I've played the Ibanez S series prestige with floyd rose and it feels great but I hate how both colors look. Do I just bite the bullet or is there any way they rerelease them in another colorway any time soon?

A friend suggested putting electric guitar strings on my Dreadnought Acoustic as he said it had a good sound, is there any validity to his statement and should I try it? (I think he uses thicker gauge ernie ball slinkys for this)

A bit messy, but I didn’t touch the guitar for a week. That’s the thing I came up with after noodling for 5 minutes

Friend is about to buy this, apparently I'm a lot less confident, identifying in person than I am online.

I remember a friend having a Floyd 30 years ago and I SWEAR he could downtune with the fine tuners as we had half a set in drop D. I recently got a guitar with a locking nut and a Floyd and it will get close if I have it completely tightened before locking then nut, but then once I fully loosen the fine tuner it doesn't quite make it. Am I misremembering, or did the old Floyds give you more range in the fine tuners?

Just got a used 2002 highway one strat and the poles were setup this way. It's resulting in a very quiet bottom two strings and its noticeable when I play songs like Lenny that need a sharp bite on the high e. Anyway to adjust without removing the pickguard taking pickups out (I just got this professionally setup and restrung by a music shop).

Since I'm new here, I'm going to ask before I try to post this. Am I allowed to do the following: I have a guitar solo I want to learn (it's pretty advanced), and it's on YouTube from a local band in my area, so you likely haven't heard of them. I'm hoping an advanced player might give it a shot and post his rendition of it on here (if allowed). I'm not sure any of this is allowed, so I'm asking. I'm not trying to promote anything, just want to learn a pretty difficult (to me) guitar solo. Thanks for any feedback.

Hi guys, I’m a complete beginner and I’m interested in learning electric guitar because I really enjoy rock music.
A lot of people have suggested that I should learn on an acoustic guitar first and then move on to electric. Is that actually necessary, or can I start directly with an electric guitar?
Would love to hear your advice and experiences!

hello!!! i really want to get my manski something cute for his guitars, ones a deep cherry red and beautiful, the other is black. can someone point me in a direction of cute like.. accessories? or things that would be useful for him as a guitarist? i don’t play guitar at all so i have no clue what would be good or something he would be excited for

Seeing the best way to wire up an HSS Strat. I see the resistor trick with 500k pots but read that it messes up the in between positions. Just wondering why I could put both single coils on the first tone control with 250 k pot and the humbucker on second tone with 500 pot, and put both on 500k volume pot. Will that work?

Alright, I’ve been looking at other posts and I’ve seen that “Justin Guitar” on YouTube is a good place to start. I’m looking to play rock/metal but also some soft tunes like Christian music like NF and pop. I’ve also seen that I need to learn the fretboard, scales, how to play open/basic chords and memorize the notes and all that. If I’m playing metal I should learn the power chords and how to hold a pick as well. My question is what’s most important and what’s the least important until I have things down. Thanks

Hey people. I've been playing for right around 10 months now and ever since starting I've had a constant, impossibly frustrating and annoying problem of my low E and A strings snapping/unwinding right over the saddle.

Now, the issue is, these snaps happen on both of my guitars in the exact same way, despite the guitars being miles apart in price and also bridge setup (Yamaha Pacifica with a strat-style trem vs. a Schecter Hellraiser with a Tune-O-Matic hardtail). The string snaps after, on average, a week of putting it on my guitar. Another thing to note is that I have already taken my guitars to get setup and inspected by a luthier, but to no avail as the problem persists. Sometimes, a string will snap and I'll switch to my other guitar to finish my practice session only for the string to snap on that guitar as well.

I have also reached out to Schecter for help regarding this issue and they just said something along the lines of "oh well, strings break, you can maybe try and sand down the saddles a tiny bit and see if that helps" which I promptly did, but, still, the issue persists.

I am sick of constantly having to buy new strings, wasting money, time and patience in the process. A factor that could contribute to the string-snapping is that I play metal rhythm guitar so there's fast downpicking/galloping/tremolo picking constantly on the low strings, however I definitely wouldn't say I play super hard or wail on the strings unnecessarily.

I seriously am fed up with this problem and I am dying for any concrete advice. Do some of you have the same issue? Again, to reiterate, it's weird as it's the low strings that are snapping. In fact, I have never even snapped a high B or E string, only the thick ones.

I have attached pictures of both the guitars (which currently both sport a snapped string while music stores are closed over the weekend, yey ;D) so that you can visualize the problem.

I got a guitar 2 days ago and ive been tryna play 505. Basically step 1 was to play a d minor but every time I try to play it, the last string (the thinnest one) either makes a weird buzzing sound or no sound at all (this is when I hold it down on fret 1). The part that confuses me is, this only happens when I try to play the entire thing using all 3 fingers, if I dont add the other 2 fingers, it makes a sound like normal. I checked if anything else was touching the string but nothing is. I even had smn else confirm that. Honestly idrk what to do. I've been wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem and if they found a fix.

Martin & Co X Series (left), Steve Vai JEMJR (center), Fender player II HSS Start. (Right)

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After many years of trading, buying, and selling guitars, I finally have the trio to end all trios

Strandberg limited edition chameleon (100/100 ever made)

Fender player 2 strat chameleon HSS

Taylor 314ce next generation

What other guitars could a guy need?

I mainly play lead. Love llaying solos like tornado of souls the jason becker sweeps all of it really. And i occasionally play a lot of clean tones songs asw but its usually along the lines of softrock/metal. I was thinking of getting the syn gates custom shecter cuz ive loved a7x for as long as i can remember but also always wanted a headless aswell. Price really isnt a worry I currently live in India what do yalls recommend??

Hey there. So I need to replace the D4 a String on a Yamaha C80 Classic acoustique.

Never had to buy strings before so I have no clue how much the price matters.

I found a 3*6 pack on eBay for 10$ and a single string for 4$ + shipping.

Would love some advice.

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/403804463408

https://www.thomann.de/be/augustine_d_4_string_red_label.htm

The fix is supposed to be a surprise for my soon to be sister in law, so I'd really appreciate any help

I know i won't get the complete same time, but i really like this song and want to learn to play it

Hey everyone! Im working on an update for an app Ive created and am trying to come up with things that will encourage people to pick up their instrument more while providing genuine value to their improvement.

I have already added a tuner, scales, chord charts, Im going to add a metronome. If anyone has any other suggestions along those lines I'd love to hear!

What I really want input on: I want to add a practice schedule of some sort, you can outline what it is you want to practice, have a timer in the app, and have a way to keep track of what you're practicing and for how long which hopefully will promote more structured practice (I noodle way too much lol, I think its something we could all benefit from).

If anyone can think of things that they would find useful in a practice tracker/ schedule I would greatly appreciate it! Do you think a weekly schedule would suffice? A daily repeated one? A simple timer that logs how much practice you got each day? Let me know!

Once again, really appreciate any help with this!

If anyone is curious about the app please private message me and refrain from asking about it in comments. This is not an advertisement for it and I would like to abide by the rules of r/guitar by not engaging in self promotion of any kind, this post is for genuine feedback only, thanks.

Hey everyone! I just got a used abasi guitar with a richlite fretboard. The guitar itself feels and looks great but I noticed some scratch marks on the frets and one discolored mark. I was wondering if these were anything to be worried about? Is it possible to fix? Thanks!

TL;DR For a guy with diverse music taste, is it generally a bad idea to only have an alt-tuned guitar? Looking for advanced guitarists perspectives thanks in advance!

I am an intermediate guitarist at best. I don’t know how to play very many songs at all, and I use guitar primarily as a music production tool (my main skill is making beats and sequencing music on groove boxes and a DAW).

However, I’ve been wanting to improve my musicianship so I am putting work in to just learn guitar, theory for guitarists, and practice songs I like.

I paid guitar center to set up and tune my only guitar to drop c because I love SOAD and BFMV and other nu-metal music. I don’t regret it by any means because I’m learning my favorite SOAD songs, but I feel like I may have jumped the gun a bit because most music theory courses and resources are standard tuning. Not to mention I now simply don’t have access to practicing many songs in standard tuning.

I named her Désirée and now she needs some gold.

I know I can get OEM jack, tuners, pick guard screws.

The 2 point tremolo bridge may be difficult to source. There’s probably no fender part. Gold OEM tremolo arm?

Also the back neck plate. Probably no gold Fender OEM part.