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2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

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I’m so jealous of gen z kids some times. Like goddamn I was at least this cool 

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Honestly their dorkiness is why they are so cool. I'm not even super into their music (Elderberry Wine is great though), but from the first time I saw them I was like these kids are rad.

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On 6/11/2025 at 2:05 PM, Deej said:

This thing is perfect. Locking tuners, rolled board edges, perfect frets and fret ends, tuner peg heights go from high to low as you move up the headstock, so no string trees. The action was perfect right of of the box. Low and very playable. No buzz whatsoever. 

Like the look of the roasted maple and love the back of the neck being satin. 

So, 2nd Sire guitar, a the bass, I ive had zero nits to pick about any of them.

 

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Good evening, gentlemen and Surly members. I’ve been following this thread and the amp thread for a long time but until now didn’t have a reason to post since I don’t own:

- a Tele with the appropriate amount of pick guard screws

- an exact replica of Billy Gibbons’ Pearly Gates, signed in his blood on the truss rod cover

- the reborn and perfectly restored Eric Johnson Virginia Strat

Now that the Sire has been brought on board, it’s safe for me to comment. 

I have that guitar.  S7 Vintage. You got it at a great price!  I’ve got all the same comments.  Great features at a low price and that neck is so comfortable.  My only complaint after a couple years is that the G string goes a little sharp when I’m playing some chords.  I had the nut slot filled and re-slotted and it helped but I have to watch myself and be delicate with how much pressure I use, especially on the ring finger. 
 

Now for an amp.  I use a Spark Mini but would like something that will take pedals for real.  Hard to argue against the latest Katana for features and price. 
 

 My acoustic is a PRS Alex Lifeson model. Shocking, I know.  Go ahead a neg rep me for not having a $5000 Martin or Taylor or Gibson but I like this acoustic and it plays and sounds great. 

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Good evening, gentlemen and Surly members. I’ve been following this thread and the amp thread for a long time but until now didn’t have a reason to post since I don’t own:
- a Tele with the appropriate amount of pick guard screws
- an exact replica of Billy Gibbons’ Pearly Gates, signed in his blood on the truss rod cover
- the reborn and perfectly restored Eric Johnson Virginia Strat
Now that the Sire has been brought on board, it’s safe for me to comment. 

I have that guitar.  S7 Vintage. You got it at a great price!  I’ve got all the same comments.  Great features at a low price and that neck is so comfortable.  My only complaint after a couple years is that the G string goes a little sharp when I’m playing some chords.  I had the nut slot filled and re-slotted and it helped but I have to watch myself and be delicate with how much pressure I use, especially on the ring finger. 
 
Now for an amp.  I use a Spark Mini but would like something that will take pedals for real.  Hard to argue against the latest Katana for features and price. 
 
 My acoustic is a PRS Alex Lifeson model. Shocking, I know.  Go ahead a neg rep me for not having a $5000 Martin or Taylor or Gibson but I like this acoustic and it plays and sounds great. 

If you were a real lurker, you’d know the rules:

Too many words.

Too few pics.
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2 hours ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

Good evening, gentlemen and Surly members. I’ve been following this thread and the amp thread for a long time but until now didn’t have a reason to post since I don’t own:

- a Tele with the appropriate amount of pick guard screws

- an exact replica of Billy Gibbons’ Pearly Gates, signed in his blood on the truss rod cover

- the reborn and perfectly restored Eric Johnson Virginia Strat

Now that the Sire has been brought on board, it’s safe for me to comment. 

I have that guitar.  S7 Vintage. You got it at a great price!  I’ve got all the same comments.  Great features at a low price and that neck is so comfortable.  My only complaint after a couple years is that the G string goes a little sharp when I’m playing some chords.  I had the nut slot filled and re-slotted and it helped but I have to watch myself and be delicate with how much pressure I use, especially on the ring finger. 
 

Now for an amp.  I use a Spark Mini but would like something that will take pedals for real.  Hard to argue against the latest Katana for features and price. 
 

 My acoustic is a PRS Alex Lifeson model. Shocking, I know.  Go ahead a neg rep me for not having a $5000 Martin or Taylor or Gibson but I like this acoustic and it plays and sounds great. 

I owned one of those PRS Alex Lifeson acoustics for awhile.  Great little guitar.

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32 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


If you were a real lurker, you’d know the rules:

Too many words.

Too few pics.

Here is the acoustic, with the “birds in flight” pattern for the fret markers.  Alex wanted his to look different. 
 

I only found out about this model after seeing a YouTube video of him and his wife visiting a guitar store in Tokyo and seeing one of his guitars in the Private Stock line, which were $15k then.  Later I found they had made an SE line but it been out of production for several years. 
 

Reverb became a frequent visit and one came available in Florida for $800 or so, and I debated for a day or two and it sold. 
 

Another came up, listed from upstate New York. It was $725 and sold fast.  
 

Time passed and I saw this one while checking Reverb during lunch.  It was at the Tone Shop in Addison.  I called them, they said “we just listed it two hours ago!  It’s very playable and sounds great!”

They said if I bought it from them instead of from Reverb they would charge me no tax and ship it free and next-day. I did that and it was $520.  Good deal!  Reverb probably wouldn’t like this story. 

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Chad wants pics of the Sire, but they are going to look familiar!

My family gets me Sweetwater gift cards for birthday and Christmas and I had a few stacked and had been trying out guitars, trying to see what neck profile I liked before I ordered something. I didn’t have an electric so I was trying them all, but good Lord is Guitar Center a beating for trying out anything. 
 

Electrics I almost bought while taking time to find the one that felt best:

- used Ibanez Prestige in salmon color (not great but I’m not exactly playing in front of people yet). It was $1200.  They had it marked too low.  Reverb had similar models much higher.  The Japanese do good things in their guitar factories

- Fender Player Strat.  Fret edges and fretboard edge felt rough compared to the Sire. That would have been $800

- Silver Sky SE. $899 or whatever they were.  I wasn’t crazy about the colors, and they were not offering the maple fretboard yet.  Plus, I knew I could never show my face here if I got one because Paul Reed Smith is an arrogant jackass, probably on the spectrum, is doing to Leo Fender what Edison is said to have done to Nikolai Tesla, and regularly fire bombs orphanages and no-kill animal shelters. (One of those might be true)

- Schecter Nick Johnston, used, was maybe $950, and was pink.  That guitar played nice!
 

Eventually I saw a convincing video from that Canuck named Darrell Braun and he went on and on about the Sires.  Then Lee and Pete at Anderton’s raved about them. 
Yeah, their job is to sell guitars.  But then there were demos for amps and pedals, and Lee kept reaching for the Sire even with a room full of sweet ass guitars. 
 

I finally ordered an S7 vintage without seeing one in person. Sweetwater has a great return policy so no real risk, and there wasn’t a Sire in Texas for me to try anyway. It was $641 delivered.  I bought a gig bag later. 
 

Great guitar, feels like the easiest neck to play, was even still in tune out of the box.  And less expensive than everything else I tried. 
 

Lee Anderton changed the pickups on his but has no complaints otherwise. I’m not there yet with mine. 

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One more note for you fellas and a word of thanks. 
 

I was a choir kid growing up. Had an older brother that was a well and was a monster bass player.  He played a mean bass and was invited into some bands in high school and after. 

When I got into high school, some older guys got a band together for a school talent show. None of them sang or played bass.  They asked me to front the band because they knew I could sing and “your brother plays bass and we figure you have learned from him.”

Why yes.  Yes I have. 
 

Followed by me telling my brother, “Dude, you have to teach me how to play bass right now   And I need to borrow it and your giant ass Peavy amp.  And I need a ride to practice.”

That eventually led to me playing bass and some keys and singing in other bands, but all that went away in my early 20’s.

I got a Takamine acoustic in my late 20’s and took lessons for six months but once being a husband and father entered the equation, I put it away.  Plus I worked at a job with a lot going on and hobby time was not a thing. 
 

*this is where y’all come in*

I had read this site for a long time and used to post on one or both of the Shaggy sites way back when.  Mostly I was into football but I got turned off by the decisions made for the program over the years and the delusional idiots on the football board. 

This board, and this thread in particular, were encouraging. During the pandemic I picked up guitar again and signed up for lessons.  Y’all were a bigger part of that than you know.  The sharing of tips and tricks and gear knowledge and more on this thread has been a huge help.  And some of the other threads as well. You men have a lot of good info to share, and I’m sure there are other lurkers thankful for your posts here. 
 

Don’t be shy about speaking what’s on your mind about guitar stuff or music or practicing.  You do good work here. 

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4 hours ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

 

Don’t be shy about speaking what’s on your mind about guitar stuff or music or practicing

 

Well that's one thing you never need be concerned of.

 

Welcome aboard, good to have new blood.

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