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The players who got me interested years ago were, in order: 1. Hank Marvin. 2. Albert King. 3. Wes Montgomery.

Thanks - that Laney looks interesting, though the price appears to be quite a bit higher than the Harley Benton. Apparently there's a Vox AC4 available as well, though that lacks reverb.

To follow on from this comment, I stopped guitar for a while as I had other things to do, but now I'm trying again. I'm still wondering about a small valve amp. Bugera do a 5w combo which seems to be well received. They also do a 5w head which I could (presumably) plug into my 1x12 Orange bass cab. Harley Benton's 15w combo looks interesting, as does their 5w one, though I'd prefer something with reverb built in to avoid faffing with pedals. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with any of these?

Thanks. I'll try it out for a bit longer and will see how it goes.

Despite thinking that I can't play guitar and should stick to bass, some incoming money (bass sale), appearance of a nice guitar at a reduced price, and the appearance of a good excuse to buy it mean I now have a Telecaster. Previously, I had the following inconveniences with the right hand when playing guitar: Thumb - excellent tone from downstrokes when playing chords (I did this in a jazz big band), but useless for single note soloing. Plectrum - adequate for single note soloing and chords, though I don't like the tone and though I can use them they always feel awkward. Proper guitar fingerstyle, or anything involving plucking with nails - not happening. I've been trying the two fingers and floating thumb approach I'd use on a bass guitar and it sort of works, though it's a bit fiddly due to the relatively small strings. Is there any reason I shouldn't work on this? I wonder if it might be worth stickiing with, with switching to the thumb for downstrokes on chords (I'll only be playing jazz).

Sold locally. I hope that the buyer, once they've done the necessary maintenance work, will get as much enjoyment form it as I did.

Now sold locally.

Some more photos are now available. According to https://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/gibson/potentiometer/ the pots were made in 1975 and the guitar in or after 1981. Clearly, the guitar parts and the new case are worth something (though the chance of me being willing to sell off parts is zero), but I'm still hoping that someone who can work on this themselves and get it back into good order would be interested in it.

I wondered about that as well, but had no particular desire to start scraping off paint (which does appear to be quite thick) just in case it was still visible beneath.

I'll investigate when I get a chance.

This guitar is discussed in another thread, where an overview of the work that needs doing on it was given. I think I'll stick to basses so this might as well go to someone who will make use of it. More photos are below, which show the new case I got for it as the old one was falling apart. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions, though I probably can't provide any more information than what's in the thread. For example, no serial number is visible externally so I don't know the date (a previous owner having repainted it a rather nice colour).

No luck yet, I'm afraid. If anyone has one spare please let me know.

I realise I have a basic Fender gig bag, equally good condition, which I don't need so it could be included with this guitar.

According to the serial number (https://www.squierwiki.com/Serial-Number-Tracking) this was made in 2019. I got it early in 2020 and have barely used it other than for a few minutes' noodling here and there; it turns out that I still find guitar strings a bit too small and fiddly for my liking. I had a local tech set it up and put new strings on (flats) after I got it. He thought it a good instrument other than the very dry fretboard, which he oiled. It remains in excellent condition with no marks I'm aware of. I don't have any suitable box to post this, I'm afraid.

Apologies for not spotting this comment earlier. Funnily enough I was thinking today that if I were to move it on I might be able to squeeze a double bass into the spot it currently occupies... I'm not really sure about value, but I would guess that £250 for the guitar plus £500 for the work would give someone a vintage Gibson at a reasonable price. There's certainly a sentimental value attached to it but whether that's worth using up limited storage space is another question.

It might end up going that way, eventually.

A long time ago I owned a Marshall Mercury amp which I used for comping in a swing band (playing this guitar). It gave a great clean sound, but needed to be run on full power to be (barely) heard alongside all the horns and after about 90 mins it would heat up and start to distort. If my guitar playing ever does take off again then a small valve amplifier of some sort that could handle some clean jazz sounds would be nice, hence looking here to see if anything interesting was mentioned.

I have indeed now ordered a Squier Tele - even including some decent strings and a proper setup it’s still just under £200, which is the amount I could have spared for the V’s repairs.

I currently play bass (and so would normally be found at Basschat) but recently saw mention of all fourths tuning and thought this might be the ideal opportunity to do a bit of guitar playing without much distraction from bass. In fact, it may even be helpful, given that it would allow the opportunity for playing chords, which I can't normally do (I only have fretless basses). As I have an old 70s Gibson Flying V hanging around which I haven't touched since the early 1990s I thought that it might be worth trying to get that set up for this purpose. Unfortunately, it turned out not to be so simple, with the following required to make it really usable, in addition to a setup, new strings, cleaning etc.: The neck's not at the right angle and needs to be reset. I'm told that the body's been sanded thinner, which might not help. All the frets need to be replaced. Is that crack under the headstock in the finish, or the wood? Needs checking. The side dots have been painted over and need to be re-done. A new nut is needed. Possibly a new bridge as well. So, probably about £500, which is a bit much for the amount of use I'd get from it. Even more if anything particularly dodgy were to be found under the finish, and a refinish would be yet more still. This couldn't be done until August at the earliest. It's tempting to simply buy a Squier Telecaster, which would be much cheaper than even the minimum repair cost, but then the V will still be taking up space. What do people think about these guitars - worth the cost to refurbish?