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 ...

Superb!

The manual for the camera:

http://www.cameramanuals.org/minolta_pdf/minolta_x-370.pdf

I was going to ask about the batteries you used, but it seems the Minolta is pretty unfussy about this?

A lot of the time, older cameras will take new batteries, but metering (and therefore exposure ...

Yep!

So you should be.

Gorgeous things.

I meant to reply to these. I like them, good shots. I suppose it's a tricky thing to get good photographs of? Sometimes compelling things don't make for compelling photographs, and you end up scratching your head afterwards wondering how you missed. But these are good! I especially like the King ...

Whoo!

Looks great, and looks like it suits your room better, which matters when it's a largish piece of furniture that your partner is indulging.

I preferred the purple, but that's mostly because I prefer daft looking things.

That's very cheap for something that has so many odd or non-standard appointments, like the weird pickup ring, the headstock shape etc.

One black, one gold, then.