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Yes, that's one I let slip away. 1963 0_16NY was a sweetheart. At least I took a tracing of it and based my Parlor model on it. Then there was the 1961 D-21. Then there was the 1950's Gretsch, then there was....
All this absolutely validated what my old Germanm granda used to say: "We get too soon old and too late schmart". I'm living proof!

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Hank Mauel

Here's one guitar that I hope to never sell - this is my 2 year guitar from when I worked at PRS (I was in the R&D department there for about 3.5 years). After everyone had completed their 2nd, 5th, 10th, 15th years of employment they were able to purchase a guitar "at greatly reduced cost". This is a great benefit for the workers - a lot of them are young and of course, interested in music, and it is a great way for every one of them to own one of the instruments they work so hard in making. Anyway, I picked out all the wood and had a lot of my friends at the shop work on this along the way. This is one of the last production hollowbodies that came out with a Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard & headstock veneer before the "incident" a couple years ago. The body and neck are honduran mahogany and the top is of course curly maple..it has the piezo bridge as well as the humbucker pickups..pretty cool setup & fun to play around with! PRS is where I got my education in guitar building and it definitely helped define my taste in instruments.

Here's a pic of my son and I with the guitar


Here's the top:


The back:


and the sig:


Best,
Trev

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the Padmas "Other Guitar"~ the one that got away from me...just like me 1965 red mustang convertible got away from me was a 1962 Fender Jazz Bass. By 1967 it was fretless and wired up like a Telly, good bass and a screaming sustaining high end. Just another one of them oh wells...I was 16 when I got it and 21 when we parted.


Blessings

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Wow!!!! even signed by Mr. Smith him self too cool

My wife keeps telling me to sell my Gurian, but I just can't bring myself to do it.
It is too useful for design ideas, dimensions, comparison etc... and too sentimental considering my first luthierie book was the Cumpiano who studied some with Gurian.

The '54 D-18 is good for comparison as well.

Prized possession #1 - Benedetto Bravo Elite. There's something about an handmade archtop from a master of his craft.





Prized possession #2 - 1969 Martin D28 - Vintage Brazilian Martin. I don't think this needs any explanation. Why I look so sad playing it, I don't know.





I have a few other really great instruments, but these two take the cake.

Nice Martin, Ellison!

Dave the Gurian sounds interesting as well.

Very cool Trev and it looks like you have the next generation of guitarist moving right along there too.

A 1962 Fender Jazz bass is a nice bass Padma.

Hank bro your grandma kind of nailed it!!!

Mike that's a great collection!!!

Steve I didn't know you were an old fart like Hank and I....

Lets see and hear about some more OTHER guitars?

Thanks

I don't own any guitars I didn't build; sold my mexican fender to pay for parts for my third build. I do aspire to ownership of a Lowden some day, however.

I just rebuilt my first classical purchase (GOYA) in 1963. It was in need of serious repair as it was a floater in a basement flood 20 years ago...and I never tossed it.
My2 boys have my other guitars. A Hernandes 660 and a Les Paul "1998 Ozzfest" (given to me by the Ozzfest promotor). MY old Fender Jaguar is long gone. Practically gave it away when I was Drafted in 1070.
My only "Other than my own guitar" is a Bellucci 640 cutaway that I play 2 hrs a day.
Kent Bailey

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Early on, I somehow started to develop expensive tastes in guitars. Every guitar that I could afford always seemed inadequate. I guess it's only natural that I've eventually aspired to make my own. Working in a Martin dealership for 5 years, that also carried Santa Cruz and Petros, didn't help. Up until now, I've always been an electric player, as it's easier to get a great electric for less money. So I have actually never owned an acoustic guitar, before last year. (I'm 41 now). It's a guitar I built from a Kovacik kit (my first).

For about the last six years, my main baby, until my first acoustic build happened (which I love and play constantly), was/is a dreamy telecaster partscaster. It has a Guitarmill body, finished in nitro, and a Musikraft maple neck (also nitro). The pickups are Bardens. The ash body is extremely light. The whole thing is uncommonly well balanced. And it rings all by itself, unamplified. You can just *feel* the sustain!

These photos were taken before I put the bardens on it.

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"...you have to get over your strict adherence to your largely imagined notion of absolute perfection..."

Kent you sound like you have a guitar playing family!!!

Well my baby is done just having had a fret job to remove 30 some years worth of divots from me playing the same stinking tunes over and over again on the same frets... The fret board was cleaned up too, scraped, and looks much better now. I made a new nut (bone) and cut the slots properly - the previous nut had slots that were WAY too high or in one case too low.

I was going to make a new saddle because the action is lower than I like it but still not buzzing. I decided to not make a new saddle on this one because I don't pay it anymore and if it is going to stay strung up and occasionally played a lower saddle will not add to the 1st trimester belly that I see as much as a higher saddle would. Interestingly the existing saddle is bone.... I must have replaced it myself at some point in the last 5 years but I can't remember doing so...

She plays great although the slight forward tilt of the bridge is starting to create some intonation problems up the neck.

Have a look before she goes back in a closet.....

I weighed this Guild and see about 5.25 lbs - not a light weight guitar....



Here she is getting worked on with the UBS (upper bout shield....) on...







I'm looking forward to getting another 30+ years out of my Guild!

Just don't take it out of the closet!

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Yeah that is probably more true than we know....

1969 Guild Mark 1
Purchased by a friend of my mother while in the monastery, was given to me for a Christmas after being unused for many years. It's beat up but has a great tone and holds in tune quite well. This guitar was my first and will always be with me.



Martin D-16 GT, nothing entirely special about this guitar, but its been wonderful too me. Pretty balanced tone, solid projection and a factory set action that I was pretty happy with.


Also have a Fender Strat and a PBass (both mexican made)

Also have a cheap Johnson steel string that I have strung in Raised-B tuning.

These aren't my "others" yet, but will be one day.

Very cool Luke and I love that Guild!!!

You know even tough I stopped playing anything that I didn't build it's great to go back to them after a lot of time and after we have learned a lot about set-up and fix them up to the point where they play better than ever. You have that to look forward to someday.

I have a couple of Nationals - one vintage Trojan and a new NRP style 3. Also a vintage round neck Dobro that I restored.
Also have a cute little Goodall Parlor- don't play it much.
-C

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They only "other" guitar that is played at all (on a weekly basis) is this Taylor 410CE from 2005.
It is signed by my most favorite (still on stage) Singer/Songwriter Heather Nova.