Enjoying my guitars is the name of the game ....

Wednesday night - I have been enjoying the heck out of my new Behringer V-Amp 3, and have been playing both my Peavey Raptor and my Davison Les Paul clone.  I've done a little more fine tuning on "Blue" (a guy has to name his guitar, doesn't he?) and while it isn't perfect, the damn thing plays so smoothly its crazy.

When I decided to pull the trigger and buy Blue, I'll admit I was very concerned about buying a cheap guitar with a set neck. I have always believed that a bolt-on neck offers more options in the realm of repair, reworking and re-doing. And its easy to replace the neck if you fudge things up really badly.

With a set neck, not so much. I've seen some really cheap -- broken -- set neck guitars on eBay. I guess my worries are amplified by buying a really inexpensive set-neck guitar. If I was dropping $800 on a real Les Paul, I would expect it to be right the first time. But when I had the chance to select a new guitar, I should point out that I chose my Jazzmaster -- a guitar with a bolt-on neck.

I keep browsing eBay, and I still have a hankering for a surf green guitar. I really like the idea of buying a true Fender strat rather than a clone, but I already have my Peavey "Fat Strat" -- if I am going to drop coin on a new guitar, I would like it to be something new and different.

"New and different" in my book at present can best be defined as "a surf green Fender Telecaster." Of course, I would LOVE a Fender, but the damn truth is that I'm not ready to drop that much money to buy the real deal. I can easily afford a Surf Green Tele copy from a couple of different labels --- and probably all manufactured and exported by the same factory in China. I don't have a big problem with that; I figure I can spend time fine-tuning a cheap Tele ... I enjoy messing with guitars, though I'll admit that I worry about the odds of receiving a poorly made Tele that -- for whatever reason -- won't intonate. I'm probably worrying about the "might happens" a little too much. I should just pull the trigger (i.e., click "Buy It Now") and enjoy the world of Telecaster ownership.

Tonight I've been looking on eBay for a cheap -- very cheap -- strat clone. My thought was to buy a regular strat copy -- regular strat, not fat strat -- and refinish it in surf green. My "Best Offer" was just countered with a price higher than I'm willing to go (I'm being very, VERY cheap on this project). I've found that I could get one of a different style guitars in surf green on Rondo Music's website. Or hell, maybe I should save money and buy the real deal one day down the road.

That's not a bad plan ... in the interim I could work on improving my playing, which I certainly need to do.

Rock on guys, I'm going to plug up and jam.