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Gretsch Square Neck Dobro **Sensational Price Drops**

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dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
edited October 2018 in Guitars £
Edited post now for the sale off the snakehead tele, the addition of the Telemaster and the price drops. As we do, my eye has been caught so feel free to make me an offer.


I have three guitars that need to be sacrificed to my buying stupidity, because they're pretty different, I'll use three posts here to show them to you.

  1. Lets start with a Gretsch Square Neck resonator. £395 £350 £300

It's the G9230 Bobtail Square Neck, from the Roots Collection. It's a very nicely built guitar, as all the Gretschs from China seem to be, with some lovely little touches that make it feel a little special. The finish to the headstock and the beautiful open tuners are both really nice. The sound is rich and particularly warm for budget Dobro style and the pickup is as fantastic as all the reviews say. A small pinch of boost or drive into your amp and a touch of reverb and you'll think you're Jerry Douglas*

This will be yours with a slightly scruffy but good quality padded soft case and a nice Shubb tone bar.

Collection from me in North Wilts ideally or a meet up somewhere between

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https://youtu.be/P-8bfpQ1akY

* A complete fabrication
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    edited August 2018
    Second up is an Epiphone EB-0 SG style Bass £70

    This is a short scale, bolt on neck affair and the opening offer to the Epiphone bass line up. As you'd imagine it's not the most beautifully crafted instrument and while the fit and finish are really good, for playing you have to choose between a silky low action or eliminating the last bit of fret buzz. I think this is just the deal with budget, short scale basses. 

    Plugged in it sounds immense and that stonking great pickup tucked into the neck really sounds just as fat, huge and thumping as you'd hope.

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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    edited September 2018
    -SOLD-

    The last of the three is one that's been up here a few times now and it's a bit sad to put it out for sale again so soon. 

    It came to me from our very own @merlin and is going because I listened to our very own @TheMarlin and have a build in progress that's very similar. A build I've actually only started because I really like this very pure Tele and want my own individual take on the idea.

    Anyway..... it's this fantastic Snakehead Tele £400

    I didn't form an instant bond with this guitar at all when it arrived and it took a good week or more of playing and and total change of setup feel for me to get that connection. I think the reason is the very non fender feeling neck. It looks like a fender, it sounds like a fender but the feel is a broader and much more like my Duesenburg or Ibanez. 

    It's beautifully put together, looks and feels totally authentic. I've got the pickup getting really friendly with the strings and this things growls, snarls and spits in a way that's guaranteed to make you smile. Roll back a little of the volume and it smooths out while still having nice Tele snap.

    https://lightart.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-3/p3028795903-5.jpg

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    This sale and the others I'll be putting up in amp, effects and parts are all about clearing some space and recouping some of the cash I've spent recently through the forums good influence. So naturally, I'm not against being offered tempting trades.
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    Pull up to the .........
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  • HootsmonHootsmon Frets: 15924
    edited August 2018
    walk into a bar.......
    tae be or not tae be
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    hootsmon said:
    went into a bar.......
    And the Dobro said to the barman......
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  • HootsmonHootsmon Frets: 15924
    What's on the tele?
    tae be or not tae be
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  • HootsmonHootsmon Frets: 15924
    edited August 2018
    and the barman said "dunno" and the Dobro said "tens, you owe us all a pint"

    the end

    PS GLWS  :)
    tae be or not tae be
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    hootsmon said:
    and the barman said "dunno" and the Dobro said "tens, you owe us all a pint"

    the end

    PS GLWS  :)
    Thank you and thank you :)
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    ..... and grind 
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    edited October 2018
    SOLD

    This one is a bit special. It came to me from the fabulous @Norwegian_Blue tagged here because he still probably knows more about it than I do.

    Its originally from Cameron MacKenzie guitars,  around July 2016. Originally Olympic White, it's been refinished in a gorgeous, aged Lake Placid Blue Nitro. The Bigsby was added at the same time and the pickups are specially chosen from Lollar and a Fralin, to make sure the sound is perfect.

    In short, start from good place and then make it all better.

    As you can see, this is no museum piece and wears its wear well. The overall effect is a well used and weathered but much loved guitar. The bridge pickup has lots of sweet tele style snap to it and being that bit fatter than a normal tele single coil responds beautifully when you crank the gain a little and get into good riffage territory. The neck pickup will crunch just as well but is massively rich and warm, makes me think of being hit by huge rain drops. Has a big round initial strike and then a softer liquid roll off. The neck is pure tele, a nice rounded C thats not fat or slim with what feels like a 9.5 radius and medium frets.

    I went up at £750 when I bought it, I'd like to see £650 back £550

    I have a few too many boxes around at the mo, so if you want to pay for a courier, I'll get it boxed up all safe and sound.

    And here it is doing what it does...... looking gorgeous!!























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  • dazzajl said:
    This one is a bit special. It came to me from the fabulous @Norwegian_Blue tagged here because he still probably knows more about it than I do.

    Its originally from Cameron MacKenzie guitars,  around July 2016. Originally Olympic White, it's been refinished in a gorgeous, aged Lake Placid Blue Nitro. The Bigsby was added at the same time and the pickups are specially chosen from Lollar and a Fralin, to make sure the sound is perfect.

    In short, start from good place and then make it all better.

    As you can see, this is no museum piece and wears its wear well. The overall effect is a well used and weathered but much loved guitar. The bridge pickup has lots of sweet tele style snap to it and being that bit fatter than a normal tele single coil responds beautifully when you crank the gain a little and get into good riffage territory. The neck pickup will crunch just as well but is massively rich and warm, makes me think of being hit by huge rain drops. Has a big round initial strike and then a softer liquid roll off. The neck is pure tele, a nice rounded C thats not fat or slim with what feels like a 9.5 radius and medium frets.

    I went up at £750 when I bought it, I'd like to see £650 back 

    I have a few too many boxes around at the mo, so if you want to pay for a courier, I'll get it boxed up all safe and sound.

    And here it is doing what it does...... looking gorgeous!!























    Piggy bank is being shaken 
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  • Yep that telemaster is pretty much my perfect guitar  =)
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    Thanks gents. :)
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    Would anyone like to to entertain me with offers today. The notifications would be nice :)
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    Sunday bumperoo :)
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  • TheMarlinTheMarlin Frets: 7744
    Bump for nice guitars!
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    Humpty Bumpty sat on a wall
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    Humpty Bumpty had a great fall
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  • TheMarlinTheMarlin Frets: 7744
    Free bump for cool guitars. 
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 5653
    Thank you old friend. These have definitely been up here long enough to say I’ll happily listen to any offers you beautiful folks would like make me :)
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