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My very slightly used Gio Ibanez super Strat type auxiliary guitar (for camping or risky environments). $96! I don’t worry about it much. Actually a decent guitar.

I have less than a half-dozen currently. There are keepers. ‘Course, I’ve had keepers that I didn’t keep as long as I thought I would. At one point I had probably a dozen, but that was years ago. The mo$t I ever had into an only guitar was $5700 in a used Gibson L5. I don’t need that much...

My partsotele #1 gigger for years:

Stock color. Still available I think. Grain shows through.

My current SG ride: TV yellow 2022 Standard. It’s ginchey! Let me find a pic… …

I wouldn’t call what I do practicing. I play some everyday just to keep my chops up and my fingers from galling at the joints. It’s more like meditation. I’m an old geezer. Got nothing to prove (except that maybe I still can play at a level that satisfies me).

“…I don’t practice. I just open up the guitar case once in a while and throw in some raw meat.” -Wes Montgomery

Getting outside the hose is a good thing.

I hate indoor commercial ranges. Great places if you want to get muzzled though.

One ragged hole drills are impressive, but I’m now past the shelf life. Haven’t shot anything in a couple years. Rust never sleeps.

About ten years ago I was shooting IDPA competitions, with friends. Loaded tons of .45ACP and between practice and weekend matches was sending about 1200 rounds down range per week, in the summer. My Wilson Combat Elite Pro got quite a workout. Ran 100%! I managed to get to Sharpshooter, before...

Yeah, they’re rude too. Just like me. Play a clam? Everybody will hear it. Leave out a note? Everybody will notice. Stab notes to death like Roy Buchanan? You’ll earn yourself a nickname. Ask me how I know.

I gigged a Tele for decades. They’re like a natural extension of my arms & hands. :)

All four of my guitars are Gibson 24.75” scale length. Different pickups: different formulas, but each are 0.010” - 0.046” generally EB’s these days. Some cobalt flat wound, or Reg Slinky, or Classic (nickel wound) Slinky. They feel very similar ( same setup), except my SG, which sticks out to...

I’ll play

Looks right. :cool:

Damn!

We were finger-picking Folk songs in Boston, c 1967. Paul Butterfield came to town. Thus endeth our great Folk Scare period. Butterfield had us! And me ever after.

Interesting stuff! Wasn’t much of a history kid, unless I could relate to it. After my military service I became very interested in the history of various technologies (I was an electronics technician in the US Navy), and broadened my interests in history in general. Very cool thread! 🤙