What guitar gear have you bought/are you buying/will you buy?

[The Noodlist]

It’s important to be able to lean a guitar against a table and not worry about it falling over. Tom Anderson solved it with the double strap buttons and it’s weird that it hasn’t been widely adopted.

Cool tip.

[The Noodlist]

I'm not in the market for a guitar atm, though I have been trying to wear the frets out of one so I can justify buying another one. I would like to get an old-fashioned Strat style guitar with a small radius, a compound radius 7.25 to 9.5 seems to be the smallest I've seen lately. I'm not a fan of the flat fretboards.

Sire (S5) deals @Anderton's if you're in the UK.

The Sire S5 have similar specs to the Fender Player Series. The Sire new gen have rosewood available for the fretboard, just maple on the older models.

Sire S5 (old) Specifications £349.00
Body Material: North American

Neck Material: Hard
Neck Shape: C-Shape

Fingerboard Material: Hard Maple Edgeless™ (Rolled Fretboard Edges)
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5”
Number of Frets Total: 22 (2.7mm Medium Jumbo)
String Nut: Bone, 42mm width

Electronics
Pickups: Sire LC Super-V Pickup Set (S-S-S)

Hardware
Bridge: S7V 2-Post Bridge (Steel Block and Steel Bent Saddle)

Sire Larry Carlton S7 HSS New Gen @ £399 £619.00
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5~14" Compound Radius
Tuning Gear: Sire Premium Locking Tuner
https://www.andertons.co.uk/sire-s7-hss ... wood-neck/

[lfm]

It’s important to be able to lean a guitar against a table and not worry about it falling over. Tom Anderson solved it with the double strap buttons and it’s weird that it hasn’t been widely adopted.

Nothing that a fool(me) with a vacuum cleaner cannot "fix".

I had my LP in a floor stand, and on a carpet, that moved as I was cleaning, it fell over and broke headstock.

That was 12 years ago, and fix nicely with a luthier that also was guitar builder. No probs at all with tuning or anything else. It just moved as much as string tension create. Fold back with the proper glue and in a fixture for a couple of days.

Lessons learned was really: a broken headstock is not such a catastrophe, it's a myth, and don't vacuum close to floor stands.

[lfm]

Ordered one of these Gibson Modern Lite today
https://www.gibson.com/en-eu/products/g ... -red-satin


- really nice sound, but he seems to play in major key which disturbs a bit

Looking for months for what I had a LP Special SL long ago, with 490R and 498T.
- the other finishes cost $100 more so went for cheapest "in your face Red" but it's cool
- so €1140 for Red on www.musicstore.de

Aiming for open tuning and slide work, with 12" radius fretboard.
- strange enough my LP Std has 9.5"-10" compound
- the tele and strat has 9.5"

So felt a proper 12" guitar and open tuning, and have a Dunlop 232 Harris slide which is concave 15" making it easier to get clean tone over all strings without hitting fretwires than a straight slide/bottleneck.
- a shorter slide over 4 strings or so, and regular tuning is not much of a problem though
- but to dive into open tunings really nice

That's the greatness of the guitar, so many ways to use it. Regular playing controlling a string completely, whammy bar stuff and slide. Probably makes the guitar the most versatile expression tool.

[The Noodlist]

Black Dog Music is closing down and having a clearance sale. Sad to see it go, I've used it the past.
https://www.blackdogmusic.co.uk/
Up to 75% off strings (Olympia brand)

Grabbed a tremolo with a steel sustain block. £13 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373422060566 ... name=12980