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So Saturday I was checking out the $949.00 X 350 and 175, hadn't seen that the green Starfire III had an earlier post about it's price drop. Thought I'd check and sure enough there were 5 at that price. While I was doing my best to talk myself out of one, I looked into the time payment plans as...

I was going to post one of my Guilds, but I thought I'd go with my very "blingiest" guitar...

So this arrived today. Thanks to someone spotting the Gbase ad and posting it on the Michael Messer Forum-- It's a 1928 Style 2 National single cone mandolin. 50 years ago I found a tricone Style 1 #144. This is #160, and after a handful of the tricone versions they realized a single cone would...

It "opened up his eyes..."

Got this delivered today. The seller had it on Reverb, but also on local FB Marketplace and Craigslist and he knocked $100 off for cash. Plan to spend time tomorrow playing my 67 Starfire XII through it. Of course didn't need it, but having five 60s Guild electrics and no Guild amp I convinced...

We thought we were doing well when playing "My Baby Does the Hanky Panky"... I stumbled across this 2 weeks ago and it keeps showing up to taunt me...

This actually came yesterday evening after waiting the entire day for FedEx, afraid to leave the front of my house as I had to sign for it. It's a wood body National Triolian tenor guitar from 1928. This would be one of the scarce models which used the neck from the more expensive German silver...

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SANDMAN'S CASTLE EVERY NIGHT WHEN I GO TO SLEEP I DREAM ABOUT AN EMPTY BEACH THE SURF GOES OUT, THEN IN AGAIN OVER AND OVER WITHOUT END I SLOWLY WALK ALONG THE STRAND UNTIL AT LAST I SEE A MAN WHO WEARS A CLOAK OF STARS AND MOONS AND KNEELS BEFORE SOME SANDY RUINS HE TAKES A PAIL OF...

So another one of those "this will no doubt be bid up but what the heck, I'll throw the minimum bid on the thing" which I saw an hour before the end of the auction. And of course nobody else bothered. I could tell it had been refinished, and normally a Model 45 whether from L.A., or Regal made...

So this arrived from Amazon yesterday. Talk about a coffee table book--put legs on it and you can use it as a coffee table--I think it's priced by the pound. Giant picture book with comments by McGuinn, Hillman and Crosby. Just glanced through it late last night but saw some photos of Hillman...

So this arrived today. For years Robert Armstrong had told me how great these small Regal tenors were, and I of course threw a low bid on this really not expecting to win it on eBay. Tuned GDAE. Surprisingly loud for its small size. The seller had upgraded the tailpiece and nut and replaced the...

By the same group: I made a cassette for my wife years ago with these and They Might Be Giants' SANTA'S BEARD which she would always play Christmas Eve...

So this arrived yesterday late afternoon. I won it on eBay--no other bidders. So far one of only two known National steel long body Triolian ukes with a screened cover plate. This would date to late '29 or very early 1930. Both the German silver and steel Triolian tenors, mandolins and ukes at...

This arrived yesterday. So this is the one I was originally wanting to buy. I think he had it priced $1400/1450 and I was going to offer $1200 figuring he would counter with $1300. Then the price jumped up. Then it seemed to disappear but I couldn't see that it had sold so I figured he'd decided...

I'm guessing 1966 by the lineup. This one concert had virtually all my favorite performers at the time with Beefheart, Love, Sir Douglas, Spoonful and of course the Byrds. And the Leaves' version of "Hey Joe" is still my favorite. Best of all I could have left before the Beachboys came on...

So in the mid-nineties Tony Dow and his wife came into my shop. Actors had come into my mother's antique shop back in the '60s and as my shop is in San Diego county I would get fewer "Hollywood" types but occasionally I would get someone like Whoopi Goldberg. So I always would "play it cool"...

Reason against buying this: I don't need another guitar! Reason to buy: I don't have a Dread Reason against buying this: I don't need another guitar! Don't have a Westerly 12 Reason...