It’s a Japanese market only SAS1500. Someone imported it and I bought it second hand.
The neck is too slim though!
Well Wrinkly…pics would be nice! 
You have some nice guitars between you and I love the story of how you went shopping for a strap and came out with a guitar! that apparently happens a lot…although I have no personal knowledge… 
She didn’t get a strap there either 
Not picked it up for about a year and I need a new bow - might buy one this weekend, but I started trying to play the fiddle about 2.5 years ago (ah covid you were good for something at least!) and I can get a few basic tunes out of it - all self-taught with the help of a few diferent sites and youtube videos.
I really wish I had the time to get better at it but Mon-Thurs work then the gym so don’t get home till 20:30 - 21:00 and in bed by about 22:00 - 22:30 Friday’s are alcohol and pizza 
Sat & Sun a bit of gym work, swimming and fettling the 5 (weather dependant) and life in general.
For those wondering - no difference between a fiddle and a violin - the difference is the music you play, or attempt to.
The main thing is that you enjoy it when you do pick it up!
As long as you keep picking it up you will slowly progress and learning new tunes is always a good thing.
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Try and be a bit more strict on yourself and say, “On this day I will do 30 minutes”. Prior to Alcohol and Pizza of course.
When you are then partaking in the above, you can reflect on how/what you managed to achieve when practising.
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Love the comments @Phoenix_25 & @Wilier1 and I am going to get back into it, after I get a new bow. I do enjoy it but it is a steep learning curve - but I’ll get there.
Main reasons I took it up are I’d always wanted to play an instrument - tried the guitar years ago, just not for me, and to try and impress a girl I was seeing - that horse has bolted, still on speaking terms but no romantic connection any more 
She’s been playing since for nealy all her life as do her parents - will never ever reach her level.
Maybe I’ll make your ears bleed, some day (soon)
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As a newbie myself with the bass guitar, I’ve been playing roughly a year and I can certainly see the improvement, like yourself I’m teaching myself from a book and what would we do without YouTube, but I certainly relate to your problem of finding time, I’m lucky that I’m now retired so really I should not have any excuse but I make sure I do at least 1/2 hr every day and that ends up an hour. I do have a wife who is getting back into guitar playing after a 20 year hiatus and as she had classical training she puts me straight if I get a problem, like timing . When she did her grades, she would get home from work, do the dinner and then spend 2-3 hours practicing, talk about golf widows I was a guitar widower 
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It really doesn’t matter what level you aspire to.
What matters is that you enjoy it and one day you will play to people who will applaud what you do, even if it is just family.
Back in the day, my Grandad took me to a pub in Derbyshire and kicked me out in front of an early Saturday evening crowd when I was still at Junior School.
I played a couple of tunes I’d done for my tutor and someone bought me a packet of crisps and a coke.
On the way home, in an old Morris Minor, my Grandad told me, “If you can play an instrument, you’ll never be hungry or out of work”
He was right!
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I’m 70 years old now in physical age but mentally as far as cars and guitars go I will always be 25. I’m not the greatest guitar player, it didn’t come naturally to me and I had to work at it but I kept going. I didn’t give up.
I do my own repairs to quite a high level and I enjoy everything “guitar” …amps, effects, strings etc. etc. and over the years it has brought me so much joy and I have had so much fun from it.
There is always somebody better than you but there is also someone trying to catch you up too. Don’t worry about what level you attain just enjoy it…let go of the worry of it and try and feel every note you play and that way you will put some of You in to every note!
Have fun mate…I do…every single day.
Did you see a Chris Buck tonight, how much do you think that Les Paul will be up for sale for? There’s nothing on the dealer’s website, but there is a 63 Strat in Foam Green for £74,995 
. Better not let the wife see it .
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I did see Chris…I reckon about £280k.
It looked in good shape. I would archive that show from the wife…you never know if she likes the colour you maybe selling the car!
Ivison guitars are sold thru ATB…they do almost copies of 59 burtsts with the odd twist. They did a video of one at ATB against that burst I think. Watch it, it’s only short but hard to tell the difference between them!!
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She would have sell a lot more than the car 
. I watched the clip of the Ivison Les Paul, it’s incredibly close to the originals.
That can be so true… i have ‘fumbled’ around with the guitar for the last 20 years… i have now just started having official lessons after first strumming a 6 string then a bass back in 1971 when i was 16… I then got more interested in girls and cars and sold my guitars to buy a car.
I bought an Encore Strat kit… guitar and amp about 12 years ago and a Fender Acousic 10 years ago… I’ve always known about 6 chords, but never got my head around playing a tune.
I started weekly lessons 4 weeks ago… i now can play barre chords and power chords… and 2 tunes!! And… have bought a Yamaha Pacifica and a better amp… as my tutor said… ‘if youre serious… get a ‘proper’ guitar’… I am, I did… at 68 yrs old its never too late to start. I could be gigging by christmas, you never know!!
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It’s good you are getting back to it after all these years and having lessons. I’m a similar age to you and I bought the Squire Bass starter kit and they are really good for the money. I would love to have lessons but having retired about 18 months ago it’s an expense that would be difficult to justify, also as my wife plays and would like lessons, we would have to have a fight to see who got the lessons 
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That’s a great story!
The thing is music is about pleasure whether it is hearing it on record or playing it on an instrument so just enjoy the journey.
You will reach a stage where you can do a lot of progress on your own in between lessons and there are so many teachers on Youtube showing you how to play songs that you can have a go and put a smile on your face.
Just enjoy the journey and don’t worry about the destination.
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Ah right, yes having lessons is a financial commitment/ luxury… i pay £23 per lesson and currently have one a week… im hoping not to be having them for too long, due to the cost, or even knocking back to one a fortnight. Mine are via whatsapp, so no cost in commuting… but im determined to get it sorted and have made massive progress in just one month… mainly due to having ‘some’ knowledge.
Good luck with yours.
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For anyone learning guitar, there are some great online resources now.
Justinguitars and Shut Up And Play are both very good.
There are also tons of backing tracks on YouTube
Any, enjoy your lessons and your guitar journey. 
My wife is going through the Justin guitar tutorials and she tries a bit of Andy guitar, there is another guy called Adrian who’s YouTube site is called Anyone can play guitar and although he doesn’t a such do lessons he will pick a song and show you how to play it, we are going through Goo Goo Muck by the Cramps at the moment, I have to find the bass tab and then we work on it together.
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Hi everyone,
These are my little band of friends, that I enjoy spending some of my time with when not fussing over my “5”.
Early on I had a Les Paul but as sometimes occurs, as you will most probably be aware with guitars, we could just gel together. I really tried time after time, but we just were not meant for each other.I loved looking at it, but apparently not playing it. We parted company a while back. My first love is the strat, and we kind of suit each other very well.I enjoy the glassy chiming sounds they make more than the humbuckers, and I feel comfortable playing them better than the LP.
Recently I’ve taken an interest in PRS, and whilst they do have humbuckers like the LP, they have coil taps , so I can indulge myself sometimes with the single coil options. Nice gear, well made, and now becoming as popular with me as the strats.
Just mess about now when it suits me, and enjoy playing each of them when the mood suits.And yes there are some duplicates, but to me they all feel different in their own special way.
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