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I'd rather vow celibacy of go full eunuch than have to take a bic razor to my bawsack twice a week. Just cut them off, not worth the effort. A slight trim with the kitchen scissors twice a year is more than sufficient.

Best headphones I've ever owned are overear, wired Sennheiser cans I got for £40 in 1999. Seriously though, most Samsung tech (and just S.Korean tech in general) is way ahead of apple and other western stuff. Their bad rep mostly comes from the falsely attributed capacitor plague at the turn of the millennium and the more recently (massively exaggerated) exploding phone batteries story. I'd buy Samsung over Apple any day of the week.

Seems to be a common trope in my experience of people offering trades. "Will you trade for any for this?" "Oh no sorry, I'm not trading those ones, I like those too much I just wanted to show you all my gear" Totally get why V's wouldn't be everyone's thing. Im not even sure I like them tbh, they're awkward as fuck but I've played a few Gibson Vs that were great. Probably just nostalgia. Back in my teens I jammed a lot with a guy that had 2, his main was just like the one you were offered. Loved that guitar, can't see a red or black Gibson V without thinking of those days.

Custom Shop Tele for postage costs and import duty? Thats a good deal btw @Monkeys Fist Anyway, more seriously: did you ever bite the bullet on any of those guitars you were offered @Andrew ? Think I said I'd go for the V but in all honestly I'd be more likely to keep the Tele. Don't think I've ever bought a guitar without playing it first though, still not sure I could bring myself to after all the times I've had to leave guitar shops before doing something stupid like buy BC Rich Warlock over one one of the 50 odd Les Pauls I'd intended to buy.

In Toms defence he did say he might be able to fix it up for you for free. Wasn't @Andrewwanting rid of a Custom Shop Telecaster? It's no hassle though man. I remember offering a while back. I could probably wire in an internal switch that seriously limits the volume, tell him about that when he moves out.

I mean I totally would but I'd imagine the cost of two lots of postage on that thing is at least halfway to getting it fixed properly by an actual pro, plus the risk of more damage in the mail and. Nevermind it being the guitar equivalent of fixing an exhaust with gaffer tape and cable ties. Offer still stands though to send him a free pedal though when you think he's ready for one though @Monkeys Fist.

That's pretty much identical to mines, picked one up on Gumtree on a whim and its been my main axe for about 4 years now. Definitely worth getting fixed up @Monkeys Fist. With a proper set-up these can be great guitars.

Haha. Aye probably. Only time I've ever refused a refund was one guy waited like 4 four months and his reason for wanting a refund was "I just dont like it as much as I did at first". If you've got a soldering iron I could fire some silver solder in the post, save you buying a whole spool of it. I tried it on an old acoustic and it's held up surprisingly well (probably two years ago) but admittedly doesn't get played all that much.

Aye, contact the seller. If they tell you to fuck off just go to reverb support and they'll force the seller to refund. At least that's how it should work. Pretty sure reverb policy is it has to be reported to the seller within 7 days. If it doesn't get resolved directly with the seller you should still be able to escalate it to reverb support outwith that 7 day window but there's probably a time limit.

If it's just one fret, the cowboy approach would be to spot fill the gouge with silver solder and then level it with the frets on each side. Bit harder than other solder types, might get you a several months playing depending on how much you use it before you wore the solder down. Pretty unnoticeable too if it's done right but will wear down a lot faster than an actual fret. For what it's worth you've got buyer protection through both reverb and paypal. Even if the seller doesn't accept returns reverb will step in and basically force them to refund you if it arrives damaged or not as described so long as you report it in the first week after its delivered. Just give it a good inspection when it arrives and pray the seller hasn't done something like I just suggested to Gemmill.

I sell quite a bit on reverb but weirdly have never bought anything there yet. What's up?

Thermostats have managed this without the need for an internet connection and smart plug for longer than I've been alive man.

If you can solder you're probably only talking about £2 in parts to add a power switch to your pedal board. Totally unnecessary now since you've got Alexa on the case but might be useful if your WiFi goes down or something. Just two DC jack sockets with a switch between.

Ah okay I get you. For what it's worth I'd imagine kraken isn't heating those tubes up to anywhere near the same level a tube amp would, they'll likely be cold-plated if just they're running off anything up to 18V DC . But yeah, even with that in mind it's totally fair to want a way to turn it off to save the life span of those valves. Edit: ignore that cold-plating talk, I was talking shite and based it on misguided assumptions. Probably really wise to cut power to that when it's not in use. Those weird tubes will get fucking hot on even 12V if they've got enough current.

I'm pretty fucking sure Hendrix and Rory Gallagher got on just fine without smart plugs for their amps. Ah I jest. Actually not a bad idea, but I'm too fucking lazy to turn off my rig at the main socket so wouldn't make a huge difference. I quite like my smart-home devices but for the most part it's just for childish novelty value ("play my entrance music" etc.). Even the actual really quality of life improvements end up just me being childish ("Alexa, it's like a fucking lizard house in here/it's fucking freezing", "let there be light" "Alexa, get this cunt off my fucking telly" etc.)

Probably good advice though tbf. I'm mostly fine with timing when there's a metronome or someone else setting the beat and all I have to do is worry about what my hands are doing. It all just falls apart for me when I have to think about my technique or anything that's going on. Basically I can only play when my thoughts are occupied by "I quite like this Speyside malt, what's it called again?" and all I have to worry about is the possibility of it getting spilled. Everything else that goes wrong is the drummers fault.

It's just some cheap off-brand Chinese Ditto clone I got for like £30. The problem is me rather than pedal. One of my closest friends is a drummer and it works fine when I let him set the in and out. If I'm playing a really slow tempo or really concentrating I can usually get it bang on at least half the time, I just a drunk clumsy prick that can't get my hands and feet to work in sync. Can't work a wah for shit either. I think my feet work on the on beat and my hand on the off beat (or vice versa) which is either a curse of the whole dominant hand/dominant eye mismatch or just a convenient excuse for being a lazy bastard and not practicing. Nah I got that, just saw that description of them and thought "ah fuck. Is that me?". A bit like the time a mate of mine finally realised Neil Oliver was a bellend and I reacted by immediately going to get a haircut.

It's mad how his stock nosedived with that Barca move. There was point about a year before that my (massive Man I supporter) stepda reluctantly drunkenly confessed he thought he was the best player in the Premier League. Maybe there is some weight to the back-injury that Liverpool fans thought was a smokescreen to push through the transfer. Total shadow of his former self. Wouldn't have said he was ever close to the best player in the PL but he was class in his pomp, then just disappeared off a cliff.

Oi! I feel attacked. In my case its not really a choice though and more just being a bit slow to adapt and a proper tight bastard when it comes to buying guitar gear. If I absolutely have to buy something I'll usually look for something that I can either fix myself when it inevitably breaks or is cheap enough to replace without completely fucking the family budget. I wasn't always this way like. I can't fucking stand Dan and Mick but will admit to occasionally watching their videos just to see what rebranded pedal from 50 years ago they're shilling. The Tonebender episode with Josh Scott was actually really good though, but I'm fairly convinced they have some sort of contract with Macaris that would also explain how much they hyped up the Dope Priest (the D.A.M / Emanating Fist pedal guy now builds for Macaris). I really need to practice more with my looper, can't use it for shit unless I'm playing really fucking slow. Always just miss the click by a fraction so the loop is always off, end up just using it to record like a few minutes of something and then work out a second part over it without having to get out the laptop and load up cubase.

Thats me in a nutshell tbh. What's interesting is that I think out "metal" tastes are polar opposites. Edit: I only say that to counter the notion that "metal" is some sort of musical dead-end. Not a dig at your tastes at all.

You're not seriously trading a custom shop Tele for another Tele shaped thing with less hardware and half a paintjob?

It's ages since I watched any of his videos but aye there's something a bit off about his whole manner. Gemmill's experience makes me think he's probably more interested in shilling his products and services than actually trying to educate anyone and share his knowledge, which would be fine if he wasn't selling educational courses. I'd be fucking raging if I was in Gemmill's boat. That almost akin to an apprentice mechanic getting told to strip and rebuild his own cars engine on his first day. I was thinking less about NZ but genuinely baffled at how many lefties are on this thread.

Jesus that's a pretty damning report. I know my way around a basic setup for the most part but re-frets and neck resets are two jobs I'd definitely leave for pro's. Mental they'd "teach" someone serious work like that on a fairly expensive guitar (hope to fuck it wasn't a maple neck). Surely you practice on bit of scrap wood or an old beater neck for a while before tackling a nice axe. Would've thought a maintenance course would have consisted of just action, intonation, relief, pickup height etc and making sure you did it all in the right order to avoid giving yourself more work. Sounds like they dropped you in the deep end and didn't give a fuck if you sank or swam, knowing you'd be gone in a few days. @Andrew If it were me I'd go for the V but I do quite like the look of that white thing with the black binding, whatever it is.

I'll most definitely watch that. I get that you're in NZ (or that neck of the woods at least) but Crimson are the first UK based company that springs to mind offering "build your own guitar" courses. Can't say I've warmed to the guy tbh (forget his name, the founder with the tattooed head) but he seems like he knows and loves his craft and has a fuck ton of insight to pass on. He could be sound as fuck for all I know but I get massive Gatekeeper vibes from the few Crimson Guitar videos I've watched. Building acoustic guitars is next level though from a hand-crafting stance. Shaping and carving solid body guitars is fucking hard enough. Trying to bend thin sheets and still keep it in shape and stable under string tension must be a whole different ball game.

Well noticed @Andrew. Also the marketing doesn't mention what scale length the neck is. Could be smaller than those Paul Gilbert Mikro things. (Gonna assume if I could be arsed digging deeper I'd find it was either Gibson or Fender scale though). I'm with Andrew though, if you want it and have a spare £2.5k, fucking have at it. My only real concern would be finding a tech to sort it out when something inevitably breaks a few years down the line. The majority of good techs I know are really old school and would absolutely shit the bed if you brought them that. Seriously though, if it were me and for some reason I was looking for a midi controller I could use while playing guitar I'd be looking at expression pedals or big tactile buttons I could hit with my feet. There was a guy in a local band here hacked some old organ pedals as a controller for a Korg synth if I mind right, that would be my way to go.