Who likes their Fessy

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 7 Jul 2006 11:06 am

maybe not,sorry Winston

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Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 11 Jul 2006 9:06 pm

I got my Fessenden a few days ago, changed it to my copedent, packed the bushings with lithium grease (just one of those things I do), used it at a couple of practices, and I feel I have gotten aquainted with it enough to form an opinion of my own on the guitar.....................................
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Mike Wheeler · Post by **Mike Wheeler** » 12 Jul 2006 4:57 am

I posted a while back in this thread about how much I liked my red, S12U, but thought it needed bushings on the cross shafts. Well, I installed some, and the pedal/knee action improved a good bit...not that it was bad before, I'm just a perfectionist about mechanics.

The MAIN reason I'm posting NOW is that I just installed a TrueTone in it (it had a BL712)....WOW!!!!....what a MAJOR IMPROVEMENT!! The 712 sounded pretty good, but I wasn't satisfied with it....so much so that I was looking for an MCI S12U like I used to have! I KNEW I could get what I wanted form one of those babies. I didn't think the Fessy had the "heart" I was looking for.

Well, that little Fessy had what I wanted all along...it was just hiding behind that 712. Now, the tone is clear and bright with great lower string separation. It's got a warm sweetness...even a bit of that Emmons growl...and sounds like I could push it a little harder and it would kick some major butt!...and it does! The tone, now, is very expressive and slight changes in pick angle and attack really come thru.

If you want to hear this sound, go to Larry Bells website (www.larrybell.org) and listen to the sample of "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", from his new CD "I've Got Friends In Cold Places". THAT'S a Fessy S12U with a TT, and mine sounds just like that. (just the tone, I can only WISH I could play THAT good)

So, thanks for listening...just had to vent my excitement...I knew you guys could appreciate it.

Jimmie Brown · Post by **Jimmie Brown** » 3 Apr 2015 7:29 pm

I love mine and i have to say that it has never broken a string yet and used to own a sho-bud and it broke on at lease once a week

Andy Zahnd · Post by **Andy Zahnd** » 4 Apr 2015 9:22 am

I own a double 10 now for many years! Many people said how good this steel sounds!(BL 710) I have to say that steel is great to play, stays in tune and I was always satisfied with the sound of it... I wish Jerry does a lighter model... that is maybe the only bad part of it... the weight! The rest... just a dream!!!!

Andy Zahnd · Post by **Andy Zahnd** » 4 Apr 2015 9:24 am

Jimmie Brown · Post by **Jimmie Brown** » 4 Apr 2015 12:16 pm

Andy, If you think the weight is a little much, Try picking up a Dekley.I used to own one of those.

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 5 Apr 2015 10:54 am

awesome guitars, I used to own a purple D10 with TT pickups, it was a tone monster, and I sold it like a fool

what is here not to like???