What have you purchased guitar-related in the last 48 hours?

I ordered the PG Mystery Christmas Stocking this AM. I may put this year’s under the tree instead of opening it on receipt.
 
I bought some Elites Detroit Flatwounds for the jazz today for £30. Hopefully they are as good as the La Bellas i've used previously at half the price. 🙂👍
 
Ordered another DemonFX pedal.

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This one is an ISP Decimator II clone. Supposed to use the same technology. It has the LED's inside like the genuine DII uses. I believe it's a pretty good clone. It doesn't appear to cut off the guitar signal at higher settings like cheaper pedals such as the Behringer noise gate do.

Been wanting one for a while. They usually sell for around $70 or 80 and this one is on sale for $35 on AliExpress so I ordered one. It says $79.60 below but it's cheaper than that once you click the link


I just found this on AliExpress:
$79.60 | New High Quantity Demonfx FILTRATION II NOISE REDUCTION Guitar Effect Pedal Noise Gate
 
I knew that Stewmac membership was a bad idea lmao 🤣


Just ordered a nut & saddle vise and a Fret Kisser from them. Both on sale. Still waiting on the Z file and concave fret end file that I ordered last week. They were on sale, also.

Also waiting on the Ernie Ball Paradigm strings I ordered and a few other things. Might get a free pack of NYXL's from D'addario. Their customer service guy offered to let me try a set for free but I don't have a Player Points account so I asked him to send the points to my brother-in-law and he'd order them. We'll see how that goes. Wouldn't mind trying a set out.

I had a Player Point account but it got deleted a while back when they noticed I apparently had more than 1 account. They deleted like 2800 points or something, too. I was pretty aggravated. But the email said not to make another account or they'd take legal action against me! 🤔😕👎 Pretty crappy.

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I’m going to have to get one of those fret kissers. It looks like a time saver.
 
3bolt79 said:
I’m going to have to get one of those fret kissers. It looks like a time saver.
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Yep. I have 2 of the Z files now, also. So it ought to be fairly quick. Especially since I don't have to do anything except polish the frets with a buffing wheel on my drill after crowning. It takes out all of the 300 grit scratches left by the Z files and polishes them to a mirror finish.

I had been using micromesh to polish them up before using the buffing wheel and then I decided to see just how much I could buff out with only the wheel one day. So I hit 5 or 6 frets with the Z file and then the buffing wheel and it took out all the scratches and polished them up QUICK. So that's all I do these days. No more micromesh pads unless I'm really feeling like polishing that day lol
 
Just ordered a Boss RE-202 Space Echo while it's on sale for $80 off.

This ought to be fun! 😁

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Permanently lubricated nuts? :unsure:

You don't say. What will they think of next? 🤷‍♂️
 
I was actually going for a subtle joke there with a play on the words permanently lubricated nuts. It's my Parental Guidance Advised brain and sense of humor.

Guess they could also have added "We'll Change the Way You Play With Your Nuts".
 
"Subtle joke"? - Oh, come on. I have actually wondered oftentimes why this thing - on the guitar I mean - is referred to as "the nut" in English, but there you go.

Anyway, if you are 65, like me, or older, you have probably given up on playing with your nuts already, as it has turned into a losing game by now, and if you are into parental guidance in this area, you will have to work from memory.

For what it's worth, I am all nuts about my new nut!
 
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Ordered a spray can of red cherry lacquer to attempt to fix this repair on my Epiphone.

Ordered a new passive attenuator for the Hot Rod Deluxe. It's similar to the Harley Benton attenuator except it runs on 9v and has a cab simulation built in as well as a headphone amp for quiet playing and an aux input jack.

It's made by Warwick in Germany that builds Warwick basses. Called a Rockboard RPA-100

I ordered a locking speaker cable to attach it to my amp. Locking so it doesn't accidentally come loose and destroy my amp.

After I ordered the cable, I came across the locking female TRS/TS jack they used on that cable so I bought a couple of locking jacks to modify a speaker cable I have already.

Ordered a new kit of potentiometers for pedal building. 1k through 1M, A B & C tapers. I'm currently building out a Tone Bender pcb that Tim at Free Stompboxes sent me along with 2 modified fuzz face pcb's(Trimmed Face) and what I think is a big muff pcb.

He also sent me all the parts to build them minus pots, jacks, and 9v jacks. I have all of that and just ran out of the correct pots in my previous kit I bought. So I bought some more. I built the trimmed faces already. Both are germanium PNP builds.

One was built with transistors he sent and the other was built with AC128's I got on Amazon a few months ago. Not sure what I did but the AC128 fuzz isn't working ATM. One of the leads to the Fuzz pot was loose so I soldered it up and now I get nothing. Ugh.

I got a little off topic at the end but most of this is stuff I just bought. 🤣
 
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Gibson Les Paul Studio, "new" model, in Cherry Sunburst. "New", because according to the serial number, run against two different serial number decoders, it has been manufactured in June 2021. Ordered online with a 30 day money back guarantee, and just out of curiosity whether it is worth compared to my Epiphone Les Paul in terms of playability et cetera. It didn't take me all of an hour to decide it isn't worth and re-box it.
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You really shouldn't use serial number decoders. Email Gibson/Fender/etc... They'll tell you when it was actually built and not give you random info like those sites do. They don't have a database of legit guitars they're referencing.

All they do is literally decode whatever you type in. It could be a group of numbers that do not exist on any guitar but those sites will say "built in XXXX at so and so, serial # 999841 when there are no legit guitars with serial numbers that high because they've never built 999,841 guitars in a day. Or even a year.
 
Wound_Up said:
You really shouldn't use serial number decoders. Email Gibson/Fender/etc... They'll tell you when it was actually built and not give you random info like those sites do. They don't have a database of legit guitars they're referencing.

All they do is literally decode whatever you type in. It could be a group of numbers that do not exist on any guitar but those sites will say "built in XXXX at so and so, serial # 999841 when there are no legit guitars with serial numbers that high because they've never built 999,841 guitars in a day. Or even a year.
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Thanks for the heads up.
 
Wound_Up said:
How much were those cutters? I usually just buy a set of Hakko CHP-170 flush cutters for like $5. You see A LOT of people using them when soldering because they're flush cutters. I use them to cut strings extremely short at the tuners.


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The cutters from GrooveTech come at $11, in US pricing, from Thomann, where I purchase (almost) all my stuff, for convenience. They also offer a cheaper one from Harley Benton, and two more expensive ones. But the GrooveTech got the best reviews, and I'm quite happy with them. I had previously used standard wire cutters from some hardware store and, although being flat on the cutting side and thus allowing for cutting very close to the tuning peg, I always had issues when cutting the bigger strings, as they just weren't sharp enough.

In addition to being more economically priced, yours also seems to come with the advantage of being angled and pointed near the tip which obviously allows for reaching into places where standard shaped cutters won't go, thus making them the ideal tool for electronic work, as you mentioned.
 
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Made 2 speaker cables for my attenuator earlier, after the locking female jacks came in. It started as a 6' cable with molded ends from D'addario. Now it's two 3' cables lol. Had to figure out how that locking female jack came apart. That was interesting. So I cut it in half and put new jacks on the cut ends. 1 female and 1 90 degree jack.

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Started with 2 of these locking female jacks and a 90 degree male Neutrik jack. Used one of the locking jacks and the 90.

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