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Post subject: Not really the place for this but
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:35 am
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I've just been down to my local guitar shop and tried a vintage lemon drop, Peter Green clone £249. The guy who owns the shop his sons a nu-metaller. I really loved the guitar tone and playability is nearly right too without the gibson feeling of "gotta keep it in a glass case and just get it out once a month to polish it".
Anyway i proposed swapping my jackson RR3 for the lemon drop. it seems like their going to go for it too. My problem is I have sold so much stuff in the past and ended up regretting it im becoming unsure of the deal i proposed. I haven't played either of my jacksons in 8 months, i strongly suspect i could of matured a bit and outgrown the whole metal scene, and i've been a pete green fan since i was 10.
as Noel Edmunds would say "Deal or no deal?"

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:47 am
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I've just been down to my local guitar shop and tried a vintage lemon drop, Peter Green clone £249. as Noel Edmunds would say "Deal or no deal?"


Pardon my lack of information, but bring me up to speed on this 'lemon drop.' My best info on Peter Green's journeyman guitar was the 'Paul' with the kinky circuitry, now in the hands of Gary Moore.

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:52 am
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I believe he means one of these:

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He needed to capitalize the word "vintage" as that's the brand (Asian copies I believe). It looks pretty nice; quite authentic. I found it for £244.

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orvilleowner wrote:
I believe he means one of these:

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He needed to capitalize the word "vintage" as that's the brand (Asian copies I believe). It looks pretty nice; quite authentic. I found it for £244.


As the lyric goes..."If it makes you happy", buy it!

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Looks nice but...personally...I think you should go for a gibson :?


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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:24 am
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Some of these copies (like the Edwards "Jimmy Page" Les Paul copy pictured below) are quite nice guitars. It is really too bad that these copies aren't available in the US (I mean from the big internet retailers and local guitar shops). I do know how to get one :wink: but the shipping is pricey.

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orvilleowner wrote:
Some of these copies (like the Edwards "Jimmy Page" Les Paul copy) are quite nice guitars. It is really too bad that these copies aren't available in the US (I mean from the big internet retailers and local guitar shops). I do know how to get one :wink: but the shipping is pricey.


thats exactly how i feel about U.S manufacturers. It always suprises me how much you pay for marshall amps when aside from the handwired stuff the components pcb's and majority of casing is made in china. Surely you should be paying prices more akin to british prices. Its all imported unless you live in china anyway.

Why would i want a gibson? I want a guitar to play, not worry over. :D

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:58 am
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nikininja wrote:
Its all imported unless you live in china anyway.


That's a very good point. Who here lives in China? Anyone?

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Why would i want a gibson? I want a guitar to play, not worry over. :D


You want a Gibson? I thought you wanted that Vintage Lemon Drop? I guess you mean you want a Les Paul-style guitar.

I do have a few Gibson-type guitars in my "stash." Here's a pic of my Les Pauls (a nicely naturally reliced '74 Gibson Gold Top and a couple early-'90s Orville by Gibsons, from which my username derived):

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Nice set of lespauls there.

There's something about gibson and the way people's attitudes are to them that has always turned me off owning them. People tend to be in awe of them more so than with any other guitar manufacturer. This makes me feel that their there to be treasured rather than played. Just one of my many OCD's. I would consider a studio but les pauls without binding just look wrong to me.

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What do you use on the job?

My three would hardly find themselves on stage with me unless I was doing something where I knew I would have full control of the guitar in-between sets. (Some year I'll get around to posting pics)

They are: 1) Custom Shop 1965 Stratocaster NOS (SRV finished including neck, hardware, all black plastic, SCN pickups through Clapton circuit);

2) PRS Johnny Hiland Signature Series-Tortoise Shell 10-top;

3) Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Standard Quilted Tobacco Triburst; Burstbuckers, no pickguard; 60's fast neck carve.

AMPS: Line 6 Ax2; Crate Taxi 30 and Limo 50

If I were doing bar gigs, I would choose another guitar.

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if i took that kind of gear out round here I'd get mugged.
I'm very interested in your choice of amp, mainly the line6 ax2. Isn't that the 2x12 combo they bought out in the mid 90's just after the Johnson millennium combo was released? If so my limited experience of that amp leads me to believe it possesses far superior clean sounds than line6's current range. A very underrated amp indeed i'm constantly suprised that Line6 haven't made the new bogner/spider series more like it.

On my last regular gig my set up was my squire series strat and jackson rr3/dinky depending on mood into my 2 marshalls via a marshall vibratrem pedal. It was only punk metal tone wasn't important. My new band isn't gigging yet. were just playing elmore james style slide stuff and a couple of bluesbreaker covers. I'm undecided as to a live setup at the moment although i am pleased with the sound of the clean channel on my jcm800 4211. When the volume gets to 8 it sounds quite plexi-like. I'll probably just lose the G75 speakers in favour of Jensen's and close the back of the combo off.

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:20 pm
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nikininja wrote:
I've just been down to my local guitar shop and tried a vintage lemon drop, Peter Green clone £249. I really loved the guitar tone and playability is nearly right too without the gibson feeling of "gotta keep it in a glass case and just get it out once a month to polish it".


So nikininja, what was the quality like: the fit and finish? Was the nut well cut and the frets finished off nicely?

Do you know where they are made?

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What do you use on the job?

My three would hardly find themselves on stage with me unless I was doing something where I knew I would have full control of the guitar in-between sets.


If this was a general question, I'll answer it. I usually bring two guitars to a gig, a Strat and a non-trem guitar (a Tele or Les Paul). I stopped bringing that old Marshall in the picture to gigs (I don't want to get mugged! or have beer spilled in it). So I use either a 1995 Valvestate half-stack or a little 1987 Lead 12 combo, depending on the size of the venue.

The last gig we did, in a small bar, I used the Lead 12 (on a stand about waist high, and a direct line into the PA) and two Strats: a 1971 lefthanded strat and a 2005 Highway One HSS. I mostly played the Highway One. An audience member I talked to between sets thought the big-headstocked Highway One was a hot-rodded vintage '70s Strat! Fooled him! :wink:

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If you like the guitar go for it.



I have 2 Gibson's (LP and 336) that both have the Peter Green mod. I love it!!!!!

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the guitar itself isn't bad. Its a budget guitar made in a far eastern country maybe korea. the neck seems comfortable and chunky, not slim by any means. The pickups are good, great infact very nice tone without the muddiness that can sometimes cloud neck humbuckers. The real let down on the guitar is the pots, no taper on the tone control and the treble just dies the second the volume is lowered. The body seems very light too although i checked the specs its a mahogany neck/body with a maple cap.
When i first played it nothing about the fingerboard grabbed my attention good or bad i just thought the thing needed a good setup.

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