arise from the dead, O thread...
I don't know why this one appeared suddenly, but here it is.. The last post was in February of 2021.
I was still in Tucson then, hunkered down against the Pandemic, trying to stay alive. My wife Cindy
had died. In February of 2021, shots were available, and I was waiting for my turn.
When we moved to Tucson in 2019, we both sold lots of our stuff. She sold jewelry, artwork, fabric,
earrings, clothes, furniture... I sold tools, guns, lures, guitars, amps, books, recordings.
I sold my house, I sold my boat... we were trying to raise money for her fight with Cancer,
which she lost in 2020.
After she passed, I decided to stay another year. Tucson seemed almost safe compared with
everywhere else at that time.
There were a few of my possessions that I could not haul to Tucson in 2019, but that I could not bear
to sell. So I "fostered" two of my guitars and three amps with some of my musical friends before we
left Michigan. One of them was this:
This picture is from 2022 after I came back to Michigan and got Cal'donia back from my friend.
I had been through so much, and got my shots and survived all that disease and upheaval
of those times, I'm very grateful for every day.
This is my only P-90 guitar, and I'm very fond of her. I named her Cal'donia.
It's an Epi ES-339 P-90 pro. I bought this guitar in 2015 during the great Gibson Guitar
bash-fest of that year. I found all the negativity upsetting, and this was my vote.
I replaced the Epiphone P-90s with a pair made for me by
Ken Rose. The neck p'up has a woody jazzy tone that I just love, and the bridge
pickup is pure rock an roll. The guys at Ken Rose pickups asked me about my music
and wound these p'ups for me based on my answers.
There was really nothing wrong with the Epiphone P-90s, but the Ken Rose pickups
have more soul.
I'm very happy. I asked them to wire the pickups so that the middle position would
turn the guitar into a big hum bucker, and they did this. So I play mostly in the middle
and the guitar is pretty quiet, depending on the volume settings of the two pickups.
I just love the tones I get from this instrument. It's given great service for nine years
with zero problems.
The ES-339 is a reduced size from the normal 40s/50s Jazz-Boxes...
It's about the size of a Les Paul. It has a center block made of maple, so it's quite like
Les Paul's old "Log" concept. It's not really a hollow body with that center block.
It's hollow in the two "wings" that form the upper and lower bout.
This guitar weighs about eight pounds, like my Telecaster.
Epiphones rock! ... especially with P-90s.
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