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The Dickey Boys try out the new axe.



My oldest with his new SJ cedar topped rosewood. Rich and full of tone, this one. His younger brother is strumming his faithful grand auditorium.

The boy with the ripped knee jeans, made a quick change into his tux. He along with his wife were singers in Handel's Messiah with the Arkansas Chamber Singers and part of the Arkansas Symphony last evening and this. One of those highbrow events at the college campus in Conway.

I enjoyed the prelude to Handel there in the living room, too.   

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It must be a good thing to be able to hear your family play and sing. I tried to get my daughter to take piano lessons when she was young, but she treated it like torture so I let her quit. I really long to hear her sing and play an instrument.

Good job on the duo!

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Are they jamming on Handle in this pic?

I just came from that concert. Very inspirational.

John K, They were duoing on a song by Matt Redman called, "Jesus, Friend Forever." Kinda goes along with the Messiah, without the long hair of course.   

Both boys are involved with leading worship. The oldest just began a stint leading worship with the Salvation Army church (tiny, less than one hundred), quite a different situation to the megachurch (around three thousand) where he attends and sings/plays.

The youngest plays drums on a modern worship team for youth group and is also in rotation as a main drummer on Sunday mornings regular worship services. He too is a strummer, age 15. Quite proud of both of these arrows.

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What a great life's experience this must be for you having two levels of pride come together.

I have made a couple guitars for nephews, nieces and a brother and think sometimes how they will thing about me when I am long gone and they play thier instruments made as a labor of love.

Very Neat!

Sweet, Bruce. Thanks for posting them.

I'll have to get this guitar back and finish it. It seems he wants a strap button on both ends. This guitar is number six. He was supposed to lead worship this morning with it? Haven't heard.

Regardless, it has to come back for it's glamor shots and lable. He got a Cedar Creek Custom Case for Christmas, everyone thinks we guitarmakers are made out of cash!

My son finds a ten dollar bill on the floor on the way into the Messiah last evening. He has this guilty feeling, so he stashes it in an offering basket this morning.

After church, he dashes over to the car and requests permission to go with a friend to a birthday lunch. Oh, Dad, you got any money? I gave him a slightly dirty look as he took my ten. He didn't look guilty in the least this time.

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Rich, yeah, that'll be cool our instruments out-living us. I can just see the grandkids fighting over dad's SJ grandpa built him, when he's gone too!   

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Bruce buddy that is a great picture and you have to be proud as can be of your sons AND to see and hear them playing one of your very fine guitars!  It does not get any better then this!

I also strongly suspect that your boys are pretty darn proud of their old man too!

Thanks for sharing.

Awesome Bruce,Thats a great shot of your boys jammin',especially with One of them playing your guitar!
Whats with the Taylor? haven't you converted him to a Dickey guitar yet? I'm sure he will come around.
It sure sounds like you have a couple of great kids Bruce!

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That's the stuff of fond memories, eh?

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Great job on the kids and the guitar.

I'm working on surviving the adolescence of #2.  One down, one full blast, one to go.  Sigh, some days seem sooooo long.

I wish that I could play guitar with my kids.  The oldest couldn't care less at this point, though I never really took up guitar until I was older than he is now. 

The middle one is doing voice lessons, and coming along quite nicely, and the youngest plays viola.  I'm working on building each of the two youngest a little Torres guitar.  I'm hoping that being sneaky like that will help reap a good harvest, one day.  

The middle one has no real interest playing right now, but I told her that its an excellent addition to her singing.  She just sees it as an opportunity to decorate it.  As long as its green and she has a dragon rosette, and a tiger jumping out of the back, she's OK.

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The oldest's 314, made in 1999 was a gift when he was seventeen. I bought their instruments, the wife paid for all the music lessons. Knowing the richness music adds to life, it was a great investment. These guys live and breathe this stuff.

Plus, my wife is really the matriarch of music in our family. At age sixteen, she worked secretarial duties in the summer to buy a Kay plywood six string. That guitar took a dip in the Mississippi River during a Houseboat Float from Arkansas to New Orleans with her family. I got to put the neck back in it a few years later, when it occurred to me I might fix it.

Here is the wife with a GA I made:

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Oh, how cool is it to have a wife who really likes guitars, too! 

My wife is the real musician in our family, 'cello and piano.  She appreciates the work that I do on the guitars, but would really rather I built a 'cello.  I intend to, but its a major project.  Have you priced cello wood recently?  Guitars are cheap in comparison.

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