Buc McMaster Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Among the best of my writings, and the guitar among the best I've ever strummed.......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6fSUUNiv8g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Sals getting one today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 BUC! You miss your Bird? I miss my Vintage and wish I never sold it. Grunt is right. I bought this used (its a 1999) and it just arrived today: It sounds great at work? We will see at home when I play it near my other guitars in the right room. It smells musty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Martin I bought is musty too 🤢 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwalker201 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Looks nice Sal. Is that a scuff on the lower end or the way your pc is lighting the background Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 1517249734[/url]' post='1913340']Looks nice Sal. Is that a scuff on the lower end or the way your pc is lighting the background Lighting... but it aint perfect. Binding is not smooth everywhere. few finish cracks/crazing... But thats not the stuff that I get hung up on. Action is ok, if s tad high. Frets good. fretboard good. for an 18 year old guitar its fine.... but I am hijacking Buc's thread. Ima sign out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwalker201 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Buc, that song is a jewel!! As well you sounded with that beauty, I was shocked you got rid of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Lovely bit of writing there, Buc! I love the Hummingbird, and certainly adore my two (6 and 12), but I think your 12 fret 45 suits your style a shade better. Sal, that Bird looks great! My 1990 has a bit of checking and uneven binding etc but plays like butter and the tone is stunning...looking forward to hearing more about how you get on with yours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buc McMaster Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 Congrats on the guitar, Sal! Is it a standard? TV? Not sure what they were building in '99. But, nah, don't really miss mine. It was a very, very player but, as Jinder noted, I think the tone of the J45 suits my style better and it's every bit as good a player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Well I been thinking 'bout the Hummer slowly melting to the sea and all the stars from that gone summer forever shining silently The honey-glaze in the flowers sweetly humming as he strums The butterfly awaits the power of any song which this way comes I would be the first to see the dilemma. Once Nectar-smitten, it gets really hard to forget the garden of glaze and wonder. Some don't and never will catch that fever (should be respected) - the rest of us can't live without the sweet square. A member here recently used the term mystery of the Hummingbird - and this thread underlines exactly that. It's a different guitar. Sal once wrote he could see that I 'understood the Bird'. That idea stuck. Though not sure if I'm fully there, understanding the Bird - vintage as new ones - is what I been trying to do the last couple of years. And they still have me mesmerizingly mystified. Sal himself is pretty drawn in. The picture shows. One thing is the nice 1999 Gibson - but notice the three screens which all show columns, diagrams and statistics over his goin' back'n'forth about the model : 1 screen for aesthetics, 1 for the instrument itself and 1 for sheer romance. Couldn't be illustrated better - that's how strong it is. Congs ^ and good luck Buc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buc McMaster Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Well I been thinking 'bout the Hummer slowly melting to the sea and all the stars from that gone summer forever shining silently The honey-glaze in the flowers sweetly humming as he strums The butterfly awaits the power of any song which this way comes Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Awesome, Buc. I missed my ES-339 on the drive home from swapping it, but I never play electrics anymore and have several still if I need one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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