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On our way back from the 1st day of the Great Minnesota Get Together, we stopped in a store we don’t get to very often…

And here, a fine little all Mahogany 1964 LG-0 followed us home (And see? it doesn’t always have to be about the bling for me 😁)

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5 hours ago, duluthdan said:

Sweet porch picker fer sure !

Sweet little pork piggie. . 

                                                                                       

 

                                            My good friend'n'collegue has one these - including the plast bridge. Doesn't say much - a modest almost humble guitar. 

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Congratulations on your new acquisition! 
I find the mounting of the pickguard with screws interesting. Are there nuts on the back or do they simply hold in the thin wood of the top?

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Cool!  As I am still in my self-imposed guitar exile, I live vicariously through others.  So, keep the NGDs a coming.

In 60 + years now, I have only one two all-mahogany guitars with the only one remaining being a 1942 Harmony H165 which at the time was oddly marketed as a Stella.  I just could not resist the Figure 8 Grand Concert size body and old-style Oscar Schmidt logo on the headstock.  But Lawdy, it does hold its own against any of my spruce top instruments. 

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4 hours ago, docr said:

Congratulations on your new acquisition! 
I find the mounting of the pickguard with screws interesting. Are there nuts on the back or do they simply hold in the thin wood of the top?

thanks. We noticed that as well.   I can’t reach all of them to feel until I get the strings off, but the top one for sure probably goes through into brace.  There is also brace near where the lower two are as well. I just can get around behind it to make sure they are not popping through.  

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8 hours ago, E-minor7 said:

Sweet little pork piggie. . 

                                                                                       

 

                                            My good friend'n'collegue has one these - including the plast bridge. Doesn't say much - a modest almost humble guitar. 

Okay… 🧐 not sure what that means…. But I’ll take it  as a well-intended play on Dan’s comment, and not a swipe on my apparently chronic case of GAS 😁 At first I looked to see if our local whistle-pig had photobombed 😆

Re being modest and not saying much, nod, it is a very unassuming little guitar.  I’m gonna  nickname it “Silent Cal.”  It doesn’t have much voice, and it sure doesn’t shout. But when it speaks, it is with the gravitas of 60 years experience. 

Thanks for the congrats

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1 hour ago, fortyearspickn said:

I still miss my '64 LG1.  Plastic bridge and all.  Congrats -  this sweetie will be unlike any of your others - in a very good way ! 

Thanks! It does bring a different point of view to the herd which is always good! 

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35 minutes ago, zombywoof said:

Cool!  As I am still in my self-imposed guitar exile, I live vicariously through others.  So, keep the NGDs a coming.

In 60 + years now, I have only one two all-mahogany guitars with the only one remaining being a 1942 Harmony H165 which at the time was oddly marketed as a Stella.  I just could not resist the Figure 8 Grand Concert size body and old-style Oscar Schmidt logo on the headstock.  But Lawdy, it does hold its own against any of my spruce top instruments. 

I am doing my part, Woof!  And I know exactly what you mean, we have a 38ish G6# Cromwell Arch Top  (built by Gibson) that has terrific voice.  

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Chuckle,  little serendiptious follow-up. We had only picked it up because heck, it was nice, inexpensive, but decent sounding 1960s Gibson.  However, before we got our attention stolen a few months ago by Hummingbirds and ES Supreme surf guitars, we had been on the prowl for an all hog small body for my wife.  After working with it last night, my wife discovers this little fellow is just what she had been looking for! It’s an astonishingly close match for the warm, dry tone of her blues teacher’s 1930s concert-sized Martin, which started the search in the first place.  She is happy as a clam 😄

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3 hours ago, dhanners623 said:

Beautiful guitar!

Used to live a mile from the State Fairgrounds. I miss Sweet Martha’s Cookies!

Thanks! Yeah, the lines for SMC are insane.  My cardiologist requires I forbear these days, but I still put my foot down and got my black walnut taffy from the place by the food building with the little automaton man that turns the taffy puller.  My family has been hitting up that place for gosh, it might be 100 years now.  Since they opened in the 20s.  

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