New UGD: 00's Ibanez AF95

[FuzzyAce]

One that I think was brought to my attention by @AFKAEjay was the GB30 George Benson semi-hollow sig guitar from the 80s

GB30

The GB30 is a hollow body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 1986. It is a signature model for American jazz guitarist George Benson. It was made in Japan. The GB30 is a semi-hollow version of Benson's flagship GB10 full-hollow body model with which is shares a silhouette. It has a...

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Also came in red with similarly blacked out hardware: https://reverb.com/item/55815585-ib...-Shop_unpaid&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google

The newer GB10 small body hollow body George Benson's are super cool, but the floating mini hums just don't QUITE have enough oomph for my taste.

I like that Cherry Red.

 

[Achilles]

My '77 has worn fairly well,

That's awesome! I played a Musician MC300 in the late 70s and then about 15 years ago I bought one for nostalgia reasons and all the gold hardware looked so cool on it. Just like yours actually!

 

[Sascha Franck]

But I wouldn't put a mic in front of it anytime soon.

Once it's ready for primetime, you may want to try that, though, should you be into some really oldfahioned swing style guitar sound. Mix it with a clean amp sound and you might be pretty much there already.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Got that gitah up and running?

I do!! Will be later this week before I've got my computer/interface/etc. back up and running alongside it to capture a clip, but will get something up then.

 

[Eagle]

That’s basically a painted version of mine;

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Got that gitah up and running?

Here it is with Thomastik Swing (flats) 11 gauge. Very quick and dirty patch on the new Axe III using a brown face super as amp model and...was close enough to Burrell tone I didn't bother tweaking any more?

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

With the flats -- man, those unwound strings get really pokey! Do I need to go in and lower pole pieces on those two strings to get a more even balance or some other trick? I'm digging the flats quite a bit...which is just going to make me want to find another hollowbody so I can have one strung with rounds around, to, because the rounds are much better for t-bone walker/jump blues type stuff

 

[JiveTurkey]

Here it is with Thomastik Swing (flats) 11 gauge. Very quick and dirty patch on the new Axe III using a brown face super as amp model and...was close enough to Burrell tone I didn't bother tweaking any more?

Great playing and tones!

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Great playing and tones!

Its a VERY specific tone. After more playing last night, not sure how long the flatwounds are gonna stay on it, to be honest. But super cool and fun to have a mess about with for sure!