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I have an Ibanez AF95... in short it's as good as you'll get for a sub £1K jazz box. I'd have trouble justifying an ES-175 over it.

Yeah, they are black and I play in a black room with the lights out. They're probably all here.

lol... I tend to hold on to my wegen picks, which are about £15 each... they're fairly specific to Gypsy Jazz. But I bought six Dunlop Ultex Jazz III John Petruccis (bit of a mouthful) a couple of weeks ago I'm down to one.

I need to know.

Eric Clapton if only for being the reason I took up guitar all those years ago... although I haven't really listened to anything later than the 1970s... Jimi Hendrix... all day every day... Joe Pass Wes Montgomery Grant Green Django Reinhardt Stochello Rosenburg Birelli Lagrene Biel Ballister John Renbourn loads more

A Gibson ES175 in fluorescent green with a floyd rose.

Is this an "exclusively Fender Straturday"?

Yep, ballsy they are!

"Does it come with a certificate of authenticity?" For an Epiphone Les Paul.

The pickups on the standard Squier aren't that bad... I'm not sure it would be worth it.

I've tried them all and with a nickel allergy have settled with Ernie Ball Stainless Steel for most purposes, including acoustic... Flats, I've been using D'addario chromes lately or Thomastik swings.

I think they suffered in the UK from association with 80s pop... once that was less fashionable, nobody wanted Yamaha SGs. Certainly by the late 80s they were less visible in guitar shops.

My small bodied acoustic guitars of choice are Selmer style guitars, particularly the D hole style. They're typically associated with gypsy jazz but are actually quite versatile. The Cigano GJ15 can be found for around the price you're looking at. I have one and it's really nice.

It's a while since I've really thought about either as my last band was acoustic instruments only and the only reverb I used was the onboard reverb on my amp (Acus One Four 5). Back in the day, I used a Boss DD5 with an external tap tempo (Boss FS-5U) and Boss Fender 65 deluxe reverb, which was more of an amp simulator. I'd quite like to get back to the old pedalboard days...

Yep, ML1 Pro Modern... photo doesn't really do the flame justice. It's really nice. Fit and finish are as good as anything I've owned. The spec is excellent... I haven't played it for long as it still has nickel strings on, but there are a couple of sets of Ernie Ball Stainless steel slinkys on their way to me. Reasons I bought it... it's essentially the guitar I wanted as a kid, 30 years ago... Mahogany body, flame maple top, strat-ish shape, maple through neck, ebony fingerboard, minimal fret markers, two humbuckers... I was looking for a new guitar with stainless steel frets and thought "what the hell... I can return it if it's disappointing." I had been looking at Strandbergs, but they're a bit spendy. Korean guitars have really come on in the last few years and we're definitely at the point we were with Japanese guitars in the early 90s. Part of it is that they've been making them for so long, part of it is that their economy has strengthened to the point that you cannot build cheap guitars there any more.

Really pleased with it... nice thick maple cap (as opposed to the veneer you get on so many), through neck, nice low action without any buzz... the stainless steel frets are slippery smooth.

Gibson Flying V Faded... not sure why anyone would fake one of those.

One of those techniques that I guess most people haven't heard of and it seems that a lot of people who use it, do it unconsciously... I had never heard of it until recently, and I've been playing for 30 years. Firstly, it's not edge picking, where you pick with the side of the pick. It's something different. The idea behind it is that when alternate picking, it's more efficient to angle the pick towards or away from the floor. Rather than picking on a plane that is parallel to the guitar top, you pick at an angle, where (in downward pick slanting) the down stroke moves towards the top of the guitar and the upstroke moves away from it. This way you can move between strings more easily after an upstroke. You can adjust the angle of the pick for upward pick slanting to change efficiently after a down stroke, and combine with economy picking. Troy Grady's youtube series explains it well...

I used to hang around on that a while back.... gosh.

Absolutely... delivery time is between 14:19 and 15:19 (oddly specific)

I'm taking delivery of a new guitar tomorrow. Really looking forward to it, but this one could provoke controversy if other guitar forums are anything to go by...