DanvillRob

Great stuff! Guitar sounds fantastic!

It's 6:38 on the West Coast. Here in Danville, it's 45 degrees right now.

I"d love to get a Standard 'Bird....but I just can't justify it, (and I have no place to keep it anyway!). I'll just have to muddle through with what I've got!

Maybe they farmed it out to India! I started working for GILLIG in 1981. We had 4-5 Engineers....one VP, one electrical and one mechanical....plus one draftsman and one guy who specialized in hardware. When I left in 2020 there was 140, plus another 20 we hired in India. I recently had lunch with my old boss, (who is also retired, but sits on the board of directors) and he said there are now 200 engineers plus about 50 in India!

Interesting.....I think your theory has merit. I kind of put a lot of stock in the scale length as a huge difference. There are songs I perform on the Hummingbird BECAUSE of the short scale, (more "bend" in the strings). My "practice" guitar, (the old "beater Jubilee) has a short scale, but I use it because of the Bursitis in my right shoulder, (because the body is smaller than a dread). I hear people compare Doves to Hummingbirds, and they focus on the Hog vs Maple, and never mention the scale length.

The bonus is that you can do it all the rest of your life..... I'm old and feeble.... can barely hold anything with my hands....no stamina these days.....but.... I still play guitar several hours each morning (while the wife sleeps). Playing right now! I'm far from the oldest guy on here....but I'm also no where near the youngest!

This is why music should be taught in schools...and kids encouraged to play SOMETHING! I was already playing before The Beatles happened....but they sparked my TOTAL interest...which I've been able to keep for all these years! Music teaches us MUCH MORE than how to play songs.

How about how the lefties have to drag their palms through what they just wrote! Smeared the pencil marks...or WORSE....the wet ink!

That's funny....but most of the desks in my schools WERE "Right-Handed" desks.... the tops were extended down closer to the seat on the right side....and the other side was shorter, (and the students got in and out of the desk on the left side). My old boss wanted to get and learn guitar....he's a "lefty".... I went with him to a friend's guitar store and found him a very nice guitar.....he was no better on a regular guitar than he was on a left-handed one....so I told him him choices would forever be broader if he learned to play right-handed.

I get the "right vs left" dialog here...but Mike's point is that to make chords, or pick notes, a player's choices are limited....so the "fretting-hand" is "what you play"....while what your "strumming-hand" does is infinite.... I tend to "Palm-mute", (and play the lower notes more) with my right hand.....it's just what "Feels right" to me. I'm no great player, (and even less of a singer), but after 60+ years of playing...I kinda have my own style.

CONGRATZ!

I Bought my DIF without ever touching it from GC.... so I could have returned it if it was a dog..... also bought my Hummingbird KOA before I touched it.... I called GC in San Jose from Southern California and bought it over the phone....IF they put it in the case and stored it in the back room until I could get there to pick it up....again, I suspect I could have told them to keep it, but I'd already paid for it in full. My J-50 was a present from my staff when I retired....so never touched it until it was on my doorstep..... I love all three of them....all for different reasons.....but they're special to me. I wouldn't be afraid to buy a guitar this way....as long as the dealer is reputable.

I made the mistake of selling off all my 'stuff' back in the 60's. Fender Jag I gave to my brother.... sold my Bassman Amp, Showman Speakerbox, Jazz Bass, Fender Echo Chamber....even my Shure 545 Mic! Had to buy new 'stuff' over the rest of my life. I recommend don't sell..... give to your kids/grandkids/nieces/nephews.

And join The Buckaroos!

Me (personally) want to see it with a pickguard.

DON'T BUY IT! The Pickguard is on upside-down! JK - It's beautiful!

EXACTLY! There are three of them.....and because they'll inherit all my 'stuff', I record the videos so they'll be able to see their old grandad playing 'their' guitars!

I like it.... I don't care what someone named it.

When I bought my P-Bass back about 1985 or so, it was found by my parents' next door neighbor under the bed in a bedroom of a house he evicted some guys from. Was black, and beat to death. I stripped it down completely, had the body painted at work....our DuPont paint salesman got me a quart of "Firemist Blue" (a Cadillac color), laquor. I refinished the Maple neck and bought new decals for it. I paid $100 for it.... got it painted for free.....did have to buy a case....cost me $65. It's the bass I'm playing in my profile photo. I hope one of my grandkids ends up playing bass.

That's why they call it "practicing" medicine! Today I suspect that butcher would have a boat-load of malpractice suits against him!

You must have gone to one hellacious jr. high school!

Needless to say, I didn't buy any lemonade from her!

I SWEAR this is true: I was driving in Saigon (1970) and the sides of the road were filled with street vendors selling pretty much anything you could imagine. I saw a young girl selling (I think) lemonade from what looked like a small aquarium...she was washing her feet in it!

My arthritis started in my left thumb maybe 10-12 years ago. About 3 years ago I finally got an x-ray of my hands and the doctor said, "They're simply worn out". The pain is still manageable, but more and more areas of pain happening now. Middle finger on both hands as well as both thumbs....it's just a matter of time.

Don't know why, but this reminded me of the story about the fella who was a recent recruit to the French Foreign Legion. Only men there....after a couple of weeks he craved some female attention..... went to the Captain and explained his problem. Captain said, "the guys all use the mule out there"..... Fella was disgusted with that prospect and left. After another month or so, he told the Captain he needed to "use" the mule..... he got a stool, and got behind the mule. After a while the Captain walked out to see what was going on....and spied the new recruit and said, "Most of the guys just ride her into town!