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  1. Bill Ashton

    Good Review On The New D-50

    Nice review on the new D-50 in Vintage Guitar this month... Sorry, cannot seem to bring up a link (and I am a subscriber)...maybe our "insider" can?
  2. Bill Ashton

    Is This A Guild?

    ...the sideman comes in with a solo at about 7:00, is this a Guild...I am thinking Brian Setzer thingy? Poor Maria Fredriksson, she was probably a few years into chemo at this point, but didn't seem to affect her voice...😟
  3. Bill Ashton

    Music Man "Albert Lee" signature guitar in UK

    @GGJaguar , being our resident expert on all things Music Man, what do you think of this one? Is the "Stratospheric" price they are asking justified...
  4. Bill Ashton

    Doyle Dykes (for Sweetwater) Christmas tunes

    Have not listened to the entire thing, but he starts off with a Guild jumbo :)
  5. Bill Ashton

    It's Time To Humidify, Boys and Girls!

    Finally, my hygrometers are in agreement, household as well as "in case" humidity is dropping to below 40%, so the armada of Oasis humidifiers and distilled water has been deployed...the image is showing the over-night test to insure no "leakers," and two were removed from the roster Here in...
  6. Bill Ashton

    Starfire 1 - 12 Review in Vintage Guitar Magazine

    Our brother has his review of the Starfire 1 -12 published in the recent (December 2022) issue of Vintage Guitar magazine...page 83. Nice read, and answers a lot of questions before we even have to ask! Good job, Bob ;)
  7. Bill Ashton

    Westerly B30 p/u

    Can anyone tell me what the dual piezo p/u in a Westerly-made B30 would be? Friend has one, does not think its working properly. Any replacements known?
  8. Bill Ashton

    Free home COVID test kit program is ending

    Get'em while you can! Keep DeFault's truck and mailbags full! https://www.cnet.com/health/final-week-to-get-free-covid-tests-how-to-order-yours-before-its-too-late/ I just tried to re-apply, and got a note that I had already gotten my allotment of three shipments, which is fine, glad someone...
  9. Bill Ashton

    Is the AOL "New Mailbox Security" thing for real?

    Over the past few weeks I have gotten a thing purported to be from AOL telling me I had to click a link to do a new security thing for my email or essentially I would be dropped. They have kept pushing up the date. I originally had Verizon email; Verizon sold their email business to Yahoo who...
  10. Bill Ashton

    Need assistance, measurement of body width

    Having living room and dining room done over, we are talking stripped to the studs, new insulation, blue board and plaster. Occurs to me it would be nice to have a wall hanger so I could stick a guitar on the wall occasionally. Can someone measure their jumbo (F50 or J-200) and tell me what...
  11. Bill Ashton

    RIP Hilton Valentine

    Animals guitarist that launched a million teens into playing, with his riff to House Of The Rising Sun...done actually with a Gretsch through a Selmer amp. Nice guy, living in the New Haven area I believe. Will be playing all Animals all day today in his memory...
  12. Bill Ashton

    Happy Birthday Chris Hillman, 76 today

    I had the chance to speak with him briefly several years ago at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, what a very nice and friendly individual he was...
  13. Bill Ashton

    Peter Green has passed

    Peter Green of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and founder of Fleetwood Mac passed away last night in his sleep :cry:
  14. Bill Ashton

    Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Company (Conglomerate)

    Seems that J. Crew the fashion brand is in trouble. As some will remember J. Crew, Burger King and...wait for it...Fender were acquired by Texas Pacific Group, who closed down Guild and the New Hartford factory. I hope TPC eats their shirts :mad...
  15. Bill Ashton

    "New" Guild dealer in Central Massachusetts

    Been some time since I walked through local City Music. A candy apple red Gretsch 512x or something was still hanging behind the counter (drool!), but as I started down the long acoustic aisle I find a Guild, then another, then more. Apparently they are a Guild dealer again! Back in early/mid...
  16. Bill Ashton

    Happy Saint Urho's Day!

    For those non-Finn's among us, he is the patron saint of Finland, famous for driving the grasshoppers out of Finland and thus protecting the grape harvest :highly_amused: Actually a celebration started in Minnesota...or the upper pennisula of Michigan, depending on which "legend" you believe...
  17. Bill Ashton

    Has this been shown before? Guild S100 prototype at Carter's

    https://cartervintage.com/collections/electric-guitars/products/guild-s-100-prototype-c1999
  18. Bill Ashton

    Wow, lookee here! Guild D-40 Traditional Deluxe from Sweetwater

    https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/D40TDlxGSRN--guild-d-40-traditional-deluxe-gsr-sweetwater-exclusive-sunburst This would seem to be a wicked good buy, if you are into sunburst, AAA-top wood, big markers and all...might be very close to a mahogany D-55?
  19. Bill Ashton

    Doyle Dykes is still out there...

    He used to be "our" treasure, schoffed from Taylor, then it went all down the drain with the demise of Fender ownership. Just stumbled upon this, its current, I thought he was an Olson guy but at this juncture I guess not. I enjoyed the hell out of this! https://acousticlife.tv/doyle-dykes/
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