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P Thought
March 5th, 2012, 10:36 PM
I gave my daughter a ride to Eugene today for a doctor's appointment, so I stopped to browse a bit at McKenzie River Music. Nice shop. They make a point of keeping nice guitars there.
I've pretty well decided that my next acoustic is going to be an all-solid, small-bodied, wide-nut "lifer", and that I will search it out in person, not shop for it online. I expect that I'll need to have $4,000 in my pocket to buy the kind of guitar I'm looking for, perhaps keeping some change, but not wanting to have to settle for something because I don't have the money for the right one. When I have the money, I'll watch for used guitars, too, but only if I can try them in person.
I have no such money right now, but I practiced my search anyway, used my new Blue Chip TD80 pick. I played a couple Collingses, a Martin, a Santa Cruz, and one whose name I forget, a nice handcrafted spruce/rosewood number. I don't think that last one really got a fair shake in the trial; somebody had it tuned to a chord, and I couldn't really play it much, but it had a nice sound to it as far as I could tell. If I'd had the money in my pocket, I'd've gone for the Collings, the one with the sunburst, rosewood, and ebony board and bridge. I loved its feel. There will be another day. And I want to see some mahogany-backed ones, too. . . .
This next guitar will be a departure for me. I've been a diehard Takamine nut for 35 years, because I've always felt I got a lot of guitar for the money. But now I have a bunch of guitars, and no money. I will have to overlook a lot of sweet Taks (I saw a nice one today, a 2004 LTD, at McKenzie River Music) while I save up the money for this next one!
I've pretty well decided that my next acoustic is going to be an all-solid, small-bodied, wide-nut "lifer", and that I will search it out in person, not shop for it online. I expect that I'll need to have $4,000 in my pocket to buy the kind of guitar I'm looking for, perhaps keeping some change, but not wanting to have to settle for something because I don't have the money for the right one. When I have the money, I'll watch for used guitars, too, but only if I can try them in person.
I have no such money right now, but I practiced my search anyway, used my new Blue Chip TD80 pick. I played a couple Collingses, a Martin, a Santa Cruz, and one whose name I forget, a nice handcrafted spruce/rosewood number. I don't think that last one really got a fair shake in the trial; somebody had it tuned to a chord, and I couldn't really play it much, but it had a nice sound to it as far as I could tell. If I'd had the money in my pocket, I'd've gone for the Collings, the one with the sunburst, rosewood, and ebony board and bridge. I loved its feel. There will be another day. And I want to see some mahogany-backed ones, too. . . .
This next guitar will be a departure for me. I've been a diehard Takamine nut for 35 years, because I've always felt I got a lot of guitar for the money. But now I have a bunch of guitars, and no money. I will have to overlook a lot of sweet Taks (I saw a nice one today, a 2004 LTD, at McKenzie River Music) while I save up the money for this next one!