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Slowy wrote:

Bg wrote:Fair enough, but next time you might want to set some perimeter alarms. Even milk bottle tops on a tripwire would help

Set up a perimeter of Chardonnay bottles and they'd never get through.

dude, I prefer sauv, I didn't say I wouldn't drink Chard, or Pinot Gris, or Meths....

So we goin for some drinks at mitre 10 later?

Single coil wrote:So we goin for some drinks at mitre 10 later?

nah, we need to go up to the BP servo, they have bread too

You’re in charge

Had a Morris arrive late last week for some repair work. X-brace had come loose from the top and split in half all the way down it's length. Back braces loose too. It was strung to full tension when it arrived (scary!) but still sounded decent. A nice little 000-18 copy

There's a badly abused acoustic sitting in my office these days. There's a good 10 to 15 mm height difference in the top between the lower bout (just behind the bridge) and the upper bout (at the neck joint). The poor thing sits in full sunlight by the window. I used to move it away all the time but everyone keeps just leaving it lying around in full sunlight. They also keep it under full tension and strumming it like crazy. I'm considering filing a hazard register form for it... scary shit...

Do it, it’ll be funny

I find these days I reach for an acoustic more than anything. It's a bit soul destroying when you realise your fretting arm/hand/fingers have even less strength and stamina than you first thought.

I played a 1954 Martin the other day and was rather taken with it. Yes, 1954 I said. And I gave it a good long sniff. It wasn’t smelly in the slightest. Shock horror!

Conway wrote:I played a 1954 Martin the other day and was rather taken with it. Yes, 1954 I said. And I gave it a good long sniff. It wasn’t smelly in the slightest. Shock horror!

Conway wrote:I played a 1954 Martin the other day and was rather taken with it. Yes, 1954 I said. And I gave it a good long sniff. It wasn’t smelly in the slightest. Shock horror!

Wow... I can't even imagine having my hands on something like that...

Here's a bit of Pr0n for the lads:

My 1960's Gibson LG0. At the time I was gigging a bit, and needed a second guitar, so I could have one in DADGAD and one in standard. I had my heart set on something completely different from my Lowden, so it had to be small body, dark in tone, good to strum the hell out of. I got interested in these LG series guitars, finally made my mind up and got this on Reverb.com.

Headstock:


Full Frontal:


Curves:


Old, smelly, sexy:


Real Relic:


Fake tort binding:


Glamour Shot:


This is a ladder braced guitar, and therefore has an interesting sound. Very bark, terrible sustain, not a lot of bass and shouty warm mids for africa. Not everyone's cup of tea but I flipping love it, it's a great, great guitar with a lovely neck. Desert island guitar, this one.

I always had the impression that you couldn’t strum the heck out of those LG guitars....

It loves it. Compresses but doesn't break up and sound ragged like most acoustics, including my precious Lowden. I should record a demo sometime.

Much jealously of your LG. Amazing little guitars!