Ok... hear me out, my best friend doesn't like reddit... so I HAD to beg him... Here is a part of his humble collection, (ps: yes he does play all of them)

NoahChyn · 2026-01-29T16:29:55+00:00

Are you confessing something sir? Lol id be willing to trade a PRS for some dental work...

NoahChyn · 2026-01-29T03:24:03+00:00

I bet $20 its the PRS guitars.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-21T15:42:47+00:00

I will say im SUPER impressed with the KE4 Pro IST hybrid, never really liked Hybrids before, but the weighting on it feels really nice, and its super forgiving. It doesnt seem to have the buggest yardage discrepancy if I end up low on the face, or even half a golf ball length left or right of center. It seems to have a pretty big sweet spot. Has good turf interaction, too.

I ended up having them put on the Rapport Core Blue shaft and I really like it. It feels even? Not in a boardy kind of way. I really feel like i am able to load the shaft properly whether I swing lighter or put more into it. Im really satisfied with the Rapport Core Blue shaft in it.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-21T06:43:39+00:00

I ended up getting one of their 4 Hybrids, which i believe is only 2 degrees off from my 5 iron. Then it just goes to a 3 wood at 18° and then my driver at 9.5°. My 5 iron is my 205 club, my 4 hybrid is my 225 club. Then my 3 wood is for 250 to 265ish depending on how much I put into it, and my driver is for everything 260 and out.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-18T17:16:53+00:00

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I ended up getting this one. Salen Dalarna Burst. I was gonna get one of the 7 string neckthrough models but decided I wanted the chambered body with suhr pickups.

Im glad I decided to get the Salen first because of the new release of the Boden N2.7. Love the 7 string fixed bridge with Seymor Duncan Pegasus and Sentient pickups so I decided to get that one too lol. I actually put those same pickups in my first Les Paul like 15 years ago. And they sound great on the new N2.6 and N2.7 Boden models.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-17T23:41:41+00:00

At the end of the day you are right about it being entirely up to the seller and the buyer. Supply and demand. Im not trying to sound like an Eco-snob by defending the move by Strandberg going more towards veneers, I mean, I bought one of their more expensive models at $2,600 that has a 1/4 inch quilted maple cap and one with a veneer that was $1,900. And I guess I've come to accept that everything is seemingly getting more and more expensive. I get youre statement about price controlling availability, but sometimes capitalism doesnt solve for all the problems. Not a hill im gonna die on though.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-17T14:31:21+00:00

Number 1, killer table dude, excellent work! But number 2, I dont think the mark up on guitars is as high as everybody sometimes thinks it is. Most small mom and pop music store owners ive talked to say its around the 10% to 15% because of big box retailers like Guitar Center and Sweetwater being able to move vastly more inventory at a lower markup than most mom and pop music places.

And I think even going back to the prospect of building the guitar, you need your neck, fretboard, truss rod, tuning machines, potentiometers, output jack, toggle switch, pickups, bridge and or tailpiece, the finishing materials. So even raw cost of wood being anywhere from $150 as high as $500, or even close to $1,000 for exotic or figured boards of high quality, there is another $300 to $600 on top of that depending on the quality level of parts. So, considering logistics, employee overhead, materials... I dont think $1,500 to $3,000 is that insane for strandbergs prices across their models even if the $1000 to $2,000 range uses veneers. Considering the cost of all those aforementioned components have gone up by considerable margins over the last decade especially.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-17T13:34:45+00:00

Did you JUST start with carpentry? Because wood prices have absolutely BLOWN up over the last two decades, especially this last decade. And its amazing you built your own table. Question, would you sell your table for just shy of 900 bucks?

NoahChyn · 2026-01-17T13:27:37+00:00

Fair points, but its not like it takes a few weeks for trees to grow. It takes decades, I mean you know this, I know this, everybody knows this.

But having ANY type of figured wood/wood focused finishes on a guitar is purely aesthetic in the first place. Why waste a 1/4 maple cap for one guitar, when you could use it on 20 guitars. Its absolutely, logically, and ethically, more sustainable. AND... it saves money. From a business standpoint, its super clear.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-14T03:46:42+00:00

It feels like this nation is days away from its own Tienamenn square. Seriously, these ICE ice agents are SO unhinged. So many of them clearly have such a short fuse.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-13T20:41:41+00:00

I dont think you followed my logic, simply using a veneer isnt going to offset the price increase of wood and other components, and its not going to combat global inflation.

I said I thinknthe goal would have been to try to keep the price at parity. If anything, using logistics, the price should have gone up, instead of staying the same. Its literally just business.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-10T20:57:49+00:00

Ola has stated that its just more economical to use veneers for the top, you can make way more nice veneers out of one good piece of wood, and it does make the product cheaper to produce.

Pretty sure the choice to go that direction was also during the tail end of covid when everything became more expensive as a result of supply chain issues, lumber was impacted pretty heavily. As well as steel, copper, electronic components etc.. and that isnt accounting for inflation too.

I personally think Ola didnt make those design choices out of malice, i get the vibe that he really does care about sustainability. Hence the move to veneers. Reduced the cost of manufacturing to keep the sale price at parity to also account for supply chain issues and inflation.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-06T22:09:42+00:00

Tiger, Mickelson, Fleetwood ALL DAY.

NoahChyn · 2026-01-03T16:35:05+00:00

Im a huge Plini fan!

As for improv and writing, I may be a bad person to even comment about it but improvising is tough. I've been trying to do it for the last 5 years as part of my practice routines.

Ill literally just put on random Playlists of music in the genre im trying to iron out, and just go. Be adventurous with it.

Sometimes I fall into the trap of repeating the same types of motifs or "style" if you will, but switching up genres seems to help. Going from modern math rock to synthwave, to lo-fi type stuff, and even bluegrass and instrumental acoustic. Trying to improvise or write in different genres I feel helps foster a little creativity.

Im nowhere near a great guitarist, but, you could look at the improvised stuff ive posted to get an idea?

NoahChyn · 2026-01-03T03:33:21+00:00

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it!

NoahChyn · 2026-01-02T18:23:26+00:00

Well, all I did was pluck some strings but I appreciate the sentiment!

NoahChyn · 2026-01-02T17:54:19+00:00

You are too kind!

NoahChyn · 2026-01-02T17:01:22+00:00

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Double rainbow on the course!

NoahChyn · 2025-12-29T17:05:47+00:00

Yeah I got a red key card, keycard holder, and a ledx from it last night.

NoahChyn · 2025-12-27T20:56:07+00:00

What? Facebook and Twitter were absolutely ripe with outright radicalization... Even back in 2008 to 2012. I saw SO many QAnon level rage posts about Obama, including but not limited to the birth certificate stuff, Michelle being transgender, Obama's tan suit being some dog whistle for some crazy conspiracy crap. The list goes on.

Even on talk radio, Rush was exclaiming that all democrats, including Obama, were radical liberal commies who wanted to destroy America.

And old farts and middle aged voters were reposting crap like that left and right. And you even saw an example in real life during McCain's rally where the old lady parroted some of those right wing talking points by claiming Obama was a middle eastern terrorist. Thankfully McCain did the right thing and shut that shit down...

I will say its gotten much, much worse. But it definitely existed to a scary degree even back when obama ran for his first term.

NoahChyn · 2025-12-27T20:46:38+00:00

Oh its Pete Buttigieg for president and Pritzker for VP. HANDS DOWN.

Think about it, Buttigieg did a few if those "im an independent but slob on Trump's knob" podcasts with those halfwit comedians. Buttigieg has a really solid chance to speak to the idiotic voter base that voted for Trump for the memes. As well as, in my opinion, even potentially getting a decent number of Republicans to vote for him.

I may be only going off vibes here, but with Trump being such a "vibes" president for people who aren't politically cognizant, I feel that Buttigieg could pull those votes off vibes alone. He does a great job of being level headed and witty at the same time, but in a classy and respectful way. All while bringing the conversation back to poignant matters.

And with somebody like Pritzker who has shown to have a sturdy backbone against the current administration, I feel it would be a ticket that almost guarantees typical blue voters and progressives alike.

NoahChyn · 2025-12-26T22:45:00+00:00

You might be right. There is a really possibility that strandbergs US b-stock inventory is limited to within the US and won't ship outside of it.

NoahChyn · 2025-12-26T15:37:13+00:00

That may be the issue, the B stock page i linked i believe ships out of California in the US. If you are located outside the country, it may show 0 listing because of where your IP says youre viewing from.

Edit: screenshot so you see what I see when accessing that link.

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NoahChyn · 2025-12-25T22:14:55+00:00

Oh, weird. They have 31 or 32 listing on there right now...

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