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Post by Duke on Mar 30, 2020 19:06:05 GMT -5
This Steinberger Spirit GT Pro Deluxe has my interest:
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Post by LesTele on Mar 30, 2020 19:58:47 GMT -5
I looked at these instruments in the mid-noughties when I was looking for an electric to put in an overhead compartment on a plane. They are nothing like the originals. No composite or carbon fibre construction, just wood. I ended up buying a cheap Hofner. I think it was called a Shorty. It was fit for purpose, just. I no longer own it. It had a headstock. Edit. Looked up the Shorty. Still available! Not recommended. Shorty |
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Post by Duke on Mar 30, 2020 20:02:14 GMT -5
I was looking for an electric to put in an overhead compartment on a plane. They are nothing like the originals. No composite or carbon fibre construction, just wood. Thanks for your info. I know nothing about them but for that price seemed like a decent travel guitar w/gigbag. |
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Post by LesTele on Mar 30, 2020 20:09:19 GMT -5
It certainly looks feature-packed. A step up from the one I went for.
I did sit in with reggae musicians in Jamaica using the instrument. I’m 6’4”. I think they took pity on me because the combination of the wee guitar and tall me looked so ridiculous.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 30, 2020 20:15:50 GMT -5
I had a Hohner Steinberger copy back in the ‘80s. It was a great little guitar.
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Post by 69tele on Mar 31, 2020 3:48:37 GMT -5
I've had a 6 string guitar and 5 string bass of those come through my work bench and I was not impressed at all... pretty much very basic quality , the guitar also they has an issue where you cannot get the bridge low enough for a decent action. Not at all comfortable to play either sitting.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 31, 2020 10:34:28 GMT -5
I have a Steinberger Spirit from the mid-90s because I was traveling a whole lot (military) and I wanted something portable, so I paired it with a Rockman X100 headphone amp. The Spirits were all maple and quite heavy for their size, and they all had a problem with the vibrato's two pivot studs collapsing under string tension. The reason was there was too much wood routed away to accommodate the R-Trem system. If they had made these as hardtails or used a different vibrato they would've sold better (original retail was $400 or so). I got a great deal on the guitar in 1996 because I got it 2nd hand and it needed repairs. I hardtailed it and trued up the fretwork. I also yanked the anemic EMG Select (import passive) pickups and installed three Duncans. After that work on it, the guitar has been rock solid and I still play it today. Besides being the ideal travel guitar, it is particularly good for a crowded stage or a really tight basement jam; it takes up very little space. And it plays and sounds really good. This guitar has been around the world with me numerous times.  |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 31, 2020 10:49:56 GMT -5
"Not at all comfortable to play either sitting." These guitars originally came with a flip-out leg rest that appears gimmicky, but it actually works extremely well. It works far better than the rubber pad Gibson installed in the bottom edge of their Flying Vs for a few short years.  |
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Post by Leftee on Mar 31, 2020 10:53:52 GMT -5
My Hohner had the flip-out leg.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 31, 2020 11:16:23 GMT -5
Was it a Hohner/Austin Hatchet? Or the license-built Steinberger?
Cort made a very similar guitar in the late 80s.
The first time I saw a Steinberger in the wild was at a Randy Hansen show in '83 in Monterey, CA. Hansen was playing a Strat and doing his Jimi thing, and his bassist played a Steinberger IV. I had never seen or heard one and I was blown away how much sound came from a simple (well, not really) stick with four strings on it. I don't remember the bassist's name but he could burn on that thing.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 31, 2020 11:34:42 GMT -5
Was it a Hohner/Austin Hatchet? Or the license-built Steinberger? Cort made a very similar guitar in the late 80s. The first time I saw a Steinberger in the wild was at a Randy Hansen show in '83 in Monterey, CA. Hansen was playing a Strat and doing his Jimi thing, and his bassist played a Steinberger IV. I had never seen or heard one and I was blown away how much sound came from a simple (well, not really) stick with four strings on it. I don't remember the bassist's name but he could burn on that thing. I believe it was a license-built. I got it for Christmas, 1988 while stationed in England. It came from a local shop. |
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Post by Leftee on Mar 31, 2020 11:46:52 GMT -5
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 31, 2020 13:23:05 GMT -5
Oh yeah...these are really pretty good guitars.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 31, 2020 14:36:14 GMT -5
Oh yeah...these are really pretty good guitars. I wish I still had it. I traded it, around 1989, for a Kramer. And not a good Kramer, either. 😖 |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 31, 2020 14:49:55 GMT -5
Yeah, Gary Kramer was gone from the company by then. Kramer had their own headless model at the time called the Duke. There was a guitar and a bass version. A *really cool* headless bass was the Westone Rail. It has a sliding pickup that offered up a boatload of different tones.  |
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Post by LTB on Apr 1, 2020 9:17:03 GMT -5
I have a Steinberger Spirit from the mid-90s because I was traveling a whole lot (military) and I wanted something portable, so I paired it with a Rockman X100 headphone amp. The Spirits were all maple and quite heavy for their size, and they all had a problem with the vibrato's two pivot studs collapsing under string tension. The reason was there was too much wood routed away to accommodate the R-Trem system. If they had made these as hardtails or used a different vibrato they would've sold better (original retail was $400 or so). I got a great deal on the guitar in 1996 because I got it 2nd hand and it needed repairs. I hardtailed it and trued up the fretwork. I also yanked the anemic EMG Select (import passive) pickups and installed three Duncans. After that work on it, the guitar has been rock solid and I still play it today. Besides being the ideal travel guitar, it is particularly good for a crowded stage or a really tight basement jam; it takes up very little space. And it plays and sounds really good. This guitar has been around the world with me numerous times. Cool, Steinberger Spirit and a Peeberger Oddvark  I really do thing it is cool though! Not another like it... |
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Post by swampyankee on Apr 1, 2020 9:43:56 GMT -5
I've done the headless thing a couple times but prefer a headstock for a stop when I head to the first frets.
Back in the 90's I needed a bass and picked up a Riverhead headless bass. Cool bass, but the pickups weren't very versatile and were an odd configuration that couldn't be swapped out so I sold it for a P-Bass Special. Some time later I also had an Ibanez X-Ing synth guitar, which had the tuners at the bridge, but it had a vestigial headstock thing. It didn;t do the synth thing too well so I passed it along.
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I really do thing it is cool though! Not another like it...