Life is short...Enjoy it!

[LakewoodM32Fan]

Originally Posted by Kh1967

Hi Lakewood - Like many here, I followed your journey in finding the one with great interest. You did exceptionally well in your choice, and I think I missed you by just a few minutes at Down Home when you were out this way.

I hope your 1934 brings you years of joy!

Thanks, and I'm so bummed we didn't run into each other! But I have family there so I'm sure I'll be out that way again and when I do, I'll drop you a line.

I'll freely admit I have a wandering eye when it comes to guitars. But it's now been six weeks and while I still go to the SoCal shops with regularity (not to mention Headstock, where I got to play a Ryan guitar!) there has been nothing that has even remotely gotten me close to pulling out the wallet, which sad to say is a record for me . Every day she opens up a little more and the old adage is true being that she was completed by SCGC over the summer: the day I brought her home is the worst she will ever sound.

I still owe the forum an NGD, so I'll get to work on that closer to the holidays when I have time off. But I also eagerly await any longer-term review or sound clips you're willing to share of your two new beauties. That finish on the Martin is eye-catching!

[rmp]

Truth!

Life is short, and there's no do overs.

So I'm with, have your desert first... and then have seconds of that too.

Those are two gorgeous dreads.

Enjoy every note you can squeeze out of them

[Rev Roy]

Dang! That’s a pair of beauties. Congrats! And I’m with you 100% on the “life is too short” doctrine. I just turned 70 and my new mantra is “if not now, when?” That’s why my tiny collection consists of two dream guitars. I’m committed to enjoying the heck out of whatever time I have left before it’s dirt nap time.

[brencat]

Alright, yeah. D-41 in da house!!

[KevinH]

I don't have the dreadnaught tone in my head, but I couldn't agree more on life being short. After I retired, but before joining the AGF, I decided I'd make an annual guitar purchase. About a year later, I realized that was crazy. How many more trips around the sun do I have? I joined the forum at about the same time, and now its more like several guitars a year. Fortunately I have an understanding wife.

And, yes, those are two really nice dreds. Hope you enjoy them to the fullest.

[guitar12]

Paul McCartney did ok fingerpicking his D28 on Blackbird and Yesterday. I think sometimes we all overthink things because of 'conventional wisdom' along with infinite amounts of information online. Have fun with those two beauties.

Rob

[zmf]

Originally Posted by guitar12

I think sometimes we all overthink things ....

AGF members overthink things? Don't be ridiculous.

[Pura Vida]

Congrats on those two wonderful looking (and presumably wonderful sounding) dreads. I'm partial to Rosewood dreads too, so I understand wanting to fulfill that sound. Enjoy them and play them in good health.

My friend saw The Flaming Lips perform last night and posted a video clip from my favorite song of theirs, called "Do You Realize?" Your thread immediate triggered this song, which has already been running in my head. Life is indeed, short and deserves to be lived fully!

[CASD57]

I don't know how you can have more then one guitars The minute I buy one the old one sounds like poop..
I've used a Seagull CH Momentum for the last year and thought it was great....and then I decided I needed a strummer for my heavy hand at times..So I bought a Alvarez MD610eBG (MD60eBG) and now I've opened up a whole new world in technic and sound..and the Seagull sounds like poo..I was going to keep it for my concert size guitar but I can do everything on the MD(Dread) that I can do on the Seagull and whole lot better and a lot more..
...
Rotation ? No way the Seagull needs a new home

[Stevien]

That D-41 is absolutely droolworthy! Enjoy them!!
Steve

[BrunoBlack]

Very nice Kori. Can’t go wrong with that pair!

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by Kh1967

Down the road, the time may come that I can't wrap myself around the "bathtub of guitars" but for today, I still can, and so I will...

Never played a '70s Guild G-41, have ya - a 17" wide/5" deep dreadnaught with a 26-1/4" scale , that only Richie Havens seems to have liked:



- and then there's the 18" Guild F-612 associated with John Denver and Tom Chapin:

[Kh1967]

Originally Posted by Stevien

That D-41 is absolutely droolworthy! Enjoy them!!
Steve

Originally Posted by Haasome

Very nice Kori. Can’t go wrong with that pair!

Thank you both!

[Kh1967]

Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa

Never played a '70s Guild G-41, have ya - a 17" wide/5" deep dreadnaught with a 26-1/4" scale , that only Richie Havens seems to have liked:



- and then there's the 18" Guild F-612 associated with John Denver and Tom Chapin:

I said bathtub, not trough.

[Kh1967]

Originally Posted by 6L6

All of my acoustics are dreads.

Neil and I turned 76 today, so who knows how much time is left?

Dreads only to the finish line.

...and you have some mighty fine dreads at that!