Can you help ID this Kelly....?

[rakh1]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

NOTP - you ever thought it might be easier to buy a KE2 instead [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

R

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

Actually, I would LOVE to have a KE2 and just recently put it on my "G.A.S." list! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I fell in love with my KE3 again after not playing her for a few months! The balance is PERFECT when standing up, although I prefer my Soloist when sitting down.

[kuerbo]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

I think yours is like mine, KE3R from 1997. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

He didn't mention that it had a reverse headstock, just the reverse sharkfins, I think. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[rakh1]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

kuerbo:
Yeah - apart from the reverse hedstock it looks the same....except mine was black of course!

NOTP:
Sitting down - with a Kelly...nononononono [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

R

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

Well, I've adapted the Kelly shape to my sitting practice sessions, and it's not so bad. I sit on a padded "doctor's waiting room" chair, so I put the big wing up against the back of the chair to stabilize it and I sit nearly sideways on the chair, basically a normal sitting position but rotated about 45 degrees clockwise. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[rakh1]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

I used to slip it over my left leg (rather than right) and hold the neck up high. Meant the neck was stuck way out - ok for high up solos but not so good for crucnch and chords.

Damn I miss my Kelly - can't wait for my KE2 to turn up!

[Number Of The Priest]

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That's why I love it!!! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Soloing, I find, is MUCH easier when your hand is in line with your shoulder or beyond, but not any closer. With Strat-style guitars, the guitar sits too far to the right, so the 24th fret is where my kidney is, which I find too cramped to solo on.

[kuerbo]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

I dig mine a lo too. I changed the stock thin sounding Jackson bridge pickup for a Kent armstrong and now it rocks!. I tune her to D with 10 - 52 Dean Markleys.

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

Dude, same tuning and same gauge strings on my KE3 as well! It was like it was MADE to be in that tuning with those strings. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[kuerbo]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

I know! It rips!, i'm gonna post a sound clip in the MP3's section for you to hear mine. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

I recorded this a year ago using the KE3 during a time when I was busy sculpting out new guitar tones, but it was before I put the EMGs into the guitar and I hadn't tuned her to D yet:

Iron Maiden - "The Trooper" sample cover

I haven't got around to recording anything since then. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[kuerbo]

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It says "file not found"...

[Number Of The Priest]

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Oh crap, I forgot. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I have to upload it somewhere else. OnlineRock suspended a few of my accounts a few months ago. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I'll do it tonight... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: Can you help ID this Kelly....?

My KE3's serial number reads "J 012096" on the back of the headstock.

And my song link (click here).