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We left the house this morning and went straight to the Martin Factory for our FREE tour (in PA).  it was... A W E S O M E!!!!  As a "tour gift" everyone received a little "piece of Martin"  The wood cut out from the sound holes are all laser etched with the Martin Logo, year, and some other info which is pretty cool (I'm planning to stain and varnish mine and keep it forever).  Then we headed on further south, randomly found a tiny little barbeque place for dinner which turned out to be, in my husband's words, "Better than any BBQ" he's ever had (between NY and California!!) and then decided to finally stop when we hit Virginia.  There's no way we were going to set up camp this evening.  So, here I sit in a King size bed after relaxing in our in room jacuzzi tub using my laptop.  I'm looking forward to the weekend, but I'm going to completely enjoy tonight's sleep in this cozy bed before the weekend in a tent.

I am looking forward to meeting everyone and if there's any wifi and I have time while the men are fishing I'll post up some pics... otherwise, see the rest of you all Monday!  Have a GREAT WEEKEND CHORDIANS!!!! 

I'll be there all weekend for you guys bringing wives.  I camp just fine, but I don't care to fish.  This is my peaceful relaxation weekend away from the kids... I don't care if there's a few bugs, and I'm extra happy there's going to be more than a few guitars.  Bring the ladies along and let them know I brought my hot pink nail polish.  LOL!

fourth or fifth box down on the right, look for the little auto scroll image

On the right, third from the bottom you'll get the option to add a song to your current songbook, change books, or remove it if it's already in your songbook.  To create a new book you have to first go to the "My Songbook" tab.

Good suggestion Roger!  Since I'm having a similar problem, I thought I'd chime in here that I checked my string height and had sighted down the neck as Pix suggested.  Sure enough, the neck had some amazing curve to it.  I adjusted my truss rod (ever so gently a little at a time) and then pulled the saddle out again and filed that down a bit more.  Then, I changed to lighter strings.  My buzzing seems to have subsided SOME.  I think what's left is ABSOLUTELY technique and I'm going to play around with my husband's guitar to day to see if I'm getting the same sounds.  I think I'm quite lazy when I'm playing.  I do think it is entirely possible that my saddle is/was slightly uneven too. 

Bill, I feel your pain.  I'm heading to the Martin Guitar factory for a visit tomorrow and quite tempted to fall in love with one and give away this one.  LOL!

my buzzing seems to be when I'm fretting... I feel like I have to fret the strings harder now than I did before (or be more careful to have my fingers placed right AT the frets... but then, maybe a string change could help this issue too, I think I'll try that today).  I've wondered if maybe the saddle is just too high but the strings don't LOOK like they're far away from the fretboard and I did measure everything when I replaced the saddle.

Toots... your suggestion makes sense.  I'll keep that in mind for when I'm playing w/o capo

Steelstrings... of course I can't answer, but I can comment on what I've heard which is... when using a capo a LOT (like I do) you'll wear the nut down faster.  This is primarily why I didn't bother changing the nut when I did the saddle and pins.

Thank you for the heads up Zurf!

I use Chrome as my primary default browser and am not having any problems.  In fact, I think things look BETTER and saw there are some new features (just show chords, just show lyrics)... scroll works fine.  It's possible your complaint came in during the time while the admin was on updating the site yesterday for iPad... check things out again and let us know if your issues have been resolved.

And as topdown says, Welcome to the chordie forum, we appreciate your valuable contributions.

Interesting... ever since I changed my saddle it seems my B string is too low and "buzzing" a bit.  It's quite annoying... and I almost ALWAYS use a capo so I'm sure that has a LOT to do with it.  I think the whole nut slot being worn makes a lot of sense in my situation (or it could be the compensated saddle)... so I'd listen to Pix as it sounds like he may be on the right track!

YAY!  I'm glad he made it in safely and was given a "full immersion American" dinner... I like the phrase too!  You'll have to take him to a real honkey-tonk bar now and let him try his hand at driving on the right side of the road in some overly large sized pick up truck or SUV to get the rest of the immersion complete! 

I guess it's pretty obvious that I've never fished in a river.  LOL!  The biggest catfish I've ever seen weren't much bigger than that 12lb carp I was talking about (although I'll bet they weighed a little bit more).  My daddy always took me out in a rowboat on Oneida Lake.  I've heard rumers that there's some pretty large sturgin in there, although I'm not so sure about that.  I haven't fished since I was under 16 though, my husband prefers to fish the streams around with the kids.  They're usually lucky if they catch a few sunnies!

Excellent plan!

good to see ya Bushy!  2 months of not playing ACK!  I would absolutely be looking into a travel guitar of some sort or another, especially if hotels and motels are also part of your travel.  I'd go crazy without any of the comforts of home along .