Year in Gear 2017

Legionreturns

I'll give it a go...

I started the year with my one and only guitar, a squire strat, which went fairly quickly, and a micro cube, which has also now gone.

In and flipped out again:

(Guitars)
Epi LP Traditional Pro ii
Tanglewood TWSCE115 Dread
Gretsch G5125 125th Anniversary
PRS SE 245 Soapbar
Schecter PT Fastback
Hohner SE35 Pro
Gibson SG Special HP
Fender Classic Player 50s strat

(Amps) 
Fender Mustang ii v2
Boss Katana 112
Hughes & Kettner Switchblade 50 1x12
Blackstar HT5R Head

(FX)
Boss ME80 
2x Pedal train 2 (1 hard case, 1 soft case)
Boss CS3
Juansolo TSM680 ii
TC Sweet Cream
TC Model E
Digitech Space Chorus
HB Dual Looper
Beat Buddy mini
Korg pitch black
Joyo Quattro Delay
HB Power plant Jnr
Expression pedal
Roland GAFC 
TC Helicon Voicelive Play

In and still here for now: 


Epiphone AJ something acoustic (camping guitar)
'17 Gibson LP Traditional T
Takemine CYP3 New Yorker 
Epi '56 Gold Top

Boss Katana Head
HB 2x12 V30 Cab
Line6 Pod HD500

I'm not including home studio / recording stuff, but there's a decent chunk of that too.

In the pipeline: 

Currently trying to decide on an Adam Black LP trade... Don't know yet

I've siphoned off a large chunk of money and a few parts towards a custom build by @Andyjr1515 ...but owing to unscheduled car death I've had to push that back slightly. Watch this space. The Eco-Caster is coming!  

I don't think that's as horrendous as people make out. I've learned a lot about what I like in the last year, and gone through a fair few bits to get to where I am. I'm not as bad as @ellwood @DrCornelius or @mikeyrob73  

mikeyrob73

Shit now I have to have a think! Cheers @Legionreturns ;

No longer with me 
Les paul faded 
Gretsch 5140 
fender lite ash Strat 
fender roadhouse strat 
2003 Gibson Studio
TV Yellow Burny P90
Epiphone Wiltshire 
Epiphone Firebird Pelham Blue 
Fender Telecaster Blackout 


whats stayed 
Classic Vibe Tele 
Classic Vibe Strat
ESP EC-10000
Prs Bernie Marsden 
A.n.Other which hasn’t been revealed yet 

happy with what what I have for now, although a junior would be nice

RMJ

I sold all my pedals and bought a helix and some monitors. Also bought a Les Paul special. That's it!

Edit...also sold tone king falcon

DrCornelius

Guitar wise there isn’t enough server space to go through them all, I’ve ended the year addicted to musicman guitars though.

Amps I settled on a lovely Marshall mini jubilee until I realised as much as I liked the Marshall sound I liked tweed too.  Now have an AX8 through a stereo monitor set up and I’ve got literally every sound I’ve dreamed of :-)

capo4th

Added a Gibson 355 and a Taylor GS mini for my son....

Less is more.

Roland

This year I actually bought something guitar related: a Mission volume pedal. There were also some pickups, straps, and parts for the guitar I made, and the ones I planned to make but didn’t get around to.

For the workshop there have been a pillar drill, dust extractor and air cleaner, machine stands, a pipe bender, and loads of consumables.

Sold. I don’t sell things. Technically I’ve sold an MFC101, but since I haven’t delivered it, not collected the cash, it’s not really sold yet is it Rob?

JerkMoans

What a great thread: captures some of the madness, and the admirable restraint/contentedness of others. 

Personally got slightly carried away this year...  if I spent half the time practising as I do obsessing over new gear I might finally move beyond Smoke on the Water and learn a pentatonic scale position.

edited highlights that I can remember include:

Guitars

Bought

1977 Fender Mustang

Yamaha SG2000

B&G Little Sister

Kurt Cobain Mustang

Mexican Standard Strat

Yamaha SA2000

Rickenbacker 360

Sold

1977 Fender Strat

1977 Mustang

1970 Telecaster 

JV Strat /Partscaster

Yamaha SG2000

Kurt Cobain Mustang

Mexican Standard Strat

Amps

Bought

Flynn Tweed Deluxe

Sold

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe

Rivera 55/12

Pedals

Bought

Crowther Hotcake x2

Earthquaker Devices Rainbow Machine

Earthquaker Devices Tentacle

Dr No Alain Johannes 11:11

Fender Blender

MXR Phase 90

Keeley Compressor

Keeley Monterey

Skreddy Echo

Strymon Flint

Sold

Ravish Sitar

Crowther Hotcake

Earthquaker Devices Rainbow Machine

Earthquaker Devices Tentacle

Fender Blender

Van Amps Sole Mate Jr

EHX Holy Grail

Boss Tremolo TR2

Best bit of Gear

Mastery Vibrato for my jazzmaster 

This is really has to stop. Gonna take up Hot Yoga in January as an alternative.

eSully

IN

LPJ Kit build
Weston Thunder 1A bass (well not yet, hopefully picking it up tonight)

Out
Gibson Midtown
Epiphone Les Paul


I think 2018 will be a lot busier, I'm really wanting to try a new guitar (or old, very tempted to look for a year of birth guitar) and improve my amp and effects

Legionreturns

@JerkMoans ...Little Sister? I love the look of these. How hard are they to come by over here? 

JerkMoans

Legionreturns said:

@JerkMoans ...Little Sister? I love the look of these. How hard are they to come by over here? 

https://imgur.com/a/x33LA

They è pop up occasionally... or the North American Guitar here in That London are the UK distributors. Not cheap: I had to shift my 1970 Tele and my ‘77 Mustang to raise the funds. Worth it, though: probably the best neck I’ve ever played, and tone more mellow than, er, a Donovan song about the colour yellow.

BluesyDave

In:

PRS SC250
Fender Jimmy Vaughan Strat
Yamaha BB424

Strymon Flint
CB Brothers
EP Boost
RC-2

Fender Princeton II

Out:

Suhr Classic Pro
MM Stingray
Fender Jazz USA

Fender Princeton 1968 non reverb
Eden 210 Combo

Digitech Stereo Looper
Suhr Rabbit

Really wish I hadn't done this.  

rico

BluesyDave said:

In:

PRS SC250
Fender Jimmy Vaughan Strat
Yamaha BB424

Strymon Flint
CB Brothers
EP Boost
RC-2

Fender Princeton II

Out:

Suhr Classic Pro
MM Stingray
Fender Jazz USA

Fender Princeton 1968 non reverb
Eden 210 Combo

Digitech Stereo Looper
Suhr Rabbit

Really wish I hadn't done this.  

I must admit, I use your signature almost every time I get new gear. 

'Oh this? It's been in the drawer/behind the sofa/in the studio/at my parents/my mate was borrowing it...'

BluesyDave

rico said:

I must admit, I use your signature almost every time I get new gear. 

'Oh this? It's been in the drawer/behind the sofa/in the studio/at my parents/my mate was borrowing it...'

 LOL, It's my stock answer.....but I don't think its worked for years.  I may have to come up with a new one.

paulphoenix

as best as my memory serves...

In 2017 came: 

Orange Rocker 15

Paul C. Timmy 
Boss RC-3
Wampler Tumnus
JHS Angry Charlie V2

Yamaha EMX512SC (powered mixer) 


Out went: 

MI Boost n Buff
Tone City Bad Horse
Audix Cabgrabber
Phonic 1860 Powered Mixer (with a flash bang doh!)


Flipped: 

Boss RC-1
Juan Solo Kingslayer Klone
Marshall Guv'nor MK1 (UK) 

Jalapeno

In:

Jalapeno Tele #2 a GSP Tele Thinline with Lollar Charlie Christian pickups
Yamaha Pacifica 1611 Mike Stern signature
Gretsch New Yorker archtop, plus  Dearmond Rhythm Chief 1000 pickup

CustomPedalBoard - still to get to grips with G2 and Strymon programming ... might yet replace the lot with a Line6 Helix, all seems a bit too hard (G2 manual is too thin, there's a guy in G2 support that knows all the magic spells)

EHX Freeze
EHX Mel9 Mellotron

Out:

A few pedals via ebay, can't recall which.

drwiddly

In:
PRS SE Custom 24 Floyd Exotic Swamp Ash
PRS Tremonti SE Custom
Yamaha DXR10
A Celestion Neo Creamback and several pickups from Ash at OCP

Out:
Heritage H150
Trace Elliot Trident head
Digitech 2120
Lots of parts, pickups, etc.

mcsdan

Quiet year although had to sell a few bits.

In:
Digitech polara reverb
Carbon copy delay
tonebone ABY switch
strings

Out:
Les Paul R0
BKP stormy mondays
Gibson custombuckers
Mapex drumkit and cymbals
Car
couple of unused pedals - cant' remember


2018 is looking to be much better

jeztone2

Jonathanthomas83 said:

jeztone2 said:

My main amp is massive

Should I buy a Fractal instead of upgrading my pedalboard?

The answer to this question is always “yes”, and it’ll sort your amp problems too. Any questions just ask, had mine for almost a year and it’s the main reason my reply to this thread was so short!

Cheers Man, I may take you up on that. 

robdynamite

In: 2017 Gibson Les Paul Classic T Goldtop
       1979 Marshall 2049 Cabinet

Out: nothing.

I've always wanted a Gibson LP Goldtop without all the bells and whistles they kept adding and this year I bagged it and am beyond happy with it.

Jota

January 2017:


December 2017:


IN:
Epiphone Firebird I
Fulltone SupaTrem
Boss MS-3
Caline Pure Sky
Danelectro CC Vibe

OUT:
Gretsch G5120
TC Nova System
TC Spark
Fulltone SupaTrem
Caline Pure Sky

Hard to decide the best buy between the Firebird and the MS-3.