Guitar Tuners ?

Lady_App_titude

This is my favorite tuner:

https://www.korg.com/us/products/tuners/pitchclip2/

SecretBaseDesign

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@StudioES said:
@SecretBaseDesign Are those all your guitars? Wow. What's the beauty facing the camera?

It's most of the collection. Over the pandemic, I started building guitars from kits; these are inexpensive, somewhere between $100 and $250 for most kits. A bit of time, a few bucks in paint, and you can wind up with a nice guitar at the end of things.

The guitar in front is a Jaguar/Jazzmaster-style kit from a company called Fretwire (now out of business, unfortunately). You'll note the Secret Base logo on the headstock (and that's showing up on most of the other kit guitars as well). My plan for tomorrow is to do the final buff and polish on two more kits (one PRS-style, one LP), with those being guitars 15 and 16 on the build list. Building is addictive; I have far too many guitars, but I'm constantly thinking of what I should get next.

Very nice. Your logo looks great - it's your own guitar! I'd love to see 15 and 16. That sounds like a great hobby. How are the quality of the kits? I guess it depends on the price?

Here's guitars 11 through 16 -- these are all Harley-Benton kits, somewhere in the $70 to $85. I bought a bunch of them at one time, to save on shipping. The paint and prep supplies probably work out to another $50 each. You can get finished HB guitars for not a whole lot more than that, but the fun is in putting them together and customizing.

Quality-wise -- they're all very playable, and sound great. Some of the necks needed a bit of work on the frets, but nothing major. The finish on my higher-end commercial guitars is better; I've got an American-made Fender from the late 80s that's perfect, a really nice PRS, and a few others. The guitars I've built are not as professional looking (particularly when you look close), but... for the price, they're pretty great, and I really can't stress enough how much fun they are to build.

StudioES

@SecretBaseDesign said:

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@StudioES said:

@SecretBaseDesign said:

@StudioES said:
@SecretBaseDesign Are those all your guitars? Wow. What's the beauty facing the camera?

It's most of the collection. Over the pandemic, I started building guitars from kits; these are inexpensive, somewhere between $100 and $250 for most kits. A bit of time, a few bucks in paint, and you can wind up with a nice guitar at the end of things.

The guitar in front is a Jaguar/Jazzmaster-style kit from a company called Fretwire (now out of business, unfortunately). You'll note the Secret Base logo on the headstock (and that's showing up on most of the other kit guitars as well). My plan for tomorrow is to do the final buff and polish on two more kits (one PRS-style, one LP), with those being guitars 15 and 16 on the build list. Building is addictive; I have far too many guitars, but I'm constantly thinking of what I should get next.

Very nice. Your logo looks great - it's your own guitar! I'd love to see 15 and 16. That sounds like a great hobby. How are the quality of the kits? I guess it depends on the price?

Here's guitars 11 through 16 -- these are all Harley-Benton kits, somewhere in the $70 to $85. I bought a bunch of them at one time, to save on shipping. The paint and prep supplies probably work out to another $50 each. You can get finished HB guitars for not a whole lot more than that, but the fun is in putting them together and customizing.

Quality-wise -- they're all very playable, and sound great. Some of the necks needed a bit of work on the frets, but nothing major. The finish on my higher-end commercial guitars is better; I've got an American-made Fender from the late 80s that's perfect, a really nice PRS, and a few others. The guitars I've built are not as professional looking (particularly when you look close), but... for the price, they're pretty great, and I really can't stress enough how much fun they are to build.

That's a lovely collection. Especially the purple PRS. I'll have to check out the HD kits - especially at those prices.

I know the joy and satisfaction in putting them together and customizing them. I've put together a few Warmoth Strats and used to spend a lot of time on the Stew Mac site. The Warmoth prices have skyrocketed.

StudioES

Turns out the problem was the cheapo tuner.
The new D'addario Micro Headstock tuner is accurate.