my new beast..

[ashstralia]

so i went in to the shop this morning... i played this taka and had to have it. it's as good as any acoustic i've ever played, even taylors worth 3 times as much moneytaka.jpg

[Cato]

I thought that you got a B.C.Rich when I saw the subject first...

nice acoustic. Takamine is a reliable maker.

[ashstralia]

and it smells fantastic.

you know like new car smell?

new guitar smell.


one thing i love; no bridge pins. my other taka has no bridge pins.
it appears they outsourced the stringing. whoever did mine failed miserably.

[jhale667]

Nice... post some audio!

[ELVIS]

[ashstralia]

^^clearly a knob gobbler. come out of that closet, E!

[Nitro Express]

and it smells fantastic.

you know like new car smell?

new guitar smell.


one thing i love; no bridge pins. my other taka has no bridge pins.
it appears they outsourced the stringing. whoever did mine failed miserably.

Some guitars smell great and others smell like ass. I was restringing my daughter's Manuel Rodriguez classical guitar and that guitar smells great. It's the smell of the woods it's made out of. My first guitar was a used Yamaha acoustic. It smelled nasty. It had that old musty smell old instruments have. I have an Epiphone electric that smells like funk. It's this funky furniture polish type smell.

I was over at someone's house and they had a Takamine leaning up against the wall. I played it and it was a great guitar. I wanted to take it home but they wouldn't let me have it.

[ashstralia]

now i've had it for 24 hours, fanged around on it in standard, open d, and dadgad tunings i'm very satisfied that it's a 1st class bit of gear that will be with me for the rest of my life.

it's the little details... the tuning machines are amazing, the binding and purfling are spot on perfect, the spruce top is aaa grade, ebony fretboard dots, the fretboard/fretwork is perfect, the case has to be worth 300 bucks...

awesome value. i'll end up paying about $1500 aus for this instrument; as i said, i've played guitars 3x this money that were about as good.

what a score! j, i will do a recording within a week or so.

[ashstralia]

it gets de virginised tomorrow.

it's not had a plug, strap, or capo in/on it yet.

i'll get some video.

[DLR Bridge]

...fanged around on it in standard, open d, and dadgad tunings.

Ahhh how many times did you play Last Goodbye?

[jhale667]

it gets de virginised tomorrow.

it's not had a plug, strap, or capo in/on it yet.

i'll get some video.

[ashstralia]

Ahhh how many times did you play Last Goodbye?

last goodbye is in open g, mate!!

[DLR Bridge]

I was just testing ya.

[ashstralia]

I was just testing ya.

i suspected that may be the case; but i have been hammering 'kashmir'...

[DLR Bridge]

Dang, was gonna post Jeff's comic version of Kashmir, but YT wouldn't let me. have you heard that? Priceless.

[ashstralia]

dude, you know i've got everything; including a pick, and a nice email from Mary.

[DLR Bridge]

Oh yeah.













(ya bastid sunuva bitch)

[ashstralia]

i've been scouting around for reviews of my new guitar, and it's consistently scoring 8/10 overall. build quality, playability, tone (acoustically and amped up) i just can't fault it.

now i've played a set on it live, it's super comfy to play standing up.

the other factor is a bit sentimental... it's almost exactly the same as my taka 12 string; a matching pair if you will, but built 26 years apart. just beautiful. i'm a happy camper.

[ashstralia]

i'm gonna take another 1mm off the saddles and string it up with an unwound g.

experimentations... fuck it's an awesome thing. so alive and bright sounding, yet deep and resonant. amazing.

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[ELVIS]

Are you sure you like it ??

[ashstralia]

yes i do, E. a lot.

bit of exciting news; the band has scored an endorsement deal via the aussie importers of taka...
you will now see takamine banners at all our shows
half price guitars and free t-shirts!!!
great success!!

[jhale667]

Congrats!

[ashstralia]

thanks j, i have history with these people, and the guitars are extremely good value for the$$

[VAiN]

bit of exciting news; the band has scored an endorsement deal via the aussie importers of taka...
you will now see takamine banners at all our shows
half price guitars and free t-shirts!!!
great success!!

That's awesome! Where's that video?

[ashstralia]

we've got 2 gigs this weekend vain, the t shirts arrived.

i'll throw the iphone to someone in the audience and see what we come up with.

last time we did that though, all we got was video of drunk chicks boobies and them doing the vag sign...

edit; btw i fucked up. turns out the top is cedar. but it's so light coloured and tight grained i thought it was spruce.
the old 12 string has a cedar top, too. much darker colour though.

[DONNIEP]

Where's my T-shirt!!!

And can you get me into Pine Gap? I wanna see the UFOs!

[vandeleur]

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last time we did that though, all we got was video of drunk chicks boobies and them doing the vag sign...
.[/QUOTE]

Oh no don't post them ;-)

[ashstralia]

Where's my T-shirt!!!

And can you get me into Pine Gap? I wanna see the UFOs!

mate, afak your guys run that joint!!!

[ashstralia]

Oh no don't post them ;-)

that vid's on barney's phone...

[VAiN]

all we got was video of drunk chicks boobies and them doing the vag sign...

I will also accept that.