Greetings from the frozen north.

Hi everybody. I'm Keith from Yellowknife. I just finished writing about an hour-long comment on the discussion here, the one about whether it was "worth it" to buy a custom shop or "boutique" guitar... I just about told the life story of every one of my guitars as well as a breakdown of why they were important to me. Like I said, it took me about an hour. It was an excellent post. Then I hit "submit" and the whole thing disappeared. It said I wasn't logged in. I can't say I was very surprised because the same thing happened when I wrote a lengthy introduction here yesterday.

With this in mind, I'll keep this brief.

I live in Yellowknife, Canada.
It is very cold.
I play in two or three bands here in town.
None of my guitars is worth much money.
One of them is a 1999 Nashville deluxe Telecaster. It was made in Mexico.
I like my Telecaster, and I play it often.
The other ones are an Epi Les Paul, with kind of a neat history, which I sort of rebuilt, and a Washburn archtop "blues box" which didn't cost much either, but which I also like very much anyway. I also have a couple of basses and a seagull acoustic.

I am usually very funny and likeable, but you will have to take my word for it at this point since this website has erased about three hours' worth of my typing and I don't feel like typing any more.

Good day.

Welcome to the TDPRI, Keith! Good to have you with us. You'll like it here.

May I suggest that if you intend to write lengthy posts, use pen and paper first to make draft. Also ..., long posts do generally tend to keep people from reading them.

Looking forward to hear more from you.

Enjoy! :smile:

i watch ice road truckers.

Bloody frustrating, I know................

If I'm gonna post a long one, I generally do it up in Notepad and then when I'm happy I'll cut & paste it into my post.

Stay warm!

Good ideas. I'll probably try to keep 'em short.

I know some of those ice-road guys. I've never watched the show myself. They land 727s on the ice north of here, and c-130s. You should see that. Well, actually it's not interesting after the first time... the ice is six feet thick and it's really not challenging in any way. One of my bands has a jam/practice space on an abandoned/beached ship in the bay and we drive our trucks across the ice to band practice. It's more interesting in the spring when we have to go there in boats.

Bloody frustrating, I know................

If I'm gonna post a long one, I generally do it up in Notepad and then when I'm happy I'll cut & paste it into my post.

Stay warm!

Hah...crossed my mind too! Don't know why I am such a klutz.

Welcome Kieth. Ya came to the right place. Doug W.

Welcome Kieth!!!

Welcome Keith,
Nothing wrong with a Nashville Tele. Great guitar. But how do your guitar finishes hold up in Canada. I'm sure you are in and out of the cold when you are gigging or going to jams.

Well, there are problems here with the humidity. It's so cold that no-one spends much time outside, so the temperature doesn't have time to penetrate a guitar case on the way to or from the car. However, we need to be extra vigilant with the humidifiers in our guitar cases. Keeping a little humidifier in the case of an acoustic guitar is an absolute must, otherwise the top will crack. On an electric guitar the lack of humidity will cause the neck to bow, or the fingerboard to shrink a little, causing the frets to protrude on the sides. Careful guitar owners usually keep the guitars in their cases with little portable humidifiers. I keep all my guitars in a spare room which has a humidifier. I find if the humidifier is on a timer to run for 1/2 an hour every three hours, it keeps the humidity at almost exactly 45% all the time. Other instruments like violins and Bass fiddles are even more picky. Bizarrely, I have some friends who do not keep their guitars in a humidified room or in their cases and nothing bad ever seems to happen. I have other friends whose guitars are ruined. It seems to depend on the individual guitar. A telecaster, of course, can be used to shovel the driveway and still be in perfect intonation afterwards.

Hello.

I'm originally from southern Ontario and I think several people from my town (Port Colborne) moved up to Yellowknife years back.