Maybe one day.

So my question, again, is why look at these videos if they are tempting and you would otherwise not be looking?  My wife used to say that if we didn't go looking, we wouldn't be buying, and she is correct.  None if this line of thinking matters if procuring new stuff is a part of a person'e enjoyment of the hobby.  It is only when the wording chosen seems to indicate that the poster shouldn't be looking that I raise the question.

I have stopped posting and (for the most part) reading over at AGF for at least a while now, leaving this forum as the only one I am participating in.  I am finding three interesting things occurring, as a likely result:

1. I am much less angry about things happening there.  
2. I don't seem to have that feeling that I must buy something.  
3. I seem to have more focused time to actually play guitar.

Regarding #1, I felt like a square peg in a round hole too much of the time.  When the moderators reminded me that I am not politically correct enough, I decided my time was pretty much done, that I had worn out my welcome.  I have seen a number of folks from here post over there, so I do acknowledge that I have enjoyed my time there and have gotten some useful information during that time.  Rather than simply being "Registered" there, I have long been a "Charter" member, meaning that I paid my share of support.

Regarding #2, I don't seem to have that problem here because the guitars being discussed here are not the area that would interest me, though I can appreciate folks here frequently buying in that market space too.  The looking and buying (and resulting NGD posts) here is no different from AGF except that the money spent here per guitar seems to be generally far lower.

For me, COVID-19 is really helping because I never buy from an online dealer, sight unseen.  So even if I did care to spend my time looking for another guitar online, if I couldn't get it locally, I wouldn't buy it.  I realize that many others don't take that advantage of COVID-19 (i.e. local stores closing or having very limited stock) because buying sight unseen has become the norm for many folks for a variety of reasons even well before the onset of COVID-19.

Regarding #3, to me, that is really what guitars are all about - the music itself.  It is all too easy to be distracted by all the discussion of the shiny new stuff being discussed endlessly in forums, making the actual practicing and playing seem dull by comparison.

Tony

TonyKgull,

 Yes I like the sound/tone of the Nylon string guitar, but after trying 3 or 4 classical guitars , just can't get used to the wide fretboard,  but a hybrid guitar would be just right, there doesn't seem to be a lot of choice in hybrid guitars at the moment, yes it does look a bit like a cole Clark.

Nylon string finger picking and strumming-