The Guitar Guild

Yamaha C40 2.
Got her on a discount in the current Festive sale.

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Messing around with chords, on alternate tunings I can't remember them for crap. Also new strings I hate them 😒


https://on.soundcloud.com/qXUDj

i picked up a phaser pedal today, and the shop owner gave me a looper that another customer brought back. it was scratched all to hell around the status LED, and the guy said it didn’t work.

guess what? ain’t nothing wrong with it, so i just scored me a backup looper.

What loopers do you have? I used to have a jamman solo and loved it until my dog peed on it one day. Worked for a min before I noticed the smell. 😅

@ScannerDarkly: just these two Blaxx Loopers.

Unearthed some old recordings from 2019 when my guitar still wasn't broken and I could plug it into the amp. Jeez, I was a guitar God back then!

https://vocaroo.com/189Mjq9RSagc
https://vocaroo.com/198QFuPnLMXq
https://vocaroo.com/1nIbwrGOVIXH


Makes me want to buy a new guitar and resume playing with the amp.

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I've fallen off the wagon.
A week or so before Christmas, Kelly and I were at a local thrift shop that supports local animal shelters, looking around. It's a small, cozy place. Not much in the way of men's wear, but I might find a few odds n ends, from time to time. This time, however, I noticed something interesting while standing aimlessly in the back waiting for Kelly's 2-hour tour to come to an end. I saw a guy come from the back storage area carrying what appeared to be a soft, padded guitar case. Wuuuuuut? I watched as he took it up front. I assumed it was his and, as staff, maybe had his guitar with him to thumb around on during breaks. He stopped and spoke to another associate and I could hear mumbles of making sure the price was visible. dooooowwwuuuuuuuut????

After a bit of back and forth, he walked it to the front of the store, laid the atop a table, unzipped it and positioned the guitar within for attention. Then he just walked away! OMG. I ran without running to get a glimpse of what was inside. It was an electric/acoustic. A Breedlove brand. I never played Breedlove, but friends have enjoyed them so I was at least familiar. Checking the label inside the cutout, I found that it was a AD25/sm model made in 2008. Apart from a decade's worth of dust on the outside of the case, the instrument seemed untouched. Upon further inspection, I found within the case pockets a digital tuner, a Capo, three unused packets of D'addario strings, the original user's booklet stored safely in the original ziplock type baggie and allen wrench, and a small chord book for Eric Clapton Unplugged.

So, with a burden of financial guilt, I grabbed that mofo faster than the man could get back to the office.

This pic is not my guitar, but the same model I found online:

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Been working quite hard on the music front. A little indie pop here and there. Bought some new guitars too. Had to hide one from the wife.

https://voca.ro/18s1uNjGcxyp

I know this is probably blasphemy and a clear violation of the guild but... i bought a keyboard!
I do whatever i want on the guitar so i figured learning a new instrument would give me some structure. It's been really cool to have.

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Not at all.

All music encouraged. Looks a nice keyboard.

Nice, I like how the synth type sound raises in the mix for a little while around the 2m03s mark.

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to take all my...shall we say, suboptimal guitars... out from under the bed / in the closet or wherever they were and try to get them all in their best playable shape. I wasted a good 5 hours on the activity before I threw my hands up in disgust and decided I needed to get every last one of them out of the house for good. At my age, I don't need to be playing guitars that are absolute planks.

So, out went the old beat up 90s Ovation Acoustic, the bargain bin Ibanez SZ560, and my old Charvel Model A Plus.

To be fair, the Model A Plus was a good guitar, and as you will see, I ended up actually making money on it. The issue with it was, when compared to my contemporary Charvel DK II, it had too many design failings that just ended up annoying me.

Anyway, I consulted with both Music-Go-Round and Guitar Center, and surprisingly, Guitar Center had the better rate on used gear, at 60% market value. They also gave me the exact same evaluation for both cash and store credit, while MGR gave me a worse return if I decided to take the cash. On top of that, their return for store credit was only about 50% market value on used gear.

Here is the funny thing I alluded to earlier. Years ago, I traded a 1992 Jackson with a broken trem system in for the Charvel, which at the time was marked at $375. The Jackson was worth more than that if it wasn't trashed, but that guitar had been through hell and I just wanted to be rid of it. Flash forward to now, and I end up getting $600 for the Charvel in trade. Bonus! I think they offered me too much, as I see this guitar out on Reverb for between 500-700 bucks pretty regularly, but I'll take it!

After all was said in done, I ended up with $1100 bucks in my pocket. However, I certainly wasn't going to walk out guitar center without at least looking at a few guitars! I spent a good couple of hours trying out various axes, including various Stratocasters, PRS, Telecasters and the like, but really everything seemed pretty stiff and almost every guitar had the action jacked way up, almost as if Guitar Center was trying to see set-ups instead of guitars. Really weird. I was about to walk out of the place with my money when I looked way up on the top row of the used wall and spied not one, but two American Professional Strats. I asked the kid to get them down for me and hey, both guitars were pretty nice! After a bit of back and forth, I ended up with a 2023 American Professional II in pretty much mint condition - it even had little bits of film still stuck under the pick guard screws, almost as if someone had bought it, kept it for a couple of days and then immediately traded it in.

Here it is!



I kept my old case I have had from the 90s, as it has all my stickers on it, and the strat didn't come with a case. This pic is also pre set-up.

I usually set up my own guitars, but have honestly never owned a guitar with this bridge type, and I wanted to make sure the radius got set exactly right, so the next day I brought it to a local luthier, and he had it done two days later. What a total gem this guitar is - I can't keep my mitts off of it!

So, now I am down to three guitars: This strat, my 2020 Charvel DK II Dark Amber, and my mother's old 1975 Guild Dreadnought, also recently restored. I will post pics of the other two guitars ASAP.

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Thanks for listening. I made that synth pulse using Arturia Pigments.

Hey, do we have a thread like this, but for musicians in general? The Music Militia or whatever?

Snapped a quick pic of my DK2 when I went home for lunch. That was a great guitar pretty much right out of the box new, but for some reason, the fretwork wasn't quite as finished or well-done as I would have liked. I bought the fret end file and spent some time with it, and now it's in excellent shape. This guitar is able to sport super low action due to its compound radius 12-16" neck profile.

I nearly bought that last week. I'm using decent sampler with some free and paid synths atm. Plus the plugin Synth1.

That re-score is a very decent effort. Lots of time gone into that.

That nut looks insane.

I think it's the standard Genuine Floyd 1000 nut, but I would have to confirm. My previous Charvel had a Jackson 900 trem on it, and it wasn't anywhere near as stable as the genuine Floyd. This thing stays in tune for days while taking quite a bit of abuse.

I had the luthier deck the classic trem on my strat, so it pretty much operates as a hard tail atm; I don't even put the bar on it when I play it.

Nice. Yeah I rarely use my trem on my Jazzmaster. Just gets in the way.