Thank you once again to everyone at The Guitaristas for the incredible donation of 7 electric guitars for our All In Music project at Southend YMCA! They have already been in plenty of use for lessons, recording and Christmas rehearsals! Have a great festive time whatever you are up to and look forward to hopefully seeing you in the New Year! 🎄
You're very welcome... we were delighted to be able to help and it's great to know that these guitars will be put to good use. Thanks for everything you do there it's appreciated!
By my math, having gotten rid of 40 guitars while only acquiring 25 means you have 15 more to go before you need to worry about going overboard. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and as always thanks for the year of videos.
I’d like to join fellow Guitaristas in thanking you for another entertaining, educational, fun filled year of top notch review content Fella, Fridays are enhanced by your hard graft and honesty! My budget guitar of the year is My Hartwood Fifty6 single pick up, (they didn’t have the Charger in stock and I had to buy something🤫) absolutely steal at £199.99! And sound superb 👌 I’ll get the charger in the new years sale👍 Thanks again Col, Cheers 🍻 😎👊
Here's how much I love Col's videos. Ten minutes into this one there was a knock at my front door and it was a new guitar arriving. Instead of rushing off to find a butter knife of joy, I watched the whole episode first!
Sorry ive been absent the last two weeks sometimes life just happens. I love these end of year reviews because honestly I have totally forgotten some of these guitars. I'll see you next Friday. Cheers
Colin its been a fast year & you giving to less fortunate kids the chance to learn how much music makes a major contribution in people's lives ,who knows the possibilities to come.Merry Christmas mate & a Happy & healthy New Year too !
I’ve had the lurgy the past few days so I’m just catching up on this one Colin! Guitaristas is the ultimate comfort show for me. Always lots of laffs. ‘Appy christmas you legend - Steve
Dear Guitaristas, Merry Christmas. I have to say, you make my day, every time I watch an episode. I absolutely love your sense of humor and timing in your commentary.
Great year Colin! You really help with my sanity whilst on the M25 / M11 / M1. Then I get to watch the video in a hotel somewhere. Laid back and entertaining. Happy Christmas to you n yours.
I enjoyed spending 2024 with you and all of your great reviews, F-bomb humor (paranormal troublemaker mods) and general guitar nerdiness. Donating the guitars to the music school was the icing on the cake, mate. Rock on in 2025, Col!!
Nice idea to do that donation. I see that you kept me modern day Tiesco! Good show. I think that one is a bit of nostalgia for most everyone who watches your channel.
Great video as always. I have to say that I did buy a heritage off the back of your original review and whilst I get and agree with the idea that you can enjoy 20 cheap guitars over the 1 expensive one. In my experience buying the heritage from Dawsons it arrived and was set up so poorly and unplayable that I have only played it for around 5 minutes and it has spent the rest of the year sat on the stand. For me that has put me off buying heritage again as well as using dawsons again. It’s a shame but the truth of it. Thanks for the video Colin. I always enjoy your contributions to RUclips
Well done for your donation col, good man. Another fine show, looking forward to next week's to find out your overall guitar of the year. Have a great Christmas and new year, look forward to seeing you next year with some more quality guitars. Well played.
Great episode Colin, and a wonderful thing donating those guitars ❤. I had a Job on my list to subscribe to your TV channel or buy some merch, which I will do over the Christmas period. Power to you sir!
Still Harley Benton is taking over the strainght of the sume of the great names in the guitar industrie. Very various line off great guitars are in the hands off professional and beggining guitarists! I have two off em and be a pro!
Wishing you a very happy and healthy holiday season. I think I said this on the PRS review video that people get upset when you don’t share the same tastes in aesthetic as they do or even sound. I happen to really like the aesthetic of PRS and it doesn’t make me angry at you for not liking the same look that I do. I love that you were as objective as you always are when reviewing it so cheers mate!!! Now I’m going to go put my kettle on over here in the US, grab some nibbles, and enjoy the rest of this video.
I wish you and your family the best for the holidays. I always enjoy all of your reviews. You have a very NO B.S. attitude towards all of the stuff you review and I appreciate that. Keep up the great work my friend!
I love your style, Colin! You just sit, make a loop, and then go off on these amazing journeys! You've got one of the best gigs ever! Love ya, man! Edit: Fesley just put out a new Tele and Strat for $300. They're upgraded with Wi, and real Grover tuners.
Late to the party again but now i have 2 videos to chek out 😁. Merry christmas and happy new year to you from sweden 🇸🇪 can't wait for next years videos hope you get some nice time off you have earnd it.
Changed my collection this year. Had nine guitars, sold six of them and got five other ones. Happy as a goat! Now I`ve two Gibsons, two ESPs, one Maybach, one Collings, a Reverend and an MJT partcaster (lake placid blue tele).
Awesome vid Colin! Great looking back over these guitars, and wow yep you don't need to be paying a lot for a decent guitar theses days. Fully agree on the Hartwood! Just looks and sounds incredible! My piggy bank is twitching for one of these!
Brilliant channel, merry Christmas, and a happy new year. Once Christmas is all done, I'm going to the TV channel as well.Big thumbs up, and thank you for the Christmas beginner guitar package review. 😊 I'm sure my grandson will be blown away.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you for another year of awesome videos. Best guitar channel on RUclips. Donating the guitars is a great thing to do.
Great presentation as always Colin. My week is just geared up to Friday on RUclips watching you. Long may it continue. Viva la Guitaristas! PS still gigging the Joe Tele but now in two bands so its getting a real proper run out every weekend and never lets me down! Ash
Happy Christmas to all the guitaristas... Colin, thanks for all the reviews this year. I have bought a few of these budget tele's as a result of your reviews and am chuffed with all of them. Keep it up and looking forward to more next year. Liam.
Thanks for the video. Liked your videos throughout the year. Will be spending December musically working on my banjo playing, as I have been this month and last. Hope you can have a good holiday break.
I've grown fond of the Harley Benton name. It's exactly what you'd expect a German a few decades ago to come up with when thinking of a "Rock & Roll" name. Same as Ibanez which is what a Japanese guy would think a Spanish luthier is named
Perfect Choice! I can't help drawing a comparison between that Hartwood Charger, the angular styled Dodge Charger from McQueen's "Bullit" and the relative Mustangs.
Merry Christmas Colin , thanks for all your entertaining way you reviews and upgrades you have done . You have inspired even me with 10 thumbs to have a go at upgrading. Long may you keep doing this 🎸🎸
It was a great year. Lots of helpful information. I love the channel. Merry Christmas! How about sometime this year you do a show on the pedals that you use. Explain what you got cuz I really like the sound you Make
Great choice on the Hartwood, I did look at picking one up but they only do the trem on the Cigar Burst, and I really liked the Peppermint. Col, thank you for so much for your honest and down to earth vids mate. You're the absolute pinnacle of my week man :) Btw, I still really would love to get a compilation of all your noodling... I so love your style. (ps you still owe me a pint lol)
Thanks for everything you do for us Colin, it's been great every Friday watching your vids, I think you should give yourself a pat on the back and buy yourself a Christmas pressie, a guitar obviously, all the best merry Christmas
Colin - Thanks to your review, I’ll be getting the Hartwood Speedway Red Lipstick guitar in LA tomorrow! They won’t have that Charger until May 2025. (I’m getting it!) Happy New Year!
Thanks for the videos throughout the year Colin - I admire your boundless enthusiasm! Out of interest, I totally get what you mean about the Harley Benton brand - until recently I'd been using their 15W all valve combo, but found myself apologising for it when roadcrews were miking it up for bigger shows! Enjoy your Xmas break 🎄
YoHoHo... Friday 13th... Lucky for Someone (?)... Enjoyed this 'round-up' (Rowdy Yates... "Rollin Rollin Rollin" Rawhide !) with pleasure... and GREAT "Dress Style" this week with GAS Jacket... Good-on-Ya-Mate... for your generosity donations to the local Lads/Lassies... Am sure doing so, warmed the Cockles of your Heart ! (seriously) and then (?) ... My pick this week was the Heritage Ascent H150... Am SO CLOSE to buying 7 years Grandson his 1st Guitar, but will now wait until 2025 ? His Uncle, my youngest lad, is only 2 years older than him... and MUST come first for priorities... Only so many 'sheckles' to go around... Have a great week (and the last 'show' of 2024) and then an even greater well deserved Holiday... Thanks Colin for best RUclips Presentations of 2024... You may be a 'rough' Diamond... but still a "Diamond"... See Ya...✌"V"... Kettles' boiling...
Merry Christmas Colin! Thanks for a year of great reviews. I'm looking forward to the wrap-up next week and all of the fine reviews in 2025 - especially the Guild you've teased us with a couple of times 😊 Cheers!
I love your content. I'm in America and I love that English accent. I shouldn't have to explain my ancestry but ( some English , but , not that simple ) I am also a similar age and have very similar opinions about Guitars. You are setting a standard for us. Good work. Thank you.
Hiya Colin, Thanks for videos this year, I've really enjoyed them. I particularly appreciate the playing with a loop which is great for context compared to just noodling which many other channels concentrate on. I'd love to see you do a review of the Robert Smith Schecter UltraCure (somewhat topical given how well the new album is doing - and two more in the can apparently!). I love Bob's old guitars but I'm always struck when i see The Cure live how good he sounds with the UltraCure. I enjoyed your Eastman video where you messed around with some Lullaby-type playing. Ive not come across a good review of the Schecter and would like to see your take on it. Anyway, I hope you have a lovely Christmas and i look forward to a year full of more grest videos. Peace and love, Paul.
Happy Friday the 13th Col.... Great job on cheap guitars. If you can't make a cheap guitar sound good, why would you spend a lot of money to make an expensive guitar sound really bad? I'm happy to see you donated those guitars to a good cause and I am proud to be a part of it! I can't wait to see next weeks review of the expensive stuff. Cheers mate! ROCK ON!!!!!!!
Excellent recap Col! Budget guitars have come a long way since the cheesecutters of our day... its great! Im with you on both gold hardware and PRS... neither inspire me to play. Lovely gesture mate, handed them 7 guitars to the kids... if it gets 2 nippers playing for life.. job well done. See you (and the guitaristas mob next week).
You are a class act sir and I salute you! You have indeed made this a very merry christmas for a good number of deserving youngsters. Here's to hoping that you've helped to bring about a second British Invasion! Cheers from Canada!
Good Evening Colin. I wish you and your Team a wonderful Holiday time and come you all well into 2025, good health and spirits to you all! Now, I do have a Suggestion for a Review and it would be the Larry Carlton Sire Version of his 335. I've heard it here on RUclips, but nobody does a review quite like you. It's akways a pleasure and one can even learn a few mod Tricks along the way😅 Cheers, until next time Lovely Greetings from Bad Malente-Gremsmühlen,Germany Michael
Brilliant episode Colin, I've been watching all year, love your channel man, I little funny thing about Hartwood is a phyciatric, metal hospital in Scotland, Shotts 😂
You have proven to me yet again how personal taste really is to individuals. I cannot fathom how you dont like the look of a prs but then espoused how much you lked the look of the hartwood. Lol We are at opposite ends when it comes to what we like the looks of, but i respect your opinion. Merry christmas and a happy new year!
Love the videos you make Colin. Amazing content. Someone asked me about your videos. I was watching one on my phone at a friends house and he asked who you were. I explained you do guitar demos. He said what type of music does he play. Because you wear crocs. I just said he plays croc rock 🤷🏻♂️ keep the vids coming Colin 👍🏻
Heartwood yeah! Would have been my choice. As you say though, none of these budget guitars were shit! Appreciate you going through the effort of demonstrating that.
i cant believe its already another year gone by.. i feel like i celebrated new years just yesterday.. Speaking of Harley Benton i hope you check out the new series they released, especially the Harley Benton SC-Custom Plus EMG TBF. thanks for a great year of great videos. see you next year!
Thank you once again to everyone at The Guitaristas for the incredible donation of 7 electric guitars for our All In Music project at Southend YMCA! They have already been in plenty of use for lessons, recording and Christmas rehearsals! Have a great festive time whatever you are up to and look forward to hopefully seeing you in the New Year! 🎄
You're very welcome... we were delighted to be able to help and it's great to know that these guitars will be put to good use. Thanks for everything you do there it's appreciated!
By my math, having gotten rid of 40 guitars while only acquiring 25 means you have 15 more to go before you need to worry about going overboard. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and as always thanks for the year of videos.
I so enjoying spending time with you. You are one hell of a nice human being. Keep it up!
The videos are great, but your donation to the charity is amazing. Well done Col. 🎸🙏🏆
I got a guild f250 ce would it be great just to review some acoustic guitars I believe they’re improving on leaps and bounds.
Really look forward to these vids dropping on a Friday afternoon. Thanks 👍🏻
You’ve been a joy to travel with through 24, Col. Hope you have lovely festive break and here’s to onwards and upwards in 25. Good health!
I’d like to join fellow Guitaristas in thanking you for another entertaining, educational, fun filled year of top notch review content Fella, Fridays are enhanced by your hard graft and honesty!
My budget guitar of the year is My Hartwood Fifty6 single pick up, (they didn’t have the Charger in stock and I had to buy something🤫) absolutely steal at £199.99! And sound superb 👌
I’ll get the charger in the new years sale👍
Thanks again Col, Cheers 🍻 😎👊
Merry Christmas Colin, all the best to you and yours! Thanks for all you do on this channel!!!
Here's how much I love Col's videos. Ten minutes into this one there was a knock at my front door and it was a new guitar arriving. Instead of rushing off to find a butter knife of joy, I watched the whole episode first!
😆👍👍
Sorry ive been absent the last two weeks sometimes life just happens. I love these end of year reviews because honestly I have totally forgotten some of these guitars. I'll see you next Friday. Cheers
Colin its been a fast year & you giving to less fortunate kids the chance to learn how much music makes a major contribution in people's lives ,who knows the possibilities to come.Merry Christmas mate & a Happy & healthy New Year too !
I’ve had the lurgy the past few days so I’m just catching up on this one Colin! Guitaristas is the ultimate comfort show for me. Always lots of laffs. ‘Appy christmas you legend - Steve
Hope you’re on the up now mate! 😁👍
Nice work Colin, really enjoyed our year together. J
Dear Guitaristas, Merry Christmas. I have to say, you make my day, every time I watch an episode. I absolutely love your sense of humor and timing in your commentary.
Thanks for a great year! Wonderful thing to do, donating those guitars. Merry Christmas!
Nice round up! I hope you have a lovely end-of-year and I look forward to where you'll go in the new year. Happy Christmas, and cheers!
Great year Colin! You really help with my sanity whilst on the M25 / M11 / M1. Then I get to watch the video in a hotel somewhere. Laid back and entertaining. Happy Christmas to you n yours.
I love these end of the year videos! Cheers Colin!
Colin, your playing and tone are so good that all these guitars sound like their much more expensive counterparts. Happy Christmas!
Brilliant idea. Give them to children. Talk about joy, hard to beat that.
You are the man. 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍🇨🇦
I enjoyed spending 2024 with you and all of your great reviews, F-bomb humor (paranormal troublemaker mods) and general guitar nerdiness. Donating the guitars to the music school was the icing on the cake, mate. Rock on in 2025, Col!!
You donating the guitars . Great thats a good thing . 🎉❤
Merry Christmas. Happy and healthy New Years to you and yours. Looking forward to new year with the Guitaristas.
I agree with your choice of budget guitar of the year, that Hartwood is really very nice and original.
Great job with the donation! Happy Christmas
Thanks Colin! Great show. And Merry Christmas!
Thanks!🎉
⭐️ awesome thanks that’s appreciated! 😁🙏
Nice idea to do that donation. I see that you kept me modern day Tiesco! Good show. I think that one is a bit of nostalgia for most everyone who watches your channel.
Yeah, the Hartwood! What a great looking and sounding guitar. Your donation will change the lives of so many kids! Thanks for all you do!
Recuperating after some surgery so really looking forward to this and next weeks videos.
Thanks for all your hard work in 2024 Col.
Get well soon mate!
Truly hope you are having/had a good holiday and HNY!
Oi oi :)
Letting this play through while working, but will watch again later :D
Have a great day Col!
Merry Christmas. Thank you for all of the wonderful content. Another reason to look forward to Fridays! I love these guitars of the year videos
Great stuff! Sometimes people think they need an expensive guitar to sound good, but it's not true. There are a lot of great sounding budget guitars!
Great video as always. I have to say that I did buy a heritage off the back of your original review and whilst I get and agree with the idea that you can enjoy 20 cheap guitars over the 1 expensive one. In my experience buying the heritage from Dawsons it arrived and was set up so poorly and unplayable that I have only played it for around 5 minutes and it has spent the rest of the year sat on the stand. For me that has put me off buying heritage again as well as using dawsons again. It’s a shame but the truth of it. Thanks for the video Colin. I always enjoy your contributions to RUclips
Sorry to heat that... maybe time to give it some love and see if you can eek out it's potential?
Happy holidays to you my friend!
Well done for your donation col, good man. Another fine show, looking forward to next week's to find out your overall guitar of the year. Have a great Christmas and new year, look forward to seeing you next year with some more quality guitars. Well played.
Great episode Colin, and a wonderful thing donating those guitars ❤. I had a Job on my list to subscribe to your TV channel or buy some merch, which I will do over the Christmas period. Power to you sir!
Merry Christmas Colin and God bless you 🎄
Still Harley Benton is taking over the strainght of the sume of the great names in the guitar industrie. Very various line off great guitars are in the hands off professional and beggining guitarists! I have two off em and be a pro!
Excellent part one review! thank you! AND... After a setup I love my Hartwood thanks for that one!
Wishing you a very happy and healthy holiday season. I think I said this on the PRS review video that people get upset when you don’t share the same tastes in aesthetic as they do or even sound. I happen to really like the aesthetic of PRS and it doesn’t make me angry at you for not liking the same look that I do. I love that you were as objective as you always are when reviewing it so cheers mate!!! Now I’m going to go put my kettle on over here in the US, grab some nibbles, and enjoy the rest of this video.
Cheers man! 😁👍
I wish you and your family the best for the holidays. I always enjoy all of your reviews. You have a very NO B.S. attitude towards all of the stuff you review and I appreciate that. Keep up the great work my friend!
Thanks for a great video. You really deserve some rest and come back stronger than ever. Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Great video. really looking forward to the H137 by Heritage review video
That's such a nice gesture. I'm sure they will well used by the kids there. Well done col. 😊
Love your channel. Found it about 9 months ago. Merry Christmas to you and your family. You are my favorite channel.
Cheers man glad you found us! 😁🙏
Merry Yuletide! I appreciate this channel tremendously, you have educated me on the SG models. Enjoy a break, get some rest sir.
I love your style, Colin! You just sit, make a loop, and then go off on these amazing journeys! You've got one of the best gigs ever! Love ya, man!
Edit: Fesley just put out a new Tele and Strat for $300. They're upgraded with Wi, and real Grover tuners.
Late to the party again but now i have 2 videos to chek out 😁.
Merry christmas and happy new year to you from sweden 🇸🇪 can't wait for next years videos hope you get some nice time off you have earnd it.
Changed my collection this year. Had nine guitars, sold six of them and got five other ones. Happy as a goat! Now I`ve two Gibsons, two ESPs, one Maybach, one Collings, a Reverend and an MJT partcaster (lake placid blue tele).
Awesome vid Colin! Great looking back over these guitars, and wow yep you don't need to be paying a lot for a decent guitar theses days. Fully agree on the Hartwood! Just looks and sounds incredible! My piggy bank is twitching for one of these!
Brilliant channel, merry Christmas, and a happy new year. Once Christmas is all done, I'm going to the TV channel as well.Big thumbs up, and thank you for the Christmas beginner guitar package review. 😊 I'm sure my grandson will be blown away.
Nice one Martin have a good one! 😁👍
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you for another year of awesome videos. Best guitar channel on RUclips. Donating the guitars is a great thing to do.
Great year of videos, absolutely love the content and your style. Charity donation, a lovely kind gesture.
Merry Christmas
Great presentation as always Colin. My week is just geared up to Friday on RUclips watching you. Long may it continue. Viva la Guitaristas! PS still gigging the Joe Tele but now in two bands so its getting a real proper run out every weekend and never lets me down! Ash
Cheers Ash, great to hear that mate I hope you are adding a few more dents and dings of your own! 😁👍
Happy Christmas to all the guitaristas... Colin, thanks for all the reviews this year. I have bought a few of these budget tele's as a result of your reviews and am chuffed with all of them. Keep it up and looking forward to more next year. Liam.
Thanks for the video. Liked your videos throughout the year. Will be spending December musically working on my banjo playing, as I have been this month and last. Hope you can have a good holiday break.
I've grown fond of the Harley Benton name. It's exactly what you'd expect a German a few decades ago to come up with when thinking of a "Rock & Roll" name. Same as Ibanez which is what a Japanese guy would think a Spanish luthier is named
Perfect Choice! I can't help drawing a comparison between that Hartwood Charger, the angular styled Dodge Charger from McQueen's "Bullit" and the relative Mustangs.
Colin's New Years Resolution - Sell that Damn Troublecaster because it was "born under a bad sign!" Merry Christmas sir!
Yep It's almost certainly got a wiring fault... 🤣🤦♂️
Thanks for all the great content this year, consistently reliable insight. 👍🏼
A big thanx & Merry X-Mas Colin, videos are always informative & entertaining! Thx for all ya do, fr L.A.!
Merry Christmas Colin , thanks for all your entertaining way you reviews and upgrades you have done . You have inspired even me with 10 thumbs to have a go at upgrading.
Long may you keep doing this 🎸🎸
Cheers John, have a go.... 10 thumbs and a big hammer is all you need! 😆👍
Another great video Col, love the yearly recaps.
Minus that Bigsby, the Hartwood has a whiff of the WEM Sapphire (which is no bad thing 👍)
It was a great year. Lots of helpful information. I love the channel. Merry Christmas! How about sometime this year you do a show on the pedals that you use. Explain what you got cuz I really like the sound you Make
Great choice on the Hartwood, I did look at picking one up but they only do the trem on the Cigar Burst, and I really liked the Peppermint.
Col, thank you for so much for your honest and down to earth vids mate. You're the absolute pinnacle of my week man :)
Btw, I still really would love to get a compilation of all your noodling... I so love your style.
(ps you still owe me a pint lol)
😆👍 cheers mate!
Thanks for everything you do for us Colin, it's been great every Friday watching your vids, I think you should give yourself a pat on the back and buy yourself a Christmas pressie, a guitar obviously, all the best merry Christmas
Colin - Thanks to your review, I’ll be getting the Hartwood Speedway Red Lipstick guitar in LA tomorrow! They won’t have that Charger until May 2025. (I’m getting it!) Happy New Year!
I enjoy your videos. I enjoy your selections here.I play acoustic for the most. I am keeping my electrics for my great nephew and great niece.
That's a lot of guitars Colin! Thank you for the videos, what a year.
Thanks for the videos throughout the year Colin - I admire your boundless enthusiasm! Out of interest, I totally get what you mean about the Harley Benton brand - until recently I'd been using their 15W all valve combo, but found myself apologising for it when roadcrews were miking it up for bigger shows! Enjoy your Xmas break 🎄
Cheers Russ... good little amp though so maybe here's where gaffer tape could come in handy for improving your street cred? 🤣👍
@@theguitaristas You're not wrong! And it was nice to meet you in person today. Best wishes
@ likewise good to meet you Russ! 😁👍
Thank you for all the great information this year
YoHoHo... Friday 13th... Lucky for Someone (?)... Enjoyed this 'round-up' (Rowdy Yates... "Rollin Rollin Rollin" Rawhide !) with pleasure... and GREAT "Dress Style" this week with GAS Jacket... Good-on-Ya-Mate... for your generosity donations to the local Lads/Lassies... Am sure doing so, warmed the Cockles of your Heart ! (seriously) and then (?) ... My pick this week was the Heritage Ascent H150... Am SO CLOSE to buying 7 years Grandson his 1st Guitar, but will now wait until 2025 ? His Uncle, my youngest lad, is only 2 years older than him... and MUST come first for priorities... Only so many 'sheckles' to go around... Have a great week (and the last 'show' of 2024) and then an even greater well deserved Holiday... Thanks Colin for best RUclips Presentations of 2024... You may be a 'rough' Diamond... but still a "Diamond"... See Ya...✌"V"... Kettles' boiling...
Hi Colin. A great thank you for this year ! Replace Harley Benton by Colin's on the headstock and it will be fantastic ! See you next week. Cheers.
That Squier in torino red is so gorgeous it should be illegal. What a steal that guitar is. Glad to see it on the list. Merry Christmas, man.
A year of wonderful videos. Have a great Christmas and new year Col.
Merry Christmas Colin! Thanks for a year of great reviews. I'm looking forward to the wrap-up next week and all of the fine reviews in 2025 - especially the Guild you've teased us with a couple of times 😊 Cheers!
Merry Christmas and love the content. Looking forward to the next vid!
I love your content. I'm in America and I love that English accent. I shouldn't have to explain my ancestry but ( some English , but , not that simple ) I am also a similar age and have very similar opinions about Guitars. You are setting a standard for us. Good work. Thank you.
Colin with a Kramer is a damn good way to end the year. Can't wait to see what 2025 brings the Guitarista...
Hiya Colin,
Thanks for videos this year, I've really enjoyed them. I particularly appreciate the playing with a loop which is great for context compared to just noodling which many other channels concentrate on.
I'd love to see you do a review of the Robert Smith Schecter UltraCure (somewhat topical given how well the new album is doing - and two more in the can apparently!). I love Bob's old guitars but I'm always struck when i see The Cure live how good he sounds with the UltraCure.
I enjoyed your Eastman video where you messed around with some Lullaby-type playing. Ive not come across a good review of the Schecter and would like to see your take on it.
Anyway, I hope you have a lovely Christmas and i look forward to a year full of more grest videos.
Peace and love, Paul.
Cheers Paul, I love the Cure and would definitely like to try that guitar next year... 🤔
Happy Friday the 13th Col....
Great job on cheap guitars. If you can't make a cheap guitar sound good, why would you spend a lot of money to make an expensive guitar sound really bad? I'm happy to see you donated those guitars to a good cause and I am proud to be a part of it! I can't wait to see next weeks review of the expensive stuff. Cheers mate! ROCK ON!!!!!!!
Cheers mate! 😁👍
Link to that Hartwood CHARGER?
Excellent recap Col! Budget guitars have come a long way since the cheesecutters of our day... its great!
Im with you on both gold hardware and PRS... neither inspire me to play.
Lovely gesture mate, handed them 7 guitars to the kids... if it gets 2 nippers playing for life.. job well done.
See you (and the guitaristas mob next week).
You are a class act sir and I salute you! You have indeed made this a very merry christmas for a good number of deserving youngsters. Here's to hoping that you've helped to bring about a second British Invasion!
Cheers from Canada!
Thank you for all the work you did this year. And 🤘 ✌️✌️✌️
$17,000.°°, can't wait till next week! Happy Hollidays Colin, from Indiana ! KeepSmiling
Merry Christmas to you and yours.Thank you for everything you do great reviews great playing! Kick ass channel doing what you do no BS good vibes !
It's good to keep busy colin .merry Christmas man enjoyed the last year of your videos long may you run
Good Evening Colin. I wish you and your Team a wonderful Holiday time and come you all well into 2025, good health and spirits to you all! Now, I do have a Suggestion for a Review and it would be the Larry Carlton Sire Version of his 335. I've heard it here on RUclips, but nobody does a review quite like you. It's akways a pleasure and one can even learn a few mod Tricks along the way😅 Cheers, until next time
Lovely Greetings from Bad Malente-Gremsmühlen,Germany
Michael
Brilliant episode Colin, I've been watching all year, love your channel man, I little funny thing about Hartwood is a phyciatric, metal hospital in Scotland, Shotts 😂
For disturbed fans of Slayer, Metallica, Priest etc.?
Merry Christmas Colin and thanks for a relaxing year of informative videos. Good on ya mate 🤓👍
Hi Colin, thanks for all your great work! Have a nice break and something good to eat and drink on Christmas! Cheers Nobby
You have proven to me yet again how personal taste really is to individuals. I cannot fathom how you dont like the look of a prs but then espoused how much you lked the look of the hartwood. Lol
We are at opposite ends when it comes to what we like the looks of, but i respect your opinion.
Merry christmas and a happy new year!
Good recap of the inexpensive guitars. I'd love to see a follow-up on the donated guitars one day. It's been quite a year! On to the next one. Cheers!
This yellow Heritage sounds tempting, the rest, not so much. Looking forward to next week !
Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas, and a wonderful new year Col. And thanks for all the videos. 😊
Good morning from Texas ! We love you Colin....merry Christmas! Play daily happy new year !
Love the videos you make Colin. Amazing content. Someone asked me about your videos. I was watching one on my phone at a friends house and he asked who you were. I explained you do guitar demos. He said what type of music does he play. Because you wear crocs. I just said he plays croc rock 🤷🏻♂️ keep the vids coming Colin 👍🏻
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Merry Christmas and a happy new year Colin and thanks for all the cracking videos
Heartwood yeah! Would have been my choice. As you say though, none of these budget guitars were shit! Appreciate you going through the effort of demonstrating that.
i cant believe its already another year gone by.. i feel like i celebrated new years just yesterday..
Speaking of Harley Benton i hope you check out the new series they released, especially the Harley Benton SC-Custom Plus EMG TBF.
thanks for a great year of great videos. see you next year!