but tiny small frets, it can get rough on long set (same as my old 63 duo jet that i still take out here and there) so i have also esquire for that situation.jimk wrote:grazioso wrote:660-6 for fingerpicking. wide neck = delight to play (at least to me) but if you have iron grip you might want different guitar completely - e.g. mexican classic series esquire.
Fenders and their copies are out. If I had felt limited to just Fender or Gibson style guitars, I would never have even half-seriously considered friends' suggestion that I get an electric.
An acquaintance whom I hadn't seen in a long while showed up at a folk festival where I was among the presenters at a banjo workshop. After the workshop was over, he walked up to me, and he said "I thought that was you when I heard that banjo." Evidently he thought I had succeeded in stamping the style with my own personality thus creating my own sound. I hope to accomplish that same feat with an electric. But I don't have enough hope or confidence [oh all right! desire, then] to think that I could do that on anything but a Rickenbacker. Maybe I'm wrong. But maybe not....
And I think hollow body electrics are the way for me to go. I've played on a hollow body Gretsch, and a hollow body Epiphone. Of the two, I'd rather have the Gretsch. But I can't help but wonder what the same music played on a 360, a 360v64, or even a 330 would sound like.
JimK
my all time favorite picker was old gretsch 65 tennessean with swapped pickups for old filtertrons but that one got lost in time warp somewhere.
