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Guitar & Music Book Stand COMBINIATION SMG1 – Music Bits Company

I've never used this company. I just found it after doing a Google search, so you might want to research them, if you were to buy from them. I'd say it would probably cost you nearly as much to modify an existing music stand, if not more, than it would to buy one. I'm not sure what a "combiniation" is.

Welcome Alpro!

Welcome!

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

Welcome!

You could get a Fender Standard for that budget, or my local guitar shop has a Fender Player II Fender Player II Stratocaster, Rosewood Fingerboard, Polar White – Matchetts Music

On 30/06/2025 at 15:33, repoman said:

I've currently got three budget electric guitars.  I've never cared about getting anything fancy as a player as I believe you should be able to shred any guitar.  They're all playable these days.

 

But I don't want three electrics.  So I'm looking to consolidate down to one really decent guitar.  Somewhere in the £500-700 range.  Something I can depend on for a decade or two.

 

My three guitars now are:

1 - Harley Benton Fusion Tele (which looks gorgeous and has a tremolo).  I love it.  It never goes out of tune ever but it's a bit clunky to play.  I've never been able to get the neck perfect.

2- Ibanez AS53.  Gorgeous but doesn't stay in tune very well.  No trem.

3 - Ibanez RGsomething or other.  Nice and shreddy but heavy and no trem.

 

I'm looking for something that looks good (so no Strats), has a trem (pref. non locking nuts) and good for everything from shred to jazz.

 

Any ideas?

 

I'm drawn to the EVH guitars but they do have locking nuts on the trem ones.

 

Have you ever thought of taking the Fusion to a guitar tech to set up? Maybe they can get the neck closer to the way you want it. I'm surprised that the AS53 doesn't stay in tune. I have an AS73 and it stays in tune pretty well - just the occasional slight tweak needed. I would imagine it has the same hardware as the AS53.

Welcome Simon!

Welcome. Your Cort looks very similar to my Ibanez AZES40. Good luck with it.

Welcome Chris, from the Belfast direction.

On 30/05/2025 at 12:23, EdwardMarlowe said:

Eeps. Be interesting to hear what it sounded like.... if he'd played it anyhow and it had sounded good, the web wold be full or people arguing about how best to melt the wax in your pickups, and what tonal difference it made to do it with them still in the guitar, whether to let the wax stay on the sound board because mojo tonez....

Pick up manufacturers charging more for special tone wax 

Not what you think...yikes!!

“Well this is a first…”: Guns N’ Roses guitarist Richard Fortus says it was so hot in Saudi Arabia that his pickups melted | MusicRadar

Sounds like a real bargain. I had a quick look on Reverb and other Cox Classix electric guitars are selling from about £150 second hand. Obviously, they aren't covered in stickers with repainted headstocks, but your is now in the same condition after a little work. Well done.

You can get a pretty good Ibanez new for that sort of money, so you should be able to get one of their higher spec models for the same price, second hand. hard to go wrong with a Yamaha too.

Excellent !

That's a new one on me

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Welcome UD.

Welcome Kai.

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Nothing.  Don't really need anything. 

Welcome Dewayne. How long did they wait before he could come down from the tree? 

22 hours ago, Rosie C said:

For me it has to be Ritchie Blackmore and his stratocasters. As far as I can tell he has at least two - one which is a pale natural wood finish, and another which is painted an ivory colour. 

 

 

I always associate him with the white/ivory one.

I'm another one who doesn't like gold tops. I just don't really like gold in general. I've nothing against PRSs, though. My guitar tutor has a couple and they sound great.

Welcome Rosie