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On the positive side it does of course give me a good excuse for my poor technique
I joined on the advice of @CasperCaster after lurking for a while. Found it a useful resource of knowledge and information with some fantastic threads on building and assembling. I have few nice guitars but in order to get the next one, I usually have to sell something first. After selling a nice Gretsch I've been through a good few guitars over the last couple of years, with some dealings on the very forum.
Despite attempting to reduce my collection I now have more than ever and am about to get one more having bought one of the teles from GSP's Black Friday sale (build thread to follow - however I will be outsourcing at least the finishing of the body as this is just too nice to not get the best finish I can).
I'm Graham, a former copper and now FREE lance music journalist and photographer/videographer. If anyone reads Blues In Britain they will have seen me pretty much every month for the last 3 or 4 years.
I just combined my 2 loves of photography and the blues to make a really great hobby. I average about 100 gigs a year including 2 or 3 festivals
I'm here to hang out and maybe meet up with some local musicians (South Staffs area). I'll add to this post after I've had more time to look around the forum.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
The Ethical
Well, the blue light was my baby, and the red light was my mind.”
Robert Johnson
I'm looking for NSA fun with hot chix but I think the odds are against me (and indeed anywhere else)
The forum meet ups are great fun and I have made some good friends here.
Seems like a better method of looking for pre-owned gear that I was actually interested in rather than having to trawl through 10 Facebook marketplace groups.
My feedback thread is here.
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I found this site whilst looking for ways to set up my guitar, the site looked interesting so decided to join.
I've decided to learn to play a guitar after wasting my life working...
I'm now retired , so have a bit of time on my hands to dedicate myself.
Not finding it easy though, fingers not as flexible as they once were.
The main reason I decided to start now:
I was given a Santos Martinez acoustic by a neighbour and after a few tuneless noises decided it would be nice to actually make some real music, so started looking at You Tube for inspiration.
One of the first things I became aware of was a thing called 'SET UP' and just how NOT set-up my guitar was.
Looking at the guitar the nylon strings near the top (the NUT) at the first fret are about 1.5mm and at the 12th fret about 9mm this makes the playing hard on the fingers - I had thought that it was me until I read a few articles about playability, etc.
My guitar has no truss rod, so I can't move the neck, (the neck is straight though) the bridge has the bone and I think that's the only movement I can alter.
I don't want to wreck the sound because it actually sounds nice and suits the music I want to play ( soft gentle country / folk finger picking) so some ideas would be welcome especially from those 'who been there etc' and got the tee shirt.
I have also now acquired an electric guitar, a cheap Jaxville which also needs a good looking at but sounds very reasonable considering it's pedigree.
Thanks if you've stayed with me this far.
All the best
George
@Oletimer Try these: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/1516/10-questions-we-ask-everyone/p1
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/23/introduce-yourself/p1