anybody play a hollow body electric

[Petulant Child]

I want to trade in my broken electric for a new one and really liked this 60's off brand hollow body.  It sounds good and I love the way it looks.  I am used to playing with distortion but would like to experiment with new sounds and also play at home unplugged..any thoughts as to your experience with a hollow body guitar would be great! does anyone play one with distortion?!

[Sumiji]

My favorite guitar is my H75 Harmony ('64?). I bought it about 5 years ago for $400 with a small crack. That does effect the tone at all though. It sounds so dam 60's I luv it! Sounds good with fuzz too. One thing that helped was grounding the pickups! I don't play too much feedback anymore but it can do it. Kind of like the Outsiders CQ feedback not like that blue cheer if that what your going fo.

[Gonzo]

If you're after a hollow body....I'd look into buying the vintage japanese range...there's a heap of quirky ES335 copies out there that sound just as good and depending on your taste....even better.

[Petulant Child]

I got my hollow body !!!I luv it!! still trying to get it to work the way I want with the Peavy but the sound and feel  are great!! it's a vintage 60's Japanese possibly Tiesco?  you can see pic on my page.  ThaNX for all the tips now point me in the direction of some tunes on these things!!

[Cab 20]

Hollow body's are great with distortion, but you have to manage the feedback. the easiest way is to buy synthetic (no Moisture) foam squares from the make up aisle. It must be synthetic, cotton holds moisture and will mess with the guitar. Stuff the squares into the f-holes carefully till the guitar is half full, several bags. What this does is cut down on the sound waves bouncing around inside the guitar but still maintaining the killer vintage tone. We have an early 70's era Silvertone hollow body and this worked great. Some vintage guitars have microphonic pickups (they work like a mike) which cause feed back. A good guitar repair guy will know how to dip them in wax to stop this.

[The Rich Hands]

 I love hollowbodys for multiple reasons. I own a right handed flipped to a lefty 67 gibson es-330 and a lefty Korean casino. for at home and rehearsal I put miles on my casino, and for recording and shows I use my gibson. one they are extremely versatile guitars, also i love p90 pickups, and fully hollowbodys and i can imagine semi hollow body's are extremely light. one you've played enough with your amp settings you can really get tricky with controlled feedback. the end!

 

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soundcloud.com/the-rich-hands

[The Dark Rags]

Hey!

Check out Peerless guitars. They are Korean Gretsch,Gibson and Epiphone copies, and are really well made, some say they are better than modern Gretches.

I've got the Gigmaster SC, which is a copy of Gibson es295, and it looks fantastic, with a Gold finish and P90's.It also sounds great for Garage and Punk, and it costs around 700 euros with a hard case.

[Tito Uquillas]

I used a Cort Jim Triggs II (with TV Jones Classic pickups) for years and loved it.  I'm too cheap right now for the fret job it needs and just got a Reverend Pete Anderson (p-90's).  Awesome guitar with grit when the bass roll-off knob is turned up.  Highly recommended!!  Strangely, the Cort had awesome useable feedback whereas my Reverend's feedback is high-pitched, shrill and unmusical.  A very versatile guitar, though.

http://www.wildwoodguitars.com/electrics/reverend/12305/12305.php

[dying slowly]

my mates got an epiphne casino and its amazing its really good with distortion and the bigsby allows for great controlled feedback ,also the guy from the sonics used a epiphone riviera

and let us not for get the awsome big gibson hollow bodys of the 50's like chuck berrys and scotty mores one with p-90s