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Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Live Reveal - Thursday 12th of June at 1700BST

Guitars anyone???

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    SKT
    見習いボス
    @GraemeE
    Joined: 26 Aug 2019

    @GraemeE said in Guitars anyone???:

    I do have some custom relicd pickgaurd screws though due to hours of nasty sweaty hands

    True relic production here

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      SKT
      見習いボス
      Joined: 26 Aug 2019

      I do love properly “reliced” guitars and have pined for a long time for a Whitfill custom T. He makes great looking and sounding (from what I’ve seen and read) guitars

      http://www.whitfillcustomguitars.com/guitars.html

      I haven’t purchased a new guitar in almost 10 years now. Seems impossible

      Also, the 10 year gap almost coincides with having kids…hmm. Correlation or causation?

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        popvulture
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        Joined: 2 Oct 2018

        If anybody has any leads on luthiers that do a good job on relic stuff, I'm all ears. My Senn is the best I've owned, and I've asked Jeff if he'd do a relic job on another guitar, but didn't hear back (which I took as a no). Some of them are too extreme — I like the sort of Closet Classic / Journeyman level of distress. It's just nice to have a guitar that's sorta had the new knocked off of it. Definitely not the sort of thing I'm willing to do myself (and by that I mean relic it myself, not play the shit out of it until it looks old and vintage. Anybody who's had a new finish guitar knows that will take eons).

        WTB
        IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
        Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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          popvulture
          見習いボス
          Joined: 2 Oct 2018

          @skt I know a guy who's got a Whitfill — he likes it, cool tele. K-Line is also pretty fantastic. I have one of his strats and it's probably my best sounding and playing single coil electric.

          WTB
          IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
          Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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            SKT
            見習いボス
            @popvulture
            Joined: 26 Aug 2019

            @popvulture K-line is new to me and just looked them up…St Louis! They look really nice and I’ll have to dig into them. I agree the “closet classic” look is the sweet spot for me too. I have a 50th Anniversary Masterbuilt strat (Todd Krause) that has that look. I’ll get some pics of it and throw them in the mix here when I can.

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              Freeman
              IHUK Crew
              Joined: 9 Jan 2023

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              Heading back to the states next month and bringing these guys with me.

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                IH-GARY
                Haraki san Student
                Joined: 3 Jan 2017

                Did someone mention relic? 🙂

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                My contribution, to urban blues…

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                  chillmonroe
                  Haraki san Student
                  Joined: 6 Sept 2023

                  Getting up to speed on some mash style bluegrass on the 1934 Gibson L00 🤙🤙

                  Video link:
                  https://www.instagram.com/reel/CumrIlqLGAh/?igsh=MTF3aWVudTZpaTh3aQ==
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                  “The root of all suffering is the giving of fucks”

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                    jeffgrantMEDIA
                    @chillmonroe
                    Joined: 2 Jan 2024

                    @chillmonroe DAMN! That is a purdy guitar. The best Gibson I ever played was a 60's J45. But man this is nice.

                    Life is an adventure, live it for a while.

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                      chillmonroe
                      Haraki san Student
                      @jeffgrantMEDIA
                      Joined: 6 Sept 2023

                      @jeffgrantMEDIA yeah she’s a dandy. If you’re into slope shoulder dreads, I’ll have to post some stuff on the 1938 J35 and the 1934 Jumbo. To be clear, I don’t currently own all these guitars. I do a lot of catch and release 🎣

                      Right now I’ve got the ‘34 Jumbo, the ‘34 L00, and a sweet 1913 Gibson A4 mandolin

                      “The root of all suffering is the giving of fucks”

                      • Siddhartha Gautama
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                        jeffgrantMEDIA
                        @chillmonroe
                        Joined: 2 Jan 2024

                        @chillmonroe I am going to have to follow your IG. I just scrolled it. I love vintage Gibsons. Wish I had the cash to play that game. I mostly just noodle these days and have halted my guitar-buying addiction. As far as vintage I only currently own a Gibson 78' Deluxe and a 76' Strat. But mostly just play my Taylor. It's a 2004, but the best-sounding guitar I played in a LONG search. The only thing I played better was that vintage J45 at a guitar center in Philly 20 years ago.

                        Life is an adventure, live it for a while.

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                          popvulture
                          見習いボス
                          @IH-GARY
                          Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                          @IH-GARY man that’s awesome — looks like a Nachocaster level relic. What is it?

                          WTB
                          IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                          Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                            IH-GARY
                            Haraki san Student
                            @popvulture
                            Joined: 3 Jan 2017

                            @popvulture It’s a Custom Shop Nocaster blackguard - it’s pretty gnarly!

                            My contribution, to urban blues…

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                              chillmonroe
                              Haraki san Student
                              @jeffgrantMEDIA
                              Joined: 6 Sept 2023

                              @jeffgrantMEDIA hell yeah I’ll follow you back. Guitar playing denim heads unite ✊

                              But for sure, vintage guitars are pricy but as long as you have a handle on the current market value and buy at or under it you won’t get hurt. And there’s also the potential to flip and make a few bucks to fund more IH stuff

                              “The root of all suffering is the giving of fucks”

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                                jeffgrantMEDIA
                                @chillmonroe
                                Joined: 2 Jan 2024

                                @chillmonroe I need to sell off my 78 Deluxe, pay off some bills and get a few new IH pieces! haha

                                Life is an adventure, live it for a while.

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                                  chillmonroe
                                  Haraki san Student
                                  Joined: 6 Sept 2023

                                  Just repaired a crack in the back of my 1934 Jumbo. First time ever attempting something like this.

                                  Got some guidance from my luthier buddy. Humidified it to close it up a bit for a couple weeks, then pushed on it to open it up just ever so slightly. Injected it with a super specific type of super glue, waited like 10 seconds and went at it with some shell wool followed by a buffing cloth.

                                  Here’s the before and after pics. I knew it was there and I still can’t find it in the after. The pucker factor in this was real and I’m super stoked on the result 🤌🤌

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                                  “The root of all suffering is the giving of fucks”

                                  • Siddhartha Gautama
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                                    chillmonroe
                                    Haraki san Student
                                    Joined: 6 Sept 2023

                                    Oh and here’s the guitar

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                                    “The root of all suffering is the giving of fucks”

                                    • Siddhartha Gautama
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                                      JunkPants
                                      Haraki san Student
                                      Joined: 20 Nov 2022

                                      Just got this in this morning. Wow, this one is very, very good.
                                      (I've become a bit of an ES style convert in recent years. Played super strats for a long time, then Les Pauls for many years. Just getting old I suppose 😅 )

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                                        SKT
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                                        @JunkPants
                                        Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                                        @JunkPants gorgeous man, love the maple

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                                          94atromero
                                          Raw and Unwashed
                                          Joined: 28 Mar 2023

                                          My trusty Jazz bass that has seen hundreds of gigs and multiple areas of the world.

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