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Van_Hayden · September 2013

bought a guitar, thought it was awesome and then picked it up a coupe of weeks later and thought "nah, don't like it anymore"?

Guitar in question is my Eric Johnson strat. It's the neck, the guitars great but the neck I think is too flat for me. A strat should have a big camber....I should like the EJ radius but its feeling all wrong. I like the back shape, in fact everything else about the guitar.

I should like this, I've wanted one for ages....oh cock. Am I being slightly mental?

Might be keeping my 57 reissue.....

geepers0677 · September 2013

All the time. Not just guitars. Amps, pedals. Everything. Tone seeking is a curse.

Adam_MD · September 2013

I've been going through the same thing with a G&L I bought a while ago. I love the sound, the looks, the trem but keep wishing the neck was a little fatter and would rather have a 10" radius than a 12. I've been going back and forward between trading it or keeping it for weeks now.

Van_Hayden · September 2013

Glad I'm not on my own then....

monquixote · September 2013

Adam_MD said:

I've been going through the same thing with a G&L I bought a while ago. I love the sound, the looks, the trem but keep wishing the neck was a little fatter and would rather have a 10" radius than a 12. I've been going back and forward between trading it or keeping it for weeks now.

Ooo what G&L is it?

Jalapeno · September 2013

Van_Hayden said:

Glad I'm not on my own then....

Definitely not !

[Deleted User] · September 2013

I agree about the neck on the EJ Strat - it is too flat for me.

Certain guitars seem to get hyped to the point where you are almost 'expected' to like them. The EJ Strat seems to be one of them. I'm not suggesting there is anything wrong with them, they are just not for me.

I'm fairly instinctive about guitar purchases. If a two minute unplugged noodle on one doesn't do much for me, it goes back on the wall. The only time I've made bad buys is where I have spent longer, trying to convince myself....

jaygtr · September 2013

Yes I have done it, a black dove tele. I thought it would satisfy my craving for a tele and a les Paul junior, it did neither. It was also extremely ugly to my eyes. Nicely built though, and it was second hand so I didn't lose out. But I was very disappointed.

It's not that it was a bad guitar, it was my expectation of it was wrong.

grungebob · September 2013

All the time. I find that if I start hating or disliking a guitars a few weeks away from it is all thats needed to make me like it again and remember why I bought it. Of course sometimes I still don't like it and that's when it gets sold. I think though there are just some guitars we like the idea of having but just are not right for us for one reason or another

mike_l · September 2013

Not within a couple of weeks......

Although my old LP was literally played 3 times in 3 years before being P/X'd against my Charvel, Sammie, which gets played way more.

Van_Hayden · September 2013

richardhomer;26161" said:
If a two minute unplugged noodle on one doesn't do much for me, it goes back on the wall.

@richardhomer I think I usually do this, but this time I went via eBay...there's only one guitar I bought from eBay that I really like, and even that was through someone I know so I got a trusted opinion of it first. Try before you buy....

grungebob;26184" said:
All the time. I find that if I start hating or disliking a guitars a few weeks away from it is all thats needed to make me like it again and remember why I bought it

Good idea going to try this first @grungebob. With any luck the secondhand market will start to pick up soon!

mike_l;26185" said:
Not within a couple of weeks....

lmao @mike_l

OilCityPickups · September 2013

I'd gassed another flying V for ages after selling my seventies Ibanez ... it took me less than two weeks to regret buying my Epi Korina V. Apalling balance, disappointing sustain, gutless pickups ... I used to sit looking at it thinking: how can anything that looks this good be so uninspiring to play?
Funnily enough I still gas another V badly ... but one as good as my old Ibanez was. Other people have told me I may well have got a Friday afternoon Epi ... but I've avoided em like the plague ever since.

ICBM · September 2013

I bought a very expensive vintage Gibson a few months back - a '77 Les Paul Signature - a fantastic looking and sounding thing, but after a short time I found myself getting hand cramps from the neck, so it had to go. The final nail in the coffin was buying a Danelectro for a hundred quid which is a joy to play.

Paul_C · September 2013

I bought a Thunderbird bass back in the 80s - awful thing, hideously unbalanced and full of dodgy wiring - took it back and bought something else

Manhattan Midnight Ltd. Ed. Les Paul - couldn't get the damn thing to play in tune despite all sorts of work being done on it - sold it on.

mike_l · September 2013

Van_Hayden said:

lmao @mike_l
It's true, I tend to not shift guitars or amps for that matter on too quickly.
Thinking about it, I shifted on a Squire Strat, I had my Jackson (Laura) and my ESP (The beast) and felt I didn't need it. (I wish I still had it-needed a pup upgrade though)
My old Epi LP which after major bowel surgery left my body quite mis-shapen and the LP didn't "fit" me properly. Also the neck was massively thick in comparison to my other guitars.
An old Hohner LP copy - given to a mate to learn on (he hasn't) mind this guitar is a bit shit.

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