What's the best new GJ guitar in 2012 / order a JP Favino guitar

Jazzaferri

Michael Dunn made the neck of my Ultrafox using pencil cedar which is actually a juniper. It sounds great, and is a lovely top wood. The usual length for long scale GJ is 670 mm so 666 is pretty much of a sameness there...

Sounds like JP is going to make you a fabulous guitar.

Jazzaferri

On the laminate guitars sounding worse issue...I wonder if that came about with de- lamination problems due to poor quality construction in cheap guitars combined with storage in very high relative humidity situations.

Imhave seen a few examples in really moist conditions where the plies actial self destruct from the inside in due to moisture. I suspect that any guitar wood would suffer from that sort of storage, its justmthat plywood delamination is much much harder to repair.

Michael Bauer

Noodlenot, if you're playing a J.P. Favino, you're playing with the devil! :twisted:

noodlenot

scary thought!

Mehran s

happy new year

adamnelson

Gibson ES-335 is one of my favorite guitar. It is most versatile guitar you can own..

Mehran s

hi
whats you opinion about change the scale length
to 670mm in this order?

Michael Bauer

Mehran, I think you worry too much. I have had two J.P. Favino guitars. I sold my Jazz S through Michael last year (Please let me know how she's doing, whoever bought it!), and I believe it had the 666 "Antichrist" scale. It was a fabulous guitar for me, and only the arrival of a couple of Busato Grand Modeles got it kicked from the closet.

I have short scale and long scale guitars, and I think the key is that the builder has worked with that scale length and knows how to get a sound around it. My J.P Jazz S loved Argie 10s, disliked 11s, and could be scare-the-neighbors loud when played aggressively. J.P. uses that scale a lot, and I think you should trust his judgement about it. J.P. doesn't get talked about enough around here, but the man clearly knows what he's doing, and I have never played one of his modern designs that wasn't a killer guitar. They are all really loud, and they all cut to the bone.

I still have my 1991 Jazz N, which is the loudest nylon string guitar I have ever heard, and can hang with all but the loudest steel strings. It has its own very cool sound, different than a classical...think gypsy jazz meets flamenco...and I want someone to whack me hard if I ever mention selling it.

Anyway, the 666 scale length is perfectly fine, and J.P. knows his business, and knows how to make it sing and dance. You picked your woods and model, now relax and let the man do his work. You'll be happy in the end.

Mehran s

Michael Bauer wrote:

Anyway, the 666 scale length is perfectly fine, and J.P. knows his business, and knows how to make it sing and dance. You picked your woods and model, now relax and let the man do his work. You'll be happy in the end.

:idea: so as a result I don't change the scale length. thank you

Jon

I've got a 666 scale Favino, and it's great. Such a small difference, but the guitar is very easy to play, without feeling "small". Sounds great too.

Jon