Hello from a weekend player who also runs a small guitar-gear side shop
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2026 4:28 am
Hi everyone, long-time reader finally saying hello. I am Mason, weekend strat player from the UK, mostly blues and classic rock at home volume while the family is asleep. Besides the day job I also run a tiny side shop selling guitar accessories and pick sets online, which eats more evenings than playing does these days. The lesson nobody warns you about: selling gear is 20 percent packing boxes and 80 percent answering messages from Facebook, Instagram and chat, often at midnight. I recently moved all those inboxes into one workspace with EasyRobin (www.easyrobin.com) and finally stopped losing order messages, so now I actually get practice time back. Anyway, happy to be here, keen to learn from the tone and gear threads. Currently fighting gas over a new valve amp I absolutely do not need.