I bought this off ebay on a whim, had a few 12s but this sounds the nicest ( and its laminate) its an ibanez exotic wood. Sounds amazing plugged in too.

The wife says it looks like Dolly Partons guitar, and my mate and musical partner nearly gagged when he saw it.

It is very very very bright it has very yellow quilted maple all over it and has rainbow inlays, but it sounds great so that all there is to it.

What does the stw community think?

I’d like it if you took half the strings off

Not to my tastes, but bet it sounds ace.

If liberace learned to play guitar instead of Piano…

12 strings can never be sexy….

Ha liberace genius, oddly the first tune i played to my mate was a little respect by erasure….

That really odd cutaway puts me off, but I like the wood and inlays.
I do like the sound of a 12-string, Steve Hackett being a particular favourite.

Like the proportions and that quilted maple is gorgeous, I like it.

not as nice to look at as mine (IMO of course), but I bet it sounds sweet – and that’s the most important thing

mine:

I have the “real man’s” version of that guitar ;o)

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Seriously though, do you like it? That’s what matters, surely?

I lika very mucho.

Willej yep i do, deffo, we could do islands in the stream?

John drummer that is beautiful are they seymour duncans?

Im new to lectrics but got a peavey telecaster with coil tapped seymors for £150 i bloody love it

Horrid. Why don’t you let me relieve you of it 😉

I haven’t a clue; it’s a Dean Sarasota. I’ll go look it up

<edit> no, they’re not Seymour Duncans. Dean “Zebra” pickups, apparently

it looks well made and a quality bit of kit

its a bit minging though 😉

love the finish, sure it sounds great but it looks a bit uncomfortable, is it ?

Nah not uncomfortable at all, thinner than a dreadnought tbh neck is thin ( which suits my hobbit hands) and action is very low indeed with no buzz.

So all in i am chuffed, it was quite miraculous as the seller wrapped 1 bit of bubble wrap and some selotape on it and stuck it in the post….

Looks good. How do you know where you are on the neck without dots?

24 strings is where it is at.

Hey Tim, that’s ermmmmm wow!

LOLing hat you played a eurasure song. Never played a 12 string, is it difficult?

John drummer, that’s nice

I don’t like the figured top. willej’s looks well nice though 🙂

picking’s more difficult, but strumming isn’t. Says a drummer, what do I know, eh? 😉

Drummer? I’m surprised you can figure out how to use a computer to be honest 😛

To OP … yes, it’s ugly so use it as firewood.

I find picking easier more margin for error, ie the extra strings are skill compensators.

Bit like a specialized pitch……

@ _tom_ 😡

I’m a computer programmer with over 20 years experience. I’m a drummer with 30 years experience, and I can just about play guitar.

With the exception of Mr Grohl, how many guitarists can play drums? Properly?

ha, sorry, couldn’t resist a crappy stereotype joke 😛

I know a few “guitarist” jokes too 😉

I like Dolly Parton! 🙂

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So fred not keen on the cannondale then hmmm?

12, that’s one more than 11 so must be good.

Spray it matt black, it looks hideous. Or only play it in the dark.

HTH

I like the inlay. Nice.

If the naesayers think that twelve strings have a predictable sound then search out the music of James Blackshaw.

Mefty, I’d like hear/play that.

Not my cup of tea, but then I think flame top Les Paul’s are too much, so what do I know 😉

If you like the sound, that’s the important thing.

i like it

guitars nice enough but whats going on with the tea cosy, christmas decoration, sideboard, carpet and the wallpaper! and is that one of those air freshener things! please tell us you got the guitar delivered to your ageing mothers and thats not your house!!!

little respect by erasure

on a quilted guitar?

oh dear oh dear oh dear.

willej’s one is way way nicer to look at!

Too busy looking. The extra strings and headstock are fine, i could live with the inlays, but 1990 phoned to ask for its quilting back.

Its not a tea cosy dammit its a hat knitted by my mum.

We bloody rent, it is an auto airfreshener, this coupled with the fact that i am 34 today and we are going to the local pizzahut to meet my parents on a friday night to celebrate ffs…. does dent my rock and roll credentials somewhat…..

im doing an open mike night next week, i was thinking of closing with the erasure number, on that guitar…. Should i take poppers and sudocrem as well dyer reckon?