PrairieDog

I was irked at giving the for profit company more profit. Is your test over and have you gotten to take that bong rip yet? You’re a one trick pony: you purposely misconstrue comments just to start arguments. Yawn. When you have anything constructive to say, we can chat.

Not what I asked

Ooh, nice. post some pics! I have a 1910 L-1 and it has the original patent applied for tail piece with the original celluloid tortoise, and the original floating bridge. The luthier shifted the bridge back a tad to improve the intonation, and you can see where the finish matches the current bridge. Just fyi, the tail piece patent was approved in late 1910 so you’ll want to find a patent applied for one. Have you found the website with the history of the early Gibsons? I think I saved the link. I’ll try to find it. I think I recall all the pre-teen ones had a floating bridge, but I could well be wrong. Here’s some picks of mine Good luck on your project, keep us posted. It’s a great sounding little guitar!

yeah, I know, it seems cheap, but it irks me that I’d be handing GC 20 bucks of new strings when they couldn’t bother to put new ones on before shipping, ya know? I’ve noticed a difference in my other acoustics, but I wouldn’t say they sound “boomier” more just a quality of richer tone. This guitar just seems really caught in the mid-range/trebles to me. There’s no bass thump.

Advice/help for bonding with my new Hummingbird? Some of you know I just got a used H’bird last Friday. I’ve been noodling around with it, and I gotta say, while it sounds very “nice” and a bit different from the others, it doesn’t seem to have much “voice” or presence for a bigger body mahogany. It’s very articulate, but I really have to push it to get any deeper resonance out of finger picking. Using a pick sounds like I’m bashing on a tin can, and stopped making that noise immediately. I fell into the Bird while looking for a boomy J-45. I figured the Bird being a square Sitka/Mahogany, should at least sound the same if not bigger. Comparing the two in the store, the new Bird I tried won over the new J-45. But the one I ended up having shipped was a used 2020. Now I’m beginning to think I got lured down a dark alley again by pretty looks, and I’m having second thoughts. But I don’t want to jump the gun too quickly tossing it back. I know everybody loves them for a reason. Could there be something fixable going on? There are couple of things in play that I’m wondering if they could be contributing: The easiest, maybe, I haven’t gotten around to changing the strings yet. I suspect the ones on it may be the originals. They don’t really look played, just kinda oxidized. The thing is, because of my nickel allergy, I have to use the expensive XS coated Ddarrio PBs. I only have one pack left, and I don’t want to burn it if I’m going to end up returning it if the strings weren’t the real issue. Has anyone noticed a lot more voice/depth come out with just new strings? My others didn’t have this problem so I don’t know if this is a real fix or not. My other thought is while it’s a 2020, I think it may be a case queen and never got a chance to flex or open up. That would be a longer term fix (that I was hoping to avoid buying an aged guitar). If so, I’d lose my opportunity to return it before I knew how it could end up sounding. In this case, I’m inclined to just take it back, and wait for something with more immediate gratification. Any and all suggestions welcome. I really want to love this guitar.

Physics rules! So, I’m assuming you read his books. I have his title “What do you care what other people think?” running on a loop in my brain. I also aspire to mastering Tuvan Throat singing.

Okay, a Feynman quote is totally worth the price of admission here! 😁

So my wonderful better half realized she would get no peace with me making puppy eyes at her every time she looked at me. (Even I couldn’t keep a straight face I was being so transparent). So we went down to “try” the J-45, maybe bring it home and give it a go against the others, and the new ‘bird. The agreement was I would try to be a grown-up and return one of them. Well, good thing we went and I got it out of my system. It didn’t even need to leave the store. A couple really long, deep scratches across the front bout. And the back finish was trashed so bad you could make out the pattern of the cloth of the sweaty shirt the dude was wearing, and likely unbuttoned from the abrupt haze stripe his belly left in the center of the back. Okay, finish that bad, I could have maybe talked down the price way down, and Virtuoso’ed it back up. But this was the first one I ever looked at that I could tell the neck was warped/twisted. Not just a t-rod adjustment. Treble side was fine, but the intonation was way off on the low end. when I sighted down the neck you could see where the bass side was a-kilter. Good to know I really can see it. I was beginning to think either that twisting was just a myth, or I wasn’t looking for the right thing. Anyway, came home and apologized to the H’bird for thinking about stepping out on it. 😁

Not sure if the OP is still following, but try a folk music store? They can carry small brand or have stocks of heritage picks. Wife just found some reverse? Thumb picks and other picks for her resos that she really likes at Homestead Picking Parlor. (I have not ventured into the reso world much, so I may be way off with the pick type and can make no claim to quality, etc.)

Hi, you might want to also post this in the Les Paul section. Good luck!

Wishing good thoughts for you… you will get through this, it’s always just one step at a time. Each one gets you closer to where you want to be.

Nod, that is what tipped it to me sticking around. It’s generally more often a great place to hang out. 🙂

It’s not always a case of “have to.” For me it’s a case of turning down some tone. I had one fellow was aggressively ragging on my posts. I put up with it in the spirit of discourse for awhile, but it began to make visiting here tiresome and I was getting defensive. It came down to choosing between just getting his comments off my feed so I don’t get irked, or leaving. I’m sorry to the folks who feel I made the wrong decision 😁

Well, a couple of hopeful young girls didn’t know the cess-pit of snark they were about to wade up against when they asked an innocent, legit question, did they? Well, you sure showed them, and probably made sure they will never make the mistake of venturing in here again. Way to go, sunshine. Girls, if you are still getting notifications, I want to apologize for the crank behind the keyboard. There are folks in here who wish you nothing but success.

It’s funny, hollow-bodies always turn my head… Just something about them that say “this is a guitar.” Congrats again and yeah, great price.

Ahhh, If you want to try it, imgur is pretty easy and free. You can have your account/posts set to “private” so you aren’t in the public meme scrum. Just make an account, choose create post, upload the photo from your device. it might a few seconds for it to finish uploading. when it does, go to images under your profile, open the thumbnail of the one you want, it will open with a list of link types next to it. Click the copy button next to “direct link” that will grab the link and you can paste into a post here.

Okay, okay, dang it, I guess my 50 years of guitar playing has been utterly worthless and horrid because I learned to fingerpick John Denver and King Crimson on a cheap Yamaha classical, the only one available to me. How embarrassing. I can’t believe I even deigned to buy or play “real guitars” later…. Whatever was I thinking even opining the process might work for anyone else? You all seem pretty convinced it didn’t work for me. (Don’t recall ever having you guys over for a jam… but the mind slips.) Okay, I’ll just sell off my all other guitars in shame. The ones ranging from a 1.5 inch nut to a baseball bat that I obviously can’t really play because I learned so wrong on that trashy, low rent, low class, Yamaha. 😆

Didn’t we get you posting pics from Imgur?

Dude, for godsakes, it’s just a suggestion! He already knows how to play guitar, HE will do whatever he wants. You and I are just static in the wind. He just bought a several thousand dollar guitar, do you really think $60 is going to be what puts him in the poor house? He can give it some kid or the thrift store when he is done with it. It wouldn’t have to go to waste. So, you never touched a toy piano, one of those colorful xylophones, or a given a “flutophone” in school? You spun all your 45s on a Bose surround system, instead of a tolex covered box when you opened an arm popped up? And you took your driving lessons in a Maserati? Eye-roll. Practice instruments are just that… Sometimes learning something can go faster with a bit of extra cost, like lessons, or gasp, easier to play cheap instruments. Settle down. Why do you get so upset when folks do things differently than you? Why do you even care what some rando on the internet says? We are all adults mostly making our own choices without worrying, “what would Sarge do?”

Every guitar hanging in a shop yearns for a forever home. You’ve done a kindness. Sounds like it will be a nice add. Our $350.00 Taylor did a fine job last night out on the deck playing along with our new Gibson addition. It’s fun to have diversity 😄

Geeze, I said get a used, 60-70 dollar yamaha. There are folks who literally p*** away more than that on coffee every couple of weeks. Heck, he might be able to borrow one from his library for that matter, you could here. Kudos you were able to learn it. It might have been faster on a bigger neck guitar, but we’ll never know. He already was anticipating getting another one, so all I did was offer him a cheap option so he could transition easier to better guitars or the one he already has. So really what are you arguing about?

In this case he said it was a finger size issue. If you have chubby fingertips, like I do, it can be a hard skill to learn on a skinny neck since you are working as hard to avoid pressing the wrong strings as learning how to fret the right ones. It’s extra noise in your brain that is not necessary. It was just a suggestion that WORKED for me. Just because you have a different approach, doesn’t mean it’s the right one for everybody 🙂

Ouch! See? and it still stings, right? Rueful chuckle. I’ve missed so many good 45s and other guitars for the sake of adulting… It’s getting tiresome 😁 I wanna be a teenager again, with all that disposable income and nothing else to spend it on.

For learning to fingerpick, you can’t beat a two inch wide classical neck. It’s what I learned on back when I was a kid (image being half grown and trying to master bar chords on that railroad track! 😆 Anyway, you can pick up a used starter yamaha classical for the price of a good dinner out. You get the mechanics down on that and then it’s much easier to transition back to steel strings and narrower widths. I compare it to learning to ride a bike in a parking lot versus a narrow sidewalk. In the middle of just learning to ride, you don’t have to worry about also going in a straight line. On a classical, there is a large margin of error. You splat all over the fingerboard and still have a good chance of only hitting the string you are aiming for. Anyway, again, great new guitar today!

And as the hours tick by, I’m getting antsier… I understand all the phones have been hidden so I can’t just call down there and have my guy hold it for me. “Honey, c’mon, why don’t I just go pick it up, bring it home, and do a play off, here??? What could that hurt, huh?? Really! I promise to bring one back. Cross my heart (and fingers) Pretty please????” I know we need a new deck, but just think how great that J-45 would sound on it!!” 😆