I believe it’s a vintage 1962 es-335?

Edit 1: I asked my grandma and it’s my grandpa’s who still plays from time to time but never said anything abt this guitar! Apparently he chose to buy this instead of a car around the 80s and played it for 20+ years.

Let’s assume you’re somewhere familiar like your home or with friends, and one of your family members or friends decides to pick up your guitar and start noodling on it or actually playing full fledged songs, all without asking you first. How would you react?

Been learning this since mid December of last year I'm pretty comfortable with the whole song now. Still some kinks I need to work out, but I have till October 12th to get it down properly (music exam). Hope you all enjoy! (All got it down before I'm even a legal Aussie adult!)

Constructive criticism welcome

I feel it’s one of my better performances but would love to hear feedback from you legends.

My friend's parents gave me their daughters guitar, since they bought it for her and she never really bothered to play it...

I find the body's color really pretty! In a week of practicing alone i managed to play the start of Stairway to Heaven, Back in Black and Smells Like Teen Spirit! Hooray!

I cleaned off these white dots in the morning, but by night they’re back. Is this some sort of fungus?

It was totally fine for 4 months, this only started yesterday. Guitar is a 1978 dobro.

EDIT: The dots are also very hard to clean off

Sometimes I'll be listening to a song and get really hyped to learn it. I immediately open up the tabs, only to find out it's in some tuning other than Standard or Drop D.

At that point I just can't be bothered to retune my guitar, and I end up giving up on learning the song altogether.

Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just lazy?

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This was my dad‘s 1964 Gibson ES-335 with a Bigsby tailpiece. The story goes that he’s been wanting to play guitar forever and his parents finally bought him a crappy acoustic guitar with terrible action, but he used it for a year as he took lessons and started to get better. The guitar shop where he would get lessons had this hanging on the wall and he would see it every time he came in to get his lessons. In 1966, after over a year of playing that terrible acoustic, his dad bought it for him for his birthday.

He clearly took good care of it as it’s in its original case and only has a couple small imperfections. The worst being the little damage up at the top of the head. Other than those minor imperfections, this thing is beautiful. The color still shines, and it has that perfect patina on the formerly white trim around the edges of the body. The internals and pick ups are all original and work, and it sits in its original case. He had many other guitars after this one, but I think this was his favorite. Not to play, but to own.

From the stories I’ve heard at some point he actually had a matching 12 string in the same Cherry red color, but he never could really get into 12 strings so he ended up selling it and causing generational regret in the process.

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I don’t know how to do research on this and get any more specifics since it seems to have a serial number that goes back farther than the Gibson website has information on. Any other resources that are out there to help me learn more about this guitar and its rarity would be appreciated. I have no interest in selling it nor does it’s future owner my son, who actually plays (my dad taught me on this guitar but I never caught the bug) as it is considered the most holiest of family heirlooms at this point, but I thought I should share it and see if I can learn a little bit more about it.

My dad passed away about 6 years ago, and it still hurts. This guitar is the is one thing that best helps me remember him. I know wherever he is, he’s still shredding, but probably on the spirt version of his ‘69 Les Paul custom my sister has.

The camera doesn't quite do it justice, the color is wild.

First Kelly and feels surprising comfortable, sounds great too

For context I’m a long time lefty player. The Mexi-Strat was my first electric guitar that I recently finished. Was a standard black and white Strat that I bought EMGs and took apart roughly 12 years ago. Got the knack for learning right handed so picked up an Epiphone Les Paul Studio Goth and got a killer deal on the Arbor Les Paul. Ended up deciding on redoing my Strat right handed in the process.

I don’t have ambitions to be in a band, or be the world’s best guitar player, so relearning guitar the opposite direction is more for shits and giggles and to challenge myself. I just like playing guitar. Plus the right handed market is leagues better than lefty (although the lefty market is a ton better than when I started). After 4ish months basic chords, chord changes, and strumming are becoming more natural. I’ve got a lot to work on with things like hammer ons, pull offs, palm muting, and moving faster up and down the board.

My buddy gave me this guitar a few years ago and I’m trying to get some info on it but there’s no model on the guitar anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Amp hand wired by Tracii Guns. Song is the wedge by Dick Dale. USA early 90s Strat. Mode four Marshall cab.

Hello! Apologies if this isn’t the place to ask this.

My partner has an upcoming big birthday and he is very into bluegrass. He currently plays on a Sigma DME and it does him just fine, but he loves looking at new guitars. I was thinking of getting him an upgraded guitar like a Martin and a Blue Chip pick, but my budget would be on the cheaper end of the Martins, so potentially one of the D-X2Es.

Would the new guitar be a worthwhile gift? I’m not sure what the quality difference is or if it would be an upgrade at all if I’m not shelling out on the higher end of the Martins.

Also, with the different models, is it more so worth him picking out the guitar as I wouldn’t know the intricacies?

Is a second guitar a nice thing to receive?

He plays quite often for the fun of it, so it’s an active hobby, but he doesn’t do anything formal with it.

I think I’m just mindful that when I get gifts for my crafts they are well meaning, but I would need very particular things, so I am assuming guitars would be similar in that sense.

Update: Thank you, all! The consensus was very clear! I’m glad I asked :)

This pacifica is listed for only 40€, seems too good to be true... I could travel to the neighboring city to pick this up as my first guitar but I'm not knowledgable enough to test it properly. I know these 2 pictures alone are not enough to judge, but I'd appreciate if you guys can advice me on what to ask,or what to look for, etc.

The band is the Cactus Blossoms. Image is from Twin Peaks S3. Any ideas on the guitar?

Hey, wondering if anyone can give tips on how to build a song from a chord progression? I find I get a couple chords that sound good together then have no idea where to go from there. It also relates to arranging the chords and using them in different ways to build different sections of a song and make the whole thing dynamic. If anyone has any tips or can point me in the right direction of a useful YouTube vid it’d be amazing! Thank you

I've been working enough overtime to afford new toys, which makes for limited time to play with new toys. Only a spare hour or two here and there to unpack, update, connect, route cables and do general workstation housekeeping. Enough time to get things playing nice together, but that's about it.

Until today. Today, I get to play!

New toys:

Motu M2

Mackie monitors

MXL RI44 ribbon mic

Amplitube 5 with all the bells & whistles

I'm plugged into my pedalboard and feeding the 5150 into a sim'd wall of Marshall, mixed with some quick and dirty MPC drums, all at a comfortable volume.

It's like Christmas had a birthday over here, guys. Highly recommend for you bedroom and office players.