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You'll need to play it loads and get your amp tone sorted and then get used to how your playing style translates to what hits your ears. You are not the only guitarist that has this issue when beginning to play electric with intent. Stick exclusively to the electric for a while until you learn...

The orange Jim Root closed back cabinet is reasonably priced, it's loaded with Orange voice of the world drivers made for orange by Celestion, they sound very sweet in my opinion. I researched that particular cabinet in respect of why it's £200 cheaper than the other Orange closed back 2x12's...

Congrats, great to see new life breathed into an old guitar. I'm glad I read this post as it got me thinking about a guitar that has been on my wall for over 20 years. It's a great sounding instrument but needs a really good set up for it to play well, so I haven't bothered with it. I think I...

Congratulations, looks like a very usable instrument. Read some good reviews about that model, I hope you get a lot of pleasure from playing it. All the best Tim

Maybe check that the strings are moving freely through the nut, apply some graphite. If still doing it after that, maybe swap tuners over and see if the problem moves to another string. Check that the string is not shifting across its saddle and hanging out of its normal position during bends...

I prefer bone because it's less brittle than plastic, it is porous and will take on board a small amount oil. Also I've never had part of a bone nut fly off adjacent to the low E string when like a total knob, I pick up a guitar by the neck and exert pressure on the strings like it did with a...

I'd certainly agree with Greg in the areas I have personal experience of here. Been having a similar debate with some friends over the last month or so about using reasonable size amps and large cabinets as opposed to small cabinets and driving small amps to within an inch their lives especially...

Well antichef, personally I'm loving the first tele I bought and wish I'd got one years ago. And as for the country assumption with the thinline, I scoured the UK for something out of the ordinary, drove a lot of miles and played a shed full. Having been totally chuffed with the deluxe, I wanted...

I've taken a few off over the years and probably been lucky, they either had a couple of pins in the bottom of the nut and a small amount of adhesive or were glued with a small amount of a superglue derivative. When I removed each of mine, I drilled two small holes into the old nuts, wound a...

This is along the lines of what I have in mind for a thinline, especially the second track. There are a couple of tele's used to pretty good effect.

I guess we all develop our own perceptions of guitar types/brands as we progress through life. Personally I got handed a few really awful strats when younger and first bought one earlier this year due to those experiences, daft really. Just always seemed that the hardware on LP's ect looked and...

Thanks Ray, unfortunately work commitments and a few other intrusions have thwarted my creative time for a while. I have a busy few more weeks and then I'm definitely hitting the studio. The Tele sound is definitely going to feature in my ditties going forward. I hope all is good with you Ray...

In that case once you've made your fillet from whichever material, take a round file to it with gusto until you have said channel :thumbs up:

Brass is pretty soft, I used files and emery paper then used a buffing wheel. I used to make brass dolphins for the girls I fancied at college while doing my engineering workshop courses, so fairly familiar with working it. There are numerous metal suppliers/iron mongers that are not too hard to...

I did this very conversion on a neck with FR locking nut. My solution, as I couldn't match the headstock where I needed to back fill was a strip of brass cut and shaped to size. I drilled three small holes into the side which was going face down just over half way through the brass, cut 5mm of...

Dimarzio, Gravity Storm pickups sound pretty good for a whole range of rock tones depending upon what else is done with regard to signal processing. I know they're a Vai spec pickup which might bother some, but they are a genuinely good option, I have them on one of my guitars, neck and bridge...

I now have my Telecaster, I got it today and really appreciate all the thoughts posted here while I was pondering which one to buy. I finally decided to go with the solid body Deluxe. I wanted single coils as I have a lot of guitars with humbuckers already, I also decided that the push button...

Thanks for that Bongolation, I've vaguely noticed the B bender option while skimming through the mountain of Tele's which are available to buy and never taken time to see what it's all about. Nope, not something I'd personally entertain in respect of hardware which could be mildly annoying. Glad...

The Taylor Swift model really caught my eye, a very desirable instrument. Seriously though, I did ponder the Angus SG with the lightning inlays, but decided to seek out a non signature standard and luckily found one which to me is an outstanding guitar in all respects. I do own two Jem guitars...

I think it depended on which way the wind blew on any given day.....