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I like the sound of those quick adjust straps. PMT have the brown cotton down to £19 so I just ordered one.

For leather, Pinegrove is the one IMO, Rod is a nice guy and his straps are proper top quality (the Bear recommendation is well valid but they are all trad buckle designs with no padded options).
Heistercamp are ok but not full grain and, cough, possibly a bit dentist.
Leathergraft from Liverpool are good value but noticeably more budget.

For non-leather adjustables, Air are supposed to be good and they're UK-made but they're seatbelt based, thus slippy (as are the US made Souldiers).
I really really love Couch especially their vintage auto vinyl and recycled luggage straps but shipping/import duties means $$.

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I nearly started a Weight Weenies x Guit Nerds thread specially.

Were you thinking of the Origin Effects Deluxe 61? 'Cos I was... £385 mind...

Trying to find micro FX that sound good can get expensive fast as well. A Mooer Trelicopter might be good. MXR Carbon Copy Mini too. But it really begins to go all a bit £££.

Continuing to obsess over minutiae while the world burns, or because of the world burning, I am having a change of heart. I suspect the Tech 21 will be ooookaaay in some departments but it likely comes with baked-in not-so-goods such as fiddly knobs, shit distortion and a useless tuner, and I'd probably miss my reverb/delay/trem no end.

So: current rig weighs 4.4kg, but changing the stupidly hefty ply board to slatted pine might save 400g. Swapping the PP2+ for a Harley Benton PSU gets 500g back, dumping the basically unused overdrive saves 200g, losing the JD10 for say a Joyo American Sound gets maybe 350g. So 4.4kg becomes 3kg at the cost of £100 or so ... whereas a used Fly Rig plus a new HB PSU but retaining my trem and tuner would possibly sound worse, cost probably £250-300 or maybe more, and though smaller, it would still weigh 2.2kg.

Tl:dr maybe just, y'know, lighten some components.

Has anybody got/tried a Tech 21 Fly Rig of any sort?

I always DI my Tele for the duo I'm in, and the combination of my home-made six-pedal board (trem, reverb, delay, tuner, OD, boost) with hefty Voodoo Lab power brick plus a Session JD10 preamp on top of aaaall the cables is really starting to get to my back (I'm public transport only for gigs).

I reckon a Fly Rig 5 with its onboard Blonde-style Sansamp section plus an outboard trem and some dirt could save me nearly 4lb. But I don't know if it does Fender amp-sounding cleans that are really luvverly enough.

Nigel@cyclists in Southwark is probably organising it as we speak. Via his new lufguss FB page...

Vic Flick, British session guitarist, 87

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tixvOoblKvA

(didn't want to post that ruddy Bond theme)

Sounds really nice!

Totally chimes. I did an interview years ago with Chuck Prophet and asked him lots about songwriting and at one point he said "sometimes you gotta throw the best part away". I didn't get it at the time but now as I struggle with the over-complex over-thinking crosswordy fucking bin fire of most of my own sad-ass writing attempts I really do. My current intent is to try to keep things simple and to stop rejecting any lyrical or melodic idea as soon as I spot the influence (and there always is one). This has resulted just this week in half a song that I actually like but cannot for the life of me generate words for a middle 8 or a third verse. Also, it sounds like Nick Lowe.

My nephew has an M120, it's a nice little guitar.

I never much liked 80/20 brass, they seemed a bit brash and went off fast. I found 85/15 generally a bit warmer. Phosphor bronze is a love/hate thing... I really only like them when they're near-dead, I'm so weary of that lush overtoney new PB sound, I want something a bit more front-porch.

Consider entering the vortex of online opinion on nickel/Monel strings for acoustics. Long life, balanced sound, warm when broken in, woody, natural, slightly old-timey. Notorious for often sounding like total shit for up to two weeks and then coming good for absolutely ages. Not for everyone, but on the right, often small and/or mahogany guitar, they can be ace. Available from Newtone (nickel or monel), Martin ("Retro", monel) and D'Addario ("Nickel Bronze", actually nickel-coated phosphor bronze, my faves so far).

Otherwise there are tons of long-life/coated PB strings, I don't have much experience with any of them, though I hear the D'Add XS are up there soundwise.

That was me, glad it worked out!

Just paid full whack for my final pair of durable cotton trousers. Worth it.

When I got my 5610 I found this guy went through the set-up at a nice manageable speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=CXlyYoh7H-0

Fischer, maybe? Classical feller? Not my bag but seems to be lots online.

*Ah you edited. Yep. have you got one?

Silly me, I did a test post in the test thread and @'d Dave and he replied there.

"This was the second frame built in 2006 for a chap in Reading. Original paint, 20" seat tube, 23 1/2" top tube, 71 head, 45 fork offset, 71 seat, 10 1/2" nominal bb height, 26" ATB wheels"

Thanks Dave!

Would be great to know anything about the Wayfarer Skully mentioned, @DaveYates.

Sorry for state of the paint, the serial is tough to read. DY 0602?

Love this bike.

Irish 101 jacket. Oooh yes.

I seem to remember you callously fleecing me for about £36.

That's the kind of tip that makes my heart sing.

Pliers wrench yes yes, that works. Ta.

FFS, what do you call that type of universal/adjustable spanner that has two loosely-linked halves that let you reset the pivot point to engage really big nuts? Ooer obvs.

Toumani Diabate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOWqqTQQC9w

Earlpilanz on eBay (*away at the mo) will copy any scratchplate you send him, he has all the pearloids and he's cheap.

Just the strap. Watch is vgc. Can take pics.