Be Excellent To Each Other

I've just switched to Elixir Nano-Web 12s on my acoustic. They sound quite lovely, but the slightly slippery coating takes a while to get used to. They come in individual paper sleeves, like all the other strings I've ever bought, and cost about £13.

Yeah, that's where I'd seem them. Figured I might as grab a couple of packs so he's got a spare too. Will get him 9's, cheers guys.

Tell me more about this slippery coating. I am both confused and intrigued.

It's some sort of coating that supposedly makes the strings last longer, avoiding rust and keeping their tone. The guy in the guitar shop swears by them, but I'll have to see. They're slightly more slippery than regular strings due to the coat.

I got this Hb-35 for Christmas. It was mad cheap and I love it. Heavy, though.

As every excuse the carpet, five and a half years I have disliked it.

But the carpet is complemented by the axe and amp. Surely that was worth waiting for.

(Not sure about the footwear.)

MaliA, good choice! The 335 shape is so tasty.

I bought a Harley Benton Tele. This one.

When it arrived I didn't like it at all. But I polished the frets and adjusted the neck (first time ever!) and it became my favourite guitar. It's odd because it's a Tele shape (with a lovely brown/red detailing on a black body) and it has two humbuckers and a trem. It also has locking tuners and a nut that stops it going out of tune. It's a joy to play now and just achingly gorgeous (which is my main criteria for a guitar)

I also have a 335 shaped Ibanez. It was cheap, very beautiful and it plays great with no set up. I'm going to switch out the tuners for some locking ones because that's a real luxury.

I love hollow guitars. That's mainly because of the guitarist from Killing Joke (who died recently unfortunately) and because during Covid I decided that just shredding and whatever isn't all that impressive and so I've been trying to learn jazz which is super rewarding but also THE HARDEST THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.

Argh. Gibson have made the nicest looking guitar of all time. It's an ES-335 (the same shape as Mali's one above) but in a purple burst finish.

It's also much much much more than I'd ever consider spending on a guitar.

https://www.guitarhouse.co.uk/shop/gibs ... imited-run

Cor, I like that.

I'm being completely rubbish at the moment. I've got three electric guitars (a shreddy Ibanez, a ES-335 type Ibanez and a Tele shaped Harley Benton) and I sort of feel like I should maybe get rid of one but I love all of them equally. So then I'm thinking I should at least tune them all differently. E for all the jazz stuff I'm trying to learn, Eb to maybe play all the old songs I wrote for band in the 90s and D to start learning a lot of Killing Joke riffs. But that'd involve ranking the guitars into some sort of order of preference and I can't. So they're all in E. I really need to stop being a knob about it.

I've also got a smart guitar thing. It's an acoustic that looks like it has a phone screen built in. I waited ages to buy it because it was double what I've ever paid for a guitar before. But I liked the idea of being able to pick it up and start looping parts without needing an amp. Thing is, I just don't really enjoy playing acoustic very much. So it's not getting used and I could feasibly get 600 for it.

Sounds like you need to buy more.

Hahah yeah probably. The thing is in the last few years I've become something of a minimalist so have three electrics and a clever acoustic is just too many for my delicate sensibilities.

I'm now at a point where I own zero CDs, DVD/Blus or physical games.

LOL. It ended up going for 300 so I took quite a financial hit on this. But in 18 months I probably picked it up 10 times, so really it needed to go.

I think part of the problem is that I don't really like acoustic guitars. It's taken me 37 years to realise/admit that. They just don't speak to me as much as an electric guitar. Like even a really nice acoustic is just a bit meh where as I can coo over good looking ultra budgety cheap guitars all day.

The idea with the smart guitar was that I was learning jazz and I thought it'd be good to lay down a jazz chord progression as a loop and then start practicing my scales/arpeggios/block chords etc. And also it was going to be the guitar I take into the garden. But we've not really had a summer this year and that's not been how I've been practicing jazz. So it's time for someone else to enjoy the guitar.