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Restrung with the DADGAD set to open G……Really can’t hear any difference from the standard Mid-tensions….may be feel a tiny bit smoother……SOUNDS Wonderful.
Thanks Joe and Y’All….
When did SCGC start pleking all the guitars before delivery to customer ?
April 8, 2024 at 1:30 am in reply to: Santa Cruz Coffee Break # 75 Zoomin’ with Richard Hoover and Rick Barto #8751I’ve been here fo several iterations of this Forum….. I learn So Much. I have 7 of my 8 guitars strung with SCGC PARABOLIC strings …both Mids & Lows… For one very specific reason.
10 years ago I was lucky enough to be able to begin to explore the very limited world of “Boutique” ( again I HATE that word…Please Mr. Hoover, supply another Adjative for your Brilliant creations) guitars. I had bought a SCGC Da-1 Braz/Sitka from Guitar Center in Ft. Myers Fl…. It had been rode hard and put away wet , but sounded unlike any guitar I had ever heard. It intoduced me to a world of intruments I never thought I deserved to be in. But I was in a rare positive financial phase of my life and was wanting to get serious about my decades long screwing around with six steel strings and dive down the rabbit hole of high end guitars.
I joined the “OLD” SCGC Players Forum and the AGF and learned about Collings, Huss & Dalton , Bourgouis, and several of the “Slightly Less Expensive” solo luthiers. I went to Nashville and stopped in “All the usual” guitar shrines and played every builder I could find…… I took My SCGC D-a1 with me to compare. In Gruhns I came across an older SC VS amongst a hundred other guitars hanging on the 1st floor of the store ( Dee and I did get invited by George to the second floor..but that’s another story) and it’s voice tapped my frontal lobe just like the D-a1.
I had decided that I might explore other builders so I went on over to Artisan Guitars and played 10-12 models of the above mentioned builders, both new and used. I came across a guitar encased in its own cabinet with a price tag that made me look twice. The owner asked if I would like to play it, I said Please.
It was a SCGC Tony Rice….one of his !…Y’all know what that sounds like….
So after playing and listening and then listening to someone else play the Various builders as I sat a few feet away, one builder had “The Sound”….. SCGC had my sonic heart.
SO….when “The Strings” came out I put them on the Ramuda….except for one.
Bottom Line…. The SCGC “Sound” has my soul… I believe the ‘Parabolics” enhance and expand the voice of my guitars ( including my 33 year old Martin D-28 and the Tayor K62 ce 12er).
I AM NOT a Musician like most of Y’all…. I’m just a picker with 65 years of bad habits ,but I am old enough to know what I want to hear and to know the builder whose guitars from which I can create the sonics of my heart…. Thanks SCGC…. Good , Good Vibrations.
April 6, 2024 at 7:11 pm in reply to: Santa Cruz Coffee Break # 75 Zoomin’ with Richard Hoover and Rick Barto #8747I think Richard N. planned all along to push Richard H. and Rick about Mando strings. !!
Ricks explanation re “Parabolic ” was very clear and understandable.
As usual thanks All.
Mike 63 welcome. You are now the proud owner of an Iconic Sc model.
I have a 2001 F Cutaway Maple/German….I almost sold it to a friend in Ca. and actually sent it to him to try before deciding.
It was strung with SC Low tension Parabolics.
My friend said the strings were dead and he restrung with these : Elixir Strings – Acoustic Phosphor Bronze with NANOWEB Coating – Elixir Acoustic Guitar Strings – Custom Light (.011-.052).
He loved the guitar but did not purchase ( I’m so glad he didn’t) and returned it to me with the Elixers…..It is a GREAT COMBO…..Very articulate , Loud , clear and with a very Jazzy /Ventura Highway sonic Vibe.
Try Em… You’ll like Em …..Unless you have a very heavy attack !….
Thanks Big Mon….Heard from Brenda tonight.
John Thomas is a very talented and empathetic man. His history of the Gibson Ladies and the complete denial by Gibson of thier “Wartime” Production is a complete mystery……It could have been one of the great adaptaion/survival marketing stories of the war years.
I first took guitar lessons from a music teacher in the western suburbs of Chicago about 1957 . My mom rented a Gibson Sunburst Archback for me to learn on. The teacher insited that I learn scales before I ever learned a song. These were the days of Elvis & chuck Bery and “Rock Around the Clock”….I didn’t want to learn “No Stinking Scales”.
Years later i got one of the Gibson Flat Tops with the white pick guards on both sides of the soundhole and started learning folk songs from the old “Sing Out” Magazines…..Gibsons were an early part of my guitar life.
Thanks for the memories and the stories John. Thanks Richard & Tad for your Podcasts.
WHAT HE TALKIN BOUT ???
I also have the SCGC 12 string set on my Taylor K62ce that I bought from DigDog ( whom I miss much). and If I don’t pay attention I can also pull the high E s off the fretboard.
Fair Winds
I have SCGC strings on all my SCs except the 2001 Maple/German F. That has Elixer Custom lights nano coated.
I have also read comments about the high E SCs……. IMHO it is operator error. i have a very long little finger and I tend to pull the high E off the fretboard. When I “Roll” my little finger directly on top of the string and hold hard just prior to plucking it’s Always clean and clear……Shit, listen to me !….I sound like I know what I’m talking about ?
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At “The Beginning”…..your earliest aquires ?
I own both a SC 000 and a SC OM. both in Armatage cases……. Nope !
March 11, 2024 at 6:57 pm in reply to: Santa Cruz Coffee Break # 73 Zoomin’ with Richard Hoover and Redwood #8690OOF DA !! Wild Woods.
March 9, 2024 at 1:49 am in reply to: Santa Cruz Coffee Break # 73 Zoomin’ with Richard Hoover and Redwood #8678Damn,,, That’s just a Climax Avalanche of Redwood Goodness .
How are the Sonics ?
That geain is JUST INSANE !… What size body ? what B/S ?
I have never “named” a guitar…. But Hoover, Sills and Fox came up with “Guinness”… Tuned to DADGAD forever. !
By The way…. I was taught to draw the “Perfect Pour” at Sean’s Bar in Athlone, Ireland…
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