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Good evening, @alpro, and ... ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Hello everyone,I've just joined cause I like fixing guitars old and newand picking up info on them. I don't play, but am learning and it surprises me just how many people love guitars,

This is interesting. I've found cheap Ernie Ball strings on ebay in the past and wanted to avoid buying them. Their price was around 5 pounds for pack. I have decided to buy strings from reputable guitar store but on ebay as well. And below I am attaching pics for you to compare. Both packs were bought from guitar stores on ebay but both packaging look different and this brings my concerns. Send picks of you strings! Look at the tonality bars and silver strip at the bottom of packaging.

(It'll be interesting to see if the final auction prices are similar or different to the given hammer prices here. Not quite sure how those work, are they start prices or reserves or something in between?)

Some nice stuff there, especially among the handful of lefties. The 15% buyer's premium up a few just enough to look a little less of a bargain than the hammer price, but yeah unless they charge very little for postage that could quickly eat the rest of the difference in price for buying a lot of the sub-£800 options new. Interesting to see nonetheless. A lot of the prices reinforce my long-held opinion that while a big brand name will definitely help sell something on the used market, proportionate to purchase price having an expensive American guitar alone won't guarantee that it retains more of its new value. Non-limited Gibsons seem to depreciate at about the same rate as Epiphones. My old American Standard Strat would notionally now, after thirty years, sell for more that I paid for it in terms of the figures, but once you adjust for inflation, I'd still only be realising about 60% of the purchase price in real terms. Were I local and had a bit of money to burn, there's a few things I'd be sniffing at there... the 74 Strat (always fancied one from my birth year). Those do actually seem to be gonig up in value beyond inflation - in the early 90s you could buy a 70s Strat or Tele for £300, while a pre-CBS Would be about £1500. Even adjusted for inflation ,both of those are far above that value in real terms now. The Godin Kingpin looks great in black (I'm seeing red and ivory pinstriping on that....). I'd love also to try one of those Hendrix Strats - I think that model was originally marketed as the Voodoo Vibe or something along those lines... Always fancied one because it was a left handed guitar sold strung right handed. Wouldn't be any work at all to have the nut flipped, another strap button added, and have it set-up as a lefty. The mirrored logo would look great in that context imo.

That's where I'd start. Seems a good idea to see if that one can be perfected first rather than going to the expense of another. Particularly given that buying from a brand with a traditional wholesale-retail business model is likely to end up with needing to pay about double what the HB cost to get something of an equivalent quality.

This set-up (though whether SD provided the hardware I couldn't say) was on the MiM Jimmy Vaughn sig model Strat. five way with the middle position giving neck and bridge instead of the middle pickup. Tone pots were also rearranged, with the middle-tone pot redirected to the bridge instead. As memory serves, the other one remained on the neck alone per vintage spec (by the time of the American Standard from 1988 on, the version I have, Fender were wiring the first tone pot to cover neck and middle both, with the second pot being a passive TBX circuit designed to cut/boost bass / treble as directed, though habitually I've always kept mine in the middle-notched 'off' position....). Lovely, soft V neck on them too. I'd have bought one of those like a shot if they'd done them left handed, but of course no dice from Fender.

I like the idea of a Gilmour switch. You can of course now buy a seven-way selector switch to add the extra two options without changing the guitar visually, though (aside from not needing to drill an extra hole in the guard and make sure you position the extra switch correctly to fit) I don't think it's any simpler an installation - just a question of preference. I'm intrigued by the idea of wiring a Strat as MV/MT with the third pot as a blender switch that sweeps across the pick-up settings, essentially doing what the five-way switch does with a sweep rather than in steps. I've not had the chance to try one, but I suspect (extrapolating conceptually from having a two-pickup P bass with two volume knobs and no selector switch) it would lead me to actually make more use of the different pick-ups for tonal selection. Then - partly in order to have the Neck / Bridge option - I would hope I could have a regular (pre-77 style) Strat three way switch added to have 1=> standard (as per the sweep pot), 2=> add neck pickup to sweep pot position, 3=> mute all. I have no electrical skills so I don't know if this is possible, but I think that would be the dream if it was. In Custom Shop Dream World, I'd also have a version of this Strat with a three-saddle Telecaster bridge. As is, when the disposable income situation improved in a year orf two, I have my eye on a blue Player 2 that I'll be looking to have at least some of this idea put on. If and when HB bring out a vintage-specced guitar (SSS) to the standard of the ST Modern Plus, I plan to buy one and experiment with having the switch pulled for a three way, wire to give 1=> bridge and middle, 2=> bridge and neck 3=> neck and middle. Effectively the only two sounds I really have ever used on my old American Standard, plus the one sound that owning a Telecaster has always made me wish a Strat had.

PRS SE of almost any description although my personal preference is the hollowbody first followed by the Swamp Ash HSH. Having said that, when I fancy a new guitar, I make one. This might sound like a dream but its happened every year for the last few years now as I've developed confidence and a couple of them are REALLY good. However I'm now caught between running out of space and not wanting to sell any. Honourable mention for the Ibanez AWD83T, amazing guitar for the price used. One of those gems that deserves more recognition once the neck pickup has been swapped out for one from the more modern Artcore range.

Here's what Andertons offer as information on the subject... Andertons Blog : Fender Standard vs. Player II vs. Squier Classic Vibe... Not quite 'chalk and cheese'; the differences are down to personal preference and budget, maybe..?

If Fender Standard series guitars are now made in Indonesia, what’s the difference between a Fender and a Squier to justify a different price?

In the process of putting together some pedals for a small board purely to provide an alternative to an amp (not an effects board in the traditional sense, I'll do that separately). The plan currently is to have my Joyo American Sound preamp pedal into a reverb pedal, into an A/B box that splits the signal to have the option of either gonig into my Mooer Baby Bomb power amp pedal, or a headphone amp pedal. Probably will put a rive pedal of some sort ahead of the Joyo as well. Question is, would there be any benefit to adding a speaker emulation pedal right before the headphone amp pedal? I won't be doing any recording at all with this, purely for having the option of a small board (likely in the region of 10"x12" or so) that I can take anywhere and use with just a guitar for personal playing, or plug into a speaker if needsbe (the Baby Bomb is rated for 30watts). An alternative to an amp on the move, or when I want headphone practice at home. Considering then acquiring one of those Vintage branded 1 x 10s to go with it as well (I have an old 2 x12" already, but I suspect that might get a bit too loud for the flat).

If that's how it runs in the US ,they'll have an easier rime of it them. Here in the UK (and I think it's similar across most of Europe), Behringer would be able to apply to have a registered mark revoked if it has not been in use for a period of five years - which is the case with the Centaur. A non-registered mark relies on goodwill / with whom the public would associate the mark in a passing off action, though I'd be very surprised if a UK court was prepared to protect an unregistered mark that hadn't been in use for so long. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out in the US. The general information I've seen is that US courts will still want usage as part of a valid TM (lack of use can undermine the validity of even a registered mark), but it'll be interesting to see if it ends up in court. Either way, both parties have clearly gained a lot of publicity in this whole affair; it'll be interesting to see if it goes all the way or just peters out.

Trademarks don't require 'use' because they are validated through rights assigned at registration. They have to be renewed periodically though and trademarking ideally should be enforced too, in order to safe guard against applications to cancel (due to lack of enforcement action). Unlike patents, trademarks can exist in perpetuity so long as they are renewed.

I'm not up on US tm law, but across UK and rest of Europe, a tm is only valid if in use... It'll be interesting to see how it shakes down in the courts.

Welcome!

Me on guitars, Keith from Canada on bass, Abo Walker from Scotland on vocals A Lil' Ain't Enough.mp3

I recorded this about 12 years ago. I did all instruments but acoustics EngineeringMixing-OmarRock-Soft_Rock_Ballad_Mix.mp3

What type of music you intend to play most?

Good evening, @otoledo, and ... ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Hello there. Was a guitar player for 30 years. Can't play as I used to due to Parkinsons, but still enjoy it once in a while. Had tons of gear throughout the years, Now I'm More inclined to using Amplitube. Anyway looking foward to chat about 6 strings related stuff. Here's a clip of me playing Crazy Train un memory of Ozz Crazy Train.mp3

Firewood - A Strat (if it's good enough for Jimi...) Weapon - a BC Rich of some sort or a Gene Simmons axe bass Play - My Harley Benton TE-62 or my Ibanez AS-73

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You have just described the last 4 weeks for me. I'm up one self build with another in the works and two opportunistic bass purchases. I have officially run out of space and now have to set a rotating display on my hangers of the ones I don't play so often. Welcome brother...