hardycreek1 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 My J-15 turned one year old yesterday. I'm stoked! It seems the sound gets better with every passing week. So it turned one year old yesterday, all I can say is that I'm looking forward to many more wonderful years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbiii Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 These both turn 80 this year -- albeit not to the fall. A bit had to tie down an actual birth date to the day/month for old Gibsons. Let's pick, -Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 No - don't even celebrate my own and never did since turning 17. Oh, yes with my parents and brother earlier on. Apart from that, I'm the type who has a dinner guest, , , or a full band studio-session on my birthday, , , without telling the guys 1 word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardycreek1 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 well I'll be long gone by the time my J-15 turns 80! But nice to think that it will still be going strong when I'm in the grave! Hopefully its resonance will be even more awesome and someone will fully appreciate its character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickthemiller Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 well I'll be long gone by the time my J-15 turns 80! But nice to think that it will still be going strong when I'm in the grave! Hopefully its resonance will be even more awesome and someone will fully appreciate its character. That brought me down to earth with a bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I have enough trouble trying to remember my wife's and grandkids birthday...no way I could remember for all the guitars....And yes, I even forget my own at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyd Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 But nice to think that it will still be going strong when I'm in the grave! Hopefully its resonance will be even more awesome and someone will fully appreciate its character. …and he may also be spending your money, living in your house and sleeping with your woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 My LG-2 is 65, still lives at home and hasn't even learned to change it's own strings...the lazy old ba*tard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Cake? Bourbon? Beer? For every guitar's birthday? Phew!!!!! I would be in trouble, but Tom B would start to look like Jim Morrison at his best! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Fourteen of my guitars and basses allow for exactly dating them. They all are electrics. Two of them are multiples, that is same model, same colour and made the same day, just four digits apart, thus reducing the number to thirteen explicit birthdays. The birthdays of most of my instruments can't be determined, not even close. Anyway, I don't celebrate any anniversary of my instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58 Relic Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Not really , but I do buy myself a guitar related present once a year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Too many to remember .... I barely remember my wives bday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 My LG-2 is 65, still lives at home and hasn't even learned to change it's own strings...the lazy old ba*tard! Ha, ha ... funny. Mine just sits in a corner and grumbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I have enough trouble trying to remember my wife's and grandkids birthday...no way I could remember for all the guitars....And yes, I even forget my own at times. Brings up a good point. If you DO remember your guitars birthday, it makes it worse if you don't remember the important ones. Best keep it to yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Flash of genius: Buy a guitar on your anniversary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickie Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I have the 'birthdays' for my J45 Custom and my ES-347 marked in my computer calendar, so I get a little pop-up reminder each year. So I'll wish 'em a happy birthday in my head, but I don't bake cakes or anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I quit drinking years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponty Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 My J-45s will be 23 this summer. Not very old I agree, but the longest that I have kept any guitar by, at least 18 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stringbreaker Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 My J-15 turned one year old yesterday. I'm stoked! It seems the sound gets better with every passing week. So it turned one year old yesterday, all I can say is that I'm looking forward to many more wonderful years! I do. I keep track of both birthdays - when it was born (February 15, 2013 in Bozeman) and when I received it (May 20, 2013). Here she is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyd Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 My J-45s will be 23 this summer. Not very old I agree, but the longest that I have kept any guitar by, at least 18 years! I bought my 1974 J-50 new and thought it was cool when it was 40 years old, but I didn't "celebrate". My 1965 J-50 is older, but I only got it a year ago. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbiii Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Being a guitar geek with a moderate number of guitars, I would have on average two birthdays a week -- Party, Party, Party. Mercifully, our old Gibson's actual birthdays (to the day) are unknown -- we are lucky to have the year. For Martins not so. They are a very nice company, and there are ways you can ask them that results in them giving you the actual stamping date. So we have three birthdays in Feb we know of -- 14, 20, 22. Let's pick, -Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Wilson Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 So maybe we just need to declare a National Guitar Day and celebrate all of the birthdays at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6stringTom Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 My J-15 turned one year old yesterday. I'm stoked! It seems the sound gets better with every passing week. So it turned one year old yesterday, all I can say is that I'm looking forward to many more wonderful years! To your question: Nope. Glad like your guitar, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Being a guitar geek with a moderate number of guitars, I would have on average two birthdays a week -- Party, Party, Party. Mercifully, our old Gibson's actual birthdays (to the day) are unknown -- we are lucky to have the year. For Martins not so. They are a very nice company, and there are ways you can ask them that results in them giving you the actual stamping date. So we have three birthdays in Feb we know of -- 14, 20, 22. Let's pick, -Tom Ha , tom , you couldn't afford the candles you'd need !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Only to take note of the passing of yet another year and how my guitars are mostly in better shape for their ages than I am! Would love to have a "birth year" guitar, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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