Exactly how I feel. If one plays and sounds great, looks are secondary. But this one looks great! I think we get a little spoiled with some of the tops and stain jobs we see here sometimes. Rightfully so, but this is a beautiful guitar.Yum. I know PS is here to prove me wrong, but I’ve always chosen sound and playability over sheer looks. A special guitar is a special guitar…like this one.
More proof you chose your life partner well... indeed.Fast forward about 10 years.
Mrs and I were hanging out at Experience and she found a guitar she really liked. I thought it was pretty nice, but there were more guitars to see. She was pretty sure there wouldn't be another one like it. Turns out she was right. While I waffled, she whipped out her credit card and arranged to have it shipped.
This might be my favourite guitar to show tiny bits of, mostly to tease @sergiodeblanc
it has been called the baby dragon since it got home
a no frills formula
I didn't realize how long we've had those chairs and lamp - we like wood in the house
The only guitar I keep the trem on.
By the way, she also bought that amp.
Next up was another we had visited, but I decided not to get. I had been interested in an archtop for a while, but found most a bit cumbersome, kind of lost between being an electric size and an acoustic size. Leslie thought this one looked pretty good on me.
As a player, it looks more like this. The neck joint looks massive, but plays nicely.
Simple formula: mahogany sides and top and back carved inside and out. The carve is much more appealing to me than a laminate.
Top is ordinary. I'm fine with that. I like the colour a lot. Serial back in the 30ks means archtop pickups. I've never felt the need to change them.
and the back for good measure.
For a few years, I played this acoustically as a proxy for my classical while at my work location.
Then it lived in a place of honour in the wall case beside my wife's piano for a few years (until it got displaced by another of her purchases).
It deserved more love than it got from the world at large.
I we wee on blue ones all the time.
Twanging? Exactly WHAT are you doing with those things????Mrs AR calls them my “twanging machines”
The neck... I mean the top is to die for, but the neck is like the cherry on top. Killer.After buying the baby dragon, Leslie was a bit sad that I didn't buy a pretty little blue quilt guitar at that same Experience. Some time after the event, she called up the Moss Man and told him she needed a nice one piece quilt top turned into a baby blue guitar. This was before the days of wood library runs, and she didn't want to be responsible for a Private Stock. Still, sometimes good things happen to good people. Brent sent her this.
Pretty cool. She couldn't resist sending me the photo and I said I'd take anything made from that.
Faded blue seemed a bit too ordinary, so she thought it would be more fun to have grass stained blue jeans.
a closer look at the top
Since I hadn't picked up anything with a Brazilian rosewood neck at Experience (just a fingerboard), she thought some rosewood would be in order.
Brent liked the idea enough, he thought he might do a run of them later
full view of the neck
simple back
Its basically a bootleg ME. 59/09 pickups work the charm in it.
Often used for midnight blues through the Boogie Mark III.