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I had a blue one modded with a maple neck and a mm humbucker. I sold it on here simply because the neck was too fat for me. Shame. It looked ace.

It is indeed a laser stomp. Expensive but absolutely brilliant and so much less painful than a traditional stomp box

Private solo acoustic do in my local, easy enough night, voice held up after a few days off work with the lurgy, otherwise nothing of note. Back to bass duties next weekend, then only one more solo gig for the foreseeable due to my pgce course eating my life.

My collection is growing

I recently picked up a stripped sr500 body and neck that had seen better days and decided to see if I could save it on the cheap. Both parts were around £40, and I’m hoping to keep the total spend as small as possible. (Student teacher with no income beside gigs) The black paint came off easily with a heat gun, but the psychedelic paint job underneath was tougher. An hour or so later with various grits of sand paper, I’m looking at a body that's never going to be perfect, but I think I can get it looking ok. I’m not sure yet what finish to do. I wanted a silver blue burst, but I’m not sure I can pull it off with rattle cans especially with all the dings in the body. So I’m veering towards a rustic finish using stain akin to the current sr600e antique stain. Hit the first snafu already. After sanding, the neck no longer fits. Must be the heat, I’ll have to sand the pocket a bit.

New addition

Sr300e in ocean fade metallic.

Zoom goes to foh, the sonicake boom ave and eq let me tweak what I hear to sound as close to foh as possible. Then I use the Rolls to blend my signal into my monitor feed. It works brilliantly. A multi core guitar/headphone cable is the finishing touch

My trusty jazz.

Last night was a standard Cheltenham acoustic race gig, endless aggressive peaky blinders wannabes bellowing for Oasis all night, meh. It’s hell but pays and there’s a crash barrier to keep the idiots at bay. Friday was a band gig, standard stuff, 50th birthday private job, ‘‘twas fine apart from the stage acted like a big drum amplifier. The guitarist was deafened. I, on IEMs, was not best thing I’ve ever done move to in ears. IMG_0601.MOV

Brilliant little amp. I always regretted selling mine.

Same thing happened to me, a day schlepping around shops, each saying the box was too big. Eventually I managed to persuade Thomann that they had to collect from my work. Very annoying and has put me off buying guitars from them.

Acoustic duo gig last night in my local, brilliant time was had, the standard drunk morons both made idiots of themselves much to my amusement. I really enjoyed the whole evening and so did the audience. So that was nice.

‘Twas a decent enough night in Hereford, a few headstock> wall incidents and a few shaky starts, but otherwise all good. Always a fun place to play. As usual I used my SR500 all night, thinking of selling my SR1200 tbh, it never gets used. IMG_0583.MOV IMG_0584.MOV