Another NGD

Garland ,

Sorry been that busy, doing the usual, fitting new strings, conditioning the fretboard, polishing the frets, setting the action, setting the trussrod, not forgetting having a little play.
Well I've given up getting an Eastman guitar any time soon, just none available within a 50 mile radius.
Anyway went to the little local guitar shop, and they we're a little thin on the ground, with Acoustic guitars, but they had just had a used Epiphone Les Paul 1960 Tribute plus guitar in, colour Midnight sapphire, it is in mint condition not even the slightest scratch anyway, it was complete with the, Epiphone fitted hard case.
It gave me the impression that someone had bought this guitar, then just put it under the bed or somewhere else.
Now the Les Paul is not everyone's cup of coffee, but I've had two or three in the past, and enjoyed them, but this one has by far the best specification.
Just going to get me Dinner more to follow later, with photos.

Garland ,

And a Couple of videos.

Garland,

 Thanks, actually the colour of my guitar looks better in reality. 

That video with the gold top,  the guitar player is very famous,  he can make any guitar sing very well.

 Same as most guitars,  Gibson and Epiphone has a massive following and a few forums.

Pity you can't get on with your Gretsch Electric guitar, they are great guitars, and Electric guitars in general need quite a lot of play time to get to grips with them.

Garland,

Yes just do the things that you injoy doing the most, that's our biggest problem, "Time", and I'm sure it just keeps speeding up.
Have you thought of trading your electric guitars in, against a new Acoustic guitar from Sweetwater, not sure if it's the same for you, but the large supper guitar stores over here, will do trades, you tell them what guitar you would like, they ask you to send photos on the Internet of the guitar you want to trade in, they make you an offer, if it's OK, they send you a packing box, to send the guitar to them.
Worth a try.

Garland ,

 Unfortunately that 40% is quite common,  that's what they offered me at the guitar super store that I went to recently. 
 Now I do like a good haggle.  So I said to them,  if I didn't have another guitar of them, would they still buy my guitar off me at the same price, they said yes, so I said right if I do that, how much will you drop the price of this guitar now as it would be a cash sale, they said we will reduce the price of the new guitar by  £50.
 I declined the offer, as still not good enough,  but that was the best I could get out of them.
 I'm very lucky as the local guitar shop that I have nearly all my guitars from, and that's  quite a few guitars, will give me 70%,  80% or  sometimes 100%  of what I bought the guitar for,  off him, it depends on if he is in a good mood, if business is good, and the price of the new guitar I'm buying off him.
  Just a thought, would they let you hang an advertisement  up, at the open mic venue. 

ancient1,

 I'm just a sucker for new guitars, I really enjoy a new guitar (who doesn't), but one thing I definitely don't like is, the rule made by the wife, if I have a new guitar, I have to sell one of my existing guitars, well you can't keep them all, but I do get sellers remorse. 
For the past few years I always take a photograph of my new guitars, then when I look at these photos,  there are some I really regret not owning any more.