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I'll add my local shop, Matchetts in Belfast. They have a website with online ordering. The staff are friendly and helpful when in-store.

Sounds really good. Well done.

I had a look on Gear 4 Music and they have a JS11 Dinky that looks similar to the one you posted - dot inlays, headstock...

Welcome to the forum

If you want a campfire-style guitar (you know the sort of thing, some good looking guy with long, wavy hair produces one at a party and all the girls start ignoring you), it's hard to go wrong with a Yamaha F-310

Thanks. Those will come in useful. I've subscribed.

Blimey, where do I start? Moving my fretting fingers fast enough, clean picking.

Welcome! What sort of budget do you have in mind?

Bienvenue!

I have seen that logo before, but, for the life of me, can't remember where.

Welcome!

I did a quick google but can't find much about them. What I did find suggests that it might be a Chinese brand.

I'm a bit confused. Are you talking about curling your thumb over the top of the neck to fret the thick E string? You say you can't hit the first string with your thumb, but that would be the thinnest string, so I'm not sure why you'd be using your thumb on it. I'm sure you know about Tony Iommi, of Black Sabbath and how he lost the tips of his fingers on his fretting hand. He made prosthetic tips and changed the way he played to accommodate it. Also, Django Reinhardt lost the use of his ring and index fingers so modified the way he played.

That looks great

I'm glad you asked.

PGM30 with an RG neck?

We're not disappointed, just angry.

I've been working on Sex on Fire, Hey Joe and Paranoid as I'm hoping to do the Rockschool grades sometime soon. I've also been having a go at Cigarettes & Alcohol and last week started on She Sells Sanctuary

Have you looked JustinGuitar on YouTube? He also has a website and does a full course of guitar tuition free. He does have a paid for app and seems books, but the free stuff will be more than enough to get you going. It m8ght even get your son interested again too.

There have been quite a few songs I've heard on the radio, in recent years and I've thought "that sounds like Nile Rodgers" and been right.

Which guitarists would you say have the most distinctive sound? Recently, I was playing one of those "Heardle" games, where 1" of a song intro gets played and you have to guess the song and artist. If you can't or get it wrong, 2" gets played and so on. I didn't recognise the song but almost immediately recognised Tony Iommi's guitar playing.

Welcome to the club Luke!

I popped in on Saturday to buy a music stand for my daughter. There was a young lad in with his dad, buying what was obviously his first guitar. Great to see it.

Ooh, I forgot all about them. They don't come with free bottles of beer though.

Two bottles of Grolsch lager. Can you guess why?