Yamaha fg830 - making the guitar my own - cosmetic customization
this is a clearer video of the yamaha fg830 guitar which I really find to be a fantastic guitar like all the well-known-already raving about this instrument others have given.
Well, it's true!
So anyhow here, basically, I put
-a jumbo-guitar styled Gibson pickguard onto it (I cut the "upper" fill to the guard, as it was actually going to go onto a cutaway jumbo before decidin "nah".)
-Some bone pin upgrades. Just the most affordable ones I could find, but real bone. The "carve them to fit!" sort. To me, it makes a sound difference, having bone pins. Others say nah, but my ears are fussy.
- I carved out a "doo-dad" for the fretboard end.
Why? Because I'm mimicking this guitar to a dread-nought-shaped "Epiphone J-200."
Not even a Gibson j200, but one of the Epiphones I owned.. because, of sentimental value. I had to trade out an ej200 I was repairing, because it was a lot more work and moneys than anticipated.
Anyhow I like the ornate (if not gridgy and grudgy by my own carving hands) sort of arrow end-cap.
-another doo-dad! on the top of the fretboard, above the nut. It's laying there just via double-sided tape for now. Sticks well enough. Need to shape it a bit more to fit.
-the pick guard paints: I understand others will loathe this. In my world, as it's gone all my life, that pushes me to enjoy things ever so more!
It makes it connected to me. Plus its just the pick guard.
-Oh I made a sound badge for the inside of the guitar, getting the mint green block out of there that comes with the yamaha fg800+ series. That mint green was L-O-U-D!
Yes the graphic mimicks a 1990s (up to mid 90s, I believe)
of Korean production graphics of a woman holding up a mandolin, in ornate dress, which the Samick Factory Epiphones had put into their guitar ID graphics.
I very much! like that graphic.
I am no longer hunting down the early jumbo epiphones. A lot of the re sold ones simply, I learned, need way too much work. And those that actually have them, are well to keep them. and the Yamaha FG series, are for the price, incomparable and hard to compete with anyway.
But it was a fun learning process. This is budget guitar land for me anyhow, and I like to carry my instruments around and traverse with them a whole lot, too. Keeping in mind, still, budget or not, humidity care and so on.
anyways I'm having better luck riffing and sitting on my butt lately, playing freeform, than when it comes to dedication to recording for new material. Let me figure that out eh.
Still coming up with a name for this instrument.
because I have Honeybun, my resonator.
And Whomper.
https://www.lomemarsupial.com
https://www.patreon.com/lomemarsupial
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