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That was my first thought, but they’re 25.5” scale and spitefully expensive too.

Sounds like a very niche spec and I can’t think of anything at the moment. Have you considered headphone practise?

BOOM!

One thing to think of is whether you want your drive tone to come from the amp or a pedal driving the amp? This way you can decide if you need a twin or single channel amp. As Dad says, 100w valve amp would be ridiculously loud, I had a Fender Bassman ‘59 reissue, which was 45 watts or so and could stun small animals at only half volume! A good place to start would be to look at the tone of folk you admire and what amps they use, that way you can begin with one brand (no guarantee you’ll end up with that brand, however). Interestingly, you name Dimebag as an influence and, IIRC, he used solid state amps. That aside, some the folk you mention favour Marshall amps, so maybe start there.

It’s a different open C from The Rain Song, I think someone said C6.

Perhaps the f holes are a retro fit? They are available on eBay it seems.

Having learnt Zeppelin’s The Rain Song and come up with an arrangement that works as a shorter solo piece, I thought I’d learn this as the tuning sounds the same (it isn’t ).

It's a Stetsbar https://stetsbar.com/index.html I've since removed it and gone back to hardtail on that guitar, as my trem requirements are now fulfilled by the Bigsby on my Casino.

I used a water based, art paint for a Tele body once, worked OK. A number of folk here and on BassChat are ink users IIRC.

Easiest? I’d tune the whole guitar down a half step, giving you an Ebmin7 open tuning and go from there. When I played a lot of slide, I took the E string off and open tuned to G (a la Keef) and fretted behind the slide for different chords, this isn’t the easiest solution, however.

I just received an email from [email protected] asking if the reply to one of my threads answered my question . Given the reply was from me it all seems very strange. Is this normal?

When I bought my Fender Superchamp, it was toss up between that and the Roland Blues Cube. Given that I’ve subsequently had a little valve problem (the amp, not my waterworks, than you very much) and that the Fender is now discontinued, I rather wish I’d gone for Roland. A chunk of change more that the Boss, but a great amp, although it only has reverb IIRC. The Katana seems to be very highly thought of; probably the way to go.

Nice! I've recently had an urge to try some LPs again. Fortunately, I've managed to resist - so far. Right then, guitar sorted, what are you looking at amp-wise?* *Be aware that I am an inveterate facilitator, who likes to live vicariously through other people's GAS.

Great to see Richard Thompson get a mention.

Great score. Yamaha don’t make a bad instrument at any price point IMO.

Welcome back. BC is a problem because it’s so busy, it’s easy to forget that GC is here too. Fortunately, this has led to a more laid back, slow burn vibe here, but does mean less traffic.

That stealth neck attachment is brilliant.

I would have been inclined to return the guitar, Yamahas are normally solid as a rock, whatever price point they are and loose electronics sounds like someone has been messing around with it. Was it new?. Assuming that there are no shorts in the circuit, neck and middle will always be lower output than the humbucker and perhaps the slightly higher rated pots may be contributing to that. As to the tone issue, perhaps the taper is incorrect. As you can tell, I'm no expert and this is the best I can come up with.

Of course, how could I forget BM? Many, many years ago, Lonnie Donegan released an album with various guitar players guesting on it. You didn’t need to check the sleeve notes to see which track BM was on.

Looks like it’s been inspired by a Klein.

And I cannot lie,, All you other brothers can’t deny, Etc… From the up coming single, Brian May Got Back.

There’s a thread that was started for this kind of thing, only two posts, unfortunately. There’s also this section of the forum, only one thread, however. https://www.guitarchat.co.uk/forum/34-tutors-available/

Monty Montgomery puts his acoustic guitar through a tubescreamer to rather good effect, albeit using the onboard piezo. A fuzz pedal may be a distortion step too far though. The only way to find out is try.

Eric Johnson and Steve Morse have very distinctive tones, as does Ritchie Blackmore (or at least he did, who knows these days?).

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