in the Conservatory... with the Maid

[Col Mustard]

Col. Mustard may well be in the conservatory but if you look for that lunatic halfbreed he's out in the garden with a bow stalkin sumthin. For your own safety please remain indoors as that one's not allowed inside very often.
Hey Col! How ya doin?

does this answer your question?



I'm 68 and managed to get another deer this year.... each time I wonder if I'll go out again
the next fall. The buck above is from a few years ago, but I got a nice doe this year. I don't discriminate. Oh and the target above is from this year, so I'm still shooting pretty straight.

Anyway, I'm glad to see you around this forum and being your durn self as usual. Welcome be.

 

[Col Mustard]

Well long time no see Col. Dijon Mustard...welcome aboard me fellow SG friend. Show of pic of your favourite guitar.
;>)/

"allo Black! Good to see you... I never figured out why you disappeared from ETSG, but I'm very happy to see your
ol' rusty battle tank and hear your commentary like before. Lucky me, I have several fave guitars that I play, so you'll have
to bear with me while I make up my mind: Here's three o'me beauties...

Martin XC1T 2006, Mossman "Flint Hills' dred 1975, and my trusty old Fender J-Bass 1966.
Played through that little Roland Cube bass amp, my Bass has never sounded so good as now. Lotta tones in
that little monster, and an XLR out, so plug it in like a mic and send the signal to the mains, and it sounds HUGE.
Then after the show, I pick it up in one hand and carry it out easily, with my bass in the other. Hard to beat.

The one yer talking' about is certainly Luna: the Queen of my music room, and the keeper of my .011 gauge
heart strings. Here she is, gripped in my loving hands and purring like an ol' kitty cat.


My most recent GAS was for an Epiphone Casino Coupe... and I manfully resisted for a good long time
till one day I was idly loitering about in GC when a Salesman came and axed me if I needed assistance finding
anything. I mumbled that I was interested in the Epi Casino Coupe, and he didn't know what I was talking
about. He spoke patronizingly to me like I was some old coot doddering around in the wrong store, looking for
a cab to take me to the Casino to get scalped.

I patiently explained to him that the Casino Coupe was a very modern and downsized version of a very famous
Classic Epiphone hollow body guitar with P-90 pickups... He pointed vaguely southwest and said there were some
Epiphones and hollow bodies over there someplace. So I went, glad to turn my back on him.. I found that his store did not
stock the Casino Coupe, but they did have the Epiphone ES-339 P-90 pro... and there was one hanging on the wall
within the reach of my greasy paws. I took it down, tuned it, and fell arse over teakettle for a guitar again.

I'm just a guitar slut... can you tell? I'm greasy and easy and maybe I like your guitar too...
Anyway, I played the darn Epiphone for a good long time the store, plugged into an Orange Micro Terror.
And I found another thing to love. That little amp looks like a toy, but it is a lot more of everything
than it appears to be. I did NOT buy anything from that store, and so am contributing to the decline of
the brick & mortar guitar store boogie. Musician's Friend offered the same thing I had been looking at
with a 15% discount, no shipping and no sales tax... so it's pretty difficult for GC to compete with that.

Guitar slut will take any break... so I ended up with a cool Epiphone and an Orange Micro Terror 20W tube
amp hybrid and the combination is actually excellent. I saved enough on the guitar and the amp to pay for
some cool mods to the Epi and a good case to keep her in. Here's what she looks like:

You'll approve of my choice of hardware: all Black. I modded this baby with all black: Gotoh Tuners, Tusq nut, Rose pickups,
ebony pick guard, Black Gotoh bridge and tail... and black knobs. These things look great on a blonde guitar.
I named her Caledonia. She is so blonde, she could not get any blonder. And the combination of a nicely built Epiphone
guitar with good quality parts, pickups and wiring, played through the Orange Micro Terror into a couple of home built
cabs ... has me in P-90 heaven. Guitar slut, I know. But I'm old now and don't have a lot of money to throw out,
so I like to get a lot of guitar for my hard earned Social Security. (I did earn it, by the way... I've been paying into Social
Security since like 1964).

 

[BlackSG91]

"allo Black! Good to see you... I never figured out why you disappeared from ETSG, but I'm very happy to see your
ol' rusty battle tank and hear your commentary like before. Lucky me, I have several fave guitars that I play, so you'll have
to bear with me while I make up my mind: Here's three o'me beauties...
View attachment 1268
Martin XC1T 2006, Mossman "Flint Hills' dred 1975, and my trusty old Fender J-Bass 1966.
Played through that little Roland Cube bass amp, my Bass has never sounded so good as now. Lotta tones in
that little monster, and an XLR out, so plug it in like a mic and send the signal to the mains, and it sounds HUGE.
Then after the show, I pick it up in one hand and carry it out easily, with my bass in the other. Hard to beat.

The one yer talking' about is certainly Luna: the Queen of my music room, and the keeper of my .011 gauge
heart strings. Here she is, gripped in my loving hands and purring like an ol' kitty cat.
View attachment 1269

My most recent GAS was for an Epiphone Casino Coupe... and I manfully resisted for a good long time
till one day I was idly loitering about in GC when a Salesman came and axed me if I needed assistance finding
anything. I mumbled that I was interested in the Epi Casino Coupe, and he didn't know what I was talking
about. He spoke patronizingly to me like I was some old coot doddering around in the wrong store, looking for
a cab to take me to the Casino to get scalped.

I patiently explained to him that the Casino Coupe was a very modern and downsized version of a very famous
Classic Epiphone hollow body guitar with P-90 pickups... He pointed vaguely southwest and said there were some
Epiphones and hollow bodies over there someplace. So I went, glad to turn my back on him.. I found that his store did not
stock the Casino Coupe, but they did have the Epiphone ES-339 P-90 pro... and there was one hanging on the wall
within the reach of my greasy paws. I took it down, tuned it, and fell arse over teakettle for a guitar again.

I'm just a guitar slut... can you tell? I'm greasy and easy and maybe I like your guitar too...
Anyway, I played the darn Epiphone for a good long time the store, plugged into an Orange Micro Terror.
And I found another thing to love. That little amp looks like a toy, but it is a lot more of everything
than it appears to be. I did NOT buy anything from that store, and so am contributing to the decline of
the brick & mortar guitar store boogie. Musician's Friend offered the same thing I had been looking at
with a 15% discount, no shipping and no sales tax... so it's pretty difficult for GC to compete with that.

Guitar slut will take any break... so I ended up with a cool Epiphone and an Orange Micro Terror 20W tube
amp hybrid and the combination is actually excellent. I saved enough on the guitar and the amp to pay for
some cool mods to the Epi and a good case to keep her in. Here's what she looks like:
View attachment 1270
You'll approve of my choice of hardware: all Black. I modded this baby with all black: Gotoh Tuners, Tusq nut, Rose pickups,
ebony pick guard, Black Gotoh bridge and tail... and black knobs. These things look great on a blonde guitar.
I named her Caledonia. She is so blonde, she could not get any blonder. And the combination of a nicely built Epiphone
guitar with good quality parts, pickups and wiring, played through the Orange Micro Terror into a couple of home built
cabs ... has me in P-90 heaven. Guitar slut, I know. But I'm old now and don't have a lot of money to throw out,
so I like to get a lot of guitar for my hard earned Social Security. (I did earn it, by the way... I've been paying into Social
Security since like 1964).

Wow! Your Caledonia looks fabulous along with your other guitars. It certainly looks smaller than the regular Casino guitar but like you said it sounds great. I love the look of a semi-hollow or even a hollow body guitar and the sound is very resonant. The P-90's are a real plus and they are a very popular pickup these days. They have that unique sound to them compared to humbuckers and regular single coils. And I love the type of feedback you can get from P-90's. I'm glad that you are happy with your new setup including your Orange Micro Terror. I've tested Orange amps in the past and they have a great crunch to their sound. I know the Terror has been getting a lot of positive feedback.

It's good to see your Luna SG again. With a wooden PG it's a pretty stunning looking SG. Maybe Gibson will make a signature series of your guitar and you'll be rich. It will be the "Mustard Special"! I still have my SG and I did a pickup swap with my 2006 Epiphone LP Standard (in black of course). Now my Les Paul has the 490R/490T pickup combo which sounds fantastic in that guitar. The Epiphone pickups are now in my Gibson SG & sound perfect in the guitar. I wired the pickups out of phase in the middle position of the 3-way selector switch. I love that nasally type of sound I can get from it.

Well it's good to see you here on this forum Col. Dijon. Unfortunately I got banned from ETSG for no apparent reason. But I like this forum better anyway because all the old ETSG gang hang out here now. I've also added another black guitar to my collection. It's a Hagstrom Viking Deluxe. It's a pretty amazing guitar...almost like a Gibson ES-335 clone with a Bigsby style vibrato. I have in posted in the "Twang Terrace" part of this forum. I hope you have many happy playing hours with Caledonia...give her my regards.

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