The soup du jour seems to be this ridiculously lightweight Fiji Mahogany. At first it was sort of cool but now that it is common and I have A-B compared a bunch of pre-Fiji bodied guitars with the post-Fiji, I'm liking the pre stuff even more. This stuff tends to be very ice-picky in tone with less midrange and sustain (albeit a "louder" acoustic tone, but louder does not equal better).
This hot hide glue is the biggest bunch of crap as well. I'll concede "more historically accurate" but I don't agree it changes tone one bit. The plain ol titebond dries hard as hell and is stronger than the parent wood. It is the precision of the wood joints that matter most IMO. A proper wood joint requires very little glue.
I still think the new Historics are very good and well made, but certainly not any better than the older historics, and most certainly not worth the current asking prices (to me anyway).
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Like I posted before. If you can't tell the difference, then the difference doesn't exist. So I agree it would be a waste of money for those who don't. So don't.
I'm sure you bought a great one, you are like me, I take the ones that pick me. I just want to be clear, I personally played several new unsold R9's, THR9's and my R9's and found the same range sonic signatures. No two were identical but I found enough overlapping of tone, same as I've found every year, to know that the tone remains as it has for many years now.
I do not think that the player who loves great tone has to buy a THR to get it. I found plenty of R8's that sounded as good.
Ever since my surgery, and recovery in Winter makes me daydream too much myself. Getting hammered with big blizzard up here on the big lake.
Of course! And I know there has to be some TH R9's I would run away from too.
I'm sure you bought a great one, you are like me, I take the ones that pick me. I just want to be clear, I personally played several new unsold R9's, THR9's and my R9's and found the same range sonic signatures. No two were identical but I found enough overlapping of tone, same as I've found every year, to know that the tone remains as it has for many years now.
I do not think that the player who loves great tone has to buy a THR to get it. I found plenty of R8's that sounded as good.
i couldn't agree more with this assessment however I do like the finish on the new THR9's and many of the Donna and Nikki guitars look fantastic. My decision to buy one would be based largely on cosmetics.
Things that I enjoy spending money on: Guitars, amplifiers, microphones.
Things I don't enjoy spending money on: Mortgage, a roof, new carpeting, furnace filters, the list goes on...
Unwise uses for my money: Hookers, one more spin on the roulette wheel, heroin, cocaine.
If you are smitten with the new TH guitars spend away my friends I for one can see why you would. As for me I wasn't smitten with the guitar I played. Had I been I most likely would have done some trading and forked out the asking price.
Has anyone played a TH side by side to an Historic Makeover's?? Just wondering how they stack up against each other..
Thanks!
Looking at this from the perspective of a guitars construction, 1993 was the year. It marked the return to the original method of joining the neck to the body just as it was designed to be from the outset, and in the manner we're all now familiar with.
IMHO no subsequent change, alteration or tweaking of details large or small are more significant than that made back in 1993.