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03-07-2013, 03:19 PM
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An Electric for a Finger style player
As a hack semi-pro jazz player I'm always making gear decisions on two tiers...
Small combo working jazz guitarist or Sunday contemporary service lead guitar player. Usually there is not much overlap. As a jazz guy I'm always looking for better tone, playability/ergonomics in a small compact package. Really pleased with this new guitar on both fronts. Jim Soloway has a shop in Portland. The guitars his company makes are an offshoot of Jim's personal requirements in a working guitar. He is known for very clean fingerstyle jazz arrangements. He makes some deviations from this formula but this particular guitar engenders a bunch of features that he wanted for his playing and they happen to fit really well with what I have been looking for. This is his Loon Contour T with "advanced width" neck also called the "fingerstyle" neck. Features: Hollow 1-piece swamp ash back with Lutz spruce top. Dimarzio 35th Anny. pickups. Hipshot bridge and locking tuners. The 1-piece mahogany neck is 24-3/4" scale and is 1-13/16" at the nut and has a rosewood fretboard and jumbo frets. The guitar only weighs 6 pounds or so. With my little Henriksen Jazzamp it sounds very archtop-like but this morning with full pedalboard into my HRD with Torres Eng Tubes it just sounded face- meltingly great. The band members noticed and commented profusely which they never do. BTW. Jim is one quality guy to deal with. Seems like a real gentleman and very service oriented. More of a tobacco burst than the pics show...not this red at all.     [/QUOTE]
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03-08-2013, 03:41 AM
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