VincentG

No problem mate! Ok, that is very interesting. I do not care whatsoever what my guitar looks like and if it stills sounds and feels great in many years to come, then what happened isn't that important. Though I am a bit curious like you seems to be. I have friends spending all their savings on vintage guitars in player grade just because they sound so good. The rest is a matter of taste I guess!

I know, it does look weird. But I have no reason to lie about what kind of treatment the guitar was exposed to, I just came here to get advices and maybe be reassured as to wether I needed or not to do something about it. It does not prevent me in any way to play my guitar like I always did. I could try and contact them, absolutely! That's a good idea!

Abuse? No, really nothing like that. I have no kids, no pets, and I don’t even wear rings. Now, my girlfriend would pick up the guitar sometimes to sing a tune and she may wear rings, as I have a couple of buddys that have played this guitar at my place to jam and they might wear a wedding ring... But I don’t know if any of that qualifies as abuse, and for 95% of the playtime the guitar had, it’s my ringeless hands.

Thank you very much for your time and advices!

No, It's been guitar stands almost the whole time. The back of the neck was only in contact with my hands, Capo and the microfiber clothes I would use to wipe it clean from sweat and gunk. Especially the first year, the neck was sticky during spring and summer so I would wipe it clean energically everyday with a microfiber cloth. But that's it. The guitar only went into an Hiscox case maybe one time a year when flying away with it!

I bought a brand new j-45 4 years ago. I have played it like maybe one hour everyday, sometimes more on holidays and during summer. Now after those few years, the back of my guitar neck looks like I ripped off the lacquer. Is it something I need to be concern about or that I should "fix" to avoid problems in the future?

I was wondering. Do you play them in 11-52 lights or 12-54 Medium lights?

Hello everybody! I am a guitarist who has been playing for quite a long time, mostly singing along easy pop songs. A year and a half ago I decided to start taking the guitar seriously and have been working hard on blues standard from the forties and fifties. After a whole year playing everyday a cheap Eastman i didn't like so much, I afforded a standard j-45 I had saved for. I hate bright guitars and understood quite fast that a J-45 and a Guild M20 was what I was after. The Guild will be mine when They will build them again in the US with a Nitro finish and all... My favourite acoustic musician is Nick Drake and my goal is to be able to write songs in that particular style of his. I started by playing with a thumb pick and long nails, but since I got the J-45 I play more and more with bare fingers at low volumes!