Best lockdown purchase

[Davey]

@Tone-y
I'm in the same boat as you. Working from home for the past 4 months in my home office/guitar room.
I spend all day on my laptop and have picked up a couple 80's Boss pedals, Ibanez ts808 reissue, PRS guitar cases, 12U rack cabinet, guitar hangers and guitar strings, plus I went out and picked thru my wood pile and built and stained a new wall guitar rack and I'm currently working on a custom wood pedalboard to hold all my pedals. Thats on top of all the car work Ive got done too, new Vanos, coil packs, tune up and entire cooling system replaced for the M3, new gas tank, fuel pump, fuel lines and carb rebuild for the Cuda. Got the entire garage cleaned and sorted.
Yep, you could say I've been fighting boredom big-time.
I think the best purchase was both the SE's I picked up. Paul's Guitar fire red and the Hollowbody II Piezo in black gold. Super happy with both as they will keep me busy during any slack time and hopefully keep me away from the computer.

 

[CandidPicker]

A set of all-season tires for my car with my stimulus check. That, and a new copy/printer/scanner that replaced an older model that had already seen its best days. Soon, a new set of eyeglass lenses to help with my eyesight. It's been 4 years since my previous eyeglasses, so it's time.

 

[Tone-y]

@Tone-y
I'm in the same boat as you. Working from home for the past 4 months in my home office/guitar room.
I spend all day on my laptop and have picked up a couple 80's Boss pedals, Ibanez ts808 reissue, PRS guitar cases, 12U rack cabinet, guitar hangers and guitar strings, plus I went out and picked thru my wood pile and built and stained a new wall guitar rack and I'm currently working on a custom wood pedalboard to hold all my pedals. Thats on top of all the car work Ive got done too, new Vanos, coil packs, tune up and entire cooling system replaced for the M3, new gas tank, fuel pump, fuel lines and carb rebuild for the Cuda. Got the entire garage cleaned and sorted.
Yep, you could say I've been fighting boredom big-time.
I think the best purchase was both the SE's I picked up. Paul's Guitar fire red and the Hollowbody II Piezo in black gold. Super happy with both as they will keep me busy during any slack time and hopefully keep me away from the computer.

I've just started to look out for 80s boss pedals. All of a sudden I have a bit of a yearning to put together a boss pedalboard. I'll probably never get around to it as there's bound to be something else come up to obsesses over.
Not 80s, but I got a boss od3 cheap yesterday, and this week I dug out my old od-2r turbo overdrive. Man that's actually a killer pedal. When I played out at jam nights that was the only pedal I had at the time that sounded ok loud, since I stopped doing that 10 years ago the pedal has just sat in a box forgotten about. What a waste!

 

[Tone-y]

WL Cu24 Fatback, for me. Followed closely by a bottle of Ardbeg.

Ok showoff

 

[Tone-y]

I'm mean you're being a show off, but er, also show it off

 

[Tone-y]

..... The guitar that is not the bottle

 

[Tele295]

TC Electronics Fluorescence Shimmer Reverb. I like it for recording

 

[Black Plaid]

A VR headset. It really is a transformative experience. Also gets me off my butt!

 

[Steve's addiction]

2 513's and a 408

 

[Shreve]

Hits “Post Reply” button, giggles, and runs away to hide under bed.

 

[bodia]

I accidentally hit my wife in the face with one.

“Accidentally”........

 

[bodia]

Ok showoff

I'm mean you're being a show off, but er, also show it off

..... The guitar that is not the bottle

I may, or may not, be working on something else!

 

[Tone-y]

Hits “Post Reply” button, giggles, and runs away to hide under bed.

Is that one of the new 'Virginia' Eric Johnson sigs? Really would like one of those myself

 

[Shreve]

Is that one of the new 'Virginia' Eric Johnson sigs? Really would like one of those myself

Yessir! Really, really like it my myself, but it may not be everyone’s cup o tea.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

“Accidentally”........

I wasn’t aiming for her face....

 

[toothace]

I have a new PRS rig acquired during the lockdown, some here and some incoming. I got an H combo a couple months ago but have super little time on it. And I have waiting for me at FedEx when I get home from vacation a ‘94 dark cherry sunburst 10 top Custom 22 with Dragons and wings. Should be a killer combination.

That's lovely! Want me to go pick it up for you?

 

[Mozzi]

Having not bought any new gear for around a year, I ended up buying 2 new guitars during the past month or so. Both are at opposite ends of the spectrum and, as such I cannot pick one over the other as being the 'best' purchase. Both are incredible instruments, both equal in terms of quality or 'tier' as both are regular Core, non 10 top guitars - although there is a difference in price point and both are in my favourite colour too.

First, I bought a 2019 PRS 594 Hollowbody ii. This has 'most' of the 2020 specs, only missing out on the Vintage style tuners - something I am very happy about as it means I didn't have to buy a set of Phase III's to swap them with the Vintage style and I also think the tuner buttons and overall look are so much nicer too. Of course, this has a vintage vibe with low(er) output 58/15 LT Humbuckers, shorter scale length with a thicker Pattern Vintage neck carve and the classic 2-piece fixed bridge - as well as being Hollow...

Second, I bought a 2019 Custom 24 Floyd. This is a much more modern type instrument with 'high' output \m/ Pickups, a Pattern Thin neck, 24 frets with the Floyd Rose Locking Trem system and of course a Solid body. This is at the other end of the spectrum from the vintage, low output hollowbody of my 594 above.

Because these are so different, both being the 'best' for their own reasons and 'best' for different roles as well as both being 'relatively' equal on quality etc, I cannot pick one over the other as being the overall best.

I may have pushed the boat out a bit too far to acquire both at this time but right now, I have no regrets....

 

[dmatthews]

A Kemper Kabinet...



And a Seymour Duncan Powerstage SD-700 power amp



Stereo is phenomenal.

 

[Anachronism]

Alembic Epic

 

[Tone-y]

Yessir! Really, really like it my myself, but it may not be everyone’s cup o tea.

Cool. It's that the standard production or the custom shop? I'm not sure that I've seen any in the UK yet, though I wouldn't be able to afford one either way. Thinking of a few years when they hit the second hand market