Thank you so much!

speaking of guitar projects :winkwink:, i've just, as of this morning did final reassembly and wax on my first project, check it out!

this is a 1998 made in korea epiphone casino. These are very well made casinos and the ebony color is even more rare. not rare like valuable, but rare and the casino a very cool full hollowbody guitar.

anyhoo, i snagged this beat-up copy for cheap, gutted the electronics, removed all the scratches and swirls, polished it up real good, put in those pots i mentioned, new wiring, jack, switch. also changed out the original p-90 pickuos for seymour duncan antiquities and upgraded all the hardware to black nickel, graph-tech bridge, and les paul speed knobs

this is my down and dirty blues machine! i'm diggin it.


before & after
http://i.imgur.com/oCtdKiJ.jpg

the casino has a pretty rich history, it's actually an original epiphone model, i.e., not a gibson clone. epiphone created it pre-gibson, gibson indeed cloned the casino with their es-330.

the casino became instantly popular when several of the beatles selected it as their go-to guitar:



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http://images2.fanpop.com/images/pho...54-410-600.jpg

http://www.dannychesnut.com/Music/Gu...aulscasino.jpg






the original casinos, asyou can see, where very classic in paint schemes, so it's considered unique in the history of the casino that it was finished in the ebony paint scheme i have, some consider it casino blasphemy!

original early 60s casinos command thousands of dollars today!

After all those choices I ended up with something totally different.
A custom shop ES335 w p-90's

http://mintesfiles.com/misc/es335_p90.jpg

out of all of those I'm really liking the Strat. It has personality.

What were the odds.. :winkwink:

i thought of you today.

http://gallery.fanserviceftw.com/_im...n%20parody.gif

of course, too predictable. lol

congrats minte! i think you prolly have *picked up* (yuk yuk) on how much i like archtop hollowbody guitars and p-90s! it might take a while, but i'll trade up to an es series gibson at some point.

my ultimate rig would be a trini lopez

http://i.imgur.com/2BtlGa1.jpg

it's surprising you would pick the p-90s, are you playing early jazz? i thought you were focused more on jazz fusion......

btw, is that a 2008 memphis?


only 50 of those made..............

I went into Milwaukee today to look at a 1961 ES125Tc with dual p90's which is a very rare configuration. The guitar looked good for it's age but didn't play well. The top had sunk just enough over the years to mess up the action.

On my way out the store the salesperson brought this ES335 out of their platinum room and I immediately liked it. Exactly what I was looking for. It was a custom from the Memphis shop. I am drifting back into some older jazz again. I played in a trio for years and kind of miss it. Not quitting my day job or anything but it's still fun to play.

Too bad you have to now contend with the paradox of choice. You will ultimately second guess any decision and be likely to be dissatisfied with any choice you make :)

The only decision likely to cause the least regret, is to own all of them.

Good luck :)

speaking of es-335, here's a sneak peek of my 2nd guitar project, this is an epiphone es-355 i'm hot rodding. :)

http://i.imgur.com/AhCPsim.jpg

That goes without saying. I am limiting myself to max 2 guitars or a certain dollar value per month.

I'm glad to see you are enjoying guitars so much. It really is a rewarding hobby.

it's fantastic! i'm prolly overly-enthusiatic. hope it's been ok posting my guitars in your guitar thread!

I am sure that the rest of the board appreciates keeping the guitar related stuff condensed in one.:thumbsup

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh kinda like the gf with guitar in general. things can get spread out!

:thumbsup

all of them look good..

The thought there was to at least make it kind of relevant to the non musicians of GFY.

Awwww poooor little rich kid..pops only left you enough money to buy 2 more? How much is that '63 Strat? Probably only a few k right?

You will look so cool with all the chipped paint missing, that will give you some nice street cred HEY you don't even have to know how to play it! Oh and the road worn look will make you feel so warm and vintagy inside - all your friends can come and see your 30 axes and just go woweee what a cool guy with the huge loft and the Lambos.

Hey here's a suggestion - just take one of those SG's or Les Pauls, doesnt have to even be one of your REALLY valuable ones... and auction it off on Ebay and donate the proceeds to the victims in the Philippines who are still pulling their rotting dead babies from the wreckage - then make a thread about the auction and then we can all actually have some REAL admiration for you.

This message is hidden because adendreams is on your ignore list.

At this point, you're making me want to take a guitar and auction it off to the person willing to punch you in the dick. You're getting ridiculous now.

What kind of guitar?

:1orglaugh

All I have is Les Pauls, but we can work something out. :1orglaugh

Aden look I get it but ur hating is out of control.

money begets money.
Alwayd was always will.

The % of people that really make it is tiny and the people that get it and keep it is even tinier.

Trying to really make some $ and get out of being a worker bee is nearly impossible and its set to be like that for millenia.

I personally can't stand dealing rich familes where kids of wealthy families act like they are donald trump when in reality they are overgrown frats boys that have not done anything on their own.

Most of the companies I've work @ have been like this actually.taking orders from someone that doesn't know their head from their ass is a really tough thing to do when I'm about a hundred times more intelligent and business savvy than they are.

I don't know minte from a hole in rhe wall so can't say he is or isnt one of the rich frat kids running dads business but just let it go man.

thread got weird.

I'd take 6th and 7th :)

NO BRAINER - 3 and 8

Nice guitars :P
Five!

You should do a site the Minte Collection and shoot nice pics of your collection. A big guitar gallery.

It doesn't always work out that way. A huge percentage of spoiled wealthy morons end up dead ass broke. And, I'm coming out of absolutely nothing and I'm going to own the fucking world. I did it once on a small scale and it's about to happen again.

Now let us /end threadjack
Back to guitars (which I know nothing about) so goodbye for now

Now Im thinking , you could sell ads on the site, do the player of month. OMG the ideas are flowing this morning.

I had to look and comment at this post. Rich kid... The last time anyone called me a kid, Richard Nixon was president. I served in the military during Vietnam. And I do play guitar. For decades actually. Jazz bands, rock bands, blue grass and then better than a decade of classical. I don't need to buy roadworn guitars to feel warm. I have several that I've road-worned myself.

You were in Vietnam? Respek :thumbsup

Dude, i admire you wanting help those in need. Always a good cause. But there is limits on how hard to push and where. Enough already. I don`t know you nor Minte, so could care less really. But sad to see a member of this board that have made some good posts in the past go totally of the deep end now.

Keep your passion about helping out, that is great. But do remember you also have a business and that should be a big part of coming here ( along with some fucking around for fun of course )

everyone get the email on the big closeout sale on gibbies at the big online retailer(s)???......i put the s in parenthesis because i'm convinced they are all the same outfit, zzzounds, sweetwater and the other one, i forgget.

this thread needs more guitar!!!!!!!!!

where are the guitars?