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Thought ya might wanna do somethin` with this.
I gotta get back in the bathroom, I mean shop...

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Give me 50 cents worth of regular.
Check my oil too, if you don`t mind,,,

Yeah, i can of imagine all the burstin' that can be done in such a small shop after eatin' sweet beans at the sugar shack! Serge Poirier38829.3092824074

I like your new avatar, Hesh!

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Give me 50 cents worth of regular.
Check my oil too, if you don`t mind,,,

Nice soundbox you got there Hesh! Serge Poirier38829.3221875

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] The only thing better would be for the guitar to be a sunburst [/QUOTE]

Nah . . . save that for the toilet

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Truthfully, that does remind me that my brother (not THAT brother) and I started playing on a $25 sears & roebuck guitar that our father gave us for Christmas.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] [QUOTE=Dave White] [QUOTE=Hesh1956] The only thing better would be for the guitar to be a sunburst [/QUOTE]

Nah . . . save that for the toilet [/QUOTE]

Careful Dave Serge could take that statement and creatively imagine what foods one might consume to achomplish this....... [/QUOTE]

Well they do say you get good acoustics in there

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

[QUOTE=Hesh1956]Careful...imagine what foods one might consume to accomplish this....... [/QUOTE]

The obvious answer is...chewing tobacco...

....and it would be a "reverse burst".



Don Williams38829.4434722222

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] Careful Dave Serge could take that statement and creatively imagine what foods one might consume to achomplish this....... [/QUOTE]

Whut makes you pfffrrrrt say that ?

Yes it was, Hesh. And it was hard as heck to play, bad action. But my middle brother and I both learned to play on that thing. It was probably around 1962-63.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Ron and Hesh, my first was the equivalent Montgomery Wards Airline model with a metal tailpiece and moveable bridge (can we say great for intonation with kids who don't know any better). It was so bad I actually strung it up for years with nylon strings until I could get a better guitar.

Hesh, Alverez has been around a long time and were played and endorsed by Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir. I still have a cheap model and a Yairi (newer model direct coupled bridge) stashed around the house.

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Don Atwood
Arlington, VA

Until I built my first, Alvarez has been the only guitar I've played for the past 35 years. It's a really nice Yairi made of BRW.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......