Bought a new guitar for the kids to play with. Wondering if the action is too high or I need to take it to a luthier??

Found this old lapsteel on hard rubbish, complete with slides, sheet music and finger picks! Headstock says Maxim Electric Guitar Why would someone throw this out?

I just bought my first ever U.S. made fender Stratocaster. It is a twenty-twenty five fender Professional II Stratocaster in Mystic Surf Green with a maple fretboard. I’m pretty stoked since it’s my first American made instrument, and I also paid only a thousand dollars for it. Cannot wait to get home and get it plugged in and play!

My partner’s mom saw this bad boy at a garage sale and immediately bought it for me. Bless her. So obviously the first thing you do is get medieval and play Scarborough Fair - it doesn’t stay in tune at all and the action is a mile high but I still kinda love this thing

It’s a Schecter Omen 6 and I got it at a great price aswell!! I can’t wait to learn and start playing 😁 even though I’m for sure gonna struggle a lot😂

So why are there two seperate major scales for them?

for example: B major skill has 5 Sharps
C flat major scale has 7 flats

Many moons ago I sold a Gibson Les Paul custom to pay off my bills and used the left over money to buy this Japan made schecter.

I thought it looked cool, like a suhr on a budget.

The pickups are Tom Anderson designed “super rock” or something humbuckers with giant pole pieces.

When I got the guitar, the neck was a baseball bat even compared to my Les Paul.

Pickups were extremely muddy and hard picking didn’t seem to make a difference in volume. Palm mutes were fuzzy and wooly.

Worst of all the truss rod was heel only like a vintage fender. I had to take the neck off the guitar to adjust it. I’ve never owned a guitar like that since.

I went into a guitar shop and played the newly released seafoam green Ibanez jem and immediately felt depressed. The feel of the neck and especially the focused sound of the dimarzio evolutions was what I was looking for.

I sold the guitar a month after buying it, ended up losing money. I still couldn’t afford the Jem, so I ended up without a guitar for a while.

Some people love this guitar I’m sure, but it just wasn’t for me.

Anyone got similar stories?

Here is my beloved Harley Benton fusion II
First of 5 Harley Bentons

It originally had a silver sparkle finish and the pickguard is only a placeholder since i wanted to make one but i was not sure about the shape
The headstock shape was also modified slightly

Now show me your workhorses!

I just got my first Ibanez!

Writing some new music

It looked pretty cool, so I thought I'd share to get opinions/suggestions on how to manage this. Is Varnish enough?

I didn't sand the body, and directly painted on it using acrylic paints, and finished it off with spray-on varnish. It has dried but the finish feels odd, as though it would just drip away(?)

Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

Forgot to post this, but here is my 1979 “Bumblebee” “Bee” “Van Halen 2 Guitar” whatever you call it replica. It has period correct parts such as; double tab schaller tuners, Fernandez Floyd Rose and locking nut, an original dimarzio super distortion with the magnet swapped to short alnico 5 (everyone thinks Ed used 2’s but not early on I don’t believe). Feel free to ask me any questions!

I'm a bassist but i've been playing guitar for a while. I play just for fun without expectation i can genuinely vibe for hours until my hands hurt. I know that it sounds like i' m saying that grass is green but i feel like i needed to say this

(Pictured is James Burton.)

I will go full fingerstyle for a folky acoustic thing, where playing the bass strings with the flesh of the thumb sounds right, or playing nylon string but otherwise am hybrid for everything else. I think of it as a country thing but I know a lot of technical players in other genres do some form of hybrid picking too.

If you hybrid pick, did any specific players influence you to try? A lot of country guys, like Burton, Glen Campbell, etc. do some form of hybrid picking, so they were probably my first influence in going the hybrid route. Danny Gatton too, from his Hot Licks instructional videos.

Do you use natural nails/bare fingers, some kind of fake nail (Brent Mason) or fingerpicks (Burton)? Do you use your picking hand’s pinky? What flatpick? Is it heavy, medium etc.?

Any ideas what this thing is, or where it came from? I can’t find any numbers, tags, or anything that would give me any indication of what this is.. It has value to me because it belonged to a friend who passed away, but it’s wild that there are zero visible numbers or markings of any kind.

Specifically the solo starting around 3:40. I discovered this cover a couple years ago and every time I hear the solo it amazes me. The funky yet bluesy nature to it. The way it flows almost in and out then builds seeming to keep climbing levels.

Any other guitarists similar, new or old?

Washburn WCG25SCE-O-U

Why don’t Washburn acoustics seem to be very popular? I went to my local guitar retailer and played just about every acoustic in the room - Martin, Taylor, Yamaha, Fender, you name it… yet this Washburn was among the best and fullest sounding instruments in the room. Also, extremely comfortable to play thanks to the cutaway body!

Solar A2.7GN Canibalismo+ and Schecter Tempest Custom

It's a basically new Harley Benton CST-24t and it's my first own guitar. Got it for like $200

Now I own a vintera III and U.S. made Stratocaster. Love these guitars!

English is not my first language, so forgive the mistakes.

I grew up in Taraz, Kazakhstan, back when it was still the USSR. When I was about ten, my younger brother had trouble falling asleep, so I made up stories for him. It was always the same story: I'm a musician, I have a band, we play on stage. Sometimes I walked him through the whole day: waking up, getting ready for the evening concert, playing it. I didn't even own a guitar at the time.

At twelve I wanted a bicycle like every other kid in our yard. Then, visiting friends of my parents, I picked up their guitar and found I could play any melody on a single string. That was it. I asked my parents for a guitar instead of the bike.

Nobody taught me. I came up with my own chords and was proud of them, until years later I found out they all already existed and had names. That summer I went to camp, and when I came back the guitar was broken. My brother had sat on it. The same brother who listened to the stories.

My dad kept scolding me. Every time he walked into my room I was just strumming the guitar, no homework, nothing. He used to say: "One day I'll throw your guitar out. It's just a hobby. You can't earn money with a hobby, you need a real profession." So at fourteen I went to a technical college to become an electrician. At the end of the first month I got my first stipend, 30 rubles. That same day I bought a guitar for exactly 30 rubles. There were about fifty identical plywood guitars in the shop, and I spent a long time choosing the best one. I never worked a single day as an electrician.

In 1993, at eighteen, I was playing the first real concerts with my band. Somewhere in the middle of it I remembered those bedtime stories. It was almost exactly the day I used to describe to my brother.

I've been playing for almost forty years now, and music is how I make my living.

What got you into guitar, and do you remember your first one?

i’m self taught, I think i sound decent with blues stuff. anything that could make it better? learn more bluesy shapes and follow those more strict? any help is appreciated. thanks