fortyearspickn

Yep. I guess back in the day Full Time Housewives had few options. That, Tupperware Parties, talking over the backyard fence and telephones.

When I was maybe 7ish, my mother made a rare trip to a beauty salon. Someone called for her and I answered the phone. I told them she wasn't there - she was at the Saloon. Got some immediate, positive feedback on that one.

Chet Atkins, Gypsy Kings, Charo ... all 'electrifying'.

Someone figured out how to use Google....

I apologize RCT. I should have gone back and checked the source. It was Steve Ford. That is how threads get out of hand - misquoting people !!! I think I'll leave this one alone now.

I heard someone here with car-knowledge say they used pantyhose to replace broken fan belts. I've seen videos on YouTube of people who have built their homes entirely out of wood shipping pallets. I've waited until the OP has tried all the better thought out alternatives before offering mine: bring the heat. Shave some plastic off an edge, get a butane torch and melt it into the crack while also softening up the crack. Worst case (no pun intended) scenario, you set the case on fire. Remove the guitar first. Maybe do it in the backyard. Wife standing by with a hose. Etc.

It's a passive Cow Chip. Just sits there waiting for someone to kick it to see if it's real.

The elusive 'chip' is not in the specs. So, I wouldn't bother. Maybe what RCT remembered hearing about was a Wood Chip.

The only positive thing I can add - it doesn't look like a fake. But I'd say the price is nearly double what it's worth. You have no idea what the guitar has been subject to over the past 50 years, but it's clearly not a Closet Queen.

It comes back around to - get the best guitar you can afford, after you pay your monthly bills - depending upon how seriously you take playing the guitar. Insulting someone's guitar is like insulting someone's car or truck. If a 15 year old Camry works for your neighbor, who's to say he should have car payments so he can drive a car you approve of? I wouldn't have an Epiphone Masterbuilt for example NOW - but back in the day, it would have been the best I could have afforded.

I attempted the same thing - here in TX - some really cool ones, some abandoned. Lost the couple of dozen I had when I switched phones back when the Apple Company assumed you didn't want to keep Contacts, Photos, Music, etc. Because, after all - it was only a portable substitute for a pay phone ! Lots of the gas stations were Nail Salons as I recall. I remember - 50 years ago - in NY, there was one. It was right on the side of what had been one of the main hi ways out to Long Island. Southern State Pkwy I believe. Probably built in the early 30s. It was a solid stone small gas station around 30 yards off the 2 lanes heading West. It had it's own very short exit and entrance ramp. Obviously built for when the cars were slow and clunky and only went 30mph. Something I'm sure my parents never thought about - but a great glimpse for the Baby Boomers of how slower, kinder and gentler things had been before WWII. Sort of like a Norman Rockwell subject.

And a taco chip in the Mexican ones?

Deflect much? We’re discussing Martin’s. I said some of them are expensive. Didn’t say Gibson or Taylor doesn’t have high end models. Just not relevant. Yet it’s the first thing that comes to your mind.

Nice slide work !

I think that was when you bragged it helped with the swelling.

I agree completely Steve: most of us are less finicky. - like me, I suppose, priding myself with normal levels of finickiness. But, the fact remains, Martin created a market for themselves to sell Really Expensive guitars - priced way above their Mexican ones and their best sellers around $3-4K. And the people who buy them (other than those dentists and cardiologists Sgt.Pepper warns us about every week) are 'cork sniffers'. They want to know if the RW is from Madagascar or India or a stump in Brazil or was sunk in a river somewhere exotic. And if you're paying premium bucks - say $10K - it is no longer because you're a fan boy. It's because you want to know (to be able to brag, yes - but to RE-SELL ) exactly what kind of wood is on the guitar. I doubt these people care about what species of wood trim is on their Beemers. But a guitar is, at the end of the day - a wood instrument. Regardless of the many places on the internet Martin 'specs' are discussed - for year old models or for those coming out in the future, and holding 'reading comprehension' issues aside ... IF Martin intends to be vague about the specs of higher end guitars, it is their right. As it is the right of the cork sniffers to push back. So, on a guitar forum - since Martin is the 500 lb. gorilla - the question is fair game.

Scratch the docudrama, even Hallmark has standards. You should just start up your own Think Tank.

And when you know there is only one correct sequence in which to recite those 4 names.

You should probably write a research paper. Maybe get it published. Or turned into a docudrama.

We use to hitchhike from Gaston to Mecklenberg county in North Carolina. To go to the beer places just across the river. There were folks who made a living taking orders for beer and wine but mostly liquor - and delivering it. Mid 1960s.

Sarcasm…

Yeah, I know. Mahogany. Thanks . It was a joke. Like Sarcasm. Thanks again.

"Rumors of my death are premature." W.C. Fields

That’s disgusting. There could be children present.

Stirring the pot? If richlite is ON the spec sheet, you missed the point.