Guitar Equipment Reviews

Taylor Big Baby Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar Natural

Guitar Review

Make/Model of Guitar: Big Baby Dreadnought

How long have you owned this guitar?  1 yr

What are it’s best features?  Reduced Body Size

What are it’s worst features? Haven’t Found Any Yet

Pick ups, Hard ware ect.

Where did you purchase this guitar? Musicians Friend

Have you modified it in any way?  No

Would you recommend purchasing one?  Yes

What’s your dream guitar?

Taylor 814-CE Left-Handed Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

Guitar Giveaway
Musicians Plaza Forum is giving away (by drawing) a re issue Fender American Vintage Hot Rod ‘62 Stratocaster Electric Guitar Olympic White. You have a chance to own this guitar simply by talking here on the forum about the things you love most. Guitars!
Musician’s Friend Price: $1,649.99
List Price: $2,299.99

Features:
* Thin-skin nitrocellulose finish
* Comfort-contoured alder body
* Maple neck
* Vintage C-shape profile with satin finish on back
* Rosewood fingerboard
* 9.5″ fingerboard radius
* 21 medium-jumbo frets
* 25.5″ scale length
* Nut width: 1.650″
* Chrome hardware
* Fender/Gotoh vintage-style tuners
* American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
* 3-ply mint green pickguard
* 3 American Vintage Strat single-coil pickups with reverse-wound/reverse-phase middle pickup
* 5-position blade pickup switch
* Master volume control
* Tone 1 (neck pickup)
* Tone 2 (bridge pickup)
* Setup with Fender Super 250R Nickel Plated Steel strings (.010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046)
* Includes Deluxe Brown Hardshell Case, Strap, Cable, and Meguair’s care kit

This is your chance to have one completely free shipped to your door from Musician’s Friend!

How It Works
This will be a simple drawing. All registered/contributing members of this forum will be included in the drawing as long as you have at least 20 posts in other members’ topics and at least 5 topics started by YOURSELF. Isn’t this alot easier than paying $1,649.99 ??

Rules
Must have at least 20 posts in any topics
You must have at least 5 topics started by you
Your posts must be genuine
No “1 or 2″ word posts
No spam

Basically, you just have to be a good member of the forum. We’re having this drawing to bring more members and activity into the forum. We don’t want someone to join just to get their post count up JUST so they can be eligible to be included in the drawing for this guitar. We want you all to stay! We only have one Strat to give away. We wish we had more to give, believe me! You could very well be the person who owns this strat in 2 months, all for just contributing posts and topics here at Musician’s Plaza. It’s simple, painless, and there’s absolutely no reason not to.

The drawing will take place on March 10th, 2009. This is roughly just 2 months away. After the name is drawn, we will post it here and email the winner and request your shipping address. We will also ask you to take a picture with the guitar once it arrives so that we can post it here for proof!

If you’re not a registered member, then register now

Note: Do not join and quickly make your required post count in one session. You have a whole 2 months to do that! So spread it out

You can view the full announcement by following this link:

http://www.musiciansplaza.com/index.php?topic=162.0

Thank you to Joseph for submitting the following review on his ESP Eclipse

Make/Model of Guitar: ESP Eclipse

How long have you owned this guitar?  7 yrs

What are it’s best features?  Neck and shape

What are it’s worst features? all original parts
Pick ups, Hard ware ect.

Where did you purchase this guitar? Sam Ash Bklyn NY

Have you modified it in any way?  Yes

If yes, please share!  The first thing I added was a pair of EMG pick ups. I added locking tuners a new graphite nut and a tone pro bridge set up
I then sanded down the original see through red finish and put a nice custom paint job on it.
I also sanded down the neck and gave it a tongue oil finish.

Would you recommend purchasing one?  Yes

What’s your dream guitar?  A custom Carvin single cut away

Available also from Musicians Friend
ESP Standard Series Eclipse II Black Cherry
ESP Standard Series Eclipse II Cherry Sunburst

Make/Model of Pedal Amp Head -  Crate Power Block

How long have you owned this Amp or Amp Head?  One Year

What are it’s best features?  Its a cool thing to find, Hooked it to a blown up Ampeg Reverberocket 2, with a Fender 8 Inch Bass Speaker and it sounds totally awesome, the only thing you will have to add is a Reverb Unit of your choice, we are currently using Electro Harmonics Holy Grail Plus it will do just about anything you need in the 70’s style music

What are it’s worst features? No Tubes

Where did you purchase this Amp?  Musician’s Friend

Would you recommend purchasing one?  Yes

What’s your dream Amp Head? Crate Blue Voodoo BV120HB Guitar Amp Head

Thanks to Bob for reviewing his Danelectro DC-1 Cool Cat Chorus Pedal

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