fortyearspickn

I purchased an LG1 in '64 for $125. I would think yours cost about the same back then. In today's dollars - that would roughly equate to $1250. The minimum wage back then was $1.25. I had to put in long hours at the local grocery store to save up for it. My actual 'student' guitar originally cost around $25 new from a department store - a "Stella". There are a dozen or so LG-0s on REVERB and they range in price from $900 to $1500, depending on condition.

That explains that framed piece of spray painted concrete I have had hanging in my home for 25 years with the little brass plaque that reads "Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989".

I guess if you open a thread on a bridge falling down, it had better be the London Bridge and played on a Gibson.

I've had an epiphany = never found an 'aha' moment with any of the dozens of strings I've tried. Some were noticeably better, but none were 'great'. Until I put a set of Elixir 80/20 Phosphor/Bronze Nanoweb medium lights on my 2010 SJ200. Just made it sound unearthly. Been on there a year and a half. No plan to take them off anytime soon. Some flaking, but they still sound other-worldly. Obviously, I'm not good at describing 'tone'. But I know what I love when I hear it.

In Women's Gymnastics - the Floor Exercise is like 'break dancing'. Maybe the East German 'women' are pushing this.

I read once that Emmylou Harris in an interview said something to the effect "There is nothing that can compare to a fifth fret A bar chord on an SJ200." I'm surprised by the significant difference in size between the SJ200 alongside the L200. I saw one in a case once at Sam Ash. Didn't ask to see it. Just seems like it would have a different level of 'fullness'. Breadth and Depth and Balance.

It sorry, RBS, I couldnt resist.

Love the one you’re with!

I had a very good guitar student for 4 years around 5 years ago. She sells insurance now on the phone, but I had lunch with her last year. She says her “career” is “ pole dancing”. And says they are trying to get THAT recognized as a sport and into the Olympics. The Greeks would be so proud.

I think 'the literature' going back says Gibson created the J200 before 'electronics' in an attempt to provide guitar chord background in orchestras and big bands. Cowboy artists got on board after that. But Martin had different ideas of how to build a "banjo killer" and was more successful. Only based on mine - the SJ200 is not louder than a J45 or an H'bird. But is definitely more balanced and sweeter.

I'm in love. Again!

Sort of hard to forget with people constantly reminding us. 😀 Also hard to forget that the procedure Chauvin used was approved by the Minneapolis PD, and that was why the city paid out $27 million to Floyd's family a couple of days before Chauvin's trial began.

Strings - consider looking for a cheap, used acoustic at Guitar Center. The first step to recovery is the hardest. Having a guitar, if you have the time, might fill that hole you feel inside. Lots of 'how to' guitar lessons on the internet that weren't there in the 80s to speed you along. G'Luck.

Sweet. You'll love it ! Might have been priced based on being a lefty?

Yep. Been through a couple of near misses - but aa Total in the late 60s on the Virginia. coast. "Is that all there is?" comes to mind. BPP - if the sun gets in front of the moon, I think we'll need something more than special viewing glasses.

SOME political hacks!? You’re being too charitable! Will the bats under the bridge think it’s nighttime and fly out? Maybe they’ll get ahold of some of those politicians!

Agree. Paper, or card stock would not transfer sound, very well at all, I think. i've got shims that appear to be made out of those extremely thin 'gift cards' and similar plastic cards that sometimes come in the mail attached to a letter with a blob of glue. But, I opted to just get a new saddle and fit it. Costs only a little more from the same source!

I would not kick that one out of bed for eating cookies. Would hope the face, given the small burst, has some depth to the grain though - some translucence. Otherwise - it is different enough from my wee three guitars - to really give me something new and exciting. But, as with ZW I'm in new guitar exile.

Alfred E. Neuman

I think because you can't take shortcuts when making a musical instrument. If you're more interested in Sales Volume and Margins than leaving a 'legacy' - you'll build the guitar differently.

.... and can't remember half of them by the time you finish your coffee.

After centuries, devolving from the 'First Guitar' which was probably in Spain and probably had nylon (catgut) strings - professionals who play Classical (or it's evil twin Flamenco) would probably cringe at being called 'finger pickers'. They've tweaked and enhanced their 'Classical' guitars to something foreign to what we generally think of - take a J45 for example. The strings are REALLY far apart and there is no fretboard radius. Often different woods top, back and sides. Even hold them weird. So, in the context of someone starting out on the road to fingerpicking, I think there is a wide range of acceptability between a Classical guitar and a steel string guitar. If, and when you get to the point you need and want and deserve an upgrade so you can play - IE. fingerpick- better, you'll probably know what you want. You might see a video of Molly Tuttle or Billy Strings and take a 180 !

I represent that !

Not sure what 'getting it fixed' would entail in AUS. But, for me, if it were covered by warranty and I didn't have to ship it - I'd get it fixed. If those didn't apply - I'd get a very small 'artist' paint brush with 4 bristles and a little bit of brown paint, so I wouldn't see it every time I picked it up.

Looks like the Sad/Confused Emoji Troll is back. 😛