the real Duke Spinner Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 What's in the black guitar case ?? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 8 hours ago, the real Duke Spinner said: What's in the black guitar case ?? Ah, a '74 Guild F-30R... the other is a '91 Taylor 812c. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the real Duke Spinner Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 6 hours ago, Marvel said: Ah, a '74 Guild F-30R... the other is a '91 Taylor 812c. I have a Guild GG ..George Gruhn model .. unobtanium even when new Acoustic .?? I have a Washburn acoustic/ electric that I really like A friend actually worked at Guild in the late 1970s.. Westerly Rhode Island, I believe Many fine instruments came from there ...You know the Name has been resurrected for Chinese production ..🙄 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 The higher end series is made in Oxnard, California. The Chinese built, Westerly Collection, are actually well made guitars, but probably spotty and have good and not so good. I'm saving up for a Martin DSS-17. Always liked the sloped shoulder dreads. Used to have a Gibson J45, old when I got it in the early '70s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the real Duke Spinner Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 22 hours ago, Marvel said: The higher end series is made in Oxnard, California. The Chinese built, Westerly Collection, are actually well made guitars, but probably spotty and have good and not so good. I'm saving up for a Martin DSS-17. Always liked the sloped shoulder dreads. Used to have a Gibson J45, old when I got it in the early '70s. I have cut back from some 40 🙄 guitars to a more reasonable 10, or so Over 50 or so years, they tend to creep on in the house. 😀 I really like the Westerly Guilds that I have ..the George Gruhn model especially Lotsa options to Martin these day's a friend has a spectacular Takaminedont know if I have mentioned this, but I purchased a Washburn acoustic/ electric that is s fine instrumentfirst one I had ever played in all that time 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I think I'll ask Travis to move our guitar chatter to the lounge... 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Duke and I have been talking about guitars in another thread... I asked Travis if he could declutter the thread and put the posts here so we, and others, could continue... Collecting guitars is like collecting speakers... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invidiosulus Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Hey, I have a couple I can post over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I'm just a wanna-be collector, but I'm definitely following this thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invidiosulus Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 minute ago, CWelsh said: I'm just a wanna-be collector, but I'm definitely following this thread. I’m too broke to be a collector but I do like guitars. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 minute ago, Invidiosulus said: I’m too broke to be a collector but I do like guitars. Functional art 😍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 @Marvel One of my bucket list road trips was to go to the Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chattanooga, but I just read that it closed in 2020. I'm bummed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Songbirds has restructured and I believe reopening. The also do shows there as well as the museum/collection. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 https://songbirdsfoundation.org/ oh yeah! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invidiosulus Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Here’s an older shot of most of em. I’ll get some more details and beauty shots of them in their own posts. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 There weren't a lot of inexpensive acoustic guitars in the mid to late '60s. My mom had a Silvertone (maybe a Harmony) she picked up, that was just about perfect as far as construction and intonation, if not the greatest tone. She never played it, think she got it for me. Two friends of my brother started playing when I was a freshman in hs. They were jrs... I ended up with a Martin 00-18 (used), and it was a nice little guitar. About my jr year I found a Martin D-28 in a pawn shop for $350, I think it was made in '63. I later sold it to my best friend for the same price. He recently sold it to a CF Martin employee for $5k. I had a Regal tenor guitar along the way, and a Mosright resonator. Somewhere in there I got a Gibson J-45, that had that nice tight sound for rhythm work. I picked up a nice Gibson ES-125T, but is was stolen out of my car. While touring with some friends I found a Gibson ES-140 and original case for $100... That's one I wish I still had. Then I found a '51 Martin D-18, now in the hands of my BIL. Around 1974 I bought a new Guild F30R, a nice small size Jumbo shape body in Spruce and Rosewood. Around the same time as that I picked up a Kalamazoo Oriole lap steel. In the mid '90s I bought a new Taylor 615 maple Jumbo, a delightful sound cannon, and then a used Taylor 812C. More recently I found a nice Godin SC but only kept it a few years. I may have forgotten something along the way (electric bass...), but that's pretty much it. I only have two acoustics and the lap steel now. I don't have pics for most of those past instruments... (a new made in Mexico Martin was gifted to me this summer -2023). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWelsh Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 This is most of my collection. With the exception of the Epiphone acoustic on the far right, I've either built or rehabbed them all. I've built about a dozen guitars from parts or kits over the years. Only four are in this picture. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invidiosulus Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 First off I have this beater Oscar Schmidt (by Washburn) that was getting tossed out at work when one of our residential programs for runaway youth was shutting down at the beginning of the pandemic. It was, and is, in pretty rough shape. Initially it had a couple of busted tuners and a loose brace inside the top that sounded like a mad Bee anytime you strummed with any effort. I reglued the brace which was a pretty easy job and transplanted the grover tuners from my old Taylor neck(more on that later). It's a solid plywood guitar with a decently shaped neck. Overall the action is still kind of high but I haven't felt like experimenting with a neck reset. It sounds kind of like a plywood guitar but it's not too terrible and I don't mind leaving it out in the corner of the living room without a stand. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invidiosulus Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 This is a West German made Lyra, Baritone Ukulele from the 1960's that belonged to my mom when she was in highschool. The patina on it is just wonderful. I like making the little swoopy pattern with the ends of the strings when I tie them off. Seems to me as though it's the proper way to do it as it keeps the ends from buzzing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Travis In Austin Posted January 11, 2022 Moderators Share Posted January 11, 2022 I will find those posts and move them over here Bruce @Marvel In the meantime, can I post "and more." I saw this documentary and thought of you. Can you spot and name the studio monitors during the documentary, Ocean Sound, etc., etc. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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