BluesKing777 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 It is the last week of Autumn here in gloomy Victoria, Australia... Last year, I trekked all over the local mountains trying to get good photos of the autumn leaves and while I saw some incredible sights, they were usually at a spot in the road with a precipice and no parking spot! Out back of my house the vine has the last of its leaves, so I took a few photos of my 1959 Gibson LG3, next week will be winter and the leaves will be gone - I might blow one of these up to the size of a wall: Under my apple tree: BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slinky1 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Really nice photos Blues King! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 While you are anxiously awaiting winter, I am anxiously awaiting summer. Has rained every day in May here, and I haven't had to worry about humidity once. That LG3 is a really sweet looking little number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullmental Alpinist Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 As always, amazing photos BK777. FMA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Nice pictures Blues King... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 Thanks!! I keep hearing Frank singing the Autumn Leaves tune when I see the photos, but I see Bob has a new version too! I know it from backing a lady singer, but I aint doing it again! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 I clearly hear that LG3 through the grape wine, BK777 - always a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 I clearly hear that LG3 through the grape wine, BK777 - always a treat. Thanks Em7! I do hear things on the grape vine! We seem to be having success growing guitars on that vine and the apple tree, but the vine looks so promising with grapes and then comes the bird fight, and they got under my fruit net and staggered around pissed for a few weeks and also made 3 purple poops for every grape they ate! They left me enough to make half a glass......but it was a truly superb vintage... one of those mystical vintages that are revered through time. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Wait...I feel cheated here, BK. Aren't we due a pic of a new purchase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 Wait...I feel cheated here, BK. Aren't we due a pic of a new purchase? Still in Customs, JZ! Trying not to grumble, but the main players involved - guitar shop, Fedex have busted their buns to get it here in some kind of record time, only for the Customs to take 2 days to 'clear' it and then release it at 4.00 pm Friday afternoon so it will sit there all weekend, probably with the moron that handled it sitting on the box playing it! Well there, I did grumble! Lucky I have the odd spare guitar! BluesKing777. PS..non grumble: I dont gamble much, but my younger sister is in a syndicate with a small share of a horse - I have lost a few coins on the fleabag, but Saturday they must have fed it some rocket fuel because it came round the last bend as wide as I have ever seen and with help from the Princess and I riding our armchairs as fast as we could, the thing came down the straight faster than a bullet to come in at 10 to 1 - Wahooooo and another wahoo and a half!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Wow. Nice pics. We've had a really nice Spring here in the Heartland. Some years it jumps straight into summer, but it's still cool almost into June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Still waiting for the Fedex truck! Meanwhile here are a couple of photos of my Martin CEO7 - finish is called "Autumn Burst". So here is the Autumn Burst with the Autumn Leaves - looks great on my work computer big screen wide screen thingy: BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 That certainly is a pretty L00 copy, even down to the abandonment of the belly bridge. It's an interesting move by Martin and probably enough guitar to serve as one's only acoustic. I'd love to try one but I'm 90 minutes from the nearest. OK, I've kissed your butt enough. Tell us about the ugly duckling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 That certainly is a pretty L00 copy, even down to the abandonment of the belly bridge. It's an interesting move by Martin and probably enough guitar to serve as one's only acoustic. I'd love to try one but I'm 90 minutes from the nearest. OK, I've kissed your butt enough. Tell us about the ugly duckling. What is all this talk of that one would do as an only....gulp....guitar? I am about 90 plus minutes away from the shop if I go the beach road, but take pot luck with the massive semis and traffic on the freeway and a lucky drive can be half that! Except I played a CEO7 while looking at something else, hmmm that's great but I dont need another Martin, especially a brand new one....went home.....then went back! And it was gone! A year to get the next one in! Mine! And I wasnt going to race in there this time like a blithering idiot and told them to deliver it ......and I would relax, except they rang to say it was here and I broke the land speed record to be on their doorstep before they hung up the phone... Sensational guitar and as long as you want wide spacing and mod V neck - perfect! Cant mention ugly one yet - it will put the mooch on it, but the Fedex trackimg says it is on the truck for delivery! I dont get excited anymore about that, because it can take them all day to get here, probably along the aforementioned beach road, with a stop or 2 for lunch and a drink..... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Ha! I know that feeling...the PO truck arrived Rochester...me next...does it come right straight? No. Syracuse?! Sitting overnight? Why? Oh, it's the weekend, a long weekend. OK, that's why beer was invented. I always go to the soft 'V' and wide string spacing when my hands are sore from work. It secures a permanent place for the EZ play L00 which will end up being my 'old age' geetar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Arrived at 5 pm - thought it wasnt coming - phew - one players special 1944 Martin 0-17 with lots of repairs, but THE sound for fingerpicking! Smoky Bacon! It has been sitting around at Customs since last Thursday, so they acclimatized it for me! I let it sit in the box for about 3 hours, opened it just before, inspected it, tuned it to a lowered standard tuning - down 2 steps - and that is so beautiful that it is where the tuning will stay! Plucked a few blues, sang a few test tunes for the Princess after dinner, packed it away til later...... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Oh man...what a good choice for a good picker like you! They're surprisingly loud for a little thing, true? Don't gonk the paper thin top, though. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autumn Light&Shade Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Beautiful photos. Your garden has got some serious mojo going on :) Glad you guitar arrived safe and sound. Mmmm smoky bacon, now that's conjuring up some tones :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Get yer camera out. Look forward to hearing the new toy BK. You must've smoked some amount of cigarettes !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 gonk I just HAD to quote that........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Well it is dark outside here - 10 pm! But we can be fairly sure that there will be a photo or 2 ........ First light! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Great photos King ...Has rained every day in May here... And Dan, I feel your pain. Here too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Another guitar under the vine - must grow there! 1944 Martin 0-17 - sounds incredible and still has jetlag... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayoubengal1954 Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 Another guitar under the vine - must grow there! 1944 Martin 0-17 - sounds incredible and still has jetlag... BluesKing777. Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 Another guitar under the vine - must grow there! 1944 Martin 0-17 - sounds incredible and still has jetlag... BluesKing777. Aw.... Now ain't she just the cutest little thang? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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