Woo hoo! Got a new guitar :)

[guitar man]

Ain't she purdy? :D



One of my studio clients traded it to me for some recording time today. I'm in love with it already :)

[Iggo]

1. What is it?

I can't read the name on the headstock.

[guitar man]

3. It's a Stagg

Never heard of them before today. Most likely made in China or somewhere like that. Plays and sounds pretty good though.

[Skittles]

2. as purdy as Birdie

yes INDEED

[guitar man]

12. :)

:hi: :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear guitar man!

It's very pretty!

Um...dumb question: Acoustic or electric?

:shrug:

:hi:

[guitar man]

5. It's acoustic

I'm going to put a pickup in it so I can amp it for stage :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Oh, very cool...

Maybe you could record some songs for us...via YouTube? My friend WCGreen has done that, and they're so much fun...

:hi:

[guitar man]

10. I saw one of WCs videos

It was very good :thumbsup:

I don't have any like that but I do have a few of the boys and I doin' our thing playing some covers at a local biker hangout. I'm on the left :)

One Way Out- Allman Bros

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQaqRMp7-4

She Caught The Katy-Taj Mahal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDW6fa9u76Y&feature=related

Monkey Around- Delbert McClinton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL4BeStZ3Jk

Audio is a little rough, just the camera mic :hi:

[applegrove]

7. Guitar man. I was just thinking of people like you and how much you'd

enjoy Keith Richards' autobiography. I am reading it but so much of the musician details about the blues and guitars are over my head. Someone like you would get it all.

[guitar man]

13. I'm hoping I get it for Christmas

It's on my "to read" list :)

[DFW]

8. Brave client! I would never trade one of these guitars:

These were made for me by a friend of mine. He is mostly known for his 12 string guitars,
and rightly so. He is over 80 now, and his English still sucks after 50+ years in the USA
(he's from Serbia), but DAMN, he makes sweet-sounding (and looking!) guitars:

[guitar man]

11. wow!!

those are gorgeous, and to have a matched 6 and 12 string pair is just too cool :thumbsup:

[DFW]

15. I first met Božo in 1977

He was in Southern California then. He "retired" in 1983. I visited him at his home in (then) San Diego, and he
told me his doctor said he was getting too much wood dust in his lungs. Also, he never figured out until late in
life that he could make real money from his craft. In the late 70s, he was making a few guitars for me. He needed
about $2000 worth of material, 9 months to make them, and charged me $2800 for the guitars. I told him back then
that he would never make money like that, and that he should charge way more for instruments that good (they sound
as good as they look--ask Leo Kottke). He kept retiring, and people kept throwing more and more money at him to
come out of retirement, and build "one more" guitar. He made that pair for me in 1999-2000, and they both have my
initials in mother-of-pearl on the fretboard, and he signed them as being specially made for me on the interior label.

Now, he's "retired" again, but still, last year, when one airline cracked the neck on one of my 12 Božo strings,
I sent it down to him, and he made me a new neck and it's good as new. He's still the man!

Some people on Cape Cod put me on to a Canadian custom guitar case builder (Calton), and since I got a case from
them fitted to the one Božo 12 string that still travel with, nothing evil has ever happened to it again.

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. That IS pretty!!

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My guitar (I taught myself to play JUST well enough to keep writing after
my rhythm guitarist collaborator moved away) was a no-name Korean cheapie
that a college roommate had left behind one semester.
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It had a sound that I LOVED (thought it was one of the prettiest-sounding
guitars I had ever strummed until my friend let me play his Martin 12-string).
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[guitar man]

14. Samick

A whole lot of the Korean guitars floating around were made by Samick corporation. They have made guitars for years under a dozen or more different brand names and sometimes no name and some of them are actually pretty decent for cookie cutter imports. :thumbsup: