Chet atkins guitar

i-am-me · Unread post by **i-am-me** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:52 pm

To start, how many of you have one? I've heard only good things about the guitar but i'm not really sure about specifics. anyone who has one: would you mind telling me what you think of it and why and all that? thanks

Ando · Unread post by **Ando** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:28 pm

I personally don't own one. But i really wouldn't get one unless I was playing in a band, or plugged in all the time since they pretty much produce no acoustic sound what-so-ever.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:29 pm

there are actually more than one type of chet atkins guitar, but i assume you are talking about the SST... the only one here i know that has one is firedancer...

firedancer86 · Unread post by **firedancer86** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 9:23 pm

I would buy my sst again...of course I got a deal...ideal for a player in a live band...good presence...great response and attack...nice action...no feedback...solid sounding guitar

the thing that was beautiful to me was/is how it sounds direct with no preamps or effects...

it has no soundhole, but is hollow making it an acoustic...anything welse I can help with, let m e know...

Brock · Unread post by **Brock** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:14 pm

They have hollow-body electrics don't they?

Pickles · Unread post by **Pickles** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:17 pm

hollow body electrics are quite different. you can play them acoustically, but plugged in you can only get an electric sound, but its not the same as solid body.

i didnt get to play a SST but the one i did play was horrible... dont remember what it was

Ando · Unread post by **Ando** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:17 pm

TrippnBill686 wrote:They have hollow-body electrics don't they?

Yup they do.

i-am-me · Unread post by **i-am-me** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:19 pm

Well to start i'm definetly not gonna get one cause i wouldnt do any justice to it. i dont really want a new guitar right now. But my question is would that guitar make any sound without being plugged in. I mean it has no whole so i dont see how it could. thanks

firedancer86 · Unread post by **firedancer86** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:23 pm

it makes some ok sound...more than an electric...but nothing worth a second look...you can hear it enough to fool around with it...

Ando · Unread post by **Ando** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:24 pm

i-am-me wrote:Well to start i'm definetly not gonna get one cause i wouldnt do any justice to it. i dont really want a new guitar right now. But my question is would that guitar make any sound without being plugged in. I mean it has no whole so i dont see how it could. thanks

With no hole.. I doubt it will make much of a sound.. Pretty much like playing an unplugged electric.. Not very much fun.

Dancing Ants · Unread post by **Dancing Ants** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 1:13 am

i got an epiphone chet and amp for $85 from my cousin. it sounds pretty good plugged in, but since i have some extra money, i'm just going to soup it up. not a bad guitar or anything to me. i think it gets a bad rep because of it's huge neck, which isn't so bad for me...

gcom007 · Unread post by **gcom007** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 9:59 am

I had one for a little while, I bought it to use with electric amps to try and get a dirty acoustic sound, but it just didn't do a thing for me. I would never buy it again and I sold it promptly to a good friend. this guitar has only survived because dave played one, but what people ignore is that dave's was stripped of the gibson electronics and replaced with fishman electronics, so it's really not the same guitar whatsoever.

Beauford33 · Unread post by **Beauford33** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:52 am

what about the standered chet atkins on musicians friend

firedancer86 · Unread post by **firedancer86** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:47 pm

Beauford33 wrote:what about the standered chet atkins on musicians friend

whatever you do (if you buy one), make it the Gibson model...they only have ONE type of the SST in either black or natural (I have black

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Beauford33 · Unread post by **Beauford33** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:24 pm

firedancer86 wrote:
Beauford33 wrote:what about the standered chet atkins on musicians friend
whatever you do (if you buy one), make it the Gibson model...they only have ONE type of the SST in either black or natural (I have black )

Im gonna buy one, and im gonna get the gibson, but i just wondering if there is anything wrong with the standard

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