What acoustic are you playing today?

[Stuball48]

Wow, that's got some bling!

Reminds me of Martins D45

 

[RLane]

Just got out my Chris Bozung CB 45 and will play it five or six days. This will be our oldest grandson's guitar. He was born in 2011 and the CB 45 was built in 2011.

Is that the CB from the benefit for St. Matthew's Church in Franklin, TN.?

 

[Stuball48]

Is that the CB from the benefit for St. Matthew's Church in Franklin, TN.?

No, this is one he built for a friend of mine and I did not know Chris at this time. My friend invited me over to see his Anniversary model Martin D28 and I saw another guitar case and inquired of what kind of guitar was in it. He opened the case and I just let my fingers fall across the strings and my first thought was, "why are you playing that Martin.". I worried him for two years and wound up with it.

 

[richardp69]

I took out my 1973 F 30 today. I bought this on Reverb back in April. It was discussed here on LTG at one point.

I've grown to love the F 30 and have several different versions now. The latest is a 1959 sent to Tom Jacobs just recently. This '73 is a definate player grade guitar with lots of "beauty marks". The prior owner was a Luthier or Tech. He did a neck reset, added a new fingerboard, new TR, new bridge, repaired a neck break, added a bone nut and saddle and repaired several top cracks. All that being said it plays and sounds superb. I love this one.

 

[Stuball48]

Beautiful wood, Richard! And 50 years old. Wow

 

[RBpicker]

The D20 and D40 Standard come out to play often. Always delighted how great they sound compared to the others.

Roger

 

[zulu]

The D20 and D40 Standard come out to play often. Always delighted how great they sound compared to the others.

Roger

Wow I love the elegantly simple guitar storage hmmmmm...

 

[Rayk]

Some of you folks are making me feel bad . Hi my name is Ray and I’ve not played a Guild in a while . I know I should and I hear them calling it’s just that these others are being greedy promising to complete new songs but every time they fail me making excuses that’s it my fault I can’t get a good take while recording ! Rude I tell you ! I don’t recall my Guilds placing blame on me ! So I had no choice but to put them on notice ! Start showing me results or to lockup they go and out come the Guilds !

 

[West R Lee]

The one that gives me goose bumps every time I pick her up.

West

You know, speaking of wood, check out that old chair behind the guitar. My wife's daughter was driving up from Houston and spotted that chair in a trash pile in a woman's front yard along side the highway. She stopped, as the woman of the house was out in the yard and asked if she was throwing it away? The lady told our daughter that she was throwing it away, so our little beauty asked what she would take for it? The woman told her to take it away and helped her put it in the back of her Suburban, then brought it to me.

Oh you should have seen it.......branches broken and hanging off of it, water stains from one end to the other..........I was looking at her wondering why she brought it to me, but she told me to take it and see if I could do anything with it. Upon close inspection, it turns out it is an Amish chair, and the entire chair, except the slats is doweled together. I spent maybe 3 days sanding and sanding and finally applied about 5 coats of finish.

I wish you could sit in that thing......so smooth and glides so nicely, and not a squeak or a creak. There's been a many a baby rocked to sleep in that chair. There can be truth to the old saying that one man's trash is another's treasure.

West

 

[Bernie]

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And some couch time with the 53 Maccaferri G40

I've heard a lot of Maccaferri for its involvement in Selmer's "Gipsy Jazz" guitars, but I had never seen any guitar built under his name...
Is it the same maker, and could you tell us more about this guitar ?

Congrats for the Gibson too : 71 years old, that's not so often...

 

[RLane]

Bernie, yes it is the same Maccaferri. I was fortunate enough to buy 2 of these Model G40s. The design is quite ingenious and sounds awesome for a completely plastic guitar. The only wood is the top braces, the core of the neck and the attached wood rod that connects to the tail block. There is an adjustment screw accessible via a hole in the tailpiece that provides neck angle adjustment on the fly. You can adjust the neck angle without even effecting the tuning . The tuners appears to be just pegs but have planetary gears imbeded in the headstock. As i said i own 2 of these, in one i installed a stealth humbucker of my own design .
My avatar is actually a picture of the body illuminated to document the top braces pattern.
There are volumes on information about Mario Maccaferri online. A very indepth article is here - Site

The Gibson is a true treasure with alot of history and remains 100% original despite many years of obvious hard playing!

 

[rg2002]

Taking my new-to-me 1970 F212 to band practice tonight (sorry no pics yet).

 

[chazmo]

Taking my new-to-me 1970 F212 to band practice tonight (sorry no pics yet).

Rob, that's great. Please do post an NGD or pictures here when you have a chance. Would love to see it.

 

[chazmo]

Out to play comes my 1980 Ibanez Series I Artwood AW-75.

 

[walrus]

Out to play comes my 1980 Ibanez Series I Artwood AW-75.

A fellow geezer! Love the guitar and the pillbox!

walrus

 

[6L6]

I've been totally into 12 string tunes lately, so today it will be more time enjoying my 1972 Guild F-312NT:

 

[rg2002]

Rob, that's great. Please do post an NGD or pictures here when you have a chance. Would love to see it.

Will do!

 

[Wilmywood]

I play the G37 almost every day. I try to get a few minutes in on the DV 62 every other day or so as well

 

[Wash]

 

[Wash]

Well, I'm a newb.