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

[vurt]

The Relish Mary one is also pretty neat, same price again. Swappable Pickups. nyway sry, so many choices.

i like that, because it doesn't look like everyone else's.

[Hink]

The Relish Mary one is also pretty neat, same price again. Swappable Pickups. nyway sry, so many choices.

i like that, because it doesn't look like everyone else's.

I am curious about the bolt pattern on the neck, is it the same dimensions as Ibanez (same pattern), I kindsa like an Ibby Wizard neck

[pekbro]

The Relish guitars are pretty cool and advanced. Woven bamboo fingerboard, thats nuts. They have some nice entry levels for around 1k euro as well. They are nicer looking than the Mary One imo, where the super nice ones are about 3500 eu. Mostly its the wood colors. Still, ouch.

I'm not fond of having to put a battery in a guitar as I tend to forget them. The LAG i have uses camera batteries, which is preferable to the 9 v imo. The musicman has a pre-amp so it uses 9v too.

https://youtu.be/AtN1GSsWLBQ

[WatchTheGuitar]

I use 9v in the tuners built into my acoustics, very handy, especially the one on the 12-string because it'd be a nightmare otherwise

[pekbro]

I have forgotten them in my acoustics, screws up the pick up if you dont catch it. I don't use a tuner myself.

[vurt]

I have forgotten them in my acoustics, screws up the pick up if you dont catch it. I don't use a tuner myself.

some of these lot, dont use fx (i know ) like us, so they "tune" the instrument.
never seen the point meself

[Uncle E]

Here's a Japanese Fender Strat with heavily upgraded pickups and tuners for $476. Seems like a crazy good deal:
https://www.ishibashi-music.jp/category ... rrency/USD

Here's a Japanese Fender Strat that is basically their version of an Yngwie Malmsteen signature model for $1,031, complete with Dimarzio hum canceling single coils and a scalloped fretboard. FWIW, the real Yngwie signature model is one of the best guitars I've ever played:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284595429186

Here's a completely bizarre Japanese Fender Strat that is wrong on so many levels and yet I love it. If it reminds you of a Fender crossed with an Ibanez, that's literally what it is (made at the Fujigen factory):
https://reverb.com/item/50699151

Here's a Japanese Fender Strat with an upgraded bridge pickup and a really cool color combination for $545:
https://www.ishibashi-music.jp/category ... rrency/USD

Here's a Japanese Fender Strat with EMG SA pickups (really great!) but an awful finish for $597:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/194223554921?c ... 1&mkcid=28

[pekbro]

Alright, now with the guitar out of the way I can start thinking about an amp. Can you say Dr Z!
Down the road of course...

[Uncle E]

Did you get the Suhr? If so, you could get a matching Suhr amp. I like the Hombre and Guitar Center has a used Corso for a decent price:

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Suhr/ ... 7592588.gc

I have a MAZ 18. Nice amp, kind of like a brownface Fender with Reverb. Used prices have gone up a lot, though. It's a good amp but it's not a great amp and it's certainly not a $2,000 amp.

A great amp (better than the MAZ 18) that I completely regret selling was the Mesa Blue Angel 4x10". I think I sold mine for $800. Impossible to make an amp that good for that price now. The alnico speakers alone would cost $3-400.

[pekbro]

Did you get the Suhr? If so, you could get a matching Suhr amp. I like the Hombre and Guitar Center has a used Corso for a decent price:

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Suhr/ ... 7592588.gc

I have a MAZ 18. Nice amp, kind of like a brownface Fender with Reverb. Used prices have gone up a lot, though. It's a good amp but it's not a great amp and it's certainly not a $2,000 amp.

A great amp (better than the MAZ 18) that I completely regret selling was the Mesa Blue Angel 4x10". I think I sold mine for $800. Impossible to make an amp that good for that price now. The alnico speakers alone would cost $3-400.

Well, I whimped out on the Suhr heh. Made a low offer on this G&L Blues Boy custom and it was
accepted. A bit of a compromise, about $1k less than the suhr. Locking tuners, custom paint and hard case basically.

[Uncle E]

Cool. JRR's guitar tech, John Toner, used to be the master builder for G&L. His workbench was next to Leo's. Great guitars and those individual brass saddles are killer.

Right after Leo died, I was in George Fullerton's office admiring guitars and he had the first prototype of the Leo Fender commemorative guitar. But it had a mistake on it, it had the years Leo was alive written on it and they accidentally wrote his birth year wrong. So while I was there, a guitar collector walked in and started offering George money for that guitar. $10,000, $20,000, $50,000! Unheard of money for a guitar in 1991. George kept turning him down, he refused to let the guitar leave his office with that mistake on it, and indeed the collector left that day without a guitar in his hands.

[pekbro]

Cool. JRR's guitar tech, John Toner, used to be the master builder for G&L. His workbench was next to Leo's. Great guitars and those individual brass saddles are killer.

Right after Leo died, I was in George Fullerton's office admiring guitars and he had the first prototype of the Leo Fender commemorative guitar. But it had a mistake on it, it had the years Leo was alive written on it and they accidentally wrote his birth year wrong. So while I was there, a guitar collector walked in and started offering George money for that guitar. $10,000, $20,000, $50,000! Unheard of money for a guitar in 1991. George kept turning him down, he refused to let the guitar leave his office with that mistake on it, and indeed the collector left that day without a guitar in his hands.

Cool, "Toner" seems like an appropriate sir name

I appreciate your assessment of G&L guitars, and the cool story. Living in Hawaii I don't have access to that kind of workshop or history. The only guitar maker I ever met was Steve Grimes who lives here.

https://grimesguitars.com/meet-the-maker/ Not really a solid body guitar guy.

[steepwave]

Bought MXR microamp, i thought it would be kinda useless, but i learned that John Frusciante uses it, and I tested it out, omg, it's the key to sounding like frusciante

[Bombadil]

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[The Noodlist]

Diggin the new KVR Dark Mode.

A passive re-amp box now that I have a dummy load box. They should be back in stock in 2-3 weeks. A combination input makes more sense with most audio interfaces using TRS line outs.
http://orchid-electronics.co.uk/Amp_Interface.htm
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/or ... -interface