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Set up as a partner to GuyR's Tele thread. Here's my much-loved, much-gigged and slightly non-standard American Standard. I bought this new in 1990 from what was then Musical Exchanges in Snow Hill, Birmingham. Since then it's had, er, a few mods. Can you tell? Pups are David White Old Glories (the gap in the scratchplate is where one of a pair of blue Lace Sensors once lived), and if you look carefully you'll notice that the frets are jumbos. Very much a personal thing that will no doubt have the purists chirping, but I just prefer it that way.

Thanks for the show reports S.B. over on B/chat, excellent stuff. Are you going to to some for here ?

Hello. I started learning guitar in 1978, so I really should be a lot better by now! All the gear, hopefully some idea...

Hi Guys, Another refugee for Bass Chat, though I have been playing bass for over 30 years and I consider it my main instrument, I've been been playing guitar as well for 20 of those years. These days I teach Bass, and guitar for a living, so I think the addition of this forum, if it half as good as Basschat will be great... its like having the full set

A 100 watt custom MatampGt1Mk1amp'n'cab, now manufactured these days by an old school mate a few miles away, and my Musicman silhouette 6, presently strung E to E. Got a Rickenbacker 660 in fireglow, but it's for sale.

OK The thing I've done before is using decorative banding to bind the fretboard with. It gives me the advantage of looking like a multi-layer veneer demarcation without the faff and risk of wavy lines of trying to do that: The second thing is something I haven't tried before. Because the neck is from an offcut, it isn't deep enough to give me top of body to bottom in two pieces. And three pieces of maple stacked together could look a bit naff! So I've added a lump of decorative wood. To make it look like it was meant to be there, I've angled it. Won't know until I carve it what it is going to look like, but worth a try!

Come on Andy, it's tomorrow now, no time for a lie in, you have a neck to get on with. Spectacular job as always.

I like Guitar Guitar, the range at my local branch (Epsom) is huge! However, I also have a soft spot for Guitar Village in Farnham as I find their old, rambling premises intriguing, with lots of nooks and crannies hiding some nice gear. Anderton’s in Guildford is good too, albeit a bit of a drive (as is GV).

My favourite..... Lakewood m46

We beat you to it!