Oh my, I forgot about this, lol! Dec '24… well, as with many things, arguably, there’s a lot of “mojo” out there about guitars. I have a"Grote" (at one time, the least expensive guitar on the planet : ) - was maybe … ? $75 and how made was probably like how Leo Fender made his first “Telecasters” in his garage.
God made the wood, and some “old lady” (in China) probably wound the pickups : ) I love showing more excellent “$10” guitars to friends to play next to with their $3000 guitars : ) lol! Like a $10 bottle of wine taste same/better than the $30. (Well, eastern EU used to, but that was a few years/decades back.)
Anyway, with this one if curious at all, other than yeah, great story - is the Pickups. A P90 is just a “jumbo” single coil pickup. (The alternative is multiple together, side by side or stacked, usually 2 togetther, or a “Humbucker”.)
I really just gravitate toward them and wind up being the ones in my hands.
The tiny single coils found in many Fender guitars sound great too. As well as the Gibson guiars with the humbuckers.
The other thing about some of these off beat old guitar stories is, (Gibson has gone through many “owners”) but, as one time - they’d Saw the B-stock pieces and the employees would retrieve them and make one for themselves : ) lol!
Many folks that are way to Name-brand concerned, like a good friend of mine - sent me a photo of an older Gibson Les Paul that wanted $4000 for. Well, as I “poked” him about - it was made of scrap wood - and likley one of the worse : ) imo. But, oh boy, it was a certain year (not that old, not really) and… drum roll… it was beind sold from a Nashville located music store : ) And, omg, and it has been “messed” with to boot - someone “upgraded the Tuners” and that “upgrade” meant new Holes drilled in the multi-piece head stock. Realistically, if “played” okay, worth far less sans the selling address and age. There was a times the necks were multi piece and bodies too. Unlike today, they were in the business of making and selling “guitars” - not wall art : )
Eh, I go on… I had some time today… and glad you liked it, “got it”.
Actually, I write this because, I read your comment about the Plastic Uke… to me (not knowing how it “feels” to play?) to me, sounded/recorded tonally into my studio monitor HP’s very well. I then comp’d it to the last video - heck, a slight EQ boost of the lower Hz’s and no one could know (black tape across the head stock : ) )
I have a “thing” about music and instruments and what’s “good” or, omg, as folks call stuff “trash”.
There’s a drummers forum (new on Discord I found) and someone was so worried about having “trash” cymbals and drums and heads (the batter skins)… that person got lucky, as I was very conservatively commenting, someone else posted under me the Brand Names of really excellent Cymbals (and used to be very inexpensive - not any more… but since not a top 3 brand name… like 25% the cost ± and I had many of them : ) many from eastern EU and China.)
By the time we got done, they were proud of their set and said, since I have to *mute them anyway! : ) lol… probably doesn’t matter presently. Then maybe rigid cardboard cymbals to practice with.
- I’ve heard some great drummers on 5 gal buckets.
Anyway… getting TLTR… appologies : )
- Keep on Ukeing around! You’ve got an amazing process and curriculum; lucky people that find you imo.
