MR GIBS Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdt-FdDAznI Hallo there, I have that SJ 200 Custom Elite since 2009 (I think...). From e-bay. Great guitar. My first real grand acoustic guitar... In 2010 it was broken. The head... Shame on me - I did it. Don't want to talk about it... My luthier made 2 unsuccessful attempts to repair it... Last august I sent him the instrument and he returned it to me this may. Now the head is stable. The sound is better than ever! This is my best instrument. In saturday I made this song based on the lyrics of a friend of mine. The lyrics are in my language - Bulgarian. I recorded the song in my bedroom with my MR GIBS, using a handy cam ZOOM Q3 HD. Here are the lyrics in english I translated for those of you who are interested... The words are thesimple shell. The summer is a pearl and nacre. The sand crumbles in kisses. Each silence isfull of you. The song is a tardy crab. The tide bringssalt and chill. Every kindnessfinds its way. With each dayyou only are richer. With each dayyou only are richer. There are dayswith a flag of concern. There are nights withboats of loneliness. There are smallmoments of heroism and major storms ofbeauty. The words are thesimple shell. The summer is a pearl and nacre. The sand crumbles in kisses. Each silence isfull of you. But even whenprevails between us thebag of salt, accept whateveris given to you and give a smileto the world.
BigKahune Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 . Congrats Krasi! Great to hear you finally have MR GIBS back in great shape. Sounding very nice. Beautiful song and great performance. Enjoyed it very much. . B) .
Buc McMaster Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 Dude. You broke your guitar?! Okay.......we won't talk about it, other than to say it must have been a heartbreaking moment for you. You and the guitar are both in very fine voice!
kidblast Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 Krasi, this is absolutely beautiful! loved everything about it. So glad you have been united with your J200.. and I don't blame you, I wouldn't want to discuss it much either.
MR GIBS Posted July 11, 2016 Author Posted July 11, 2016 Dude. You broke your guitar?! Okay.......we won't talk about it, other than to say it must have been a heartbreaking moment for you. You and the guitar are both in very fine voice! Well Buc... Shame is what I feel about what I did back then... I was invited to take part in a broadcast on the national radio here in Sofia. I was waiting at the entrance for the radio host to come and get me in. The J200 was in its original hardshell case. I was leaning on the case. Then she came down the stairs and I let the case for a moment to say halo and the case fell down... I opened it an the head was broken. No words can describe what I felt then!!! One thing I realised in that very moment... Since then I know that if I have real good guitars, really professional musical instruments I just have TO TAKE GOOD CARE of them. And to keep them safe. And since then I am trying to do the best in this regard. That's the story.
Avery Posted July 11, 2016 Posted July 11, 2016 What a nice reunion, man. Listening to you, it's kind of like a singer-songwriter version of Andrea Bocelli, playing guitar. It's fabulous.
drathbun Posted July 12, 2016 Posted July 12, 2016 Nine months huh? You must feel like a new daddy, or at least, having your baby back home again! It is a lovely instrument and beautifully played!
MR GIBS Posted July 12, 2016 Author Posted July 12, 2016 Nine months huh? You must feel like a new daddy, or at least, having your baby back home again! It is a lovely instrument and beautifully played! The repair was too complex to be done... The luthier had to first disassemble the head, than to clean all the surfaces from the old glues, then to glue and then to assemble the parts of the head, laquer etc... But the period was so long because he first wanted to make a whole new neck&head... And he hesitated... After all he decided what he did. And he is a consultant in a factory named "Kremona" in Kazanlak, Bulgaria where they build guitars and recently they started to make replicas of Martin D18 and D28 and this activity takes much time and energy ... By the way I would suggest to you to try some Kremona metal string guitars. They sound amazingly good for the price.
MissouriPicker Posted July 12, 2016 Posted July 12, 2016 That is quite an instrument Mr. Gibs. Really has a wide and resonating sound. You and it sound very good. I like the song, the passion you sing with and the gentle playing. And good to see you again.
BluesKing777 Posted July 12, 2016 Posted July 12, 2016 Glad to see it back home in nice sounding working order! Too late for that guitar, but have you seen the Hiscox Guitar Cases, for future journeys and your other guitars? http://www.hiscoxcases.com/index.htm BluesKing777.
MorrisrownSal Posted July 12, 2016 Posted July 12, 2016 I'm glad you got her fixed up. Your talent is most worthy of the guitars you play. Love when you post you music in your language.
fortyearspickn Posted July 13, 2016 Posted July 13, 2016 Great performance. I am always mesmerized by the poetry and the lilting sounds of songs sung in a foreign language. And, of course - the J200 is the icing on the cake.
aerohead Posted July 15, 2016 Posted July 15, 2016 Firstly Krassi your performance was amazing once again as always. Secondly your beautiful guitar looks and sounds none the worse for wear! I can only imagine the heartbreak you felt when opening your case after "The Fall"! Congrats on putting pieces back together!
kelly campbell Posted July 15, 2016 Posted July 15, 2016 Congrats on getting that fantastic guitar back. I can imagine your heart really sunk when that happened. by the way I agree nice voice and great sounding guitar.
flatbaroque Posted July 16, 2016 Posted July 16, 2016 Welcome back Mr G.And you too Krassi! Always enjoy your songs.
fortyearspickn Posted July 16, 2016 Posted July 16, 2016 It occurred to simple me, that a head should not break, or a guitar be damaged, if it's in its caae and just topples over. Whether Sitting on it's edge with the handle up, or leaning on it's fat end up against a wall and falling over. I can see if it falls, in it's case, off a table or even a couch. But to just topple over - I would expect the case provided would protect the guitar in 99.9% of the falls. Krassi - what were the circumstances of your J200's accident? I know you'd rather forget. But I, for one, would really like to know as much as you can remember about it. Was it a Gibson case? Do you plan on still using the same case? Was there anything other than the guitar in the case? Did id have a capo attached? If so, where? A strap attached? Was it sitting on the bottom/bout end leaning against something and just slid and toppled over? Did you have the strings in EADGBE? or some alternate tuning? I've only heard of a handful of cases (pardon the pun) where a Gibson in its case only toppled over from an upright position and the head broke off - so I'm curious as to whether I should be doing something differently. Thank you much ! Jim
MR GIBS Posted July 16, 2016 Author Posted July 16, 2016 It occurred to simple me, that a head should not break, or a guitar be damaged, if it's in its caae and just topples over. Whether Sitting on it's edge with the handle up, or leaning on it's fat end up against a wall and falling over. I can see if it falls, in it's case, off a table or even a couch. But to just topple over - I would expect the case provided would protect the guitar in 99.9% of the falls. Krassi - what were the circumstances of your J200's accident? I know you'd rather forget. But I, for one, would really like to know as much as you can remember about it. Was it a Gibson case? Do you plan on still using the same case? Was there anything other than the guitar in the case? Did id have a capo attached? If so, where? A strap attached? Was it sitting on the bottom/bout end leaning against something and just slid and toppled over? Did you have the strings in EADGBE? or some alternate tuning? I've only heard of a handful of cases (pardon the pun) where a Gibson in its case only toppled over from an upright position and the head broke off - so I'm curious as to whether I should be doing something differently. Thank you much ! Jim Answering: Yes it was the original gibson case made in Canada Yes I use the same case and don't plane to change it There was a guitar strap in the headstock ward but it was not attached to the guitar and was folded. The case was in vertical position (ant that was my biggest mistake), I was leaning on the top till the bottom was on the floor. I stopped leaning for a second or two and the case fell down... The guitar inside was tuned in standart tuning. I never hold the case in this vertical position anymore.
62burst Posted July 16, 2016 Posted July 16, 2016 Very good to hear you and your Mr Gibbs are together again, and are back to making some fine sounds. Nice song, quite the vocal performance, too. If I should ever wish to write lyrics that take poetry into the realm of the enigmatic, I should have them translated to another language, then back again ; ). Thank you for sharing some of the painful details of the accident, so that it may save someone else from the same experience. Did the cased guitar fall face-forward, or to the side (or back)? Once, while waiting and watching from the window of a shop for a J-45 to be delivered in the middle of horrible winter conditions, many degrees below freezing, I watched in horror as the local delivery driver banged the shipping box down the steps of his van, set the guitar standing on it's headstock-end, only to have the wind blow the box down so that it slammed into the roadway on it's top. The guitar was around freezing, but the box had to be opened to check for damage (also stressful). No damage found. . . just got lucky. Your J-200 has a 3 piece hard maple neck with the lamination of the fretboard and binding, yet it was damaged. This underscores the advice many follow about de-tuning guitars for shipping: when the torque of string tension meets with an applied impact, bad things can happen. Glad you and the guitar are back together again.
MR GIBS Posted July 17, 2016 Author Posted July 17, 2016 Very good to hear you and your Mr Gibbs are together again, and are back to making some fine sounds. Nice song, quite the vocal performance, too. If I should ever wish to write lyrics that take poetry into the realm of the enigmatic, I should have them translated to another language, then back again ; ). Thank you for sharing some of the painful details of the accident, so that it may save someone else from the same experience. Did the cased guitar fall face-forward, or to the side (or back)? Once, while waiting and watching from the window of a shop for a J-45 to be delivered in the middle of horrible winter conditions, many degrees below freezing, I watched in horror as the local delivery driver banged the shipping box down the steps of his van, set the guitar standing on it's headstock-end, only to have the wind blow the box down so that it slammed into the roadway on it's top. The guitar was around freezing, but the box had to be opened to check for damage (also stressful). No damage found. . . just got lucky. Your J-200 has a 3 piece hard maple neck with the lamination of the fretboard and binding, yet it was damaged. This underscores the advice many follow about de-tuning guitars for shipping: when the torque of string tension meets with an applied impact, bad things can happen. Glad you and the guitar are back together again. Yes, the cased guitar fell face-down according to my humiliate memory... The instrument was tuned, because I had to play live in a radio studio in that day. If it was only for transportation I would relax the strings... The fracture was very nasty! It was on the heal of the neck but also inside the head. The inner side of the head crumbled... That is why the first two attempts of my luthier to glue it back failed... He could glue the whole thing after he took the head on parts, cleaned all the parts and reinforced the "construction" using several additional small wooden rivets inside placed at different angles.
fortyearspickn Posted July 17, 2016 Posted July 17, 2016 Thanks Krassi. I'm glad it all ended well for you. I remember a short-lived TV show here, back in the 60s where a young man had a good guitar which he had really bonded with and it was similarly 'destroyed' and he agonized over buying a new one or getting it fixed. In the end - he got it fixed and was sure he made the right call. To me, it is always preferable to repair something that can be saved. As long as you have a good repairman, or luthier in this case. I'm sure you'll bond even more strongly with your J200 now that you've been through this together. Another member here, JInder, had a similar experience. On stage, with his J200 leaned against an amp, someone stumbled and put their foot through the face. He had it repaired, and was happier with it after the ordeal. Sounds like your incident was a 'freak accident' and that the cases normally do their job. Thanks Again! Jim
zombywoof Posted July 17, 2016 Posted July 17, 2016 I am very happy that you finally got your best gal back and in 100% playable condition. Most broken necks are repairable - it often comes down to how clean the break is. Not that one that is splintered cannot be repaired - just takes a whole lot more work. I only really trust one guy to work on my guitars when they are in need of some serious attention. He is a second generation luthier and is a couple of hundred miles away but is a wizard when it comes to piecing old guitars back together (the Martin guys call him "Doc") As he works out of a shed next to his house he is also a whole lot cheaper than most. Just not the quickest repair guy on the face of the earth, especially when it is hunting season. Anyway, I am glad the story had a happy ending.
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