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Zomby, could your mystery "guitar" be a uke version of this electrified Hawaiian?
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Stupid trades / losses of guitars
Fullmental Alpinist replied to blindboygrunt's topic in Gibson Acoustic
I got my first guitar when I was a kid—a dime store novelty in a coffin-shaped brown cardboard box from a country that probably doesn't exist anymore. It was a Christmas present from grandparents that loved me enough to listen when I was asked what I wanted for Christmas—I mean Trini had a guitar and if I was going to grow up to be like him shouldn't I get started? I was nine. Since then, more years than not, I've had a guitar with me in all my bedrooms, one-room, and no-room apartments. And whereas Mel Bay and I broke it off after two years of a bitter, off-again–off-again relationship, I've almost always had a curvaceous mahogany-skinned friend to share my troubles. I had to leave my first guitar behind at my mom's house when I scrambled south to start a new life away from my family of origin, if not much else. I often wished I could have rescued that guitar and the cardboard box from the bedroom closet it was trapped in when I narrowly escaped. It was my good friend who never left me even though it knew the secrets that no one else ever did. In a corner of the closet behind a blanket all alone A little boy is hiding because his daddy just came home He catches the smell of whiskey and of sweat on a man grown cold So he closes his eyes and prays, "Jesus please come and take me home." While I never got to play that song on my first guitar, it was there with me in the room during those years. Together with the guitars I have today it is among, as JC wrote, "the friends that will never let us down." -
Kismet. What an absolutely great story. Did your heart do a flip-flop when you saw it?
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Of course, Buc, Christmas is coming and LeftyGuy and JCV are so dang hard to buy for....
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More than likely it was inhaling the naptha vapors. Looks absolutely great! I think you've found some side work--until GibsonPrague tracks you down, that is. I appreciate the post even if it threatens the global economy.
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Who needs a BBQ? I live five miles from 2 of the 3 Phil's BBQs--the second most Yelp-rated business in America.
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Nowhere but on the Gibson Acoustic Guitar forum. And I love it. Are we talking those green ceramic egg-shaped contraptions?
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So, Ben, if you're going to change the tuners, you might as well add this: As far as humidity, use this: D'Addario Humidification System It's just set and forget and works great.
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Great Buc. I'm torn: should we send you to play the rest home circuit so those folks can take a trip down memory lane? Or should we send you to UT campuses so the kids can appreciate these classics?
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Wow! Eighteen years old and you own a guitar of which only 10 were made? Amazing! I think I can speak on behalf of many of us old guys here: DON"T EVER SELL IT!!! If the cool Beatle played one, it must be good. Here's a 1992: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALfJ6Fl9H7o
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Welcome to the forum. I'm guessing your guitar is closely linked to the 1992 re-release of a series of Everly guitars. There are reports of an Everly cutaway, though I wasn't able to find any pictures of one when I did research for this thread: Newbie - Hello and Help - Gibson Everly J180 LE 1992 10/100 (The OP's guitar is the stuff of dreams.) and this: PHOTOS...'Gibson J-180' And Steinegger 'Ike E... I seem to remember a few Everlys of that Vintage that had a headstock star but none on the neck. Perhaps Gibson decided to stop the neck stars on your guitar and others in order not to conflict with a new run of Everlys. Please read the threads above, and do a search on "Everly" at a similar time period. Hogeye provided quite a bit of useful commentary in those threads and he is quite aware of what Gibson was doing at that time period. (Note to E-minor7: why do I get the feeling you took that picture in your backyard?)
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Wow and double wow is right! The back is a stunner and for some reason seeing the back of the neck somewhat rough and without a glossy sheen amuses me.
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A nice article, although I got a bit stuck on this sentence: "An acoustic's body wood is usually thin – typically between .080" and .135" thick – and made of light wood, such as Sitka spruce." Not a lot of Sitka bodied guitars around, are there?
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2017 Gibson Test Drive
Fullmental Alpinist replied to Fullmental Alpinist's topic in Gibson Acoustic
As soon as you open a Guitar Center. You're probably better off taking a pass. -
Nicely done.