Waste of money

Jetfire

I use Fast fret and Elixirs. I am the prime example of wasting money!

munckee

Funkfingers said:

thegummy said:

I recently found out people put their guitar in to a shop just to get the strings changed!

I know somebody who does that. The shop proprietor got so fed up of it that he made a point of showing the guitar owner how to change strings. Made no difference. In one ear, out of the other. Customer still brings his guitars to the shop about three months after their strings could have done with changing.

When I first started I took my guitar to the local shop (they were a thing then) and the chap sold me a set of strings and charged me £1 to fit them, second time he sold me the strings and I changed them while he told me how to do it.  Thats a great service.  He went out of business when the internet boom kicked off.  That's business....

WezV

57Deluxe said:

munckee said:

I love my 335 (harley benton!) why are gibson 335s so expensive when they are seemingly made from sh1ttier wood than everything else, and some of its hollow anyway.

+ when surely the most expensive part of a 335 type guitar is the body construction/labour

second time its come up recently.

People seem to be under the assumption that a cheap 335 and expensive one are built from comparable materials.   

No more so than a solid body guitar where lower grades and cheaper species are chosen for some, and higher grades and more expensive species are chosen for others.   the labour cost is often the most expensive part of any guitar

A 335 has more choices to make.   You are not just choosing a single block of a single species at a single price point.  You are choosing Ply types, centre blocks, kerfing.  each element has multiple options at multiple price points. 

worth a look here for 2 price points for  pressed plates

http://acme-archtops.com/

http://www.pacinfo.com/~sholst/lamintroduction.htm

Hattigol

Has anyone mentioned Klons yet?

Legionreturns

Brexit 

BintyTwanger77

p90fool said:

BintyTwanger77 said:

Anything with Joe "Dull Rich White Man Blues" Bona-fucking-massa's signature on it. 

Try his signature Epiphone Firebird, it's the only proper 9-ply, through neck, alnico pickup, banjo tuner Firebird 1 you can get at any price, it's only £529 and it sounds massive. 

You'd have to pay nearly half that just for the tuners anywhere else.   

Interesting, worth a look... it's more about him pissing me off than the quality of the gear, I suppose...so I haven't really answered the OP's question completely.

I suppose I am harking back to when he said pedal users were "lazy" in that interview, despite the fact that he has a signature Dunlop wah...

though I suppose who doesn't have a signature Dunlop wah?

Fred West has a signature Dunlop wah... probably...

because he's still a better guitarist dead than Kirk Hammett is alive (who also has a signature wah).

Haych

BintyTwanger77 said:

Fred West has a signature Dunlop wah... probably...

because he's still a better guitarist dead than Kirk Hammett is alive (who also has a signature wah).

Stop it, you're killing me dude! 

Philly_Q

Robot tuners, or G-Force or whatever the current name is.

Presumably they've already been mentioned.

midlifecrisis

more than a single tone and a volume tone knob on a bass guitar, even the tone knob is excessive

DannyP

Those finger exerciser things. I never bought one because I figured if I've got a finite number of finger wiggling hours before I get RSI, I'd sooner spend those hours playing an actual guitar.

Bridgehouse

Legionreturns said:

Brexit 

In your case it should be that effing knife

thegummy

Haych said:

Boutique pickups - I have a drawer full of them and probably couldn't tell between any of them and a good old SD '59.

But I'm a marketers wet dream so shut up and take my money!

I have expensive pickups but I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't tell the difference between them and sd59. Not saying I'd be surprised if I could either though.

What about either of those vs, say, stock Epiphone pickups? Think you could tell the difference there?

darthed1981

The Epi pickups in my Dot are a bit muddy but serviceable.  Im a fan of the Probuckers in my epi LP

Bridgehouse

darthed1981 said:

The Epi pickups in my Dot are a bit muddy but serviceable.  Im a fan of the Probuckers in my epi LP

I had the p90s in my Epi casino coupe rewound - sounds epic now!

slacker

Hattigol said:

Has anyone mentioned Klons yet?

Ok mine cost 200 quid in 2007. What a rip off.

Haych

thegummy said:

Haych said:

Boutique pickups - I have a drawer full of them and probably couldn't tell between any of them and a good old SD '59.

But I'm a marketers wet dream so shut up and take my money!

I have expensive pickups but I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't tell the difference between them and sd59. Not saying I'd be surprised if I could either though.

What about either of those vs, say, stock Epiphone pickups? Think you could tell the difference there?

I’m sure I could tell the difference between cheap pups and quality pickups but I also think there’s a decent amount of snake oil when it comes to say DiMarzio or Duncan pups and those from boutique outlets for three times the price. 

I’m not suggesting the expensive ones sound rubbish, I’m sure they sound great but whether they sound significantly better than quality mass produced pickups from DiMarzio, Duncan or even Gibson etc I don’t know. Could I tell in a blindfold test? I don’t know. 

Do they aound better because they are better or do they sound better because I’ve just spent £300 on them and I’m convinced in my head that I can hear the difference?

vale

octatonic said:

munckee said:

I love my 335 (harley benton!) why are gibson 335s so expensive when they are seemingly made from sh1ttier wood than everything else, and some of its hollow anyway.

Because the raw materials are a small part of the cost of the guitar.
It is mostly labour and tooling.

because in their view you are probably “wrong people”.

see:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/burberry-burns-stock-designer-clothing-fashion-industry-environment-a8454671.html

vale

one word. begins with 'b' ends with 'y'. sounds like 'bigly'.

correction: sounds far worse than 'bigly'.

thegummy

Haych said:

thegummy said:

Haych said:

Boutique pickups - I have a drawer full of them and probably couldn't tell between any of them and a good old SD '59.

But I'm a marketers wet dream so shut up and take my money!

I have expensive pickups but I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't tell the difference between them and sd59. Not saying I'd be surprised if I could either though.

What about either of those vs, say, stock Epiphone pickups? Think you could tell the difference there?

I’m sure I could tell the difference between cheap pups and quality pickups 

Are you sure you're sure?

Hattigol

slacker said:

Hattigol said:

Has anyone mentioned Klons yet?

Ok mine cost 200 quid in 2007. What a rip off.

I was assuming, perhaps wrongly, that any intelligent people would realise I was referring to their current value.