Need help in choice of 330/12 or 620/12

goldenoldie · Post by **goldenoldie** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:34 pm

The 330 is a nice choice. I prefer semi-hollow body 12's for the tone, you'll adapt to the neck. What's an Iommi fingertip mod?

wormdiet · Post by **wormdiet** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:10 pm

Iommi is perhaps one of the earliest "metal" guitarrists. ONe or more of his left-hand fingertips are missing.. . .can;t remember the details on it.

goldenoldie · Post by **goldenoldie** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:30 pm

So, I guess if you had an Iommi fingertip mod on your left hand, and a Garcia fingertip mod on your right hand...you could play a mean guitar.

adam_swapp · Post by **adam_swapp** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:07 pm

Iommi and Garcia are johnny-come-lately posers; go Django all the way. Or if you're really serious, the John Bobbitt mod might do the trick. I'm not sure it would do much for your playing, but it would be hard to argue with your commitment.

lshaia · Post by **lshaia** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:22 am

Hey, Tom, glad you could join us! Tony Iommi is the guitar player for Black Sabbath; years ago, on the eve of his first band's first tour, he lost the fingertips of his right hand (he's a lefty) in a work accident. He had plastic fingertips made and off he went. I guess "Plastic Man" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Iron Man". Thank you for the suggestion, Adam, if I show up with another RIC Mrs. Hahn may have some mods of her own in mind.

wormdiet · Post by **wormdiet** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:50 am

"Iommi and Garcia are johnny-come-lately posers; go Django all the way. Or if you're really serious, the John Bobbitt mod might do the trick. I'm not sure it would do much for your playing, but it would be hard to argue with your commitment. "

This is a little OT but what the hell. One summer in College I was working at Bowman Gray medical school in winston-salem. My job was to nanny the rats they used for drug testing experiments. In some of the studies, the researchers would examine the brains of the rats, but the poor babies had to be killed for it to work. One method of execution was a hand-operated device that lopped off their heads in the manner of French revolutionaries. Of course, we had to call the "Bobbitine."

lshaia · Post by **lshaia** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:15 pm

This is what I get for straying out of the bass zone...

goldenoldie · Post by **goldenoldie** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:17 pm

Lindsay,
Congratulations, that's a beauty. Give us a user review.

lshaia · Post by **lshaia** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:41 am

Thanks, Tom. And thanks for the encouragement also. Unfortunately between getting home late and fooling around with posting the picture I haven't played it much. I'll try it tonight and post my review tomorrow.

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:53 am

Beautiful Lindsay. Congratulations is certainly in order.

wormdiet · Post by **wormdiet** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:16 am

Very cool FG on that one!

lshaia · Post by **lshaia** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:01 am

Thanks, Peter and John. Faced with an extensive honeydo list when I got home last night, I haven't had much time with the guitar, but my first impressions are: the finish is flawless, like a mirror. The body size and shape are very comfortable, and, as I mentioned above, the guitar looks much better in person that in photographs. It has a loud, full acoustic tone; haven't had time to plug it into anything except my DigiTech RP14d processor and listen through headphones, but the amplified sound is clear and chimey, really great. It's going to be a learning process, though, because the neck is VERY thin (which I expected)and the action is quite stiff. As an example, the neck at the nut is about 3/16" narrower than my Takamine 12 string. Anyway, I suspect that with a bit of adjustment and with time the action will settle down. A twenty four fret neck on this guitar is pretty optimistic IMO. The tuner arrangement is unusual but is easy to adjust to. An extremely high quality guitar, a great value, but a challenge for a bass player. I'd be interested to know how Steve is getting along with his Monty Brown.

BTW, I got a great price and a great trade in from Dave's Guitar Shop in La Crosse.

steve123 · Post by **steve123** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:17 am

Hi to Lindsay and all ric forum members. Thanks for asking. I am loving my Montezuma Brown 330/12. Being a bass player primarily, I was very much surprised that the thinner neck was not that hard to get used to after all! I am currently playing her thru a peavey classic 30 tube amp. I've tried to post a pic but I keep getting a message that the image is too large and I don't know how to shrink it. Well anyway, I finally have my ric 12 string and plan to introduce it into one of the sets my trio does. I played an oldie called "Master Jack" by Four Jack and a Jill from the 60's with my daughter on vocals. Wow, the ric sounds great on that tune. Have fun playing everybody and thanks again!
Steve

oreca · Post by **oreca** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:22 pm

Steve, send me the picture at [email protected] and I will gladly resize it for you.