Lets look at our guitars thread

[foreright]

Johnspex said:

What wood is that?

The top is solid flamed maple - the base of the body is Ash.

[gazza285]

Been playing out tonight, not gigging obviously, but the first time in our band room for a while. Not properly though, our drummer is still self isolating as he is in the “at risk” group.

[EarlofDrift]

Another restoration completed, the customs are great guitars for very little money unless you have £3k for a Gibson equivalent. Kept the Lucky Cat sticker which in the current climate is now probably deemed racist.

[rsbmw]

Looking at luthiers for a custom build I'm considering and came across Stone Wolf Guitars, holy moly

http://www.stonewolfguitars.com/

[Stan the Bat]

rsbmw said:

Looking at luthiers for a custom build I'm considering and came across Stone Wolf Guitars, holy moly

http://www.stonewolfguitars.com/

Agree with you, looks awful.

[rsbmw]

I'm not big on the shape or the colours of that particular one, but the craftmanship is absolutely immense.

[vladcjelli]

Happy new guitar day to me!

Been dithering over SGs for a while, saving up towards an epiphone.

But impatience, and realisation that I’m not good enough to spend money on, coupled with a guitar in the hand is better than an epiphone in the bush leads me to this -



For the money, I’m really quite pleased with it. Not had a massive play with it yet, but from what I’ve played, I can see little to complain about.

Cheap guitars FTW.

[Lucas CAV]

It's a wonky SG!

[Stan the Bat]

vladcjelli said:

Happy new guitar day to me!

Been dithering over SGs for a while, saving up towards an epiphone.

But impatience, and realisation that I’m not good enough to spend money on, coupled with a guitar in the hand is better than an epiphone in the bush leads me to this -



For the money, I’m really quite pleased with it. Not had a massive play with it yet, but from what I’ve played, I can see little to complain about.

Cheap guitars FTW.

There is a long discussion re HB on " STRAT-TALK."

Conclusion seems to be that they are real bargains.



Here is link,

https://www.strat-talk.com/threads/harley-benton-g...

[vladcjelli]

Lucas CAV said:

It's a wonky SG!

Not going to lie, it put me off for quite a long time.

Then swallowed my pride, looked in my mostly empty wallet and said fk it.

[Don Roque]

It's really just the offset ESP Viper body shape that was popular around 16 years ago, matched with the aesthetic style of a proper SG. Given the utter crap that Gibson make these days, the HB probably isn't that far off the real thing.

[JaymzDead]

Don Roque said:

It's really just the offset ESP Viper body shape that was popular around 16 years ago, matched with the aesthetic style of a proper SG. Given the utter crap that Gibson make these days, the HB probably isn't that far off the real thing.

I was going to say similar. I have an ESP LTD Viper to which I've added Seymour Duncan pickups and CTS pots and I'd go so far as to say that it will knock spots off a Gibson SG standard.

[Don1]

Not added much here over the last year, so decided to spruce up an old favourite. My first Gibson. An SG Junior, purchased in 2011 I think for not much. It's OK, but a little bland. So over lunchtime, it went from this:


Via this:


To this:


Cost: £2.99. I feel very happy for that

[tuscaneer]

rsbmw said:

Looking at luthiers for a custom build I'm considering and came across Stone Wolf Guitars, holy moly

http://www.stonewolfguitars.com/

i found out about these guys because of a signature model they made for dan tompkins of tesseract... lovely looking things and sound great...

https://www.od-guitars.com/

[rsbmw]

They look very well made, but a bit pointy for me! I'm very partial to something made with a collection of special woods, have been following this guy for a while - https://barlowguitars.com/ - only problem being he's US based

[tuscaneer]

rsbmw said:

They look very well made, but a bit pointy for me! I'm very partial to something made with a collection of special woods, have been following this guy for a while - https://barlowguitars.com/ - only problem being he's US based

nice!... shuriken are worth checking out too... owned and developed by the guitar geniuses in 12 foot ninja......

i wouldn't be too worried about it coming from the states, i recently got a schecter 7 string delivered from california with no issues

[suthol]

Liam at Bilgola Guitars does mighty fine work, also build a very nice Cobra replica that is up to the standard of his guitars

https://www.bilgolaguitars.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVocBY1DpU

Edited by suthol on Saturday 4th July 13:15

Edited by suthol on Saturday 4th July 13:18

[Aces_High]

I can recommend Patrick James Eggle - v nice and helpful to deal with and fabulous build quality. If you like different woods, he’s the man. Mine has a bog oak fretboard...apparently super-old wood. Lots of options to choose from and the guitar plays so well (unlike me)

I would post a pic but it keeps going on its side and I’m not techie enough to rotate it...

[elanfan]

I really should get this sold as I’m a poor guitarist and it belongs in the hands of someone that can play it properly (a cheap o Yamaha will do for me).

A 1978 Ovation Glen Campbell electro acoustic

Edited by elanfan on Saturday 4th July 20:23

[Mastodon2]

foreright said:

I just pretty much finished up my latest build - a second Strandberg 7

Congratulations on the work, but it's not a Strandberg if you made it yourself.