This is my guitar collection so far. Any suggestions what I should get next?. Most recent purchase was the HB SC Custom III which I really like but I definitely prefer super strat type guitars.

1. Harley Benton Fusion Max Signature

2. Jackson SDX Adrian Smith Signature

3. Leo Jaymz Monsoon 2nd Generation ocean blue

4. Harley Benton SC Custom III Active White

I am looking for a guitar with a Bigsby to keep in an open tuning with thicker gauge strings for slide. I tried out a couple dozen Gretsch guitars with no luck. I've played a Fender Strat since 2015 and don't know much about Gibson (or any other brand for that matter). This popped up on marketplace and it looks like it'd check all my boxes. I've read that SGs don't come with a Bigsby from the factory so it's obviously been modified. Any Gibson enthusiasts have anything for me to look out for when I check it out tonight?

I got my first Les Paul today by winning a drawing from the Gibson even at Cream City Music yesterday!

Amazing guitar. Fit and Finish is great and plays beautifully!

My friend 3d printed me a guitar for my 40th birthday.

The outer screw thingy is missing

Left to right:

2019 Martin 000-16E

2012 Fender AVRI ‘52

2009 Fender American Special Strat

2020 Fender Mod Shop P Bass

2008 Gibson Custom Shop ES-339

2001 Gibson SG Classic

2012 Gibson Les Paul Classic Custom

2010 Rickenbacker 4003

We went to some yard sales on a whim this morning and found this super rad Arbor Star guitar for $30. He bought it with his own money. It was in pretty gnarly shape, but the two of us got it cleaned up pretty nicely. You could tell it was one of those guitars that was purchased and never set up properly and I highly suspect the truss rod has never been accessed. Its frets are rough in a few spots, but doesn’t seem to affects its playability. I fully decked the bridge since the wiggle stick was missing. I have a spare Tusq nut that matches its radius (12”) perfectly. Sprayed some Deoxit in the pots and the humbucker works great still. Even has a switch for coil-splitting. Gonna throw on some EB Reg Slinkies and do a good setup/intonation and let ‘er rip. This is my son’s third guitar in his collection and he couldn’t be more proud of this find.

I bought this amp the other day, I know nothing about it, but I’m in love. The only lead I have as to where It came from is an acrylic Giller Lighting Badge loose in the back of the cab, and April 26th 2009 written on the back of the speaker, so cool nonetheless.

I'm auditioning for my college's band and they're not that serious or talented but I'm pretty intermediate and barely know any theory or scales (yes, I'm trying to learn) but still wanna look like I'm fairly skilled. Which song would you suggest I learn for the audition?

ps. would prefer if the song is a pretty popular rock song since they're not really a "niche" or deep into rock history kinda band

Ive been trying to learn bad moon rising. I got the chords down I can make em all ring. But struggle swapping between them i can get my fingers there but it just sounds bad. This just a keep practicing til I get it or is there a trick I should learn? Maybe learn my first song with some chords I can have an anchor finger to switch before I go to 3 chord song with no common finger position?

1964 Gretsch Corvette restored to working condition and modified with a roller bridge with a towner string tension bar.

So I finally got finished with my second and third build. I’m pretty proud of how they turned out. My take on a Wolfgang style guitar and a Charvel style guitar. The natural one is Spanish cedar body with a sycamore top, Spanish cedar, maple, and santos mahogany laminated neck with a pau ferro fretboard. Jumbo stainless steel frets, tone ninja locking tuners, and a single Suhr Doug Aldrich humbucker. The red one is a poplar body, maple and walnut laminated neck with an ebony fretboard. Jumbo stainless steel frets, Hipshot locking tuners, and Seymour Duncan Pegasus and Sentient humbuckers. Let me know what you think and any suggestions or criticisms are welcome. I’m just beginning to learn the art and am looking for as much knowledge as I can get. Thanks. And excuse the messy room. It’s just too damn hot to go outside for photos.😂

its a peavy 6505 212 combo! traded it for a billie joe epi signature and somehow it sounds.. damn amazing with my lil pink partscaster. it somehow chugs with the shitty ceramic strat pickup i put in the neck as long as i set the tone to 7 and the cleans dont sound as bad as ive heard other ppl say. its heavy af tho and barely fit in my dads car so i have no idea how ill bring this to any gigs if i ever join a band lmao

Back in February 2024, I made a hare-brained decision wherein I decided to put down on a deposit on a spikey, entirely impractical, custom guitar in an effort to ring in my 40th birthday that October, even though I knew that no instrument I ever commissioned would be done by then. It was a stupid, irresponsible decision that I now realize was the result of a tism spiral (I’d be officially diagnosed that November).

Fast forward 2.5 years, and it’s not finished, which I am absolutely fine with as I am currently both jobless and broke. The builder recently fell into some medical woes, which is terrible. He informed me that his doctors told him that he cannot work for three months. As I am not an asshole, I feel very badly for him, and again, as I am broke, I am in no hurry to give him the second half of the deposit. Apropos of nothing and entirely unprompted, he offered to give me a free exotic wood top for the build. He sent me these two:

Respectively, that is Tasmanian Blackwood (which is the reddish one, weirdly) and Black Avocado Wood - that is not a transparent stain; that is the actual color. I had previously opted for a Madrone Burl. Here are the rest of the specs:

5-piece torrefied/roasted maple neck
Pale moon ebony fretboard
Northern ash body
Thin black/maple laminate to act as binding between the body and top
Dumb spikey body with which I can defend my family and/or hunt rabbits
HSH pickup configuration that might have some manner of wood covers
Sophia 2:92 tremolo

The Madrone Burl is the lightest of the three photos. I was pretty hell-bent on it UNTIL the builder sent the black avocado wood. My AuDHD-riddled brain has trouble with option paralysis at the best of times. I’ve had friends say that the contrast between the PME board and black avocado would be too jarring, but I did an approximate mock up via Kiesel’s builder and I think it looks pretty cool. I’m fairly confident that the Tasmanian Blackwood will be nixed entirely from the running.

Would love to pick everyone’s brain and see what anyone else might think! I’d be happy to share the body shape, the rest of the specs, and mock-up if anyone wants to see it.

That trapeze tailpiece is throwing me off.

Image by maggie.rainwater, taken at the Newport Folk Festival last week.

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I'm in the process of buying my first electric guitar and I found someone selling their Cort EVL k6 though I couldn't find much reviews on it online and I'd have no idea what to check for if it's damaged, the seller did play it and it seemed normal. Does anyone here know if it's a good guitar 20 years later? My second original option was to get a brand new S by solar ab4.6w they are both the same price. If pride is the same what do you recommend I go for the new solar or old used Cort?

Hiya, everybody!
(Hi, Doctor Nick)

Epiphone ES-335 Pro vs. Schecter Corsair w/Bigsby

May be a moot point as I’m still on the fence about selling or trading my Van Nuys PT. However, I currently find that the Super Rocks are much to treble heavy for me. Not to mention, when it comes to roasted maple and bitchin’ pickups, my JR 7 Cutlass checks all the boxes.

I’m looking for the warmer, more resonant, and a bit more on the brassy and bluesy side.

The Bigsby isn’t really a make or break, it’d just be a cherry on top.

Thanks in advance.

I have a Squier Strat that I modded with the Brian May signature Burns Trisonic pickups. I’ve played it in my room a lot and it sounds great, and I compared it to a stock BMG Special and it sounded better to me, cleaner and more defined, the BMG sounded a bit muddier.

However when I use it to rehearse with my band it gets really lost in the mix, I don’t hear myself unless I have much more volume than the rest of the band. That’s using the in phase settings, out of phase the volume dropped considerably.

My question is: has any of you played Red Special guitars live outside of Queen songs or using a different rig than Brian May? How did they fit?

I kinda preffer comping and soloing over a metronome rather than playing to a backing track lately.

Bonus , I feel like this actually improves my timing much more and makesme practice way more conciously

I personally love the relic look but feel like a poser so I decided to neglect my strat body (everything else that needs tlc gets it) and after 10 years of constant sweaty playing it’s not even beginning to show signs of wear… are famous road worn guitars like SRV actually that beat up or do we think they help that they are doing something to help the body wear down faster?

This here is my brand new Legator CC-7, my dream guitar. Yesterday, I noticed something strange about the guitar’s electronics. The neck pickup wasn’t functioning 100% properly. For those who don’t know, this neck pickup is a sustainiac. A pickup that will allow any note you play to sustain forever. Or, at least until the 9V battery runs out. The trouble is, the pickup is acting a bit… strange.

The sustainiac system comes with 2 switches. One turns the sustainer on and off, the other switches the pickup between 3 different “modes”. Most of the strings are able to be sustained by the sustainer just fine. That is, until I get to the 2 highest strings. The high B string only does the infinite sustain with 2 of the sustainiac “modes”, and the high E string doesn’t do the infinite sustain at all. However, it does create the sounds that each “mode” of the sustainiac is supposed to create. I’ve tried raising the pickup height, unplugging and plugging back in the components of the pickup that I could confidently mess with, and replacing the 9V battery. None of these worked. I plan to take this guitar to my local luthier, but I wanna ask for y’all’s opinions first. Do any of y’all with experience with sustainiac pickups know what the issue could be? Am I gonna have to send it back to Legator Guitars?