150 GBP for that, you’re a lucky, lucky man. I was going through Gumtree the other day just to see whether there are guitars that my friends have been looking for and, yeah, there they were, even the prices were astoundingly low compared to what those guitars (mainly ESP LTDs and ESPs) would fetch over here - if they were available.
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I’m joking they are my fav band. Been into them since 89.
But they are shite now Richie has gone and Jon’s voice is shot.
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I sold an old guitar for £150 so bought the Kramer which was £150.
So all in all the guitar and paint job cost me £150
Oddly I hate playing this Kramer and much prefer my PRS which is my go to make now.
I know, pulling your chain a little. Also a big fan here, especially of Richie’s playing and to be fair their song writing as a whole. Saving for a pedal that cross fingers will give me a closer Sambora tone at headphone volume levels. Richie is one of my fav guitarists.
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Id love to get his Jersey Star but its £999 - and I dont really like Kramers fret board so I wont bother.
They were a great band - the first 6 albums are great then they got patchy from Crush onwards.
The last 2 without Richie are just awful.
Seen them about 20 times and the last time was Wembley 2019 but I wont go anymore.
Jon cant sing, Richie has gone and the stage is padded out with session musicians to cover Jons voice.
Wow. Strangely hypnotic. Just make you sure you don’t wear Double Denim with that.
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Unfortunately, I’m yet to try either - but there’s something “aristocratic” about PRS, these guitars just scream high class to me, no wonder why you prefer yours.
I have a somewhat similar “problem” - my friends and the luthier where I take my guitars for maintenance say that my LTD is superior to my Schecter but I can’t take my hands off the latter. I love this particular LTD that I own but there’s something about Schecter that makes me want to carry it everywhere with me.
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Never thought I’d feel the need to compensate for my nuts. Thanks for that.
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Speak for yourself!
Joking aside, I’m still thinking about replacing nuts on both LTD and Schecter with compensated ones or maybe even ones made of bone. Installing a bone nut on Washburn (that I sold to buy the LTD) improved the intonation and stability endlessly for me (note that I was a total beginner back then and only slightly worse at playing than I am now). It even made it lose some strange echo on the third string that two techs and a friend of mine thought it was only in my imagination - but I swear it was there and I hated it.
That string regularly and significantly went out of tune before that modification, too. I’m aware it’s a regular issue with cheaper guitars, I experience it with LTD and Schecter, too, that’s why I’m thinking about getting a replacement nut. I’d love to hear your advice on it, you have infinitely more experience than me.
Sorry mate, can’t help you there. I’ve heard about it, people have told me about it, but no experience with it myself. Always thought it was a bit of hocus pocus, sort of like people endlessly obsessing about high mass bridges or ‘tone woods’. But then I’m probably just ignorant on that.
isn’t it one of those things with diminishing returns? Especially when you think that the way you depress the strings is far more likely to pull notes out of tune.
A good quality nut is a must I agree along with a well set up guitar but I’m not sure I’d ever get any benefit from a compensating nut.
But I’ve never even seen one let alone played a guitar with one. I am a heathen.
Ive tried Kramer, Charvel, Jackson, Les Paul, Schecter and Fender strat but the PRS just suits my hand.
I got the Black Tremonti Sig (£525) from PMT about 5 months ago and love it.
Definitely gonna go PRS again when I upgrade next year to the £850 range guitars. Money permitting of course!
For any acoustic pluckers out there :0)
This guy has some good instruction videos on YT…
Well worth checking them out 
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I’ve seen adverts for this guy a lot, I should check him out more as I’d like to learn an acoustic blues style of playing one day
Promoted by the video of someone busking Sultans of Swing in the Music thread; This is a good tutorial for anyone looking to learn the song.
Great, he started and I thought, he can play a bit why does he need to learn the song, and then he stopped 
Been a while since I posted on here. But I thought I’d put up my my proposed pedal board build. Pics below is where I’m at thus far.
I have a power supply and patch cable kit, one other pedal en route- Love pedal Amp 11 and I propose to build a board that will fit in the case pictured. Some pedals will not make the final build such as the Big Muff but we’ll see. The light blue pedal top right is also a fuzz so only one will make it, maybe neither. The Jam Man may also fit off the board to be added as and when, depends if I can get it to work.
Basically my intention is to build a kit that I can get out of the cupboard and set up and play within seconds. No luxury of having a permanent set up sadly. That is a massive frustration. Anyway let the fun begin.
All advice welcome.
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I can’t offer any advice but I can offer encouragement - does that count? 
Is there a particular reason why you’d drop the Big Muff, by the way? I suspect it has something to do with MTG but I can’t recognise the pedal between it and the tuner.
I’ve been thinking of going down the pedalboard route for a while, something much simpler than your setup, though. I’ve been looking for used Boss BCB-60 pedalboards and I’d like it to have three pedals: a tuner, an overdrive (OCD or Tube Screamers are a dream of mine) and a clone of EQD Life Pedal that I still can’t convince my godfather to build me. 
Thanks. I’ll post up my progress along with my plans, decisions etc. I’ve gone a bit mental with the pedal buying of late. I’m drowning in overdrives now. I’ve also got an EH Crayon (not pictured) and the Lovepedal coming. They won’t all fit and I won’t have a need for all either. But I will be stacking them.
The unidentified pedal is a custom overdrive pedal bit like a Blues driver. I’m a little uncertain of it being honest as when I first tried it, it was noisy but we’ll see how it goes with a proper power supply etc. Might work for some low gain stuff. Size and again noise are the issues with the Big Muff. Again I’ll see how it goes.
Pedal order and how I want them to sit on the board will be interesting. I’m likely to want specific pedals in specific places which aren’t the precise order of the chain. For example I’ll want that NUX easily accessible as it has a sustain function I can see me using.
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