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Good Afternoon,

First- a sincere thank you to anyone who answers this post with any help you can offer, and also, a sincere apology to anyone who is annoyed by my posting this!

My spouse is a guitar enthusiast and a novice guitar maker. I would like to purchase him something for Valentines Day (preferably a gift certificate) to a store or website that he can use in his guitar making endeavors. Any suggestions would be most helpful since I am not sure where to look! I know he purchases a variety of different items from different online websites and stores...

Thank you again for any help you can offer and I wish all of you a wonderful weekend!

If he's a builder, you can't realy go wrong with a gift cert. to either Luthiers Mercantile (http://www.lmii.com/) or Stewart Macdonald (http://www.stewmac.com/)
Other than that, maybe tonewood sponsers at the top of this page.

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Dave
Milton, ON

Is that you, my dear?

LMI offers gift certificate and they have a large selection of tonewoods, tools, and books, so your lucky spouse will most definitely find someting there.

http://www.lmii.com/CartTwo/thirdproducts.asp?CategoryName=Gifts+%26+Accessories&NameProdHeader=Gift+Certificate

best, Christian

Lucky guy

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Say what you do, Do what you say.

You could never go wrong with a set of Brazilian Rosewood.

Thank you!

how about this?




(just kidding! seriously, the stewmac.com or lmii.com gift certificate idea could not be more perfect. last year my wife got me a set of pre-bent herringbone purfling from Martin, because she knew I wanted it. it was great! this year I'll probably be getting an oven mitt or a broom.)

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

Hi Honey!

I sure do love you!

Please, please, please do not open the little package from "DeBeers" that is coming. No, it's not a home brewing kit, but you'll have to wait until Valentines Day to find out!

You're the best wife a man could ever have, and I thank God for you!

Your hubby,

Dennis
p.s. The very first suggestion is a good one, and I guarantee that I can always find lutherie stuff I need and/or want at those places.

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Thank you!

I agree with all the suggestions. You can't go wrong with those two suppliers, especially given their breadth of product. Either one will certainly have something that your husband needs desperately

As for being annoyed by the post, not at all. As a matter of fact, perhaps you wouldn't mind calling my wife and giving her a suggestion to do something in kind.......?

I thought he might like this better than a box of chocolates! Hopefully I am right!

Well let's see... when I started building guitars and I had a girlfriend at the time I soon determined that something that I could really, really use was a new, very comfortable sofa that was excellent to sleep on..... Alone..... Banished to the sofa for spending too much money on pretty wood.....

You know you could get him something that you could do together meaning both of you would enjoy it. At the top of this page are a couple of ads for some upcoming guitar shows/festivals - perhaps book some flights and get a room in sunny Florida while you attend a guitar show?

Good on you for asking too!

This gal's a keeper! Whoever she's married to (it ain't me, fo' sure - my wife couldn't care less) should thank his lucky stars and be ready with a huge bouquet of roses, box of chocs, jewelry, etc. on Sunday!!

Maybe I need a new wife?....hmmmm.....

Cheers,
Dave F.

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

Hey Dave,

I could send you mine! The only issue is that mine has the same interest level as yours. Other than that, she's GREAT!! Ah, I better keep her for myself!

Shane

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Canada

This will be funny if it's one of your wives

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Thanks,
Blain

http://www.ullrichguitar.com

"89.67% of all statistics are made up on the spot."

No woories there....My wife has no idea what an "OLF" is except that it must have something to do with guitars .

Shane

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Canada

Rather than stuff, you could buy him knowledge.
Anything of these would be nice.

Somogyi

Finocchio DVD

Everett

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

No woories there....My wife has no idea what an "OLF" is except that it must have something to do with guitars .

Shane


Guys don't be naive. Just because you don't think she knows something doesn't mean that she doesn't. If she doesn't want you to know she's been clued in, you won't know. Especially if she wants to surprise you. It's easy enough to figure out what you've been up to. Heck, all she needs is to get a middle schooler to track your browsing and give her a report and she has all the goods on you.

Remember, girlfriends are a vast network of resources.


Now if she truly has no interest, then you are safe.

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Aoibeann

Lovingwife,
LMI and Stew-Mac are great, but if you live near a Woodcraft store you might consider a gift certificate from them. Wandering around in one of their stores is always fun.

You are obviously a very kind and thoughtful person. Please PM me if things don't work out. :-)

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George :-)

"OLF," that's the sound my wife makes when tell her I spent on my latest ebay purchase.

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

I got a gift certificate and a massage.
I really am lucky. Thanks guys for pointing her in the right direction. She went with a stew mac gift cert.
Oh she wanted me to tell you she is the fourth one over from the left.