The amp looks really nice.
It’s a simple practice / recording amp. Designed for very low noise floor, work nice with pedals. But no loop.
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I play a steel string Larrivee with a pick up in it.
Tonight was reserved to mess around with some VSTs:
Signal chain: Guitar → Amp → Pre out → DAW VSTs → Cab Modeler/Delay/Chorus/Flanger/Phaser → Liquid Spark → HD6XX.
Happy wife. Happy life. Next time I’ll hook some overdrive pedals too, as this is a very silent rig. The pre stage for this little amp is not enough for my Tele. 
ASIO latency was as low as 11ms. Stereo delay is delicious when heard through the headphones. 
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What’s in that box? What did you make out of a cigar box?
I just finished a 2-string cigar box bass guitar. I’ve built a few rustic cigar box musical instruments as functional, playable decorators. They are great for folk, blues, and just having fun. If you spend more than $50 on parts you are doing something wrong. I am NOT a fan of fancy cigar box instruments; do not reinvent the known solutions (i.e., modern guitar designs and commercial products).
The body is a $2 cigar box, and the neck is a $6 oak 2x2. Using oak is not good because it’s open grain and doesn’t hold precise geometry well. Lesson learned. However, a 2x2 greatly simplifies the build. This bass would function just fine without the cigar box at all. This bass had been sitting around for a while because I ran into neck geometry issues and couldn’t decide on a solution. I was shooting for a 30" short scale from the 36" 2x2, but it ended up as a 28" scale (and that was barely squeezed in).
I used a bolt and a screw as the bridge and nut. They can be adjusted down with a Dremel or file if needed, but it is playable right now. The flat silver area is a piece cut from a soda can and ironed flat. It serves as the ground between the floating bridge (bolt) and output socket – it was humming badly before I added it.
It has a standard/modern bass pickup and wiring harness, so it sounds effectively identical to a commercial bass. The pickup is hand-inset and this required hours of cut-and-try fitting. It’s strung with the lowest (E) and highest (G) bass strings. For a bass one only really needs the lowest string, unless playing New Order, etc.
I’m one of the few who’s ever made an electric cigar box kalimba. However, we don’t have a kalimba thread here.
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Novo Serrus J, S & T they just feal and play great
Nick Huber Krauster II just a joy to play, build is one of the best.
My newest, is the 35th Anniversary PRS CE 24, it is the one they play on there website, Found it second hand. It very nicely balanced, well-built guitar.
The Benson Earhart is my practice amp - great tone, enough power to gig with.
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Great collection.
That PRS is stunning. I bet those humbuckers ask for AC-DC. 
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Great looking and the correct size of strings for a guitar 
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Nice thread. Been playing since the middle 60’s. Yes I’m old LOL. Still own a few from way back then, don’t play as much due to arthritis in the left hand. Some of my prize guitars. 1950 Martin D28, 62 pre-CBS Fender Telecaster, 68 Guild F212, 2009 Bourgeois Slope D, Blueridge Brazilian BR260. And a Flatiron Mando.
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Woah. That’s a crazy collection. I’ve lusted after a Bourgeois for a long time, too bad I didn’t know how much prices would increase in the last 10 years.
Prices have gone nuts in years, but its that way on most everything. My Slope D with Top: Bearclaw Figured Sitka .Sunburst. Back: Mahogany
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Very nice acoustic and electric collection! Are you a Bluegrasser? A D28 and Flatiron Mando are kind a giveaways…I have several acoustics and a mandolin, with an electric and bass thrown in for good measure.
Well, kinda, Classic Rock, Blues, soft jazz and Bluegrass. Already sold off my my 72 Gibson SG and my 64 Gibson 335. Eventually they will all go, except the Martin and Fender. They will stay in the family. The Mando, should be gone in a few weeks. Just can’t play it anymore without some pain.
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Much like at least one poster here, I’ve purchased a few guitars out of Japan. Thankfully, I’ve never had customs issues and I received every guitar in 4-5 days although I think I had one take 7 days once. No complaints though since I’ve ordered in-stock items in the US that took longer to arrive.
I can enjoy flashy guitars but there’s just something about a nicely figured plain top that does it for me. This is my 2006 JDM Epiphone LQ.
It’s my first time posting a picture so apologies in advance if it’s too big.
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Lovely!
Yeah, man. They’ve recently changed the regulations around protected woods (rosewood especially) and cross-border shipping, but for awhile it was very sketchy. Like, how am I supposed to find an wood origin certificate for something built 30 years ago. Not a lot of cases in Canada, but I have heard horror stories of instruments being destroyed en route to some Euro countries.
Chinese manufacturers started making entire room furnishings (e.g., chairs, dressers, beds) from solid rosewood and other premium woods. This is what I heard/read from guitar sources – as they panicked about getting fretboard material (i.e., no rosewood → toasted maple for a dark look).
There’s said to be cultural prestige in China for owning rare and unobtainable items, be it exotic wood, endangered animal products, or human creations. IMO this has driven the extreme inflation in high-end headphones and other luxury goods. “Few can afford what I can afford.”
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Thanks. I really like your Levinson. I played one in a store many moons ago and it was a fantastic guitar but I couldn’t afford to give it a home at that time.
I do recall a period where places like Ishibashi and Ikebe-Gakki wouldn’t even discuss shipping a guitar to the US if something caught my eye, rosewood or not. I pretty much abstained through that whole period since I had picked up a couple of one-offs from a little known luthier in N. Carolina in 2013-2014. I purchased the Epi LQ in the US in mid-late 2018 since I wanted to find out about the Fujigen build quality that I’ve always heard about. After coming to appreciate the build quality of the Japanese Epiphone, that opened Pandoras Box. I decided to sell all but 1 of my Gibsons and exported 3 guitars from Japan in late 2019 and early 2020.
I need adult supervision.
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Brought out the Acoustic recently, it been a lot fun playing again after hiding it away for the last 8 months.
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oh damn, that is some lovely bear claw.
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Santa Cruz GC make great instruments, I’ve had a Tony Rice, non-pro version, since the mid 90s. They get some crazy good bear claw sitka at SCGC, although I believe I have seen some other varieties with nice bear claw as well. What are the back/sides on yours? Very nice!
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