Happy NGD to Mekidsdad! (Page 1 of 2)

Dang! Sweet guitar. Happy NGD Jim!

Way to go Jim! Happy NGD! A very nice addition to the family. Hope your new Taylor brings you a lifetime of musical enjoyment.

Jim, congrats on the new guitar. Here's to many happy hours of music. Now, along with this guitar comes great responsibility. You will be on your way to becoming a guitar God and with that come's fame, fortune and groupies. You must learn to conceal this or face problems at home. You will never be able to sil in your reclyner, relaxed and get that far away look in your eye. Them wife's know that look! When your eyes kinda "glass" over and you get that silly grin on your face the wife will never believe you when you tell them you are thinking of the music you are playing - they wanna think it's the groupies you are day dreaming about. When you wake up from a sound sleep hollering "one more time" the wife will never believe it's the music you was dreaming about. Everytime you hold the guitar amd look lovingly down the soundhole she will think you are thinking about another one of your groupies. I know this from experience as it has happened to me. So, since I am now beyond all this due to my age, I am willing to spare you all this grief. You can contact me privately, and I will send you all the information so you can ship me the guitar before it gets you in trouble. I will take good care of the guitar and you will not have to worry about Amy putting starch in your drawers. Us guy's just gotta stick together.

Nela

Happy NGD, Jim! Nice one NELA - I gotta get me one of them, while I'm still (just) young enough. In my head, anyway...

I don't know what NGD means.

New  Guitar  Day

Don't worry Strummerboy Bill.  I had to learn it when I first came here and saw it too. 

- Zurf

Thank you everybody. Nela, thanks for the offer of help but i'll have to pass. Amy's my biggest groupie and supporter already, and besides that I never would have got it if it wasn't for her, so I would probably have to worry more about the starch if I got rid of it.

Anyway, my new guitar is a Taylor 812e-12fret. It has a sitka spruce top with no pickguard and honeyburst finish, indian rosewood back and sides, slotted headstock with antique gold tuners, curly maple binding, and ebony fretboard. I actually found it when I was shopping for a birthday present for Amy. I played it and fell in love with the sound and play-ability of it. I told her about it when I got home and tried to find a picture of one online and only found one throughout the internet with that finish and options. Her reply was that I needed to buy it. I believe it was a custom order that somehow ended up in stock at the local shop, some of the options on this guitar don't appear available in stock anywhere.  I couldn't even find the options on Taylor's website.  I like the 12 fret because it has a more bluesy sound and plays easier than the 14 fret.  Due to the bridge being moved down on the soundboard, it doesn't have the Taylor ring found in the 14 fret model. 

Amy will put a pic up soon, because I don't know how.  She tried to explain it to me, but I just want to play my guitar. 

Jim

edited to add photos - mkm

Schweeeet!!  That's a great lookin' guitar Jim.

I've had a Martin 12-fret slothead rosewood/spruce for 3 years and enjoy it, but I've played the same thing by Taylor and like the Taylor sound better.  You did good buddy. Hope to get a chance to hear you play it sometime.

DE

Congratulations Jim!  That is one great guitar you have there, and the next thing you know you and Amy will be playing duets..... for many years to come.

Here's a little inspiration:    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WrnMQu8XWI

Happy NGD!

Gah!  That's way too good for us!  We've actually been working on this one, cuz it fits us well LOL:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

Mark Hanson is a very talented local musician, as is Terry Robb, and that other fella is just the younger/better-looking/talented version of somebody who shares my name and slight resemblance to me..... which is why I wear a beard!  www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUDEAMyMis

The main reason for the links is that none of the stuff they're doing is all that technical, and certainly within the scope of many folks with appropriate doses of practice.  The complexity of the music comes from multiple guitars playing simple parts together, and that is the point I was trying to get to.

Other things in common:  Dads were Marines, same hair color and style, similar height & build, both from Portland, both play finger-style guitar, but he's got "Grammys" and gets to do it professionally..... and that's about where commonality ends.  But you have to have something to aspire to, and that level is somewhere close to where I'd like to get before my body parts start to fail.

A long way to go!

Edited to add the Terry Robb link.