As most of you know I have a 1967 F50 Rosewood. Due to my arthritis I haven't played it much in the last 10 years. Maybe 5 hours a year total.
I had a guy named Jim Carrick in my last captain's class. He's a touring / studio guitarist and knows his instruments. He's working with what's left of Spanky and Our Gang on a small tour right now.
He came over to the house to look at the Guild and was properly impressed with it although he's probably seen quite a few excellent guitars. He travels to San Francisco every two weeks or so to do recording dates and hangs around the music shops. We exchanged laments over the value of the guitars we owned in the past a how much they're worth today. He plays a custom Martin that he's had for quite a few years that's top is made out of some wood that it's illegal to even posses today.
Any way, I was showing him what little chops I still have and explained how little I can play any more. He suggested that on a regular basis I stand it up against my Klipsh "LaScalla" speakers and let it vibrate from the speakers so as the excite the molecules of the rosewood and that that will keep an "alive" sound. I remember someone else telling me the same thing.
Any of you have an opinion?
BTW. He told me that Gamble Rodgers had the same instrument that was customized into a cutaway by the custom shop in Westerly. The sad part is that's in a glass display case at Gamble Rogers High School here in St. Augustine and has been for years.
I tried the Maguire's "scratch x" on it and it really came up nice. It didn't remove the small lengthwise crazing but it really shines
I had a guy named Jim Carrick in my last captain's class. He's a touring / studio guitarist and knows his instruments. He's working with what's left of Spanky and Our Gang on a small tour right now.
He came over to the house to look at the Guild and was properly impressed with it although he's probably seen quite a few excellent guitars. He travels to San Francisco every two weeks or so to do recording dates and hangs around the music shops. We exchanged laments over the value of the guitars we owned in the past a how much they're worth today. He plays a custom Martin that he's had for quite a few years that's top is made out of some wood that it's illegal to even posses today.
Any way, I was showing him what little chops I still have and explained how little I can play any more. He suggested that on a regular basis I stand it up against my Klipsh "LaScalla" speakers and let it vibrate from the speakers so as the excite the molecules of the rosewood and that that will keep an "alive" sound. I remember someone else telling me the same thing.
Any of you have an opinion?
BTW. He told me that Gamble Rodgers had the same instrument that was customized into a cutaway by the custom shop in Westerly. The sad part is that's in a glass display case at Gamble Rogers High School here in St. Augustine and has been for years.
I tried the Maguire's "scratch x" on it and it really came up nice. It didn't remove the small lengthwise crazing but it really shines
