Also DigiTech has a pedal called Trio that will play a bass part and drum part along with your rhythm track you put in the pedal!
Hopefully he don’t sell it to someone else,have to sneak another guitar into the house
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My last purchase was a Taylor gs.mini. it has a koa body, built-in pickup, preamp and tuner!
I just have to remember to unplug it each time I use it or the batteries die and they are a bitch to put back.
My tip is to keep it fun. Learn songs as soon as possible, even the world’s simplest tune. Learn songs you like.
It takes time, so keeping yourself motivated and doing it regularly is key.
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I’d you like grateful dead the YouTube guy i posted will play along with the tabs in the video and its all grateful dead or jerry Garcia band tunes. It makes it easier
I thought this would make a good enclosure for a amp, $10. OK it is bitterly cold out, the roads are treacherous, just drive slow and leave lots of room from everyone else. Seems others had the same idea, it was not bad, only one idiot in a truck blowing past the rest of us and ending at the same stoplight as us. But that is besides the point.
I thought adding a couple more knobs and an input jack at the bottom would be cool. Maybe the tuning dial as a VVR. But I wait 20 minutes for the guy and finally get in. He has it plugged in and playing. It sounds fine. There is a couple of scuffs on the case and the back corner with a little chip, but it looks really good for its age. It has a schematic stapled to the bottom, too bad a section of it is missing. A 50L6 output tube and a 12AV6
The inside looks pretty pristine. I just took a swipe at the surface with a tissue no real dust to speak of, the asbestos looks factory fresh.
Thought of having a volume, tone control, input jack where the tuning dial is. Maybe a Marshal 18 Watt circuit. I could shelve the chassis, build my own to fit in place. But I wanted to do more with it, do not want to drill holes in it as it is. This thing is a museum piece. I have another one downstairs that is not quiet as well cared of, think I will use it instead. Oh well, another piece of equipment to stick on the shelf. Just pulled this one down. I know I will not build it yet, too much to work on as it is. But I have to have new stuff to dream about.
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A few of my girls. Some have gone, more have come. Love em all. Play campfire acoustic more than anything now, but I still like a good megadeth or metallica/Pantera thrash about every now and then 
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Finally finished it. Not pretty, just gave a couple of coats with some spay cans of ordinary paint I had in the garage. Eventually will build another, hopefully lighter, with humbuckers. I like single coils but hate noise. But this one does the trick for now, just a hair over three pounds. I have pain issues and the less weight to the guitar the better for me. The weight of a normal Telecaster or Stratocaster hurts me, I also need the bevels of the Strat otherwise the contact areas hurt me also. Now I have something I can practice with. One unforeseen thing, the acoustic output of the guitar is louder than normal and the amp has to be turned up more to drown it out. Not a great hardship though.
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I bought these thinking I needed to replace the jack,fuxer ended up fixing it without having to replace the jack 
Bought a little soldering iron as well
Lol
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Well now you need to build a new guitar to use your jack in.
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I didn’t play my guitar for a couple of years
Because everytime I plugged it in made the loose wire sound lol
I just needed to bend the clip the jack plugs into and now it’s fixed lol should of checked it years ago
I can’t even build handpans at the minute I don’t have a work space anymore it’s sad
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On the plus side jack connectivity is one of the easiest repairs you can perform yourself. There’s usually enough wire in there to give it a couple of tries.
One can spend ages chasing fret buzz, or a weird resonance that only occurs at specific pitches because an extra screw got lodged under the cap of the tone knob at the factory.
The bloke I bought the guitar off had gigged it so it’s setup nice his a few nicks on it,but it’s a beautiful guitar I’ve owned it few years old guitar I keep from selling Epiphone deluxe
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I changed the nobs to black and silver mite be tile for a set up been a few year just bought some 10 guitar strings to try out was using 9’s
With the black and silver eBay specials guitar came with the nice strap lol
The kids think I’ve covered what guitars I need lol,use to have a lot more but I’m down to this an a acoustic till I learn to play better
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Silver is a classy look, better compliments the rest of the hardware.
Those schaller style strap locks are fantastic too, nothing more secure for the stage except maybe going full Van Halen and strapping in with a carabiner.
I stopped using them after a few loud squeaks while recording. Now I prefer to live dangerously.
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I put strap locks on all my guitars use to be little music store round the corner from me ,closed up during the first lockdown didn’t open up again it’s a pity
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Is that a Hagstrom dressed in red in the back? I can’t make out the headstock logo.
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It is! Good eye! It’s a 1969 or 70 (can’t quite remember) Hagstrom viking v1 with the deluxe head. Got that given to me by my uncle who bought in New in 1970
I always wanted a Hagstrom Swede. I noticed the headstock shape but couldn’t make out the lettering. But the Viking was always a great contender for the ES335 crowd. I bet she plays like butter. Those old guitars have magic in them. Nice rig man.
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Yea it’s got a really wide but thin neck, with low action, plays like a dream. I really should play it more, ugh, not time
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I like the color, nice job!