Nigel,
You more than deserve it.
Now I gotta come to one of your gigs to hear and see you play it
Eric

This is the first weekend I haven't had to work for a while. I fired up my 5 watt tube Blackstar with the H78 and I am knocked out. The guitar setup is perfect. Plays like magic. It really is inspiring to play. But even better it sounds fantastic. I put a little hi grain crunch on it so I could pull out some bite when I needed it. Just a perfect guitar. It makes me want to play a lot more.

Next time I play with it I will get Kerry to take a short video so you can see what a ball I am having with this guitar. I simply love it.

Love to see that video, Nigel. Give my best to Kerry.

Gary

Haven't been on here in a long time, missed whatever happened, lol. Congrats and enjoy!

Played mine at a car show yesterday...rockabilly, with a tenor, upright with Underwood pick-up (son), drummer (grandson) and me on the H-78 and Wurlitzer piano.

Son's 41 Olds won a "best of show" prize, My Buick Riviera (85) won a ribbon and our 64 Cushman got a best in class award.

I used an old Vocal Master with original speakers, a Boss echo pedal (originally, everyone used a tape Echoplex) with the vocal microphone.

About 1500 people. Money raised went to a fund for a little girl who lost her leg.

GREAT GUITAR FOR ROCK-A-BILLY!

So glad you like it, Nigel!


Russ (1/2 of the Tone Monsters) Lay

Guitar and piano played thru a 59 Bassman (think Super Reverb in a dark brown case). Cheated a little. Had an effects loupe, line out and line in added to the Vocal Master head. Miked everything, put it into a small Carvin mixer; back to small floor monitors. Hey I'm old and can't hear everything, like I used to.

H-78 set up by yours truly. Included neck fine adjustment, minor fret dressing, string change and lowering. Pretty good right out of the box. Better tan stock Gibson's or Fenders.

Enjoy!


Russ (two left thumbs) Lay

(I put flat wounds on mine, because I'm going to play a few jobs with an area Philharmonic, and need that 335 neck pick-up sound).

You did a fantastic setup Russ. The action and general setup is awesome. I can understand why you would use flatwound strings for the jazz sound you want. But the round wound strings were perfect for me for a rock/blues sound. And they were just the right string gauge. It is the only guitar I have with a Bigsby tremelo and it stays in tune so well. I am actually very surprised. That roller bridge makes a big difference.


Those gold foil pickups really come to life with a tube amplifier.