bought a new guitar!

[65swb45]

First one in just about 30 years!

This all started just before the Reunion. Plane reservations called for a stopover in Denver. I started worrying about one of my guitars getting 'lost' in the shuffle. Then I started thinking how I've risked beating them up on the trail for so long as well. Well I get to the shop about 10 minutes later and find a message from Butch that he's got me covered on a guitar for the Reunion.

So I call him back and he tells me about this Washburn he picked up on Ebay for something like $150 that's got a real sweet sound. I get down to Bonham and try this baby out and I AM IMPRESSED. Clean, deep resonance, low action, capos without distortion. He tells me about some really fancy one he's had his eye on, so I say fine, buy it and sell me this one! The old man wasn't goin for it, so my search started.

By the time I was back at the computer at home, he'd sent me a link to the Ebay seller he'd got his jem from. So I started bidding. And bidding. And losing. and bidding and losing. Again and again. 3 weeks and 11 auctions later, I had barely missed out on several nice guitars, maybe because I was too lazy to use a sniper bid, and maybe for other reasons.

So I left for Idaho on vacation. Took the laptop, bought a wi-fi thingy to plug in it. Bid on and lost 3 more guitars.

Now mind you, this whole time I've been real patient and conservative-like, only bidding on one guitar at a time, just in case.

So, about two weeks ago, I've got a bid out on a brand new Washburn that's a few hours from closing with a current bid at $91. I've got a max bid in at $125.00 that the seller can't see. I've already been outbid on two of these before in that range, so I'm not feeling particularly lucky. I decide to take my chances and bid on a second guitar, used, that comes with a case. Wife and I take off for dinner and when we come back, lo and behold, I am now the owner of TWO GUITARS!

Here's the new one:

[65swb45]

Ironically, my wife told me a week or so before we left for Idaho that my daughter was thinking of taking up the guitar. Now mind you she's the only one in the family that hasn't already taken up a musical instrument, so this is good news to me regardless. So I just figured the Good Lord had made it so that I would get both of these guitars at the same time for a reason.

I let her try the new guitar the day after I got it. Sure enough, it was a little too hard for her to play. When I got the used one a few days later I checked it out, and sure enough, it had an easier action to work with. Problem solved.

[Texican]

I've gone geetar nutz, bought about 12 over the last few months, sold all 'cept 3 made money or broke even on them all.............the keepers
Martin D15 Mahogony

Taylor 214

Washburn EA-2000 Millenium


One of my local friends, a great player, said it best..........
You own 3 of the nicest acoustics I know of, and know 6 f'n chords......

Mark, Andrea has the one you tried and is not letting it go......

[65swb45]

Originally Posted by Texican

Mark, Andrea has the one you tried and is not letting it go......

IIRC, you said that was the one with the widest neck, ergo the easiest to get your fingers all on to the fretboard. Interestingly enough, the second Washburn I got, the one I said I would prolly end up giving my daughter, also turned out to have a slightly wider fretboard.

She came over Sunday and tried them both again. She agreed it was easier to work with. It went home with her.

I'll be looking forward to trying out that millenium guitar next March.

[SHREG]

Butch sent me the "Rare Wood" WD40s Washburn a couple of weeks ago. All thats said above is true. Its now the favorite of my 3 that i dont know how to play..... Makes perdier noises than the other 2...

[Dirty White Boy]

Speakin of git-tars, I done got me one too. It's missin a string though.





Now I just need to get Em a banjo, seein how she's from Tennessee and everybody that's born there can instinctively play them thangs from birth.

[Texican]

Originally Posted by SHREG

Butch sent me the "Rare Wood" WD40s Washburn a couple of weeks ago. All thats said above is true. Its now the favorite of my 3 that i dont know how to play..... Makes perdier noises than the other 2...

Here's Greg's

[65swb45]

Originally Posted by Texican

Here's Greg's

Greg, bring that one to Texas with you next year.......and I'll show you how THAT ONE's supposed to sound too.

That is SAWEEET!

[valkyrie610]

So who's got the groovy egg chair left over from the 60's? Does it have the 8track in it?

[SHREG]

Originally Posted by 65swb45

Greg, bring that one to Texas with you next year.......and I'll show you how THAT ONE's supposed to sound too.

That is SAWEEET!

Will do, but no Beatles tunes! :-)

Learning allot, sat with some cool cats this weekend and took turns strummin. Best way to learn is let others help. Thats the point im at, I can get between cords pretty good..... Just have to keep at it and find some folks to work with....

This is one sweet soundin guitar...... Gunna go look at some TABS right now...

[65swb45]

So I finally took this 'gem' out for it's big debut at the 45 run last weekend. Handed it straight off to greenfox for a test, and he got this quizical look on his face. I took it back and found out that all it would do is BUZZ! Darn thing warped on me between the heat of the drive up and the cool mountain air.

Calico John ended up cutting me some paper wedges from a pack of Camels to put under the bridge to make the dang thing semi-playable for the weekend. Now I guess I gotta learn me a bit about straightening out guitars!

[SHREG]

Got another off Eaby. Id like to than Mr Baker for getting me started down the road to buyin these things..... I received this today, it needs new strings....6 of em....

[Texican]

My latest.......Another Martin