I wish people would not buy cheap crap for birthdays or X-Mas would be better not to give anything.
I’m coming back to report on my progress with my daughters guitar (which was a X-Mas present years ago from her mother)… I have sore finger tips but that isn’t the problem I can not tune the 3D string for the life of me (hence the critique) and it sounds like pooh when I get strumming. I don’t think I’m even going to last a week let alone 2 weeks at this rate. Due to other priorities no way will I buy a new guitar. 
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Agree entirely.
There must be a million kids who have dreamt of being Hendrix or Slash or Clapton who have been presented with some shitty mass produced Chinese plywood guitar and told “If you practice and get good at it we will buy you a better one” Well here is the news - most kids will not persist with a box of shit that will not stay in tune and looks like a middle school carpentry project. It ends up under the bed gathering dust until it is given to some other poor unsuspecting child.
It’s the dream they are chasing and cheap nasty guitars turn that dream into a nightmare. Better to wait and save and buy them something at least semi-decent.
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I’ve got over it, blaming the tools at my age is just a way of relieving frustration but I agree.
I decided to ignore the sound and the inability of tuning the damn thing. Got on the internet and found some easy stuff to try and play, decided I needed a refreshers course and found a good video that took me through (very slowly I might add) what a friend showed meover 30 years ago. Just getting those fingers in a better position did wonders fpr my ego and enthusiasm. Even strummed a few cords and even if it didn’t sound like the chap in the video it made a sound that was resembled the cord I was attempting. 
I actually dont mind it. Again I’m drawn to Charvels slightly understated style. The colour is a bit in your face but otherwise initial thoughts are it looks fine. But do some research on the pick ups and trem system just to be 100% that they aren’t bottom of the line stuff.
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ooh I’m going to dial into that today. There’s something about fine woodwork that I cant get enough of. Might be a calling. 
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It is a slight gamble as I’ve tended to shy away from tele’s but then I cant shake the feeling that when I did get my hands on one it was the most comfortable and easy neck I’ve ever played. It felt right. It also ticks so many boxes such as my P90 “experiment” and a slight lean towards a Les Paul style. Plus being brutally honest I need to own a Fender or two. Maybe I wont like them but I think everyone needs to take that step at some point to find their home base. I honestly dont know what mine is yet and it probably changes over the years to be honest.
Knowing my luck its probably a 54 Les Paul with P90’s and a price tag of £40k.
Anyway, I need to get some stuff on the market now to sell and you are increasingly pushing me towards getting my little home workshop together.
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That could be a really easy fix. Have a look at the nut and see if the string is sticking in there. If it is it will be a pain to tune and keep in tune.
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Thanks I had a look. The string wasn’t 'trapped, so I unwound it ‘trapped’ it, rewound it and hey presto I have a tuned guitar sounds ok. 5 mins of fiddling 2 secs to tune.
Um. It supposed to run freely through the nut. If it gets stuck any movement in the string pings free and you lose tuning.
That said the tuners on cheap guitars are not great and dont hold the string very well. Resetting the string has probably helped so good news either way.
get playing!!
I disappeared into myself for over an hour again last night. Far too late going t bed again. God help me when the new guitar arrives.
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It was at the capstan the string was ‘free’. It made lots of creeky noises before I fiddled (I supose that was at the nut) after the ‘repair’ no creeky noises.
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My Guitar tutor (Ive spent more time looking at guitars than playing the fucking thing last 10 days)
Gave me a task of playing a song and making the chords more interesting to give it a slightly different sound - example 3 finger G Power chord - on Bottom E string fret 2nd and 3rd frets with ring and little finger and when playing lift the little finger off and on to give the chord a different sound.
It was a pain at first. So used to playing the Chord with fingers not moving it took a while to get used to added 4th finger then moving 1 off and on.
Got there in the end and now my Poison Fallen Angel sounds complete.
Bidding on one of these…
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yep, sounds like you’ve sorted it.
This is why I’ve been advising @Walshy07 to be careful with the tremolo systems on the guitars he’s been looking at. As the complexity goes up the risk to tuning stability also increases. Even more so with floating tremolo’s where the whole thing is literally balancing on a knife edge.
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One of my favourite G chord iterations is really simple. Standard G but dont place your first finger on the 5th string. Mute the 5th string with your middle finger. Open power chord juiciness.
Doing the pinky thing with D chords is next for you. D, Dsus2 and Dsus4 chords all by taking fingers on and off that standard D shape. Bon Jovi’s Dead or Alive, Brian Adams Summer of 69 and from memory I also thing Guns n Roses Patience all use it along with a host of other tracks.
I’ve also started looking at pedals but in all honesty I’m pretty stuck on where to start and how to set up a little pedal board. I’ve got a good idea what I want but how I get there I’m utterly clueless. Do I need it? Probably not but it’s toys right.
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Nice guitar and great price. But the colour isnt for me.
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These are brilliant! You’ll recognise the sound from many historic tracks, think Jonny Greenwood uses one for Radiohead. Should go to the wire though. If you miss out, any hard clipping ‘Colorsound’ design o/d pedal wont be too far off. Its a classic tone.
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Love the army drab in fact a custom offset Fender design I have in mind is going to be this colour. Love it, its super cool this one!
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Its not glam enough for me colour wise
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Yeah you are purple are you not!
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This is more my colour…what do you think???