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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:
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:
Darn thing warped on me between the heat of the drive up and the cool mountain air.
