ksdaddy

I read the original post when it first showed up. I fought the urge to reply, as I wasn't sure if it was meant as a joke. Reminds me of a minister I had a passing acquaintance with over several decades. He was of the belief that the top of a guitar should be allowed to breathe. So he stripped the finish off the top of every guitar he owned. In the early 90s my father bought a 1940s Kay jumbo from him, with the top stripped. I didn't think much of it until we decided to pay him a visit and I saw a D-35 in the corner with the top stripped. Looking around, every guitar had received the same...."liberation" from it's tone dampening finish. Then I froze... and suddenly remembered my father having bought a circa 1952 SJ-200 from him in 1969..... for fifty bucks! It had a natural top with sunburst back and sides. Always puzzled me. Dad painted the top red and sold it (that also puzzled me). I then knew the truth. My time machine is broken, lest I go back and keep these transgressions from happening. He passed away several years ago. He won't destroy any more guitars. It's your guitar, you can do with it what you like. I will echo what has already been said here and sum it up by saying.... you'll be sorry.

1983 Fender Precision Bass (in pewter metallic). Typical of the era....pots dated 1981, 1983 top load body, 1983 neck date with 1979 serial number on the headstock. Fullerton was cleaning out the dusty shelves. 1981 Gibson Victory (in metallic red) Weighs as much as a spinet piano. 1981 mystery bass (strange Bernie Rico Jr type thing that nobody on the planet can tell me anything about) 1990s Crate P-Style (non functioning wall art that was salvaged from a manslaughter scene) 2001 Engelhardt EC-1 upright bass I'm not a bass player. I'm a noodler and a very bad one at that. My Precision is my go-to. One of the coils was rewound by our very own Searcy.

I have 335 fever at the moment. I've owned two; a late 60s that had been horribly brutalized and painted maroon (binding and all!) and a wine red 1980 that had been converted to a Badass Melody Maker style wrap around bridge. Paid $500 and swapped it for a Guild X-160. I wish I had bought a Lucille when they were $2000 used. The Japanese dealers have doubled the price of everything and now Gus from Sheboygen thinks he's getting ripped off if he sells for less.

My father smoked two packs a day. He was a mailman so he walked a lot. One certainly didn't cancel out the other but he was at least active. He went to a doctor's appointment in the fall of 1993 and came home with an oxygen tank. For the next 5-1/2 years it was in and out of the hospital. Oxygen, nebulizers, catheters, pills upon pills upon pills. He had to stop driving just about immediately. I still have his 1988 S-10 Blazer and drive it daily. Eventually he had to give up guitar. He gave me his Martin M-38 in 1994. He kept his J-100 and tried to play once in a while I have that now, still with the 1998 strings on it. He finally faded away in February of 1999. No thank you. I didn't even begin to grieve until 6 months after the fact. I was more relieved he was out of his misery to think about my own loss. My wife began having chest pains in September of 2010. Diagnosed with lung cancer in October and passed away January 6, 2011, The last 3 or 4 weeks she was in constant pain and relied on me to rub a menthol cream onto her back a half dozen times a day, as it gave some relief. It peeled her skin like a sunburn. I also administered medicine several times a day in an embarrassing way. The last day was pumped full of morphine and unable to communicate. The last 15 minutes or so, she took one breath every 15 seconds. I was there when she took her last. 45 years old. No thank you. I still grieve. She had just enough time to realize what she was facing but not enough time to prepare. My mother though.... 91 years old, went to the grocery store, bought a few things, drove her bright red Chevy Cruze to the car wash, and halfway through she had a massive brain bleed. They had to go in and get her. She never regained consciousness and died less than 24 hours later. The doctor and nurses all told me she didn't feel a thing; it was like flipping a light switch. I'll go with that. We don't have a choice, but man, that would be mine.

I hate that ducking autocorrect. I thought someone was making repros for the 120.... I wish I could recall where I saw it.

Something's still not right..... The bridge looks too far back. Could be a 16" body with a Super 400 neck (which would be a 25-1/2" scale and therefore the bridge would have to sit back further).

It looks like a 17” body in the pic because the angle of the f holes is all wrong for an 18” S400. I’m going to guess it is an L-5 with Super 400 inlays.

ksdaddy uses google translate lol

I’m going to guess it’s a late 40s to 1954 L-50 that someone added a pickup to. It can be narrowed down further by looking inside for black cloth strips on the rims and whether or not the profile of the headstock is tapered. Both of those attributes would indicate no later than 1952 or so.

I’ve owned many bikes. I worked my way up in the Japanese stuff until I had a KZ900. I then wanted to be retro and had a couple Triumph Bonnevilles. Which meant I walked a lot, had a very sore right knee, and thumbs that smelled of gasoline. I gave up on bikes for a few years until I began parting them out on eBay in ‘99. I would conservatively guess that I stripped and sold 300 or more. From 2006 to 2011 my main bike was a stock green 1974 Honda CB360 that I bought for $50. Loved it. Then in 2011 I finally bought what I always wanted, a Harley. I bought a white 2000 883 Sportster with 7709 miles. It is now 2021 and it has 8432 miles. I’ve never warmed up to it. It’s loud and handles like a farm truck. A couple years ago I was given a 1981 Honda CB750K that had been sitting a while and had some shoddy “improvements” to the backrest/luggage rack junk pike. I stripped all that crap off and I have procured a new-used rear fender, grab rail, signals etc to put it back stock. I’m contemplating buying a pristine seat for it to replace the cobbled up one. A month from now the 750 and the Sportster will be vying for my attention and the loser will go on the market. I think I know where this is going.

Ho visto alcuni dei primi modelli di Chet Atkins (1982-83) con un prefisso di lettere seguito da tre numeri. Non seguono il sistema standard del numero di serie Gibson. Quelli che ho visto iniziano con B o C. Mi dispiace di non poter essere più utile.

My go-to acoustic for the past 3+ years has been a 2015 HD-28. I still have my Gibsons but the tone of this 28 is just more pleasing to my ear. I would expect nothing different from anyone else. Go to the supermarket and see how many flavors of salad dressing they are. Hand me a Gibson J-60 and it might win me over. Not saying otherwise. Might be the rosewood and ebony that's doing it for me. I don't think it's a matter of me choosing Martin over Gibson. This particular guitar just won me over. All the years I spent bashing Martins because of their stiff, high action and vanilla cosmetics....it's not easy to admit that the "other guy" is a better fit. At least this particular one. At the 2007 Homecoming I did spend a great deal of time with a 1952 D-18 graciously loaned to me by a fellow forumite. I love being a pariah wherever I go.

It's an L6-s from the mid 70s. The only thing that I would even question is the knobs. I know they used speed knobs on this model but there's no guarantee that those particular ones are original to the guitar. Impossible to tell. It looks all original otherwise. The finish looks a little odd but it might just be old smoke.

I was always under the impression that the partnership between The Ventures and Semie Mosely was for financial gain first and a guitar design second. Seems like the Ventures injected capital into Semie's operation and of course promoted heck out of the guitar for mutual gain. I could be 100% wrong and will hang my head in shame if so. A (now deceased) friend worked for Fender R&D in the late 60s, early 70s, and also worked for OMI off and on. He grew up in CA, had a place in Huntington Beach, and grew up in the whole surf culture (real or invented). He called them Mose-wrongs. Just an opinion I'm sure. The closest I ever came to one was at a junky music store in Bangor, ME in 1977 where one hung in the rack for $150. But what a sound they had.... like this song or not, it does NOT sound like any Gibson or Fender alive.

A 70s D25C is on my list. Love the red.

That's a fairly distinct winding pattern near the ball. And the fact that they change color a short distance away tells me they are a coated string... I can tell you that one of my guitars has had the same Nanoweb 13-56 since 2018, and ONLY because I had broken one of the same brand/gauge as when I bought the guitar in 2017. They are losing their skin in the cowboy chord area and are turning black there, but I won't change them until they are a problem. My LP has had the same Elixir 10-46 since 2016. I have some new Elixirs at home. I'll open up a package tonight and see what they look like. Unless someone beats me to it.

On March 28, 2020, my 91 year old mother was driving her car through the car wash and had a “massive brain bleed”. The car wash attendants found her in her car, unresponsive. The ambulance came, she went into the hospital, her condition confirmed, and she passed away about 20 hours later. The medical staff have assured me that she felt nothing and wasn’t even aware. That’s about as close to dying in ones sleep as you can get. I just don’t want someone to “find me dead”, either on the floor in front of the toilet or having bled out by the table saw. I was with my first wife when she passed away in 2011. She had so much morphine pumped into her, I have no idea if she knew it was her last day. That’s a mixed blessing for both her and me.

I owned a Gretsch Country Club for years. One thing I really didn't like was the string spacing at the bridge. I measured it and it indeed was significantly more narrow than other guitars. There just flat was not enough room for my sausages. I will agree with RCT that most of the time a little difference won't matter and we will adjust quickly....otherwise we'd never go from a Tele to an LP and back. But when it reaches a certain point, the difference will be enough to make you put the guitar down.

The medical term for lazy eye is Atchaforia. One eye is looking atcha and the other is looking foria.

I have yet to find a forum that didn't match that description. Try going on a piano or violin forum lol....

It is not a Gibson.

Yeah, that guard certainly is one of a kind. Oh wait....

I briefly owned a 1996 Herb Ellis that had a rough fingerboard. I oiled and steel-wooled it but it never did feel right.

My Baldwin is actually my third piano. In 2005 I bought a 1941 Powers apartment piano, looked like an upright but only had 66 keys. Paid $70 for it. It was painted gold, and under that it was red, and under that it was white. i kept it around for a few years and it eventually got in the way while I was doing some remodeling in the "too small to begin with" house, and I gave it away. In 2012 I was given a 1920 Mendellsshon upright. It was delivered free of charge and he even helped me take it down cellar. Yeah, I know, a cellar isn't ideal. One day I was vacuuming the dust off the keys with a huge shop vac and sucked about 6 ivories right off the keys. I opened the bag up and found all but one. I have no idea how I couldn't find the last one. Not long afterwards a junk dealing friend showed up to pick up some metal and he had a trashed upright on a trailer. It had been down cellar in a grange hall and the basement flooded. I banged out a few bad notes (ones that still worked) and then began popping ivory caps off the keys so I would have spares ! But I run hot and cold with pianos, and during a cold spell I hooked an engine hoist onto a pole in my garage and pulled it up the cellar steps into my garage. I gave it to a 13 year old girl who was ecstatic. That was 2018. I rued the day I got rid of it and swore it would never happen again. If I was tired of it being around, I should have thrown a quilt over it and moved it to a dark corner until I was in the mood again. Last summer someone was giving away a spinet. Because it was free, everyone and their grandmother's dog was replying to their facebook ad. I messaged the guy and he said he'd deliver it the next day for free IF he still had it. I said I'd give him $50 to make sure he still had it. It was win/win. It sat in the garage all summer and I would sit down and noodle on it. Plunk, there's a C chord.... plunk, there's F... plunk, there's G... wait, lemme add the extra F note to make it a 7th..... plunk! And so it went, all summer. My son in law and I moved it down cellar before winter. Spinets are a lot easier to move than regular uprights. It was like we were moving a couch. I am the piano equivalent of the trailer park guy who has a 20 year old Oscar Schmidt acoustic with 1/2" action and 10-46 electric strings and he just figured out the chords to a couple Garth Brooks songs.