I need a new guitar

Weird question, but hear me out. How well would a tele-style guitar sit inside of a hardshell p bass-style case?

I've recently encountered a real space crunch in my house. When we were done reorganizing, the one thing that didn't have a home were my guitars - a tele and a p bass. I tend to go through phases of a month or so where I'll be screwing around with one instrument more than the other, so it makes sense to me to store one guitar in a less-accessible place, but I don't just want to shove it directly in a closet or whatever. And yeah, the current storage situation has just been "leaned up against whatever".

Any thoughts?

Oh, forgot that this is the thread that causes the site new answers weirdness.

Noticing now that there are a number of different layouts of hardshell case, some of which are body-type specific and some of which have a more open layout.

If you are just using it for storage, no problem (if it fits, which it might or might not). Remember that it's oversized when moving it though, you can do plenty of damage to an instrument banging it off of the sides of a case that's too big.

Yeah, this would be destined for a sedentary life behind a piece of furniture or in storage space or something, not to haul around town. Maybe with some rags padding out the inside of the case for stability. Thanks for this input.

Yeah if it's sitting still with no chance of fag mingle or being messed with, then I can't see it nattering as long as it fits

Good god that was supposed to say "falling"

Also "mattering"

Never posting from a phone again

That post... was AMAZING.

I like playing guitars. I know next to nothing about buying a guitar. I've had three electric guitars in my life:
- Fender Squier Strat which I got when I was 15 and learnt to play on. Not a bad thing really. Good mid-tone. It did the trick.
- Ibanez, don't know what sort of model, but it wasn't very expensive. A bit light and thin-sounding for me. I got the impression it was more for metal soloists. Just not warm-sounding enough for me. Also the strings kept breaking all the time for some reason.
- Fender Telecaster - Not mine, my bandmate's which he bought for about £800 after we got fed up with my Ibanez. Nice tone, really no problem with it at all. Actually a nice thing. Shame there's no tremolo arm but that's it.

I want my own guitar. I've been playing long enough to get something half-decent, but no idea what style of guitar I want. I'm into sort of funky post-punky scratchy stuff but also warmer rhythm strumming. I don't know a lot about different styles of guitars, let alone what to look out for. I'm not supremely rich either, but keen to save and get a good all-rounder.

What should I consider when looking at different guitars and what people like about them.

check out my new guitar (and my kitten)

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what the heck is that?!?

Whoa!

Yes, more info please.

galanti grand prix, italian guitar from circa 1966/67. i love it. sounds great, feels great, seems good and solid.

there are a few on reverb but the red finish seems to be rarer, i ended up tracking down the one i had played at a guitar store in asheville after they had returned it to the guy who had been trying to sell it on consignment.

Ash Bowie played a Galanti GP for most of the early classic Polvo records.

don't think i've ever seen one of those before, it's super-cool

The weird old Italian guitars are generally well-made instruments -- accordion manufacturers didn't quite know exactly what to do, but they did it well.

^^^ this is the best and most accurate description I've ever heard and I will do my best not to steal it

is this thread doing weird shit for anyone else on SNA and in zing

Not at the moment? What weird shit is it doing to you? Also your new guitar rules

xp for me it appears in the correct place in SNA, but has the heading 'Last on Thursday, 8 June 2017 15:16' about it.

Oh yeah, it's gone all weird again. What the hell?

looks like this

this was after you posted, so in addition to the date issue, it's not showing the most recent post. yesterday in zing it just wasn't appearing for a while, though now it's back.

I'm amazed at the number of $4000+ guitars that don't seem designed just for aging Boomers who want to relive arena rock's heyday.

$4900!
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7229/26230168544_e0cef67ddc_b.jpg

$5500!
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They're cool looking and no shade at the builders who can get that much, but I can't figure out who's buying them.

(Well, the first would be cool looking without the artificial damage.)

Yeah if the damage is artificial, no thanks. And is the "wrong" side pickguard meant to look like it was modified from / to being lefty? I don't mind guitars that look weird and a bit wrong but intentional wrongness is not endearing.

The second one is rather pretty.

Given what dudes will pay for a nice vintage Gibson or Fender, some of these boutique instruments are good value for money. I've played Kauer and Ronin basses before --they are pretty terrific (although that distressed Ronin looks like some customer's bad ideas). Pros and collectors buy this stuff -- and more and more pros as big firm guitar marketing begins to fall apart. If your choice is $8,000 for a vintage Gibson or a custom made instrument for $5,000, your choice isn't all that hard. It's the boutique instruments that go north of $7,000 or so that I wonder about (and that you almost never see on stages).

Really want to buy an ibanez and just shred

that seems like one of the more achievable goals one can have

: )

I just want to inherit a vintage hollow D'Aquisto and create inventive, yet mellow, yet incisive fingerstyle ballads that will herald (and also come to define) the coming age of peace and justice.

Like Wyld Stallyns

Really want to buy an ibanez and just shred

There was an Ibanez or Jackson something or other with a pointy headstock and a Floyd Rose and a 15" fingerboard radius for like $150 on Craigslist that I thought pretty hard about. If I wasn't moving soon I might have gone for it

Love that radius

scallops or gtfo

I still love the Ibanez RGs.

I ordered an offset Duo-Sonic at the back end of last month and the dealer thought it might take three or four days to come in. Over the course of the last five weeks, they haven't received a single Fender guitar or accessory. There's a new EU restriction in place on the import of rosewood - it was announced mid-2016 and brought into effect in February this year. From the sound of it, Fender haven't got their act together to confirm their CITES license so can't import anything with a rosewood board to Europe. They have kept shipping them though - so everything is getting seized by Customs - including non-rosewood guitars / accessories in the same packages.

Other companies seem to be in the same situation - so there are tens of thousands of guitars held at the UK border with no suggestion of when they might ever be released.

I've just seen that Fender will now manufacture most of their guitars with pau ferro rather than rosewood - so goodness knows when they might be ready.

Of course, having finished typing, i got a call that it had arrived.

Yeah, the CITES thing is global. The stores that were sending used Japanese Fender and Gibson copies to the American market got stuck for quite a while unable to ship.

Love the RG series and this marketing copy: "Three decades of metal have forged this high-performance machine"

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ibanez-rg-prestige-series-rg652kfx-electric-guitar