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:) Trigger Now that's a guitar with character, as noted in the opening statements, 'you hear the guitar and you know it's Willie Nelson before he even starts to sing...' Nice story, thank you for the lead!

I've heard a few folks mention removing their pick guards. Do you use the guitar for mostly / strictly finger picking? If not, isn't there a concern of the pick wearing down / scratching up the front of the guitar? I love the look without them, but do feel they're functional.

On my J45 - the very pointy part of my pick guard under the sound hole is coming up just barely, and does catch on a cloth if I'm cleaning it etc... was going to take it to a luthier to deal with, but there's a couple of tricks in this thread I may try.

On another thread, someone mentioned giving up smoking - this is one i wrote when i was 12 days in to giving up... caffeine. In honor of anyone giving up anything - one day at a time my friend! I call it 'Itch'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Qakybyx_4

Very nice T-Sal, my wife asked if that was Mark Knopfler - I told her it wasn't such a hack. Really like your originals!

Sorry, the link wasn't working Very Pretty Lady

Here's an original on my new J45. Trying to learn to record, and sing... and play - but I got a honey, and she wanted a song. Thanks for listening (or at least thanks for letting me post ;) ! Very Pretty Lady Rgds - billroy

Even though there seems to be more guitars from Japan, I'm still not comfortable buying from overseas. Too many variables and too far to deal with them. Somewhere within N. America (maybe the UK) with a return policy is where I've settled on if push comes to shove and my next guitar comes from the mail order route.

Wow - and a very merry Christmas to you!!! I'll keep my eyes posted on the used front, just nothing out there right now. Good luck to a speedy delivery and enjoy your new family member!

An update everybody, just heard back from Wildwood guitars and Gibson has discontinued the songwriter deluxe standard version. Maybe the reason there aren't many out there isn't because folks bought them and they liked them, but that folks never bought them in the first place. Too bad - it's a fine looking guitar in my opinion.

Thank you all

Hi all, I was looking at the Songwriter Deluxe Standard ec (cutaway) in the darker burst color. I was checking for used models on Reverb / eBay, and there was only one available (in Japan). I thought maybe it was because it was a new release, but the one on eBay was a 2010. That seems long enough to have a few of these around. Does anyone know why there aren't any other used ones available anywhere? Thanks for any input.

Trans Super nice! Liked it all - really liked the first part, simple but a little bit of power behind it, maybe a bit more base and very clean sounding. Super psyched to hear this coming from a hummingbird. ....and as i'm writing it, i'm listening to that first section for a 4th time!

Wow, really nice - loved the music, made me wish i knew the language to follow the story - thanks for sharing.

I could listen to you all day, every day.

Awesome! Had forgotten about this song, how cool it is - great job.

Hey There - I'm billroy from west of boston (go Celtics) - About to enter the Gibson acoustic family... looking for a nice mahogany cutaway guitar, and after playing many, settled on a hummingbird. Per lots of things i read, you should try out several to make sure you get a good one - my question, i'm from west boston, does anyone have recommendations on where to go to get a selection to look at / try out?