Too rich for my blood but a pretty impressive Russian Big Muff collection at my local used instrument shop. I’ve never seen many of these in person before. If I was stupid rich, this is the kind of art I would collect.
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I recently came across these guys on YouTube. Man I love this guy’s playing. Sweet guitars too. I would love an old Harmony or Silvertone, but never seem to come across any.
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I just discovered that thread and i don’t think i saw mentioned the Meris Enzo.
Seems like a great way to turn a guitar into a synth.
I would be curious to try out a software like Jam Origin. I wanna play trumpet with a guitar 
On another note i spent a bit of time searching for a lighter/smaller guitar than my heavy Telecaster before the general mess as i used to travel quite a lot.
I met a luthier in France who was doing some serious job and would have pulled the trigger on one of his models if had still a job.
These are full scale neck and despite looking a bit akward they are surprisingly comfortable to play with the collapsible parts that can recreate a full body sensation when holding the instrument.
He’s also making his own mics and had a guitar where you can replace mics on the fly to try out different tones.
76cm long and like 2kg something on the scale, would be a breath to travel.
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Link to the luthier’s website please? That is an awesome guitar.
What an amazing design and build!
The tuner arrangement alone is an impressive piece of work.
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He managed to have an easy access to the tuners while reducing the weight of the head so the guitar is balanced.
Surprising!
What’s it scale?
I guess it is a pretty expensive?
Looks like they are all Gibson scale, 24 3/4.
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It’s like a standard neck.
He just reduced the size of the body so might loose in sustain.
I found it well thought and the guy was an engineer before being a luthier.
You can also check the custom mics he used to make with another guy, home & hand made !
For the price, he used to have standard models -copies of gibson&fender- that were all made and assembled in the workshop of a famous french luthier but it is not the case anymore.
IIRC it was starting at 1700€ without options and the customs from 2000€ and over depending on what you ask (neck profile, shape of the body, woods, etc.).
He’s working with woods that he gets sometimes hundreds of km away in his little old car
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Very cool!
I occasionally GAS for a Strandberg Salen as a travel-friendly Tele-style guitar.
However, Mssr. Gavet’s design has gotten my attention.
After the first few bars I hit pause, grabbed a Bass, hit play and jammed along.
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My travel guitar :
I can put it in a jacket pocket!
Tuning from E to B, I tuned it in A.
E tuning:
G tuning:
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wow, that sounds shockingly good! I want one!
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@JamesM or any other experienced guitar/bass players here:
EDIT: Let’s say I don’t want to spend money on an amp and I am not under the ideal conditions to mic an amp. And let’s add to that that I don’t want to do any processing ITB or using any digital amp sim/modeling pedals.
Can I get a nice recording with all-analogue pedals directly into the audio interface? Pre-amp pedals? Overdrive pedals? Any suggestions? Or is this just a bad idea?
The problem is that a very large part of a traditional “good” guitar tone comes from a valve preamp and transformer (with the speaker load having an effect on the amp tone, before you take mic & room into account).
You can get lots of tones - by using a clean boost / preamp / “amp in a box” FET pedal you will get the signal loud enough, no problem.
Depends what you’re looking to achieve.
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Depends on the sound you’re after. Clean, distorted? Bass, guitar, both?
I use Hx Stomp with preamp / amp / cab simulators. Strymon Iridium seems efficient.
I used Two Notes Torpedos before, and different tube preamps, power amps with Torpedo’s loadbox feature.
Cheap solution : Sansamp clones (FET). I paid my American Tone (Sansamp Blond clone) around 25€ new.
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I just came across this. Sounds nice to my ears. He does an A/B with a tube screamer bypassing the JDX Direct Drive, and then going through it. both sounded good enough to me. Bottom line: I think this path is viable! Pretty happy 
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