I really want to save my SG, but it's just so uncomfortable to play.

[Chiefhibachi1]

Did I offend?

 

[syscokid]

Did I offend?

Nah... That's just Biddlin! That's his way of showing you that he loves you.

Welcome to ETSG...

 

[DCCable]

Well that's an interesting idea!

 

[Raiyn]

Did I offend?

No. Don't take him personally. While I don't agree with everything he says as scripture, he's generally good to have around.

 

[Lookingfortoday]

OP has been finished for quite some time. At this point this thread is high jacked. Zzzzzzzzzzz.

 

[Chiefhibachi1]

Nah... That's just Biddlin! That's his way of showing you that he loves you.

Welcome to ETSG...

I'm sure he's an outstanding citizen.

 

[Chiefhibachi1]

That guitarists were literate.

Yes, Stupid is what stupid does.

 

[Chiefhibachi1]

Hey Chiefnibachi1, can you post some photos of this extension arm? Thanks,

I added them to my original post.

 

[Chiefhibachi1]

Well that's an interesting idea!

Thanks, It works pissah. The strap pretty much covers the arm so it doesn't mess up the aesthetics of the guitar at all. It eliminated the neck dive and positions the guitar, on my body, in basically the same area as my PRS and Charvel.

 

[58pit]

Keep your damn hands on it :)

 

[WallaceWinston]

This thread will never die

 

[Col Mustard]

I've seen this pic a thousand times and never noticed the firewood on the chair behind her. Love that LP/SG Custom.

...me too! I'm always so fascinated by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was the real deal.
She was an excellent musician and a dynamite performer before the electric guitar was invented.
It probably took her about a minute to decide what to do about any neck dive situation
on her SG.

No problem! And the show must go on.
But there were a lot of pictures taken on that train station platform.
Here's one of the reasons you might not have seen the Tele before...
I'm usually ogling her cool Vox amp too, but lookee here:
Now you see it, now you don't.

and there are other pictures where that chair is empty. An here she is sittin' on that chair
with her SG in the ice bucket in the background. So she's messin' with us. *laughs

From the grave. ...or from Heaven, where she's sure to be. Jamming with Les himself,
and Django. Check out her cool 1952 Les Paul with the innovative "wrap-under" tail piece.
I'll be she had no problem with this guitar, or with that tele either.

She and Les Paul might have known each other, certainly they would have known OF each
other... and you can figure that in 1952 when a new gold guitar with Les' name on it was announced, she'd buy one. And I imagine she gave him the razz-ma-tazz about that "bridge" next time she saw him. But she apparently had no trouble rocking this one... unplugged or what.

She is one of the under rated musicians of that time period IMHO, and if she'd been born fifty
years later she might have had her own TV show, or mega church if she wanted one.

And yes, this thread has wandered away from the OP's original complaint, but it lives on
because the title is so provocative. We'll have to call it the Undead Thread...

 

[Norlin SG]

Roseta nialed the nose dive problem pretty easily. See your 2nd picture? She had the neck end of the strap attached just behind the nut instead of at the body.

Non modification easy peasy fix for folks that find the nose dive an issue. A lot of old time country player slung their their acoustics this way.

 

[Col Mustard]

yes, we don't know if her old SG had neck dive problems... it seems that with stock tuners
and a whammy bar on the back with all that extra hardware, it ought to balance right...
but why else would she strap it like that?

I don't like a strap way out on the headstock, because I believe it can pull the neck
out of tune when you play, but Rosetta never had any trouble with that either. *grins
She's dynamite. And she seemed to have a lot of different guitars. There's pictures of her
as a young woman playing arch top jazz guitars too.

 

[Relic61]

I liked the wider neck feature Gibson offers with this model but the auto tune contraption on the head stock is useless. Not sure what they were thinking with that piece of shite.

Out of the mouths of new members comes the most unfiltered & perhaps honest observations.

Tanx for Keeping it real bud.

 

[Dave_Death]

Thanks, It works pissah.

Welcome to ETSG ... are you from Bawstun?