I contacted both the guitar manufacturer who said they use String Swing products in their warehouse, and String Swing who while couldn’t confirm that my specific models would fit, that the bars can be bent enough to accommodate almost any body shape and still hold them up.
Looks like I can add something to my Christmas list!
However I am unable to order it from their website because…
And amazon to the rescue:
I’d rather buy direct but that’s just offensive pricewise!
What kinda guitar you rockin Tom?
I have a few, but specifically want to mount this one:
But if I can find space will pop this one up as well:
This is like finding out your mild mannered friendly neighbor is in a biker gang
I don’t know if that’s a compliment or an insult! I’m going with the former, not the later! 
I could never insult you! I just love the bold design of the LTD
Well thank you! The LTD is actually an ESP guitar - the LTD brand is like Squire to Fender or Epiphone to Gibson, usually manufactured somewhere other than their main builders and the biggest difference is the woods and how the necks connect to the body.
Mine is built with the same woods as the ESP, same pickups and similar electronics, but has a bolt on neck compared to the slide in one. 20 years ago I could have noticed the difference but now not as much.
Always wanted an explorer shape, not the Gibson one though, and after almost getting one twice, I’m so glad I waited. She sounds as good as she looks!
I realised the picture I put up was a stock one, and has a glossy finish where as mine has a matte one.
Please excuse the smudges, she needs a clean!
So what instruments are you all holding?
The photo is quite old. From more or less directly after I bought it. It now hangs on my wall with some company.
I also have an obscene amount of E-Pianos and Keyboards given my lack of both time and skill but I’m slowly organizing my life in a way so that there’s more room for doing stuff I actually enjoy.
Now that is beautiful! I’d aspire to have a set up like again someday, really pretty.
What model bass is that? I can’t zoom in by the head looks like a Yamaha logo from here.
Thanks! I wish it always looked that orderly, haha.
The bass is a Yamaha TRBX 304. I’m not really a bass player but sometimes it’s nice to have one at hand just to be able to record some very simple lines. Not that I’d fool anyone into thinking I know what I’m doing but it often still sounds better than midi.
Bass was my first guitar instrument and I miss having one at home, love it! I agree they never quite got a good artifical sound, it never has the warmth of an bass guitar being played and when they try to do different styles, such slap, it just sounds fake.
There’s so many amazing bassist out there to learn from, that can just make one sing!
Have to make sure those who don’t know Victor Wooten will know him now:
People forget how important the backend is to a song and it can change it from something into something else!
And yes my head started to move as well. How could it not!?!
Love a good bass player! A good rhythm section can make even the most mediocre lead guitarist sound amazing. The other way around it’s much, much harder!
I started off playing piano as a child and only recently started learning how to play the guitar. I got very close to actually taking up bass as my instrument of choice. Maybe I’ll take some bass lessons once I feel somewhat competent on the guitar.
Completely agree. If you have a bad bassist or drummer, doesn’t matter how much of a guitar virtuoso you are, it will suffer. When you look at some of the best guitarists ever, they needed people behind them to help them shine.
I was the same, got into the piano as a child and went into bass first then guitar. Bass really helped me develop my sense of rhythm so when I took up the guitar (rhythm only, I can do some very bad solos but I never wanted to play like that) it gave me a starting point. Never had a lesson - just bought a bass and kept playing till something nice came out of it. Annoyed my family so much, then one day it went from noise to a melody.
If you have rhythm, then with bass at least, you’re half way there. Living on a prayer.
What a great accidental bass joke!!!
FishHead I want your e-pianos, your regular piano, your desk, your speakers, and your floors. And the room in which you keep them.
What music have you got open on the piano there?
I’ll interpret this as a compliment about my interior design and audio equipment sensibilities and not as a threat for a hostile takeover of my apartment. Thank you very much!
The regular piano is actually also a Yamaha e-piano (CVP-405). It just looks fancy! Teenage me actually saved about 5 years worth of allowance, present & student job money to get the thing and would be furious if he knew how much I’ve neglected practicing recently.
The sheet music should be the third page of J.S. Bach’s Prelude (Wohltemperiertes Klavier 1, No. 1) and the back of a Jazz Piano workbook!
(Sorry Tom, replied to the wrong post)
(Not a problem, I’m happy to be able to read it!)
i’ve had a lot of guitars over the years. my first “real guitar” was a red gibson sg:
this was the time of my life when my rent was $250 and i didn’t know what a savings account was, so i was a bit of a real gear head. i had a lot of amps over the years, too, but my favorite combination was running through an old ampeg v4 (which is technically a bass amp) connected to an emperor cabinet:
special shout out to the marshall jcm 800 and the peavy vtm 120, which i also loved playing with.
i had a pretty intense pedal board too, mostly with lots of fuzzes, phasers, and delays. some of the fuzzes i bought, but i built a few too (shout out BYOC). my favorite sound came from a russian big muff clone and this phaser, which is still the BEST phaser sound i’ve ever heard:
the other expensive guitar i picked up during this time was the j mascis jazzmaster, which became the primary one i played for some time:
then one night my car was broken into and my guitars were stolen along with most of my pedals (long and stupid story but definitely my fault) 
my friend lent me a mexican telecaster he had lying around, and i ended up buying it from him for a couple hundred bucks
after all my stuff getting stolen, i was pretty crestfallen and didn’t have the enthusiasm to mess around with finicky vintage gear anymore, so i ended up selling my amp set up and just got a reissue of the blackface twin reverbs
i was just using this pedal at the time:
then i saved up some money and decided to buy a “real” guitar again so i bought a les paul jr in sunburst:
at the second or third band practice with this thing, the guitar strap broke when i lifted my arms up and it fell straight to the concrete floor and the neck snapped. shortly after this, the band broke up and i went to grad school so i just sold all my guitar shit.
then many many years passed and now i’m finally getting back into guitar again! for a year or so i’ve just been fucking around on this cheap yamaha acoustic
but i’m itching to play “aggressive” music again, so i got myself a cheap little set up coming in. i’m going back to my roots with an epiphone sg
i’m also getting a 20w orange combo–i briefly played with an orange cab back in the day, and i always like the build material. maybe heretical, but i’m getting it in black:
then instead of messing with analog fuzz pedals which are prone to break and fritz up in the weather, i’m just gonna stick to the classics:
it’s nice being a recovering gear head, not only because that stuff seems to be 10x more expensive now than when i was originally buying and selling it, but also because i don’t care anymore.
in the new year i plan to get a cheap audio interface so i can start recording some stuff too and form an ersatz band with some buddies back home. again, it’s nice to be older and do this sort of thing simply for the fun of doing it.
