idealassets
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It all began as I so often hear: "Oh you play drums, lets see what you can do." Having practiced every Bonham lick off every Zeppelin album since the day, its like riding a bike. So I have been on drums now for a few recent years in my now apparent semi-retired mode.
This is how it seems to go when there are a zillion songwriter/ strummers around here. They were not so impressed with my guitar alt tunings, little leads and licks so hard to come by? OK, I guess.
I pulled my guitars out of my closet to find that they have behaved nicely for a few years. Both Guild guitars have that "red licorice" scent as soon as the cases popped open, so nice. Then there is a Martin HD-28, which I would have sold, but I bought with warrantee, and sounds nice but different than the Guild D55.
A difficulty is that my D55 DTAR Lock n' Load had a little puff of gray smoke when I opened it. Some very light gray powder had formed on the batteries, which I should have checked on earlier. I will call Elderly tomorrow to inquire since I don't want to mess the internal battery compartment up. The F512 Lock n' Load was all OK, although I am not putting any batteries back in until I need it for some amplified playing. Does anyone have any recommendations for keeping the Lock n' Load up to snuff? It was great when Guild was manufacturing with these, but how about performance over the long term? They are obsolete now, but I plan to keep using these as much as possible.
Amazing! After about 2 years the Guild D55 was perfectly in tune, not a tick up or down. The HD 28 was uniformly down about 1/4 step on every string. I left the F512 tuned about 2 1/2 steps low, maybe not the best with the graphite strenghtening rods? This raises the question: If I put the guitars all back in their closet for a time where should I leave them tuned?
When I'm motivated I'll get back practicing guitar.
Thank you for your helpful comments,
Craig
This is how it seems to go when there are a zillion songwriter/ strummers around here. They were not so impressed with my guitar alt tunings, little leads and licks so hard to come by? OK, I guess.
I pulled my guitars out of my closet to find that they have behaved nicely for a few years. Both Guild guitars have that "red licorice" scent as soon as the cases popped open, so nice. Then there is a Martin HD-28, which I would have sold, but I bought with warrantee, and sounds nice but different than the Guild D55.
A difficulty is that my D55 DTAR Lock n' Load had a little puff of gray smoke when I opened it. Some very light gray powder had formed on the batteries, which I should have checked on earlier. I will call Elderly tomorrow to inquire since I don't want to mess the internal battery compartment up. The F512 Lock n' Load was all OK, although I am not putting any batteries back in until I need it for some amplified playing. Does anyone have any recommendations for keeping the Lock n' Load up to snuff? It was great when Guild was manufacturing with these, but how about performance over the long term? They are obsolete now, but I plan to keep using these as much as possible.
Amazing! After about 2 years the Guild D55 was perfectly in tune, not a tick up or down. The HD 28 was uniformly down about 1/4 step on every string. I left the F512 tuned about 2 1/2 steps low, maybe not the best with the graphite strenghtening rods? This raises the question: If I put the guitars all back in their closet for a time where should I leave them tuned?
When I'm motivated I'll get back practicing guitar.
Thank you for your helpful comments,
Craig
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