This week we compare two guitars that are almost identical apart from the body style. Can we put to rest that claim that the tone is all in the pickups, or does the wood actually count? Join us for a bit of poking around and looping as we play with our favourite kind of guitars! 😁🎸👍

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Another budget guitar from Hartwood this week which could be raising the stakes in this price point. Originality is not really what you expect to find for £299 yet here it is... and this one inspires a vague Motorcycle Gang Analogy Thumbnail and Leather Jacketed Jam. Top stuff!! 😎🎸🏍🖤

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Join us for a look around the Guitaristas studio at my tatty old tube amp collection as we ponder what my live rig will be when I start gigging again. Will it be a behemoth Marshall full stack or a 5 watt fly rig?... of course I have a cunning plan! 😎🎸

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This week we check out another of those cheap Heritage guitars made in 'you know where' 😉 It's a fiesty little beast and although it has a few 'issues' they are not something that can't be fixed with a screwdriver and positive attitude 💪 Buckle up it's a long one!! 📺

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What do you get if you cross a 1972 Les Paul Custom with a fully cranked Fender Twin Reverb? 🤔 Only perhaps the greatest guitar tone ever recorded!! 🙌 We happen to have that rig lying around so can we recreate that sound?... let's bloody turn it up and find out!! 🎸🔥

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This week we finally take a look at a Guild Polara in the form of this hot rodded single pickup no frills shred machine that they call the ‘Night Edition’ 🔥 It certainly can Chug but can it clean up enough to suit this old farts boomer blues style?? 🤔 Let the battle commence!! 😆🎸👍

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Can this magic box of amps really replace a 70lb Vox AC30 and a full line-up of other classics? Will it be the solution young Brandon needs when bunking the tube to go gig in Camden Town? Join us for some answers and then a catch up about last weeks video. 😎🎸✌️

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We start the new year with another channel funding guitar sell-off only to discover slim-pickings and a net loss in the wall hanger department 🤨 This Guitar based Ponzi scheme is clearly not sustainable for much longer so we need a 💰 plan for the future of this channel.

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In this final show of 2024 we look back at another dozen guitars we bought & reviewed this year. Trying to decide which wins our annual GOTY Award proved very tricky this year... can you guess which way it went? 🎸🤔

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As we rush headlong into the Christmas holiday I'm now hanging out in the fall out shelter studio reminiscing on all the guitars we've reviewed this year. This week we look back at all the under £400 guitars and I choose my 'budget' guitar of the year. 🤔🎸👌

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The thing about Epiphone price gouging is that many of us resist paying the ridiculous prices and eventually they drop like a stone and we can swoop in and pick up a bargain... like this 63 Firebird at a massive £500 discount! 😝 Ok it was still expensive but that's GAS for you... got to keep it l...

With Christmas fast approaching we take a look and listen to one of a huge range of EastCoast 'guitar starter kits' aimed at equipping beginners with everything they need to start their guitar journey with proper capable gear 🎸Wow I wish I'd had one of these when I was 12! 😛👍

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Finally it's time to tackle the long promised 'budget Telecaster shootout' and the problem of what to play to demonstrate six guitars is a real challenge. Our runnin' down a dream medley didn't really work but ironically it got a bloody copyright strike anyway! 🤦‍♂️

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Epiphone's questionable pricing strategy on some of its higher spec models seems to have backfired with prices now dropping and up to 40% discounts not uncommon. Now at just £799 this Shinichi Ubukata ES 355 was a steal so we bought it! 😁🎸👍

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A 'budget' range that caught our magpie eyes recently is G4M's in-house (we think) brand Hartwood. It's an impressive looking line-up of retro original and super cool guitars for under £300. Originality on a budget can't be up to much can it?... join us and let's find out! 😎🎸

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Do you ever get that thing after buying a piece of gear you've been gassing after, that rather than feeling satisfied you immediately start looking at something else you suddenly need? 🤤... Well I know I have and it's bloody well happened to me again! 🤷‍♂️😊🎸

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You know that thing when you strongly resist buying a piece of gear you don't really need, only to find maybe a day, a week, or a few months later you buy it anyway! 🤷‍♂️ No matter how hard we try to beat the GAS it will always win in the end so don't fight it brothers! 😁🎸👍

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Following last weeks review of the new Epiphone Les Paul P90 several people asked the question... 'this one or the Revstar'?? 🤔 Well as we're lucky enough to own both who could pass up the opportunity for a comparison and to throw an old SG in to mix it up a bit! 😁🎸👌

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Much excitement this week when a much lusted after P90 loaded Epiphone Les Paul was announced with a very reasonable price tag! 😲 It's got Joe Bonamassa's signature on it and we think he had a say in the price ... at under $900 this one is definitely for the kids! 😎🎸🤘

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Another cheap 'T-Style' goes under the microscope this week as we take a close up look and listen to Fender's Squier Sonic Telecaster. Can you get a 'real' Telecaster for £149 that doesn't fall apart and sound a bit rubbish? 🧐 Come and join us as we get stuck in and find out! 😁🎸👌

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It's finally time to bite the bullet and compare my mega collection of 'proper' £2k single cuts and decide which ones will stay and which ones will be listed for sale on reverb. After playing all these again this week it just got a lot harder... ☹️🎸🤔

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In part 3 of our troubled 'Troublecaster' upgrade we try to concentrate and not screw things up with power tools and we test out a theory for hiding scratch-plate / pick-guard holes. It's a messy business this guitar modding and we can't help but wonder who is really in control?? 🤨👽 🎸

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Following last week's fight with our Squier Troublecaster we're back for round two of the upgrade battle. On paper this should be such an easy job... grab some new pots and pickups from the man-drawer, pop them in and plug and play. It doesn't quite work out like that... 🤬

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This week I hit upon the brilliant idea of upgrading the Squier Paranormal Troublemaker for free using only parts found in my man drawer. What could go wrong?... a couple of things as it happens so buckle up as there is more swearing than usual this week and this is only part one! 😬

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