Guitar Thread

[fineslime]

the ibanez semi hollows are pretty cool. i always have one on my wishlist at thomann to keep tabs on price and availability. but... for a mere hundred bucks more you'd be in the financial zone for a starcaster or guild starfire(budget edition).

also i watched and read a bunch of comparative reviews for semi-hollows for around 3-500, and gretsch seems to be universally loved. those guitars look almost like the top tier models, just have cheaper electronics that still do a good job.

personally i just fell in love with this starfire. it jus looks so cool. i love the scratchplate design:



https://www.thomannmusic.com/guild_starfire_i_dc_vintage_walnut.htm?reload=1

This video sold me on pulling the trigger when I got mine. Someone mentioned early about a time machine and kicking your own ass for selling a guitar... Welp, this would be mine.

[Banned from the room]

Does any one else play baritones? I love my baritone, and Ibanez RG60. Its everything I want for playing heavier styles of music. I don't need or want extra strings, so the thicker gauge strings + longer scale make it perfect. You can do lots of palm muting and fast picking on the lower strings and really dig in with your picking cause the strings are nice and taut.

From time to time. My guitar player Swid plays one of those extended scale Explorer by that brand that recently got smashed by Gibson.

Can't think of the name rn. Beautiful top. Looks like koa but it's something else.

When I grind I use my old Ibanez S. It's so sick but needs a set up. I tune drop a. Have been since like 98. That instrument somehow can handle it really well. Sounding amazing in all my releases.

What I need now is a shorter scale instrument. With a single p90 or stacked p94. Bolt on neck preferably in case I wanna swap that shit.

[thanksgiving]

anyone have experience with warmoth necks? any advice? or general advice for building a partscaster. thinking of getting a squier body for like 30 bucks and just building the best guitar i can out of it

cheers

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anyone have experience with warmoth necks? any advice? or general advice for building a partscaster. thinking of getting a squier body for like 30 bucks and just building the best guitar i can out of it

cheers

where can you get guitar bodies cheap like that? thats what i need

[thanksgiving]

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anyone have experience with warmoth necks? any advice? or general advice for building a partscaster. thinking of getting a squier body for like 30 bucks and just building the best guitar i can out of it

cheers

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where can you get guitar bodies cheap like that? thats what i need

marketplace is probably the best move. just search electric guitar or squier and wait it out for a bit til someone sells a guitar their kid never used. or one that broke and they dont know how to fix it

alternatively, this isnt bad: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/256026796757?hash=item3b9c62e2d5:g:5gcAAOSwPgNkAB~5

[manysnakes]

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anyone have experience with warmoth necks? any advice? or general advice for building a partscaster. thinking of getting a squier body for like 30 bucks and just building the best guitar i can out of it

cheers

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where can you get guitar bodies cheap like that? thats what i need

The used instrument store by my house has a bin where they always have a bunch of Strat bodies in various states of disrepair for $20-50 depending. I don't know if there's anything like that wherever you are, but it's definitely a thing.

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thanks yall.

i gotta build two guitars. one for smashing one for playing

[Banned from the room]

I dropped the hammer yesterday. BJA epi LP JR in the mail!!!
Just in time too. My LP standard has post lean in the tail piece. Now i gotta pull plug and redrill that shit. Anyone ever do this before?

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Jericho Guitars. That's the baritone Explorer Copy i was thinking about. Fucking beautiful top.

[Coastal Fever]

Speaking of Explorers, when I was young I begged my parents to get me this Hamer Slammer and they did.  They shouldn’t have though because I never committed to learning on it, and eventually traded it to my friend for his 7.5 ATM complete with Indys.  Shit deal on my part, but I did become passionately obsessed with skateboarding for the next 10 years so there’s that.

[Banned from the room]

Speaking of Explorers, when I was young I begged my parents to get me this Hamer Slammer and they did.  They shouldn’t have though because I never committed to learning on it, and eventually traded it to my friend for his 7.5 ATM complete with Indys.  Shit deal on my part, but I did become passionately obsessed with skateboarding for the next 10 years so there’s that.

Thats killer

[Willie]

Speaking of Explorers, when I was young I begged my parents to get me this Hamer Slammer and they did.  They shouldn’t have though because I never committed to learning on it, and eventually traded it to my friend for his 7.5 ATM complete with Indys.  Shit deal on my part, but I did become passionately obsessed with skateboarding for the next 10 years so there’s that.

I think I like that more than a real Explorer. There’s something nasty about it.

[manysnakes]

I recently learned that Gibson came out with the Explorer and Flying V because they saw the unusual (for the time) shape of the Stratocaster and thought “I guess guitar buyers want some fucked up shapes. Let’s make some fucked up guitars to rival Fender.”

[Banned from the room]

Got a guitar coming today. Wait till y'all see it

[Banned from the room]

Boom! This took forever to get. Now I just need to fix my other guitar and I'll have 2 to play out

[Frank]

hell yeah, i love white guitars and lp juniors. the coffin for it is sick, too.

hope it plays as nice as it looks!

[Banned from the room]

hell yeah, i love white guitars and lp juniors. the coffin for it is sick, too.

hope it plays as nice as it looks!

It's going very very well so far. I just gotta adjust the bridge height and I'm gold

[fineslime]

just discovered Matteo Mancuso today... he plays with such precision and oozes jazz rock fusion soul. discovered him through and Instagram reel and I've been digging deep since. his tones are perfect.







someone to definitely look out for.

[Coastal Fever]

Daaamn that guy is really sick!  Speaking of YouTube wizards with impeccable tone, I love watching this dude’s videos;

[rawbertson.]

man guitar shit is expensive
i figured out how to hook up my 15w guitar amp + my 30w bass amp together and it actually sounds really sick like that. dont have a bass player will just be me and my friend so i figured might as well use it. i was watching a video of Japandroids a 2 man band from BC and the guitarist had a huge wall of amps, that gave me the idea.

was like "man i could upgrade both to like 50w versions of each for like $700" lol it is so easy to go down that rabbit hole realll quick. i suppose i would get some trade in value on those old ones too though. but that is still quite a bit of money to throw down for me right now and i am hardly ever turning these past volume 3.

heres what it sounds like:

https://youtube.com/shorts/noatM93vQl0?feature=share

[Plan9Customs]

Not mine but spotted at a show last night:

[Banned from the room]

Cut all the bass tracks today on demos. Software is crazy. I'm like a 4 - 32 track person. It's cool tho.

[Frank]

Not mine but spotted at a show last night:

actually my plan for a pedalboard as well!

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Not mine but spotted at a show last night:

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actually my plan for a pedalboard as well!

I'm biting that shit

[Andmoreagain]

thats really clever but I feel it would tip over no? Easy enough to add a third offset brace I guess

[Plan9Customs]

If you look close at the pic the trucks are set so it’s triangulated. So no on the tipping over. Kid had a brain on him.

[IUTSM]

Just scored an MIJ squier strat for 50 bucks at a yard sale. E6 serial, so its a 37 year old guitar. Other than a scratch, its clean clean clean lake placid blue. Sounds reallllly nice and the neck is sexy as can be. Super stoked. Compared to the artcore ive been playing the quality of the whole guitar is night and day. Ive got a 90s MIM HSS that i kind of don’t like, its just too hot and ive beeen contemplating making it a traditional SSS but this MIJ takes care of that

[Frank]

Just scored an MIJ squier strat for 50 bucks at a yard sale. E6 serial, so its a 37 year old guitar. Other than a scratch, its clean clean clean lake placid blue. Sounds reallllly nice and the neck is sexy as can be. Super stoked. Compared to the artcore ive been playing the quality of the whole guitar is night and day. Ive got a 90s MIM HSS that i kind of don’t like, its just too hot and ive beeen contemplating making it a traditional SSS but this MIJ takes care of that

wow, those things go for a lot nowadays! last time i checked reverb, which is overpriced anyways, those 80s squiers were from 600-1000 bucks.

[IUTSM]

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Just scored an MIJ squier strat for 50 bucks at a yard sale. E6 serial, so its a 37 year old guitar. Other than a scratch, its clean clean clean lake placid blue. Sounds reallllly nice and the neck is sexy as can be. Super stoked. Compared to the artcore ive been playing the quality of the whole guitar is night and day. Ive got a 90s MIM HSS that i kind of don’t like, its just too hot and ive beeen contemplating making it a traditional SSS but this MIJ takes care of that

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wow, those things go for a lot nowadays! last time i checked reverb, which is overpriced anyways, those 80s squiers were from 600-1000 bucks.

No kidding. I knew the MIJ are good, perhaps better squiers than 90s standard MIM strats, but I didn’t realize they were valuable! Regardless, im happy to have it to play around with. I was thinking i may have had to take it apart to check electronics but its not going to be necessary. Got a nice tweed case at the junk shop for 20-30 bucks a while back thats needed a guitar. Sorry. Not trying to boast or gloat, just hyped on an $80 80s fender and hardcase.

Only found it cuz i was teaching my
Partner to drive stick shift on a street instead of parking lot for the first time. What a day!

[manysnakes]

I think that anything Fender which was made in Japan now carries a certain cache. Congrats on that score, that’s a goddamn keeper.