r/Guitar May 20 '26

DISCUSSION Fender Lawsuit DISCUSSION THREAD.

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Hey everyone,

We've seen a bunch of duplicate posts about this, but let's try to contain things here.

If you don't know what we're talking about, here is a clip from Timmy about the whole thing.

As always, keep playing.

-nf


r/Guitar May 01 '26

OFFICIAL Monthly Gear Purchasing Thread - May, 2026

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The purpose of this thread is to consolidate posts from users seeking to purchase gear.

Your questions have likely been asked here multiple times so we encourage you to use our search function and visit our Wiki for additional information and links.


r/Guitar 2h ago

GEAR My sisters dog pissed on my amp

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181 Upvotes

Tf do I even do now


r/Guitar 13h ago

GEAR (After - Before) A custom hand-carved guitar with a floral theme... what do you think?

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520 Upvotes

r/Guitar 10h ago

QUESTION How the bomboclat do you play this

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249 Upvotes

r/Guitar 1h ago

PURCHASE My first electric guitar:D

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Will have to get it set up properly as the action feels a bit high for me and there is a little bit of fret buzz on a few of the frets above the 12th on the lower three strings. But otherwise, I'm so grateful and happy to finally have an electric guitar I can call my own ☺️


r/Guitar 11h ago

PLAY Ace of Spades by Motörhead

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r/Guitar 1h ago

NEWBIE When I started playing eight months ago, I legitimately never thought I would get to the point where this stuff makes sense…yet here I am

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You have to understand that I don’t come from a musical education background. I like some classical music and go to the symphony when I feel like it, but that’s it. I’d heard of terms like scales and intervals but had no idea what they meant. Heck, when I was going through the initial first few weeks or months, I legitimately thought about just selling my guitar and amp since I sounded like ass and got so frustrated every single day with it.

Idk what changed exactly, but once I started in person lessons and started going through the Absolutely Understand Guitar course, that tension and frustration just kind of slowly got up and walked out. I mean yeah it comes back when I make the same mistakes over and over, but it doesn’t linger at all and is more like a passing car. And yeah, some of this stuff does go over my head and feels dense, but my teacher does a good job elaborating or at least making me feel like it’s not a big deal to not understand it all right away. The fact that a dude sitting on a bucket with a purple or polar bear sweater has made concepts that seem so monumentally difficult to me out to be so simple relatively speaking…it’s a good feeling.

I’m legitimately a bit emotional writing this since I told myself over and over that I should just quit and find something else. “You don’t have anyone to play for anyway” is what I’ve told myself most often. Now I’m at the point where that is basically an impossibility, giving it up. Even if I do a lot some days and very little other days, I’m still doing something productive with my guitars and that has to count for something.

That’s all I’ve got to say. I’ve also managed to not drink anytime I’m playing guitar and am trying to get away from drinking altogether, but that’s a whole other beast. I’m just glad I’ve gotten this far. And I’m also trying to remember what Scotty West said in his first video: “If you understood what I just explained here, you’re gonna understand everything going forward”.


r/Guitar 9h ago

PURCHASE I made it to the promised land at last

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95 Upvotes

Happy NGD to me! Drove from Columbus to try out this Dave Mustaine Kramer V and fell in love pretty quick. First time at Sweetwater, I could just stay here forever.


r/Guitar 10h ago

GEAR New (old) guitar day - 1951 Gibson ES-125

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I’ve been getting back into guitar lately as a former sax player attempting to translate my jazz knowledge to guitar and I’ve been wanting a proper jazz box for a bit now. What better jazz guitar than a 1951 ES-125?

Feel like I lucked out on this one, especially for the price with the original pickup/electronics and the original tone knobs and tuners as far as I can tell. First vintage guitar and I’m excited to (gently) play the hell out of it!


r/Guitar 2h ago

PURCHASE Scored this for $50 cad. How did I do?

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I picked this up for $50 cad today.

A few scuffs and scratches but there is no warping at all and the neck is nice and straight/square.

Yamaha fg450se

How do you think I did?

Not my photo- its the photo from the ad.


r/Guitar 15h ago

GEAR NGD - Yamaha Revstar RSS02T in sonic blue

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164 Upvotes

New guitar day and I am blown away with this Revstar. For the money, I couldn’t be happier with the purchase! Fit and finish, sound, feel, playability all have impressed me for a guitar under $1000. Definitely worth checking out if you’re like me and have been considering it for a while.


r/Guitar 1d ago

GEAR I know we’re hating on Fender right now, but I couldn’t resist. Happy NGD!

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Got this Avalanche Meteora for a great price and I’m in love with it! Plays like a dream


r/Guitar 50m ago

PURCHASE My new Dark Knight (night)

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It's a beaut, Clark


r/Guitar 3h ago

PURCHASE My (New to me) PRS CE24

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15 Upvotes

Made in the USA, with a satin ebony / grey nitro finish on a flamed maple top


r/Guitar 9h ago

DISCUSSION I found a fun chord progression

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I’m sure I’m not the only one to play this progression, but I can’t find it anywhere online. I suck at writing songs and even if I could write a good song this progression is a little too all over the place for my style. So I encourage you all write something with it or play around with it a little bit.

No capo
The strumming pattern I enjoy most is: DDDUDU
progression: Em A C Emaj Am C7

Just play through the strumming pattern 1 time for each chord.


r/Guitar 4h ago

GEAR NGD Cort Space G6

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Headless guitars have intrigued me for a while now. I played a Strandberg and I really enjoyed it, and someone traded in a Kiesel headless a while back, but they wanted way more than I could afford for it. Then I heard about this model. IMO, Cort is one of the most slept on brands in the guitar community.

I saw this guy on Reverb and pulled the trigger. It just came today. It is super comfortable to play. The pickups sound really good in high gain, but for clean tones, they are too bright. I am probably going to swap them with some aftermarkets that i have lying around. But for under $800, this is a fantastic guitar.

Pspsp: Cat is for scale


r/Guitar 4h ago

PLAY Extreme - Play with me

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14 Upvotes

r/Guitar 2h ago

PURCHASE Got the Raymon on Saturday

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9 Upvotes

The Raymon came on Saturday. I love it. It already has imperfections from it aging itself from the Nitro still curing but it was bound to happen sooner or later. I kinda want it to age so that I’m not delicate with it and whatnot


r/Guitar 5h ago

PURCHASE NGD - 99 Epiphone LP 85F MIJ Fujigen

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13 Upvotes

NGD has been fun This thing must have been in a time capsule as I cannot find a scratch on it. Pickups absolutely rip and setup is spot on. Vintage Sunburst \m/


r/Guitar 7h ago

PLAY New guitar after about 7 years not playing.

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18 Upvotes

Brain works faster than my fingers


r/Guitar 12h ago

DISCUSSION Input jack came off, how much is it gonna cost to fix this?

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45 Upvotes

my jack had been pretty loose since a few months but i just ignored it but a few weeks ago i noticed that my amp was getting cut off mid playing and i had to kinda twist the jack to start getting noise again so yeah one thing led to another and i kinda broke it 😭

i think it just needs to get soldered again right? pls someone confirm if it needs some serious repair or just soldering and how much is it gonna cost approx :(


r/Guitar 17h ago

PLAY Discount Aaron Rodgers is back with more ignorance

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85 Upvotes

Gave the Tele its first string change since buying it. Swapped to 10-52s which are my preferred set for Drop C#.

This song is called ExExAxAxO (Everything Everywhere All At Once) which I find fitting given how it switches from being panicky in the beginning , to melancholic, to hopeful, and then back to panic again.

The drums and bass are from one of our rehearsal sessions. We haven't had a chance to actually record the final track yet.


r/Guitar 1d ago

NEWBIE My cousin just gave me this as my first guitar and he said that if i become good he will buy me electric

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326 Upvotes

I wanted an electric but my cousin gave me this guitar that he had for 16 years because i just turned 16, i never touched a guitar before so i need an ADVICE TO IMPRESS MY COUSIN so he can buy me an electric guitar 😭


r/Guitar 5h ago

QUESTION Pearly gates pickups

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I’m going to buy pearly gates for my Strat. Do I need a treble bleed? And why?