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Aluminati Orion At first glance, this guitar is BARELY purple. The bridge is purple. The headstock is purple. But if you look closely, the whole neck is purple. The neck which is made of aluminum, by the way, hence the name. (Which would be Aluminiaiti Guitars for our British friends.) Also the purple itself is barely purple. Does anyone remember the Rogue Aluminator from the 90s? That had an aluminum body with a bunch of holes for weight reduction. (We did not know what “trypophobia” was back then, we just knew that those guitars made us very uncomfortable, so look that up at your own peril.) Anyway, they were available in a similar shade of purple. Is there some particular reason that aluminum can not be anodized to a normal purple, and that it has to be that neon violet color? The body is made of lucite in an angular St. Vincent-esque sort of shape. Visible tool marks create a texture that follows the shape of the guitar. Complete with a pair of humbuckers, volume, tone, toggle switch, and the aforementioned purple anodized bridge. Is it us, or does everything look slightly off-center on the body? Maybe it’s a conspiracy to keep us on edge. #PurpleGuitarPhursday #AluminatiGuitars

I like that my city put the flags at half-mast for Sam Neill.

Whenever someone mentions another individual in a post without explaining the relationship, I always just assume it’s their cat. I’m astounded by how many of your cats have jobs or post-graduate degrees or are amazing chefs or whatever.

@alice@lgbtqia.space Spared no expense.

@kimlockhartga@beige.party @GrimmReality@beige.party And then feed them after midnight?

@devxvda@mastodon.ie I just got 11 notifications and thought one of my posts was doing a viral.

@An0n@beige.party @MarkDW@mstdn.social It's basic Coriolis Effect.

@An0n@beige.party @MarkDW@mstdn.social That's only true in the western hemisphere. Just like how toilets flow the other way in the southern hemisphere, in the eastern hemisphere, the right side goes tingly.

Crews Maniac Sound - Six Nylon

#AcousticApril is over and we are done with acoustics. …Or ARE we‽

Once upon a time, Les Paul realized that if you are going to put magnetic pickups on a guitar anyway, then it really does not need to have a big, hollow, “acoustic” body. This idea ultimately lead to an electric solid body guitar known as [checks notes] the Gibson Les Paul. Decades later, after acoustic guitars began to feature piezo pickups, Les Paul’s contemporary and occasional collaborator, Chet Atkins, worked with that same company to create an electric nylon string guitar, the Gibson Chet Atkins CEC. Other companies such as Godin and Ibanez have had similar offerings, which never really caught on, yet are starting to gain popularity recently because of Tim Hensen from the band Polyphia.

That is a lot of names that are not terribly important right now, other than to point out that Crews Maniac Sound did not invent the electric nylon concept. What they did do was make it PURPLE.

The Six Nylon has a tele-ish shape with a different upper horn thing happening. It has a bolt-on neck, which rather curiously features steel-string tuning machines. Nylon string necks are wider at the nut, because strings themselves are thicker. They also typically do not have a radiused fretboard, although some more recent models will if they are aiming for crossover appeal to players more accustomed to steel string guitars. We can not quite tell which is the case here, and the description does not say. The body itself has a flame maple top with a purple stain and faux binding. It has a classical tie-the-strings-on bridge and a single volume control.

Crews Maniac Sound are a small Japanese company. We can not help but wonder if the name has significance, or whether it is sort of the inverse of an American who gets a tattoo of random Japanese characters, and perhaps in this case they just picked some English words that sound cool. The important thing is that it does sound cool, and the guitar looks cool, and we want it.

#PurpleGuitarPhursday #CrewsManiacSound

Toodles to oodles of doodles of poodles with noodles.

When you exhume, you place a hex on u and me.

@LRRRonEarth@beige.party Does it break?

@AlineHayes@mastodonapp.uk Gentle humour or hard truth‽

@chrisp@cyberplace.social I didn’t realize those were still British.

@HCBunny@beige.party 1000 miles would be a long and winding road to your door.

@missmelanieh@mastodonapp.uk I do have a severe Scotland deficiency.

@whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz @Guillotine_Jones@beige.party Not yet, but he’s halfway there.

@falcennial@mastodon.social I thought the whole point was just to be the one who walked 1000 miles to fall down at your door‽

Can you even walk 500 miles, and THEN walk 500 more, and still be in Scotland? Would you even still be in the UK, or would you fall into the sea‽

@RickiTarr The night is dark and full of numbers.

@weirdestate Who would want to trap the Batman in house full of mirrors?

@deirdrebeth @Alice Everything is better in purple.

@Alice Purple shampoo, you say‽

@Alice Better than amateur's piracy theories.

@Binder You don't lie in the trash‽

@dilong@sauropods.win Just because they’re scavengers doesn’t mean they can’t serve.

*Edit* I have added a white background to the photo, because of some optical illusion where on the website, it looked purple, but against a dark background, it really did not.

@roknrol That is a good point you raise about being on its side, and I feel like I have had a similar thought regarding design features on other guitars in the past, although the specifics escape me now. A related fun thing that frequently bothers me when trying to describe guitars: consider the "top", "higher frets" "higher strings", "upper bout", and "upper horn", all of which seem to indicate different directions, so which way on a guitar is truly "up"‽

Zemaitis CAF-90H

Tony Zemaitis was a British luthier known for building guitars with elaborately engraved metal tops or inlaid pearl mosaics that look like museum pieces from the Renaissance era. They were played by some very famous artists, particularly in the 60s and 70s. Zemaitis Guitars is now owned by the same Japanese company that owns Greco (who as far we know, do not make purple guitars, and therefore we have never had any reason to mention).

We have seen heart-shaped sound holes before, often in “affordable” instruments. Whether or not this was something Tony Zemaitis himself came up with, or a later introduction, or who may have copied whom verses parallel thought… we simply do not know.

This guitar extends the heart theme with mother of pearl inlaid hearts (and dots) surrounding the sound hole. It also features a vaguely mustache-shaped bridge with abalone-inlaid pegs. Purple satined top with natural finish on the back and sides, and what lookalike tortoise shell binding.

All in all, while not as gaudy as their electrics, it is still excessively ornate enough to be worthy of the Zemaitis name.

Unfortunately for purple fans, these are only listed on the Japanese website and might only be available in Japan.

#PurpleGuitarPhursday #Zemaitis #AcousticApril

@pierrotechnique @mayintoronto @GrimmReality And here I just assumed it was a euphemism.

@mayintoronto @GrimmReality The Beaches are from Canada.

Ibanez Lari Basilio LB1

This guitar combines tele and strat features, which many have done in one form or another. In this case, it combines a tele shape with strat contours and body binding even around the arm carve, which seems non-trivial construction-wise, but this is a premium guitar.

Featuring custom Lari Basilio pickups from Seymour Duncan in HSS configuration, including a tele neck and an unusual looking middle pickup which is actually just another tele style pickup with an open-top cover. Much has been said on the internet about covered vs. uncovered humbuckers, which we are not going to rehash, other to say that the cover affects the magnetic field which therefore affects the tone *in some way*. How does an uncovered tele pickup sound in comparison to a covered one, or for that matter, a strat? We could not say, but probably different.

Five-way pickup switch, volume, tone, and an extra “Alter” switch that allows for five additional series and/or split combinations. Mostly gold hardware, including a fancy looking Gotoh two-point trem (vibrato) bridge, though the switches are not gold for whatever reason.

Violet finish with the aforementioned binding in white.

#PurpleGuitarPhursday #Ibanez

@RickiTarr@beige.party If they meet fellow Buffalo from upstate New York, are they nice to them?

@goinfawr What is the largest fruit that you could eat all of in a single sitting?

@Lana@beige.party Even the dapper dandy rats‽

@Nuncio@tech.lgbt Oh my

@Lana@beige.party Are there Clothed Mole Rats‽