Your year in gear, 2018

rawk100

In - a set of strings

Out - nowt

Bloody useless, must do better in 2019!

usedtobe

I don’t think I sold anything, even though I’m meant to be thinning the herd. I bought 2 acoustic guitars and an electric guitar, and a couple of hard cases.
 I think that’s it..
I should really sell some stuff next year, but.. people..

digitalscream

@tekbow wins the thread, purely for that Soldano.

I don't think I've had any major changes this year - plenty of parts in and out, but aside from that there's just the birth of my current favourite guitar...



EDIT: Oh, and I bought and sold the R&R SOLO. Again.

SteveRobinson

IN:
1986 Gibson Melody Maker
2004 Fender Precision Bass
EXH Riddle Q Balls

OUT:
1986 Gibson Melody Maker
2004 Fender Precision Bass

skullfunkerry

I've had quite a year gear-wise: over the last few years I sold all my gigging rig and guitars, so I started 2018 with a Tele, a cheap Jackson and a THR5...

Out:
Set of Modern Player Tele pickups
Modern Player Plus Telecaster
Jackson JS32 Dinky
Jackson DK2QM Dinky
Electro-Harmonix Wailer Wah

In:
Performance superstrat
EMG 81/85 set
Jackson DK2QM Dinky
Squier Contemporary Active Strat
Charvel Pro Mod San Dimas style 2
Boss Katana 50
Electro-Harmonix Wailer Wah 
Electro-Harmonix Crying Tone Wah
Korg Pitchblack Advance tuner pedal
Presonus interface and monitors

mburekenge

Money has only been spent on maintenance.  Plek on the bravewood, and setup on the strat.
I have, however, spent money on lessons.


The only new gear has been an Xotic SP compressor

Lebond

Out:

1990 Les Paul Custom

2014 Les Paul R9

In:

2015 Les Paul TH59

Deposit paid on Peach Gloss 2017 R8 (Not sure if this one counts?)

Nunogilberto

Erm, mainly bought a 2010 LP Standard, and that was about it. Very quiet for me on the gear front this year.

Flanging_Fred

OUT

Vintage Tele
Hondo Strat 
Yamaha apx5a

Trace Accoustic TA35 amp
Hartke b150 amp

Marshall Shredmaster
Exar Octavian
Arion SAD1 ( Died, very sad, I loved that pedal)


IN

Squier Hello Kitty Strat !  (My most gigged guitar this year!)
Spongebob Squarepants guitar !!! (Given to my daughter, she loves it)
Peavey Milestone 3 bass + Hartke b150 (a bit of cheap bass plonking)
Kawai Aquarius AQ555 guitar ( same model and colour as my first guitar back in the 80’s)

Markbass Blackline LittleMark 250

Hudson Broadcast
BMF Purple Nurple
NOS Zoom Powerdrive
Belcat analogue delay (which isn’t analog at all, but I actually quite like it)

polytune clip
SD JB for the Hello Kitty.

The Hello Kitty Strat and the Hudson were the highlights for me.

mgaw

what I can recall

Soco Lc 16 Collings
Novo Serus T
Millman Acoustic

all out

all in

Hahn 228
Collings i35
Benjamin JOM 

Fifty9

Winny_Pooh said:

Fifty9 said:

Out: 

Epiphone Dot
Peerless Songbird
Gibson Les Paul Traditional
Gibson Les Paul 50s Tribute
Orville by Gibson 335
Yamaha THR-5

In:
Fender CS 63 Strat Coda special run
Gibson R8
Fender 62 Hot Rod Strat
Gretsch Streamliner G2420T
Burny 56 RI Les Paul Goldtop/P90s
Peerless Hardtail
Vox Handbag
Atomic Amplifire 3
Set of TV Jones classics for above G2420T

Snuck the up-trades past the wife eh?

Something like that. I’m going to sell one of the strats which will mean my cash position is actually positive as I got the R8 on 0%

Ezekiel

I started playing the guitar this year and GAS got the better of me.

In:
Orange Crush 20
Gretsch Electromatic Pro Jet
Fender Strat MIM
Vox Adio Air GT
PRS S2
Fender Strat Elite
H&K Tubemeister 36
Orange 112 cab
Boss GT100
TC Looper
Boss Katana 100
Maybach Lester
Tanglewood TW15N-NS
Line 6 HX Effects
Ibanez S2170FW
Dunlop Cry Baby Mini
Celestion Vintage 30 to replace the Katana speaker

Out:
Orange Crush 20
Gretsch Electromatic Pro Jet
Fender Strat MIM
Vox Adio Air GT

Looking at the above I seriously got to limit the guitar budget.

KevS

In  HeadRush Pedalboard 

     Laney FRFR Cab

     Fender American Special Tele

Out  Gretsch G 5422 TG

tekbow

@Digitalscream, oh I haven't told you the story of how, after I posted, I found out it wasn't very loud.

There was much wobbling of bottom lips and rocking backward and forward in the corner with my head buried in my knees.

My tech had the transformer tested within about 12 hours of him receiving it, despite having other work. I think it was purely out of concern for my mental health.

It's in fill working order now, the seller even paid the repairs. His tech had executed some mods very poorly.

steveledzep

OUT:

Gretsch Electromatic G52667-CB
Boss ME-70
TC NR-1 Nova Reverb
Boss GT-001
Ashdown MAG300 2x10
Orange TH30 Combo 1x12


IN:

Boss GT-001
Fender MIM Thinline Cabronita Tele
Gordon Smith 20th Anniversary GS2
TC Nova System
Eden EC15
Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister 18

DrBob

digitalscream said:

@tekbow wins the thread, purely for that Soldano.

I don't think I've had any major changes this year - plenty of parts in and out, but aside from that there's just the birth of my current favourite guitar...



EDIT: Oh, and I bought and sold the R&R SOLO. Again.

I’m so pleased that you managed to get this one sorted. If a little jealous !

Grunfeld

IN

Boss FRV-1 Spring Reverb -- overpriced (but they've gone up even more), however, it is exactly what I wanted.

Catalinbread Formula 55 -- I love this.

OUT

Still a chance to buy:

Blackstar HT Studio 20 head -- Not boutique enough?  I'll stick a bit of tinsel on it if you want.  It's a solid amp.

Orange Micro Terror -- you'll wish you'd bought this when your amp dies onstage!

Look at them here!

Fretwired

OUT

Wharfedale studio monitors
Yamaha THR10C amp
Fender '57 Champ reissue amp
Line 6 POD X3 modeller
Boss TU2 tuner

IN

Line 6 HX Stomp

fretmeister

Out: few pickups.

In:
Origin Cali76 Compact Bass 
Darkglass B3K V2 (competition win)

Thats it. 

digitalscream

tekbow said:

@Digitalscream, oh I haven't told you the story of how, after I posted, I found out it wasn't very loud.

There was much wobbling of bottom lips and rocking backward and forward in the corner with my head buried in my knees.

My tech had the transformer tested within about 12 hours of him receiving it, despite having other work. I think it was purely out of concern for my mental health.

It's in fill working order now, the seller even paid the repairs. His tech had executed some mods very poorly.

Ugh

Y'know, I actually found a similar issue with my Decatone - it was nowhere near as loud as my JCA50H even after a revalve. No mods at all, it was just...odd.

DrBob said:

digitalscream said:

@tekbow wins the thread, purely for that Soldano.

I don't think I've had any major changes this year - plenty of parts in and out, but aside from that there's just the birth of my current favourite guitar...



EDIT: Oh, and I bought and sold the R&R SOLO. Again.

I’m so pleased that you managed to get this one sorted. If a little jealous !

Cheers! It's objectively the worst of all my guitars - even though the action is low, the neck's not as wide as it could be so there's not much wiggle-room on the top and bottom strings. There are sustain issues in a couple of places (it particularly doesn't like Bb being played anywhere on the neck), and it's been pretty difficult finding pickups that suit (although I've settled on Irongear Jailhouse Rails). The frets are almost too low as well - I don't like tall frets at all, but I might've gone a bit far with these so it gets a bit difficult to play up top.

There's something about it that just fits, though, and for the last month I've found myself picking it up all the time instead of my Jadens. Weird.