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I added the Cimar Les Paul here: https://equipboard.com/items/ibanez-cimar-les-paul-custom-model-1904-mij

I added the Stone Voices Marazmator here: https://equipboard.com/items/stone-voices-marazmator

We got this one already , the PolyGAS is here https://equipboard.com/items/stone-voices-polygas

I added the Stone Voices Ambient Reverb 7 here: https://equipboard.com/items/stone-voices-ambient-reverb-7

Sorry can not see your Picture , it does say "This content is no longer available." Do you have another Picture ?

I added the JET JJ-350 Baritone Moonburst here: https://equipboard.com/items/jet-guitars-jj-350-baritone

"How you get to that point I don't know!"

Maybe to make it more visible, I did not know it has a forum a long time. you might show the path to the forms like saying: "menu" to the icon of the sidebar. Or do mention the Forum like in my Tutorials with the guidlines to "my equiboard" site.

You could do an message income on the site like you recieve E-mail, you post has been answered , or here is a new post .... Or the some kinda message poping up the last done Posts in the forums new ones or new entries on a topic. Or you got a specific gear , you get a meassage your gear was mentioned here in the forum and they are talking about it. Or you are New , please say Hello here in the Form to the community. Like in a Twitter style:

or that specific words in Forums you use are links to content in the website, like on wikipedia , for exsample you write Fender it turns blue and when you click, it gets you to the fender brand site on equipboard, when you write delay to the site with all delay effects, when you write Fender strab to this fender strab was mentioned and so on ... .

You might somehow improve the forum with extra content or features, can be by information like I pointed out , but also emotional like emojis , images , video, small games , a reward system , a content creator to add news into the forms to discuss ....

With Small Game, I think of that Low GearIQ-ers do get a Game like find these Intruments and you see empty places where a Guitar , Snare , Keyboard .. is missing or grey-out, so they can find these instruments hidden on equipboard , for exsample the Guitar Icon is hidden on the Form Page Guitar , the Snare hidden on Guidelines Page ... , once they find it and click it, its get added to their empty place and they earn some GwearIQ Points. This is an exsample of how such a Game could look like.

Also an Idea would be , Maybe Equipboard , could get Give-Aways sometimes , so you can also make the Forum and the Site more attractive with Give-Aways sponsored. But to keep in mind the site is world wide does say you might have to ship it on a very long way.

Or maybe someone building content in the forum , like this pedal is new , this and this person has it on his my gear , what you think of it , what does youtube and influencer say about is and does this match to you what others say about it ? We got reviews of this pedal what you think of these reviews and so on, we got a rating of this pedal does it live up to it and so on ...

Maybe next to the textfield Icons of my gear , my reviews , my wishing list that , you can drag and drop in , so it creates a link and shows this also in the forum. Instead you copy the link manual into the text field like: https://equipboard.com/items/squier-40th-anniversary-jazzmaster-vintage-edition-satin-seafoam-green and then it shows the picture of the guitar, your review , ... with the link when clicking on it. So that it also get somehow linked back to the Item and on the Item page does appear this Item was mentioned here in the forum

Maybe do more sperations like in Guitar and Bass , you do , talk new gear, talk vintage gear , talk repair , set up , tuning , hacks , talk amps, talk cabinets , talk tone searching and finding , talking pedals ... do a forum for Drummers too , do seperate more in Synths, Music Production & DJing... Into the Forum Artist discussions , Company discussions maybe too. Specially Artist discussion might be a forum magnet. So you can find more easy the Topics you wanna talk about and it is not so mixed. And people will post more because they know they are in the right place.

Maybe you will also add Friends or "Join a Group" also to follower , because you will then find more people connected like drummer, same music genre , more vintage or gear collector groups , nerd groups , producer groups , dj groups , artist fan groups , brand fan groups , influencer fan groups ... and then there will be also more activities and discussions possible in the forums, when they see your friend or from your Shoegaze , drummer , gibson, ... Group did posted this here or was active here. And then these groups get their own Forum seperation when they are big enough, like Kurt Cobain Fan Group talk, or vintage japanese synth talk group , or pedal collector group talk .... you might be in a group by your profile then and see the other users or create a group on your own with other users, invite people to your group and so on ... but this group is then also open to everything , like someone can ask a question to the Gibson Fan Group or to the Drummer Group also when you are not part of it also see what they are doing so and talking , posting about ..... then the main groups is also displayed under your user name and got an own landing site where you see members and can join and shorties of their content like posts , reviews , last added items , ratings .... There might be an own User Group Name, own group logo or picture , maybe a ranking of the group or the members of the group , maybe a some sort of news or info box , a slogan of the group, most loved Gear of the group, most loved Brands , most loved Artists of the group and so on .... and on thier Group site is then when they are big enough also a Link to their Group Forum Seperation like Drummer Talk or Hendrix Talk , or Studio Talk, or Tour and Stage Talk ....

But I have also to say that discussions on equipboard are not only on the forum , you got them everywhere like on artist on Items, like on reviews , like under user Pictures , so there is everywhere some activity going on but not focused on one spot like in the Forums and then it looks like there is not much activity going on or you might missed activities going on, because it was in place you did not notice or you got not on your radar. You might focus it or bring it somehow together or connect and interact it.

Yea Hard to say , you know what exact model it is ? Is it a Tribute , a Deluxe , ... ? And it looks Modified , I can be wrong but the Knobs does not look origin to me , normally there are typical Fender Plastic Knobs, it has a different Bridge like the G&L Fullerton Deluxe Comanche we got already, but this is original and Deluxe had that Bridge too.

OK I added the G&L Comanche 2005 I think its a Deluxe, for the meantime here: https://equipboard.com/items/g-l-fullerton-deluxe-comanche-2005 when it does change I will inform you under your Guitar picture.

For Improvement:

A. Brand Name and Picture Edit:

I would like to have something to edit the brand name and picture, perhaps an IQ-based feature. I've seen a few brands that had incorrect or poorly designed logo images; it would be good if that could be edited, depending on the IQ status , if you like.

The same goes for the Brand Name. As you may know, I've often made mistakes there and had to ask a Mod to delete the incorrect one. It would also be good to be able to edit this, for a while, and perhaps also depending on the IQ.

We might also do something about "Sub Brands" and add there something , like we got: ESP Ltd , Navigator, Edwards, and Grassroots ... for exsample. But this will be difficult it has to be something everyone does understand easy , because some read Edwards , but do not know at all that it is ESP, some know Edwards is ESP and called it only ESP or both like ESP Edwards... and so on ... maybe under Brand a Sub Brand Edit and then you have ESP and after that Edwards or you create a "BY" Edit so you Brand it Edwards and under "by" you put in ESP. And you got then in the Full Name Edwards by ESP or Squier by Fender....

B. Item Description

Then we might standardize the Item Description text a bit. It's a bit wild at the moment, and I'm not very good at it either. For example, how to list specs or features... it looks best I think when the text is highlighted in background color and not connected. I don't know how to do that or how to code it in the right text format. Here's an example under Product Specs: https://equipboard.com/items/motu-24ao-usb-avb-ethernet-audio-interface

There we also see under Key Features: A format with Dots and a Neat List. I can't do that; my "Item Description" doesn't look so good. I think we should add and Agree on some kind of "Text Standard" in the Item Description and also support this with "Code Help / Tutorial."

For example, in the Forum or FAQ, a text format Code Help or Tutorial, and in the field when creating an item, it says in a faded format: "Add the manufacturer's description here." We could also write there: For a list, use this text format if possible and this code... and an example. In this grey-out Text. And maybe for bold text, use this code format.

C. Item Visit or Artist Visit Count

Like next to : 5.0 (107) , 15 Reviews , we might also add: x Visit so you can see how many times the Item or the Artist was viewed , the page called up.

Ideas:

First Idea: Tutorials on My Equipboard

We should perhaps turn the FAQs and Tutorials into Videos, like the YouTube video "Submitting to Equipboard," which is great and we already have, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43H1uvZWdk4 The video is very good, but should be more easily accessible.

Like the FAQs, they're also good, but very hidden, and many people have a hard time finding them, or I think they don't look at them, or only look after a while.

The idea is that once you reach the IQ, you'll... 1. be shown that you've unlocked a new feature and can, for example, "create items" now or "add artists" now under "My Equipboard" at the top, next to the name, there's still some free space

1. and then, in addition, a "Tutorial" will be displayed to the new feature .. like "How to Add an Item" , "How to Text Format the Item Description" , "Contributor Guidelines" where a pop-up menu or something similar opens that links to the Video Tutorials on YouTube, in another Browser Tab where you can quickly look up , how to edit something correctly and what to pay attention to. A Standard Text Code Tutorial for the Item Description could also be included there.

Second Idea: A reward system.

We all know reward systems in games where you unlock things or can earn awards; that might be something for Equipboard as well. And the IQ system is already something like this can be improved and developed. You can improve Equipboard this way and encourage people to work on it , so that Equipboard has better content, fewer bugs , fewer mistakes , fewer missing content , looks better, and is more connected. It also keeps people on the site, and they have more fun spending time here. Or maybe even a whole new page where get to from my equipbard , called like "my content" with Tutorials , FAQs and Guidlines and so on .... Speperated on the things you wanna do and then a link to the working place like Add Artist , or Uncatogrized Items , Un-Brand Items , Items without Description ....

How you do and relize it can of course be different , but the main idea is that there are something like awards or medals for things like reporting a duplicate, improving an image, categorizing an item, writing a review, adding a Brand was missing .... or rating an item.

Once you reach a certain level, say, categorizing 100 items, you receive a kind of medal Icon, to your username.

Then maybe also a Site where Rewards are listet and how you can achieve them. Maybe also with the name of the users did work on that Award the most. In this way you can also show what the site does need to improve, like when there are too much uncategorized Items , or too many Items without a Brand , you can reward this when someone worked on that. You can then see right away what person is there and what is he or she doing the most at the moment , like creating just Items, adding just to Artists , cleaning up Content and in which way and so on and some kinda group them too and connect them under a Title like Categorize Squard, or Brand Squard , or Artist Squard can also be funny Group names or with a different Taste to it.

But here you have to be careful about what you reward and how you reward, because unfortunately, such things could also attract people who will do anything to earn such rewards and mess things up.

Third Idea: Artist Sponsored

We might add to Artists that they are Sponsored , like some companies got on their sites where they list-up Artist using their Products and that they are sponsored we might also add this to the Artists not just by the Items like a Fender Guitar where people say they are sponsored by Fender, .... we might do it right to the artist and link also to these companies, ... the bad thing about it, that might change over time and they are not sponsored anymore or by another company. So there might be a system you do not update somehow , or where it is clear that this might be not an actual status and that there was a sponsoring in the past.

So you see like ... Mila de la Garza Role: Singer , Drummer Genre : Rock , Pop Group: The Linda Lindas

And New -> Sponsored / was Sponsored by: Fender

And then we got an extra Site like on Fender not with Items , instead these are Artists were Sponsored by Fender or somehow also on the Items Site of Fender but not like that the artist can pile up and use all the space of the Fender Items.

Fourth Idea: Gear Knowledge to My Equipboard

There are all kind of people on Equipboard also Collectors , Historians , Company Owners , Producers, People got a Studio , and just simple People brought their 1st Guitar or something, but you can not see how much they know about Gear , there might be people know what Gibson this is , I do add at the moment and what is right or wrong about it, or what Guitar someone got which can not be indentified for us , and so on ... so you need someone knows that Gear or where you can see: ok he got a clue , he must been right about it. So we might add to like : Hobby Guitarist from West Germany Roles : Guitarist Genres : Rock , Progressive Rock , Psychedelic Rock

something like New -> Gear (Pre) Skill / Knowledge: Historian , or Collector, or Gibson Enthusiastic, Japanese Guitar Freak, Keyboard Collector , Vintage Collector , Synth Nerd , Wall of Pedal , Just Started , 1st Instrument , relict identifier ....

And then we can mark an Item as: Not Sure About it as a Check box in Brand or Discription or Year ... , and these people get a sort of 2nd Notification due to their Gear Knowledge: like have look onto this Item: Is that right ?

And on Items Edit maybe , not only what have you done , like Discription , something like , missing or unsure about and checkbox for Discription , Brand , Pics

Then you can also have Working Spaces like , Items with bad or missing pictures, Items with missing or unsure discription , ..... like we got already on Uncatogorized Items. And put these Working Spaces onto My Equipboard under My Content or My Improvements.

So I imagine there has to be something new to "my Equipboard" Site for Content Creation or Improvment. Separated into:

A. Tools where you got when unlocked: Add Artist, Add Item, Add Brand ...

B. Skills or Knowledge: like Guide Lines, Tutorials , .... optimal as Video like "How to Add a Brand", "How to Discription with Format Code" , "How to Name Gear"..

C. Working Space: like you get to a site where you got: Items with bad or missing Pictures, Missing Discription , Missing Category ....

Fifth Idea: FAQ , Guidlines Reading to GearIQ Points Adding also GearIQ Points , when someone watched these Tutorial Videos or Visit the Site of FAQ , Guide Lines ..... would be great I think , they are not so easy to find and this is important for people to know when creating Content.

provide a longer time period to delete your own erroneous entries (maybe forever?)

It is possible by can I say "a hack" ? atm , I used it myself about 3 Times to be honest, but you have to make sure that there is no artist or whatsoever connected to the Item already or Mod is needed. After you done an Item, there is the Site Poping up, where you can delete the Item , I got a Folder in my Browser and save all the time these Links as a Favorite, when you wanna delete the Item you can comeback every time on the site by just calling up the Link and then just delete it.

Again 2 Brands needs to be deleted

1. Blackburner Noise with an L in Black is wrong, needs to get deleted . (The corret one is of course Backbuner Noise)

2. Andreas Christiansen , with IA in Christiansen is wrong needs to be deleted. (The corret one is Christensen)

Thanks a lot , and sorry.

I added the Andreas Christensen Piccolino Petit Piano Compact here: https://equipboard.com/items/andreas-christensen-piccolino-petit-piano-compact

I added the Backburner Noise Big Booty Judy here: https://equipboard.com/items/backburner-noise-big-booty-judy

I added the Tanglewood TEB-100 Bass Guitar here: https://equipboard.com/items/tanglewood-teb-100-bass-guitar

I added the demonfx jan ray clone here: https://equipboard.com/items/demonfx-janray-clone

I added the Tech 21 Sansamp Bass Driver & DI Vermillion Red Limited Edition here: https://equipboard.com/items/tech-21-sansamp-bass-driver-di-vermillion-red-limited-edition

I added the Martin & Co. Handcraft Standard Trumpet here: https://equipboard.com/items/martin-co-handcraft-standard-trumpet

I added the Movall MP103 Absolute Zero Fuzz here: https://equipboard.com/items/movall-mp103-absolute-zero-fuzz

We got this already here: https://equipboard.com/items/jhs-424-gain-stage

I added the F.E. Olds Ambassador A-10 Trumpet Early Los Angeles Factory production Yellow brass here: https://equipboard.com/items/f-e-olds-ambassador-a-10-trumpet-early-los-angeles-factory-production-yellow-brass

I added the Aklot AKET26 2020 here: https://equipboard.com/items/aklot-aket26-acoustic-electric-ukulele

I got a weird Brand called "Aklot" and the Brand is written in 3 or even more Typos.

I donot know if this is all the same company, I got here websites like: 1. https://aklot.com/ 2. https://www.aklotitc.com/

The brands do variate , I found 3 so far like: 1st: https://aklot.com/cdn/shop/files/AKLOT_1__00_1f64dbf3-17b7-4fce-8e74-92f8154d9656.png?v=1742798336 2nd: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSjjxb7qG_IhL1l4EpkvcHRYAiZvP9Sviq96Q&s 3rd: https://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/pi/mp/10153480/prod_19596335524?src=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F61FTxr%2BX1%2BL.jpg&d=2f5826e4aa87faa18bb0934435b5222f10285aec&hei=450&wid=450

Is this all the same company and Brand or not ?

We got also already the Aklot Brand here with wrong logo and written in full Caps : https://equipboard.com/brands/aklot 2 Items And one Item without a Brand: https://equipboard.com/items/aklot-5-string-tenor-ukulele

I added the Baton Rouge V1-S Dawn Ukulele here: https://equipboard.com/items/baton-rouge-v1-s-dawn-ukulele

I added the ESP Grassroots G-MIRAGE WK GCB-M STBK here: https://equipboard.com/items/esp-grassroots-g-mirage-wk-gcb-m-stbk

I added the LyxPro 39” SB Series Electric Guitar, 3-Way Pickup Solid Body Guitar, Black here: https://equipboard.com/items/lyxpro-39-sb-series-electric-guitar

I added the Egnater Renegade REN65-410x Extension Cabinet here: https://equipboard.com/items/egnater-renegade-ren65-410x-extension-cabinet

I added the StewMac Sun Fuzz Pedal here: https://equipboard.com/items/stewmac-sun-fuzz-pedal

I added the D'Addario xpnd pedalboard double pedal riser here: https://equipboard.com/items/d-addario-xpnd-pedal-riser-dual-width-black

We got this one already , its here https://equipboard.com/items/khdk-digital-bath-by-deftones

I added the ESP GrassRoots G-NH-70 Nightmare Hitsugi Signature Guitar here: https://equipboard.com/items/esp-grassroots-g-nh-70

I added the Epiphone Les Paul Special-I here: https://equipboard.com/items/epiphone-les-paul-special-i-limited-edition-electric-guitar-worn-gray

Ok Thanks , I added the Carvin X-100 100 Watt 12" Guitar Combo Amplifier here: https://equipboard.com/items/carvin-xv-112e-x-100-100-watt-12-guitar-combo-amplifier

I added the Subzero Paradigm here: https://equipboard.com/items/sub-zero-paradigm-semi-hollow-electric-guitar

I added the Hamer XT Series Sunburst skulls here: https://equipboard.com/items/hamer-xt-series-sunburst-skulls

I added the Hiwatt LS4x12 Cabinet here: https://equipboard.com/items/hiwatt-ls-4x12-cabinet

I added the Takamine EG-240 here: https://equipboard.com/items/takamine-eg-240

Thats hard , is it this one : https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRIWj0Btxjy9h-i2tRCNKkCXW4IpfIa6Pu8bw&s

I added the Vox TG1ST6OD Tone Garage Straight 6 Overdrive here: https://equipboard.com/items/vox-tg1st6od-tone-garage-straight-6-overdrive

I added the Yamaha MB-III Super Edition Bass here: https://equipboard.com/items/yamaha-mb-iii-super-edition-bass

We got the Guitar already , I did update the Images , it is here: https://equipboard.com/items/esp-guitars-metin-turkcan-metoboy-signature