http://guitarcollecting.co.uk/2009/02/24/collectable-guitars-pt-20-the-gibson-mlll/ Guitar Collecting Resource Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:54:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://guitarcollecting.co.uk/2009/02/24/collectable-guitars-pt-20-the-gibson-mlll/comment-page-1/#comment-2044 derek Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:20:51 +0000 http://guitarcollecting.co.uk/?p=478#comment-2044 i have one and this guitar is out of this world. I have strats les pauls and parker and this m3 beats them all. and should be a worth a lot more. Gibson should be making more or stand behind the ones they made they are being then half of the junk thats out here now . i have one and this guitar is out of this world. I have strats les pauls and parker and this m3 beats them all. and should be a worth a lot more. Gibson should be making more or stand behind the ones they made they are being then half of the junk thats out here now .

]]> http://guitarcollecting.co.uk/2009/02/24/collectable-guitars-pt-20-the-gibson-mlll/comment-page-1/#comment-1804 BlackCatTheory Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:35:31 +0000 http://guitarcollecting.co.uk/?p=478#comment-1804 The dark red coloured MIII, as pictured, was my first ever 'decent' guitar. It was bought with a combination of money earned labouring on a farm and with a little extra help from my parents in 1990. Although, I gigged the guitar for almost a decade, I never saw another one in the flesh and, until now, haven't seen anything written about them. It's a shame as it is an amazingly flexible and well put together guitar with a huge array of sounds on offer. It's wide, thin neck make and ample access to the higher frets make it excellent for lead stuff and it sounds great for everything from blues to metal. The pickups sound a little tame compared to the modern pair of Ibanez that I use for rhythm playing, but they have bags of character, particularly as the neck or bridge humbucker can be paired with the single coil in the middle. On the downside, the Floyd can be a bit of a pain to change strings and it requires the truss rod to be adjusted and the action re-set (by my Dad) every year or two to avoid the action raising and the intonation creeping off on the A string. Mine has been confined to studio only use since around 2000 but it is the oldest guitar in my collection and one that has many memories infused into the woodwork. I have no doubt that it'll be with me until the day I die. The dark red coloured MIII, as pictured, was my first ever ‘decent’ guitar. It was bought with a combination of money earned labouring on a farm and with a little extra help from my parents in 1990.
Although, I gigged the guitar for almost a decade, I never saw another one in the flesh and, until now, haven’t seen anything written about them.
It’s a shame as it is an amazingly flexible and well put together guitar with a huge array of sounds on offer. It’s wide, thin neck make and ample access to the higher frets make it excellent for lead stuff and it sounds great for everything from blues to metal. The pickups sound a little tame compared to the modern pair of Ibanez that I use for rhythm playing, but they have bags of character, particularly as the neck or bridge humbucker can be paired with the single coil in the middle.
On the downside, the Floyd can be a bit of a pain to change strings and it requires the truss rod to be adjusted and the action re-set (by my Dad) every year or two to avoid the action raising and the intonation creeping off on the A string.
Mine has been confined to studio only use since around 2000 but it is the oldest guitar in my collection and one that has many memories infused into the woodwork. I have no doubt that it’ll be with me until the day I die.

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