Re: I bought a new guitar. (Geisha content)
I bought a red Squire Mini for $99. Best $99 I ever spent on a guitar. Easy on the hands, great for practicing chords when you are injured. Putting .13s on it and playing drop tune is surprising heavy sounding. The downside is you have to play 15 of them to find one that plays in tune, but if you find that magic one, it's a score. True story. Should I paint a Geisha on it? Or go classy and get a sticker?
I used to have one, also red. I didn't play a bunch of them. They had a black and a red, and I picked the red. I ended up putting heavier strings on it, too; because of the scale, I couldn't keep it in standard tuning under any kind of tension that I felt was normal. (Were they 11's? I can't remember.) Even then, I couldn't keep it in tune. Dressed and lubed the nut, not much change. Finally put mini Grovers on it, and that took care of it. I think that's the first fixed-bridge guitar on which I've replaced the tuners simply because they didn't seem to be doing their job -- and I've had all kinds of Epihones, a Faded V, and a pointy-headed Jackson, guitars where you'd think that temptation might arise. (In fact, it's the
only fixed-bridge guitar where I've ever replaced the tuners.) There was a kind of slop in their action, like they would slip suddenly under adjustment, instead of turning smoothly.
It ended up being a fun little guitar to play. My hands got old, or something, and it became increasingly uncomfortable for me to adjust to the scale length and then go back to my other guitars, so gave it to a friend with kids. They seem to enjoy it, and it's rugged enough that I think they'd have to try pretty hard to do major damage.
