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Practise and flux. My soldering skills were definitely sub obtimal until I decided to build an amplifier. I bought a decent iron, solder and station, a third hand tool and a tub of flux. Lots of pre tinning of wires and components. It was a whole lot of soldering. Now I think I’m pretty OK at it.

Dave Clark Five springs to mind.

Just changed the strings on my classical guitar, after the D string randomly went ping, I wasn’t even in the house when it went, let alone playing it. This is the first time I’ve changed nylon strings in decades. Man, oh man, what a royal PITA! Took ages ad now I have days of retuning whilst they stretch in. That said, the Augustine Imperial Reds I fitted are really nice and a definite improvement, feel and tone-wise, on the D’Addarios that were on there (at least that’s what Alvarez said they were). I don’t use a capo much, when playing, but for changing nylon strings, it is almost indispensable.

Gibson have also brought out a Johnny Marr signature Les Paul, another player I don’t really associate with an LP.

I’ve just recalled a Washburn Woodstock electro-acoustic that I should never have let go. Played many gigs with it and it always shone. How could I forget it?

That was my thought too.

I’d like my old customised ‘75 Aria Les Paul (lawsuit era) back and my Yamaha SA2000. Both went to pay for other things and both were a mistake to let go. ‘Twas ever thus .

The problem here is that you're stuck with the YT replay speeds. Now that you've got the notes under your fingers, use a metronome or drum machine set just a bit faster than the 75% playback speed. Get that down and then go a little faster. It'll come, but you can't expect to make that 33%(ish) jump in speed in one go, at least not accurately. It's annoying, but 'twas ever thus.

A lot of us are also Basschatters

Because I was big fan of Robben Ford, I stopped using reverb and just went for a short delay (snapback, or thereabouts) because I read somewhere that he didn't use reverb as it could muddy things up too much. Also being a Brian Setzer fan, this all sounded to be what I wanted. I bought a Line6 DL4 and thoroughly happy with that. I've long since parted company with everything I had back then, as I was concentrating on playing bass. Fast forward to now and I'll still choose short delay over reverb (although both together can be OK, if used sparingly) and, to sate my echo needs, I bought a Behringer analog delay, works fine, albeit in a plastic case. All that said, if I were gigging regularly, I'd probably look at a Boss RE-2 as that would do everything I want, what with emulating the classic Space Echo (more Setzer influence).

Sounds like an earthing problem. An easy fix for someone who knows what they’re looking for. If you bought it from a shop, get them to sort it out. If from a private seller, just get a tech to look it over.

Zombie thread time . The Gretsch GAS welled up again to almost unbearable proportions, but I reined myself in, realising that I’m only playing to please myself at the moment and the Casino Coupé is a more than capable guitar. Since the OP, I have fitted new pickups, changed the knobs and made a couple of other aesthetic changes. However, just like the factory fitted Bigsbys on other guitars, with the same break angle over the bridge, tuning stability is questionable. In order to keep the GAS at bay and address this tuning shortcoming, I bought a drop in replacement, roller bridge. Why, oh why did I not do this at the get go? I can attack the Bigsby without fear of a discordant result on return to the resting position. The cost of this miraculous upgrade, less than £22, including delivery. Happy days!