PrairieDog

This bitter and disillusioned Minnesotan will be sitting out this thread….

Putting a shot of the “custom” headstock in the middle of the others to me would mean, “run away, runaway fast.” Oh, and the words “this is not a copy” Right up there with “No, Ma’am, I’m not a land-shark.”

Nice!

Got to see Iggy and the Stooges back in the day. Someone pranked the fancy downtown hotel into booking “Iggy Pop” into their ballroom. A Fellini-esque scene in my head of leather and chained, mohawked, Doc Marten stomping punks mingling menacingly in the hallway with the Brooks Brothers/Chanel set. I was not into punk myself back then, more a self-destructive metalhead. I was there just for the Bowie association, and my friends were “punk adjacent.” And some of Iggy’s stuff was tolerable. I still quote lyrics from “I’m Bored” especially now that “I’m chairman of the bored/board” 😏 Yeah, nothing happened, but that is the crux of the biscuit, as Frank says. It was just pointless, self-serving posturing and acting out. I cringed for the needless anxiety and fright to the folks on a “nice night out” who got caught up in it. The show was unmemorable, apparently.

Nod. While I try to take care of my things, stuff happens, and yeah, I used to lose it. Now I take some comfort in buying pre-dinged things and it’s quite freeing knowing my bonks aren’t going to be the first. I’m sure it’s been mentioned here someplace how the Japanese even celebrate breaks in pottery with a special process, Kintsugi, mixing precious metals into the mends to highlight the patterns from the breaks. It begins to look quite beautiful once your eye gets it.

Well, that is the most basic result of the “free market” certain folks are so fond of: unfettered inflation. Covid shut down the supply chain, no one was in the factories, or at the warehouses/harbors, so goods either couldn’t get shipped, or the ingredients/parts to make the goods weren’t available. Limited goods + high demand = high prices and the opportunity to gouge customers. Outright greed was the prices that were jacked on items that predated the Covid issue, but used as an excuse make extra coin off stuff the store bought a year before. And despicable greed is rampant now, as the supply chain has recovered, goods and parts are mostly readily available again, but prices aren’t dropping equivalently back to 2020 levels.

I heard they were gonna be jamming with the Trilateral Commission….should be a real power set.

I believe it was “On the verge of getting it on” George Clinton/Parliament Funkadelic more wasted brain cells I wish I could recycle.

I gotta say, we’re having a lot of fun with the 2011 mini we just picked up. The first model they introduced in sitka/sapele, the entry level of the group they offer now. But gee has it opened up. For a build firmly ensconced in the “affordable” range, the little thing can really hold its own against our other “serious” guitars. We brought it back to GC because it was mislabeled as the all hog so we were way over charged. But when we played the new ones, including both a hog and this model, they were “nice,” but they all sounded super tight in comparison. So we came back home with the simple 13 year old one, (and a nice price adjustment.) Just goes to show age does make a difference, and even a modest guitar can come to sound great with enough of it.

Nod, all true. And you are right, the skimp is the sneakiest. Sometimes you can catch it if the ingredient order changes, like the filler is the first one now. I got tipped off to the shrinkage when I noticed the TP no longer filled the holder, used be tight edge to edge, now slides around. I was so ticked I actually weighed an old roll and a new one. This is what I got: And we paid nearly 5 bucks more for the pack, head-shake.

I hate the things and rarely have mine on me. Only for work. Funny story, we were buying a car after that lightning strike I mentioned above, and were still carrying around flip phones in 2018. The new car came with one of those link systems where you can use your phone and wifi connected to the car. Despite explaining not to bother setting the system up for our phones, the young woman insisted she could do it. She just could not get her head around the idea we had technology that predated Bluetooth, from the 20th century, and it still worked.

I’m just funning at you for bragging your phone tells time as good as a five figure watch. Just observing the $26,000 is going out of your pocket either way, and you won’t have a guitar to show for it.

Loved my Casio back when it was the new cool, “hip” thing out pacing Timex. Lost it somewhere along the way. Nice looker.

Oh,😄 sorry, I thought I was replying to Slim and he was being sincere. Now I see you were poking a bit of fun at the national dish. Good one.

😆 We got a preview of that! The tree by our house/driveway got hit by lightning a few years back. The bolt went through the roots under the drive and toasted the electrical system in both our Outback and the work-truck. Tiniest little burn hole of the exit in the back window. The Subie was 10 years old, but only had ticked over 100,000 miles. Thinking we’d have it another 10, we had just sunk 3 grand on a new gas tank the mice had chewed through, and replacing the backseat sponge that sat on top of it. We literally had driven home the night before on a brand new 2k set of tires for the truck. It caromed off our well-head, blowing our garden to smithereens, We had just restored it after having the well pump replaced a couple days before. We found 20 pound rocks tossed across the drive. And some of our plants, well we never found them, just vaporized. Then the charge got in the phone lines and took out any electronics connected, including our phones, router/modem, and the brand new 65 in Samsung Q9 I had just bought myself for a treat and the motherboard for our geothermal system. It traveled 200 feet down the buried line to the barn office and blew that phone hook up across the room. thank god we had everything for the business down there on a giant surge protector. It paid for its keep in its sacrifice that day, RIP. Not sure if it was in the lines or just the nearby strike blow off, but our neighbors 1500 feet away had 2 phone jacks catch and fry out. We’re damn lucky it didn’t start any fires in the wiring. So yeah, This is why we don’t mind our walls of packed bookcases. Paper reading material is going to be the new bitcoin when the apocalypse hits and the internet disappears. 😄

Just a note about any water getting near an old guitar…. If there is any checking at all, even just surface scratches, minute amounts of water can get into the cracks and trapped. It will start interacting with/lifting the finish, or make more haze. Think permanent water rings on your new mother-in-law’s antique side-table. (I may speak from experience, “Where were you raised, in a barn?! Dontcha know to use a coaster?!”). Used correctly, naptha will evaporate before it can do damage to broken surfaces.

Ahhh, just curious, are you getting that CDN price from Dave’s site? I am sorta familiar with importing things, and I’ve not had something double in cost due to the VAT/taxes. You seemed to say that L&Q was quoting that price. They would have nothing to do with this sale. Dave would ship it directly to you. Anyway, wish you were in southern Manitoba, I’d just run it across the border for you, lol.

Nod… I so rarely carry my phone I don’t even give out the number to anyone. We still have land lines for the business. I confess to wearing an apple watch that has cell service, but it is mostly for safety, it’s got that fall monitor/locate beacon feature for when I’m out in the wilds, or need to call the office or home. The heart monitor has also been useful. Great looking watch…and the knife has seen some things….. And Speaking of watches you could buy a house with, years ago my dad made a big point of telling me that he was giving Grandpa’s antique Patek Phillipe pocket watch to my brother. I had no quibbles with that, his stuff to do with as he saw fit. Happy for bro. Fast forward 30 years, my brother generously offered to hand the watch off to me. I told him I didn’t really need it, but I’d look into getting valued and we can decide what to do with it, since neither of us have kids and it’s time to start thinking about these things. It had always been described as having the kind of value that elicits those fainting gasps on Antiques Roadshow. Maybe we could pad the retirement accounts a bit. I started to do the research and found it may have been over-hyped just a bit. Sure, a nice very pricey pocket watch, but unlikely either of us was retiring to the Riviera on it. Still, I opened it up to get the serial number to send to Patek for verification, and found poor Grandpa got taken. While the case and dial are right, the movement is a fake.

Just gotta say, inflation has dropped back down now. Just an article today pointing out the trouble is the greedy Marketers figure people are already paying 7.00 for a box of cereal, so let’s let them keep doing it, even though the raw ingredients prices are down and the supply chain has loosened.

You are not using the epithet correctly. “virtue signaling” would be pontificating you understand and appreciate caring for instruments better than other folks here who feel differently. Live and live, huh?

And all that stuff costs more this year. Have you noticed how much more you are paying for less TP than before the pandemic? For groceries they can shrink the amount in the packages and keep the prices the same, for a while. Guitars not so much. All the stuff that goes into making a guitar, including the wages, had gotten more expensive, just like that can of soup.

Well, until the battery is dead, or the phone is obsoleted, chuckle. And how much do you pay a month for that DST convenience twice a year that comes with your data plan? Do the math, between the phone charge, data plan, and having to buy new devices at some point, people are spending close to the same money for their tech over 10-20 years as they would for that guitar/watch that will always work .

Well, back to our other thread, given this one IS handmade, and there will only be 20, what do you think the price should be? Just because I can’t afford a Maserati doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be built and sold to the people who can, shrug. I don’t fret about the Jasper Johns I don’t have hanging in my living room either.

Bummer. My mistake, I thought the one at Dave’s was used, so not like L&Q has a say in it.

I’m confused. Are you saying a different one is for sale up there for 7,000? That’s crazy.