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eoinzy · July 2020

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monquixote · July 2020

Getting a string end stuck about an inch into your finger.

drofluf · July 2020

It not sounding how I imagine it should sound.

HAL9000 · July 2020

Pot metal
Trussrod adjuster at the dusty end
3TSB

Stevepage · July 2020

Neck dive on an SG. Completely ruins an otherwise excellent guitar for me. That's why I've never bought one but love playing them in shops.

fastonebaz · July 2020

How Floyd roses are so stable when tuned, yet so time consuming to get in tune and set up initially. Such a juxtaposition.

PC_Dave · July 2020

Anything Les Paul

hollywoodrox · July 2020

fastonebaz said:

How Floyd roses are so stable when tuned, yet so time consuming to get in tune and set up initially. Such a juxtaposition.

I know, I’ve got mine dive only with some mahogany behind the block so it’s easy peasy

Woodenhead · July 2020

Volume knob been too close to the bridge pickup (I'm looking at you Mr. Fender), my fault for anchoring my picking hand, I guess.

Dropping a plectrum, where do they go?

Pabcrane · July 2020

Custom shops

ICBM · July 2020

Woodenhead said:

Volume knob been too close to the bridge pickup (I'm looking at you Mr. Fender), my fault for anchoring my picking hand, I guess.

I don't anchor my hand at all, in fact I flail about like a demented ape

, and it's right in the way for me too - I'm constantly bashing it with my knuckles. Strats should have the volume control about an inch lower down, and only one tone control.

What *really* pisses me off though... is the ridiculously regressive, pointless, Luddite return to archaic mechanical switching for pedals, when the problems it causes had been solved by the mid 80s - until "boutique" pedals came along and reintroduced them.

Why does it piss me off? Because it means there are loads of otherwise really cool pedals which I just won't even consider buying because they have a crappy metal mechanical switch (or even just a 'soft' imitation of one).

fretfinder · July 2020

What grinds my gears is why you put a capital G on Guitars!

rossi · July 2020

Not being able to afford a strat in 1960.Still never actually bought a new Fender Strat though have partscasters

aspnet · July 2020

n+1 that never ends

A natural ability to make a guitar play even worse whenever I try and fix something that's bugging me

skunkwerx · July 2020

Not having more time to play them!

dazzajl · July 2020

Inconsistency and off days. I accept that they’ll happen to me, I’m a deeply flawed human(ish) person thing. But I’ll swear they happen to guitars and amps too. One day you feel like you’re in a groove and it all clicks, the next you can’t play and/or nothing sounds right.

mattdavis · July 2020

ICBM said:

Woodenhead said:

Volume knob been too close to the bridge pickup (I'm looking at you Mr. Fender), my fault for anchoring my picking hand, I guess.

I don't anchor my hand at all, in fact I flail about like a demented ape , and it's right in the way for me too - I'm constantly bashing it with my knuckles. Strats should have the volume control about an inch lower down, and only one tone control.

What *really* pisses me off though... is the ridiculously regressive, pointless, Luddite return to archaic mechanical switching for pedals, when the problems it causes had been solved by the mid 80s - until "boutique" pedals came along and reintroduced them.

Why does it piss me off? Because it means there are loads of otherwise really cool pedals which I just won't even consider buying because they have a crappy metal mechanical switch (or even just a 'soft' imitation of one).

@ICBM if they’re getting annoying, there is this great brand called Boss that are getting really popular. In fact they do a stonking Multi-fx called an ME-50 which I reckon would be right up your alley...

:-)

(PS I agree).

LPManic · July 2020

One day I sound like Paul Davids and then the next day I sound like Marty Schwartz.

BlueStrat · July 2020

It not sounding like David Gilmour’s, despite having the same word on the headstock

Jimbro66 · July 2020

Guitars leaving the factory with badly cut nuts. Far too many of them. Surely it can't be that difficult or costly to do the job properly?

mattdavis · July 2020

What really annoys me is the fact I seem incapable of playing strats properly. After years of Teles and LPs I just can’t get them to balance properly, sitting or standing, and the whole process just becomes too conscious. Probably just need a few more 1000 hours..

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