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I'm going to be visiting London on August so it's definitely on the agenda. I visited the one in Nashville in May last year along with Third man records. Now this year I want to visit both on London and it looks like they're a 9 minute walk from each other.

Between cash presents and vouchers this year, I had a big vinyl blowout on the 27th. The Cult -Electric The Cult - Under The Midnight Sun Simple Minds - New Gold Dream Live at Paisley Abbey Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now Roxy Music - Flesh and Blood INXS - Welcome to Wherever You Are Twas' a great day! 🙂

I must have been a good boy this year as Santa was very kind. Positive grid Spark Go desktop amp. All the effects and amp models in a little powerhouse of an amp. The perfect amp for when you just want to noodle away on the sofa with your guitar. Lime 6 HX One multi effects pedal. The second last piece of the puzzle that is my pedal board. Rather than have multiple delay pedals (or many many more) staged differently, you just need one Marrs' Guitars. Probably the most beautiful coffee table book I've ever seen of all the guitars in my hero;s collection. The Cult Love t-shirt, a nice one from my son of one of my favorite albums.

I'm posting this in a few different places. I've owned a 2003 Custom Shop ES-355 since 2018 and I acquired it in a famous Irish Vintage Guitar dealer, Some Neck Guitars. I've always been interested to understand what specific year it's supposed to be a reissue of or whether it's a one off. It has a fully functional varitone but it's a mono guitar which I've never seen before, usually mono 355 have no varitone switch. It also has OX4 pickups. Guitar has all relevant paperwork etc and is 100% genuine. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I've owned a 2003 Custom Shop ES-355 since 2018 and I acquired it in a famous Irish Vintage Guitar dealer, Some Neck Guitars. I've always been interested to understand what specific year it's supposed to be a reissue of or whether it's a one off. It has a fully functional varitone but it's a mono guitar which I've never seen before, usually mono 355 have no varitone switch. It also has OX4 pickups. Guitar has all relevant paperwork etc and is 100% genuine. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Busy year this one..... May: Bruce Springsteen The Raveonettes June: Depeche Mode Sting & Blondie November: Greta Van Fleet We've also paid for my son and his girlfriend to see Interpol and Arctic Monkeys in June. Ticketmaster has left a sizeable dent in my credit card for this.

I brought it into one of Dublin's best Vintage Guitar dealers to do the work on it and it looks like they bolted it on and then set it up. They'd previously done a bridge pinning, fret dress and setup on a Gretsch Duo Jet for me which was done to the highest standards and now I wouldn't have anyone else but them do this kind of work on my Guitars.

Hi All, I've been planning to get a larger amp for a while now. For the last few years I've made do with a Fender Blues Junior. I'm not a fan of Marshalls so I was looking at a bigger Fender amp or potentially a Vox AC30. A local music store had two Fenders on their website. A Supersonic 22 combo and a Customer Vibrolux Reverb. After Christmas I was planning to pay them a visit, play both and see which would I liked but I was leaning towards the Vibrolux. Another one close by had a Supro Black Magick reverb which had also peaked my interest so last week I planned to set out and playthem all and pull the trigger on one. So, before leaving the house I called the store to double-check that they had both Fender amps. Unfortunately their website hadn’t been updated and they didn’t have either amps. The only Fender tube amp was a Princeton Reverb, a great amp, both not what I was looking for and not much of a change from m,y Blues Junior. So rather than the day being a bust, I drove to the second store to test the Supro Black Magick reverb and I also knew they had a Vox AC30. I picked an American Performer Tele off the wall as I own one myself and proceeded to give the Supro a solid run through. To say I was blown away would be an understatement. The overdriven tones were exactly what I wanted. The tube driven reverb and tremolo was perfection to me. Needless to say I ended up pulling the trigger on it. The Vox wasn't given a second thought. The Supro is a hell of a thing. I was looking for an amp I can plug a guitar straight into and this is the one.

Since 2014 I've been using a Boss GT100 through a Fender Blues Junior. Back then I was gigging. I must admit it took a while to setup the Boss and get all the banks and patches dialed in as I wanted them. Once they were done, they were done. For convenience sake, there's nothing easier than having everything you need for a song with the click of a switch. The only separate pedal I used with the Boss was a Dunlop Cry Baby as the built in wah was terrible. I'd always pick the Boss GT100 over pedals and still have it now. Now that it's been a few years since I've been in a band or even played live, I got a Spark amp last year that I keep in the living room. It's an amp, a Bluetooth speaker, a drum machine and many more things in one amazing package. You can dial all of the effects in on an iPad or directly with the knobs on the amp. The app on the iPad opens up a lot more possibilities for effects and amps. You can tailor jam tracks to solo over or you can connect your iPhone to it and jam over any track in your music catalogue, all through one speaker. You can also plug your bass or acoustic guitar into it as it has settings for all. And it sounds incredible. Real cheap too. They also brought out a smaller one than you can charge up and take with you anywhere.

This is my post that's been quoted. I had the same issue it seems. The trem never returned to it's original position leaving the guitar out of tune. I have some kind of a trem system on all of my guitars as I like to use it. Right now, my SG is away have a Bigsby B7 installed on it. The sideways unit looks amazing but is an unusable piece of garbage and I've given up on it ever working properly. Probably why Gibson changed it for the Maestro so early on.

I pulled the trigger on a new Bigsby B7. Hopefully it will arrive from Germany next week and will then go to my luthier for installation. Might then sell the sideways vibrola. Someone may want a nice looking tailpiece on their SG.

I'm finding it dreadfully dull. It's like a medieval soap opera all about the kings heir. Total bore-fest. The Rings of Power is getting a lot more interesting and now that it's finished introducing the characters and world building. Finding myself now looking forward to a new episode every Friday. I'm giving House of Dragons two more episodes to get its sh*t together or I'm out.

The guitar actually stays in tune if you don't use the vibrato. Blocking it would be unnecessary. My issue is that it cannot be used, one touch of it and the guitar goes out of tune because it doesn't return back to it's original position when you let go of it. I'm a player that likes to use the vibrato arm, whether it's a Bigsby, a Stratocaster, a Jazzmaster or a Gibson. It's part of my playing. The only Guitars in my collection that don't have a trem unit are my Telecaster, a Rickenbacker 12 string electric and my Martin acoustic. I've actually put a Bigsby B7 on my Les Paul Traditional and a Bigsby B3C on my Duo Jet. Both are fantastic and always return to pitch. I have a Custom Shop 355 with a gold maestro that also works perfectly and the Maestro would be the preferred option as it would be a direct drop in replacement for the sideways vibrola and any holes that had to be made would be hidden. The B7 is still a strong contender and I have a luthier that can make it work. Just look at Nick Perri's SG. Whatever one goes on the guitar is staying on the guitar forever, but it has to function.

Check this out! https://store.duesenberg.de/en/tremolo-systems/33/duesenberg-diamond-deluxe-tremola could be the answer!

I think that’s a Duesenberg. They make great guitars out of Germany and specialise in making excellent trem units as well. I think they even make one that fits on a stock Les Paul called a “Les Trem”. I may have to check them out. You may have pointed me in a direction I wasn’t considering… 😀

Actually where I am, they are very hard to come by and when I got it in the middle of covid, there were none available. It was a fluke I got this one and actually got €400 off the price because the vibrola is set too low on the guitar causing the trem arm to obscure the Jack. With the €400 saved I’d planned to use that to either buy a Bigsby B7 or a Maestro. Finding the Bigsby in the EU is next to impossible and buying it outside the EU incurs huge customs charges. The only Maestro’s I’ve seen are in the US. So I’m keeping the Guitar. As I said, I’d appreciate any suggestions on alternative trem units befitting the SG.

I’ve had a Gibson SG 61 reissue with the awful sideways vibrola for over a year now. I’ve been exploring replacement options like a maestro or a Bigsby B7 as both would either hide or mostly hide any screw holes from the sideways vibrola. Both are almost impossible to source, and usually show up in gold or left handed. There are lots of Maestro copies out there for a fraction of the price of the original. My question is this: is there any other alternatives out there that look as good as the maestro, B7 or sideways vibrola with tuning stability to match that will mostly cover up any screw holds when the sideways one is removed?

The long Lyre/Maestro is almost impossible to find for right handed players in either chrome or nickel. All I've seen online is gold ones or left handed. I would imagine the Maestro would hide the holes from the sideways unit.

It looks just like my 2003. https://imgur.com/iKwtHmS

I traded my 2015 dot neck 335 and a 2002 Fender Highway One Strat for my beautiful 2003 Custom Shop 355. This has all the appointments I was looking for. It's also got all the varitone features but the guitar is mono. Also, somewhere in it's life before me it got a set of Ox4 pickups which sound amazing. https://imgur.com/iKwtHmS To be this is my holy grail guitar and a unicorn to find in an Irish Guitar shop.

Well I finally achieved what I'd dreamed of, having a Gibson Les Paul with a Bigsby. The Bigsby B7 has become something of a rare thing to find these days so I was lucky to get one from a site in Germany on the recommendation of one of our good forum members. I own a 2015 Les Paul Traditional that I bought in 2017 and I know the 2015 ones were much maligned but thankfully mine is what they call the Commemorative Edition so it didn't come with the G-Force tuners, has 50s wiring, a lovely big fat 50s neck and 1959 Tribute Humbuckers which sound perfect to me. It does have the horrible Les Paul 100 squiggle on the headstock, unfortunately. Anyway, I'd always wanted to put a Bigsby on it and this weekend just gone it happened. I was going to get a roller bridge for it but so far this thing stays in tune even with some good "wiggling". https://imgur.com/rqUMtt1

Thanks a million! just went there and bought it on the spot. Thanks for the heads up!

There's a load of gold ones out there but no chrome ones. I've been think of changing the sideways vibrola on my 61 SG with a Maestro, same thing, lots of gold ones, no chrome or nickel.

I've been trying to get a Bigsby B7 for my Les Paul but it's proving almost impossible to get one. I found one on eBay in the UK. Paid €280 for it and then another €70 on customs charges (thanks to Brexit) only to find when it arrived it was for a left hand guitar even though the ad had a picture of a right handed one and no mention in the ad that it was left handed. It went back and I got my refund but still trying to get my€70 back from Irish customs. Next I found one on Gear4music and placed the order. A week later I got an email from them to say that they don't know when they expect them in and they have none in stock. Again, I cancelled the order. I looked up on Thomann and Musicstore and they're not expecting any until March 2022. My question is, what is going on with getting Bigsbys? I know there are global supply change issues with Covid but this seems even worse. I heard Fender bought them and since that supplies have been scarce. Does anyone know where in mainland Europe or at least the EU I can find one without having to pay exorbitant customs charges?