Surprise of the week!

[Moptop]

Well this did make my week......

Short story is I took my pups to get groomed on Monday and came home with a very cool surprise. The owner of the place where I get my dogs groomed, who I've known for years and knew that I play guitar, gave me a very nice Fender acoustic/electric as she has decided that she feels she no longer has the time to devote to learning how to play. After a good cleaning, a proper setup, and a new set of strings it sounds and plays great. Doing a serial number search showed it was made in the mid eighties and although it's not a real expensive guitar it is a very nice mid priced quality instrument and not a cheapy. It has very few nicks and dings and it's not beat up so it polished up nicely. I've already played it at the weekly sing along I do at our senior center, and like I said it sounded great.

So yeah, it's been a banner week for me. 🎸

 

[NotASlayer]

A nice surprise!

 

[Ethan Reigns]

@Moptop are you one of those people with GAS (guitar acquisition syndrome)? My daughter is the same - she has about six guitars but only uses one, a Beaver Creek acoustic. I use one of her Cort electric guitars for checking amplifiers. For the benefit of people who don't know the market, Cort makes entry-level guitars for a number of companies but if you add ground lines from the pickup to the controls and the output jack, it eliminates the noise and becomes a very nice guitar. One of my daughter's friends who works at a music shop and is in a band pronounced it to be a "very nice blues guitar" after I had modified it.

 

[Moptop]

Yes, Cort is one of the largest guitar makers and they do make some very fine instruments at that. They've made the Squire line for Fender for years. Not a thing wrong with them.....except that missing ground wire of course.

(guitar acquisition syndrome)

Yep, guilty as charged. With this new one I'm up to 21. Do you play as well?

 

[Ethan Reigns]

No, I don't play guitar, but my daughter does and she has carried her beater guitar around the world, to Korea and New Zealand. She said it was important to getting people to open up to her when she was doing research on the native New Zealanders. They wouldn't usually discuss anything about their culture unless they considered you to be a friend and a number of them became her friend.

As for guitar acquisition syndrome, as a collector of antique radios, I now have 27 tuners and no intention of thinning the herd, so I know the disease even though I have a different variant.