u/Knivesandhammers

I'm a beginner guitar player and wanted to go try some fender stratocasters as I'm a big Ritchie blackmore rainbow fan. Played a few Mexican strats then found this used Ibanez Roadstar 2 for $449 with hardcase. Didn't know a thing about it but it felt as good or better as the new guitars twice its price. What really sold me is it's from 1982-3 and I literally can't find a scratch or ding on it. It was in far better shape then a lot of the NEW strats on the wall at guitar center...

Favorite guitar player. Bought after he passed. Just the day before he passed away I was rambling to my girlfriend about how cool Phil Campbell was. I recently started playing guitar after being a lifelong motorhead fan. A lot of Phil Campbell solos were part of the reason I wanted to learn how to play. Hope to get my hands on some more memorabilia! RIP PHIL!

I bought a used blues king 12 and love the thing. It does sometimes do a weird low end noise especially on my neck p90 with gain switch on. Tore it apart just out of curiosity. Thought it was supposed to be a supro speaker and it's a celestion 7080. Also noticed a burnt solder joint on what looks to be a capacitor. Wondering if that's a concern and what the symptoms would be. Also looking for speaker recommendation which I figured might get rid of the weird low end noise. I play mostly classic metal (Judas priest, black sabbath, rainbow, which I use a friedman pedal for) and blues (gary moore, Eric Clapton which I don't use pedal and just use amp settings). Please give speaker recommendation and info about burnt solder joint. I would like to upgrade this thing essentially.

Trying to get rid of an on and off rattle on my tune o matic bridge (talked about in my last post here). Here's what I came up with for the bridge and then figured may as well throw some locking tuners on there. Guitar is G5210T-P90

Ai says the resomax doesn't rattle like cheaper tune o matics

Looking to upgrade the bridge (intermittent rattling issues with saddles I believe) and tuners (one of them seems damaged and is very stiff to turn even without strings on). I'm a rookie at this. How do I choose the right bridge and pickups that will fit? Is there higher end gretsch replacement parts or just go aftermarket? Are they standard sizing across most gretsch or different per model? I love this guitar but think these upgrades would benefit me.