Love it.

I think my tastes are getting more traditionalist, which is disappointing. I used to like cool stuff.

That looks great. I really like the brass screws. I'd be tempted to diverge even more from typical Fenderishness and go for gold speedknobs.

I'd also want to wire it like an Esquire, but that's because I like switches and stuff.

I've had high frets on cheap guitars before and I've usually sorted it by putting something to protect the neck (an off cut of wood, or even a book) over the fret and firmly tapping it with something heavy.

That could be cool. Or, even better, they could all end up being insufferable bellends that you get to slag off to your CHUNK/Damaged Goods pals, which is half the fun of being in a band in a scene anyway.

It is essentially an office to be honest, haha, so not exactly the most rock and roll environment. It kind of looks like a classroom, in fact, so maybe that's what's freaking you out!

100% this.

Simultaneous anxiety about not being able to find the beat and trying to explain to the HR person ...

Freddy V-C wrote: Sun May 18, 2025 10:27 pm We moved into our new temporary (???) practice space today, andit has natural light. I literally don't think I've regularly rehearsed somewhere with natural light in over a decade!

Haha, yeah, that looks really weird to me and I think it's the natural light.

I'd have thought so, with the caveat that it depends on the size venue, depends if you need crystal cleans (which I assume you don't if you're playing a Marshall in the first place), and it depends on the sound reinforcement available.

I'd expect 20 watts valve to be pretty loud, and if you needed ...

Class! This thread has me itching to go out and shoot some film.

Lovely. That neck nearly looks like roast maple?

I've read good things about the pickups. £250 is an absolute steal!

Thom wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 8:01 pm

Progrockabuse wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 12:02 pm I’ve seen some of the sire stuff and I’m quite intrigued.

I got a sire P bass a couple of years ago and it is top notch.

Oh? This is relevant to my interests! Which one?

Lovely things, but the price is too high. I know that it's not 2007 anymore, but I can't get used to Squier's being this price.

I have a modest pile of birthday money that I've saved from a couple of birthdays/Christmasseses and I'm about to make a purchase in the next month or two. I'm sort of ...

Just checked if Sire made a goldtop, they sort of do. But it's not wraparound, and the finish is less gold, more metallic-pish.

Haha, all the cool guitars in this thread and that's where you land!

Forgot about Eastman.

Remembered also about Sire. I'm close to buying a bass, but by all accounts their Gibson type guitars are excellent too. I suspect that they're currently underselling to get a bit of recognition and that you'll pay more for them in three, five years' time.

You said you wanted humbuckers or P-90s, but my other thought would have been to try to find a really good Tele. Compliments the strat, but probably covers a lot of the same ground. In fairness, a good Tele covers a lot of the same ground as most guitars, a lot of your favourite Les Paul sounds are ...

At least one. Think he might have had one that he got second hand, then one a custom one that that he specced up with a comedy baseball bat neck.

I've always wanted one, but LPs aren't quite enough my style for me to spend the money. For some reason they fit alongside Matamp in my head as being as ...

Or yamaha SG 1000? For LP but not dull vibes.

Some sort of Gordon Smith double P90'd single cut LP Junior would be where I'd be aiming.

I like it, I think. I know what you mean, though, about scoffing when they first came out. There's something a bit awkward or cringe, but they also look awesome. One of those guitars that I wish I could look at through through the eyes of 14 year old me, when I'd just focus on it being a Jazzmaster ...