{"id":130,"date":"2002-09-27T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-27T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2005\/07\/20\/Carvin-HF2-Fat-Lady"},"modified":"2020-08-19T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T21:49:06","slug":"carvin-hf2-fat-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/27\/carvin-hf2-fat-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Carvin HF2 &#8220;Fat Lady&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carvinguitars.com\/catalog\/guitars\/index.php?model=hf2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gear\/CarvinHF2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Serial# 74700<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Fat Lady&#8221; is a wonderful product of the Carvin factory in San Diego. She&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carvinguitars.com\/catalog\/guitars\/index.php?model=hf2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holdsworth &#8220;fatboy&#8221;<\/a> model, which means a hollow body &#8211; you can tap it and hear a hollow &#8220;bok&#8221; sound.<\/p>\n<p>You get to specify your options when you order from Carvin, and I had a very clear idea in mind for this guitar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flamed maple 1\/8&#8243; top<\/li>\n<li>Ruby stain, gloss finish<\/li>\n<li>matched headstock<\/li>\n<li>Birdseye maple fretboard<\/li>\n<li>No inlays on fretboard, side dots only<\/li>\n<li>Clear satin finish on neck<\/li>\n<li>Black chrome hardware<\/li>\n<li>2 coil taps<\/li>\n<li>Engraved truss rod cover: &#8220;Fat Lady&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;d specified gloss on the body and clear satin finish on the neck, they managed to do it.&nbsp;I relocated the strap post from the back of the neck joint to the top &#8220;horn&#8221;. I think it hangs better this way. Others disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Hear the fat lady sing:<br \/>\n<audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"\/mp3\/fl_sings.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p>This little multitracked demo shows off some of the sounds I can get from this guitar, using the Line6 POD 2.0 and Digitech GSP21 effect units. The timing is a little wonky in places.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another piece featuring the Fat Lady: Greener Pastures:<br \/>\n<audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"\/mp3\/greener_pastures.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p>This solo composition is going for the warm jazz tone but the HF2 doesn&#8217;t quite want to go there. I&#8217;m perfectly happy to go where it wants to, however.<\/p>\n<p>Update: In recent years I installed a Graphtec GHOST piezo bridge in this guitar. Details available on the Carvin Forum: <a href=\"http:\/\/carvinbbs.com\/viewtopic.php?t=14714&amp;sid=6d9b3101c58b92f506d6b5626ad571c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Haunting the Fat Lady<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Serial# 74700 The &#8220;Fat Lady&#8221; is a wonderful product of the Carvin factory in San Diego. She&#8217;s a Holdsworth &#8220;fatboy&#8221; model, which means a hollow body &#8211; you can tap it and hear a hollow &#8220;bok&#8221; sound. You get to specify your options when you order from Carvin, and I had a very clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}