Post by godinfan on Jun 14, 2018 20:10:20 GMT -5
Help me, I keep buying guitars, because I just can't stop! They follow me around, like gulls hunting for scraps on the boardwalk. And each one is better than the last!
-2009 (or so): I was standing in a pawn shop with a $75 credit that was expiring that very day. I looked at every odd item for a half hour before I settled on that brown guitar with one bad brace, at just that price: a Seagull S6 cedar.
- 2013: I was walking across town for exercise when I happened upon a used music store (Music Go Round). That red archtop -- a Fifth Avenue -- was so much more comfortable than my dreadnaught that it took its place. Three-hundred-fifty and it was mine. I started playing more and enjoying it more.
-- late 2013: I walk into another pawn and two Fifth Avenues are hanging there, with pickup. I negotiate a package deal, $650 for both with two cases, and sell off the Fifth Avenue and keep the blonde Kingpin.
-- Thanksgiving (US) 1995 in Victoria, BC. I slink off from a family vacation to visit the nearest downtown guitar shop, in search of fine wooden goods. There I discover the joys of the Mini Jumbo, this one in a natural spruce/walnut. I don't buy that one, but a week later I grab one on eBay. My daughter will take it off to college in two years, and I don't expect to get it back, but what a pleasure to pass it on and watch her performing with it!
-- late 2017: Is that a Godin electric guitar? Yes, it is: an Icon Convertible 2. Well, I am jamming now with Strat players, trying keep my Kingpin out of the feedback zone. I give the pawn shop $420 and spend $50 having the two broken toggle switches replaced, and it's all good.
-- This year: Wait, I don't have a nice flattop. Everybody needs one of those. So within two weeks come two CL finds: a 10-year-old, like new S&P Woodland Mini Jumbo/case ($220), and a Seagull S6 Folk ($160) that shows some wear, but also shows me that maybe I do want a wider 1.8" nut after all.
-- Today: NGD! I just unwrapped a new SWS Maritime Mini Jumbo ($520)! Will this be my destination guitar? Who knows, but it is the best large-bodied guitar made these bird builders with a short scale, wide nut and not a dread. And so far, it speaks with a louder, stronger voice than any sub-$1500 guitar I've had in my lap.
Thanks to all here who have taught me about these exceptional instruments.
-2009 (or so): I was standing in a pawn shop with a $75 credit that was expiring that very day. I looked at every odd item for a half hour before I settled on that brown guitar with one bad brace, at just that price: a Seagull S6 cedar.
- 2013: I was walking across town for exercise when I happened upon a used music store (Music Go Round). That red archtop -- a Fifth Avenue -- was so much more comfortable than my dreadnaught that it took its place. Three-hundred-fifty and it was mine. I started playing more and enjoying it more.
-- late 2013: I walk into another pawn and two Fifth Avenues are hanging there, with pickup. I negotiate a package deal, $650 for both with two cases, and sell off the Fifth Avenue and keep the blonde Kingpin.
-- Thanksgiving (US) 1995 in Victoria, BC. I slink off from a family vacation to visit the nearest downtown guitar shop, in search of fine wooden goods. There I discover the joys of the Mini Jumbo, this one in a natural spruce/walnut. I don't buy that one, but a week later I grab one on eBay. My daughter will take it off to college in two years, and I don't expect to get it back, but what a pleasure to pass it on and watch her performing with it!
-- late 2017: Is that a Godin electric guitar? Yes, it is: an Icon Convertible 2. Well, I am jamming now with Strat players, trying keep my Kingpin out of the feedback zone. I give the pawn shop $420 and spend $50 having the two broken toggle switches replaced, and it's all good.
-- This year: Wait, I don't have a nice flattop. Everybody needs one of those. So within two weeks come two CL finds: a 10-year-old, like new S&P Woodland Mini Jumbo/case ($220), and a Seagull S6 Folk ($160) that shows some wear, but also shows me that maybe I do want a wider 1.8" nut after all.
-- Today: NGD! I just unwrapped a new SWS Maritime Mini Jumbo ($520)! Will this be my destination guitar? Who knows, but it is the best large-bodied guitar made these bird builders with a short scale, wide nut and not a dread. And so far, it speaks with a louder, stronger voice than any sub-$1500 guitar I've had in my lap.
Thanks to all here who have taught me about these exceptional instruments.
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