Non-Sexual Pictures That Still Give You Wood

[barefoot serpent]

while we're on the subject of guitars...

Junior Brown playing his 'guitsteel' contraption.
He says the concept for the instrument came to him in a dream.
And yes, he can play BOTH kinds of music: country & western.

[Pi]

Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

while we're on the subject of guitars...

And yes, he can play BOTH kinds of music: country & western.

Is there ANY difference?

[barefoot serpent]

lol... John Belushi is backflipping in his grave.

western: mostly on the lower part; country: mostly on the upper part.

[capnhowdy]

Originally Posted by Elspode

So it *was* basically a Jag body, though. The discussion group you linked to mentioned something about slanted frets. If that is true, then it would have been fairly rare for its time (the normal fret construction of a guitar neck is not mathematically precise, causing intonation to have to be adjusted on a string by string basis to make the scales accurate all the way up the neck on each string. There are entire guitar designs that solve this problem by placing the frets at the appropriate angle to force the fingering to occur in the proper position to deliver the exact right tone).

I was intrigued by the slanted fret thing. I've never seen one. Prob be weird to chord. Lead chops would most likely flow right on IMO. I wonder if there are any modern axes that have the slanted frets? I think I'd prefer fretless.

[Elspode]

Here can be found the complete skinny on such beasts. I've always wanted to try one, but my playing probably isn't precise enough to require such a thing anyway.