Guitar Players: Show us yours!

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(& some skateboards I stenciled...)

Our HIGHWOOD Band wrapped up our Summer Tour last week. My brother Dave joined us for 4 of our 10 gigs this year. He is a multi-instrumentalist, and plays lead guitar when he joins our trio.

Here is " Heavy Fuel" ~ Dire Straits. The Moose hall has crappy acoustics,but you'll get the gist..

OddJob said:

Our HIGHWOOD Band wrapped up our Summer Tour last week. My brother Dave joined us for 4 of our 10 gigs this year. He is a multi-instrumentalist, and plays lead guitar when he joins our trio.

Here is " Heavy Fuel" ~ Dire Straits. The Moose hall has crappy acoustics,but you'll get the gist..



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Brother Dave can lay down some tasty licks!...

I've been doing a lot of crazy mods and such, at work and at home. The last pic is my new to me Eastwood.

Some have said we have a "sickness,". I'll let these pictures speak for our defense.



Whoever designed the pictures didn't put enough banjos on there in my case.

Well there went my coffee spewing this morning . . . thanks Greta

What about “Classical Gas”, by Mason Williams ??

Some of the guitars that live at my house.
Most spend their time collecting dust these days

My songwriting guitar. Actually this is the guitar that is in my hand everyday.

I’m still figuring out ukuleles….

A mongrel build In progress Half Gibson and half Fender.

This lives inside a gig bag ..tha hangs on wall .
Today first it been out in about 10 months.
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My most recent build. The Fenson.

not mine but thought you might dig it.


and some I mess with.

Still not a guitar, Dulcimer is more my style...

I saw this thin 3mm birch laminate Day of the Dead mask at a Dollar Store-and it told me that it always wanted a career in Music, so... I really, really should never have gone to see Disney's Coco...

Neck is three small square pine dowels laminated for strength, with a thinned Oak half-round for looks and reinforcement-head is Poplar, with part of the neck as a carved volute. The soundboard is reinforced with two thin basewood struts, A-style bracing like a Mandolin and a 1mm birch bridge plate. A tiny bit of scrap bone bridge fragment makes the nut, and both the floating bridge and the friction tuners are from a wrecked kid's guitar I found at a yard sale for $1. The body is made up of glued cedar strips from a few broken cigar boxes and the back is cut and layered door skin. Coating is Magic Marker on the front, amber shellac everywhere else and two light coats of clear acrylic, strings are 60lb, 40lb and 20lb fishing line set to B-C-b, slightly lower than standard tuning, and is surprisingly mellow for a laminate build...

I decided on no pickups for this one for my neighbors' sakes.

Right now I own 3 six string flattops, a Seymour Duncan pickup and a 1990s Fender practice amp.

The oldest guitar is a 1965 Gibson LGO, which was surely their cheapest guitar, selling at just under $100. It is all mahogany, with a very nice rosewood fretboard.

The binding is faux tortise. The matching pick guard is missing. The original case is, unfortunately, heavily cat-scratched.

It is ladder framed, so it is loud but the sound is not very bright. It’s kind of a mellow jazz guitar. I put Rotomatics on it in 1976. They don’t have the right washers, but I’ll put some chrome ones on it when it next gets restrung.



In 1973 I got it in trade it for a well used vacuum tube oscilloscope from the 1950s, that cost only $20.

That oscilloscope would be hopelessly obsolete, and was even then, but a guitar is never obsolete. That Gibson is worth $1500 today.

I have a Japanese Aria model A662. I believe this is from 1973 based on the serial. While the mahogany Gibson is a ladder frame guitar and sounds jazzy, the Aria is a fan-framed guitar with a spruce top and it sounds much more like a Martin.



It’s not in great shape, with missing fretboard inlays and various dings and dents, but it still sounds marvelous. It has that crisp bright spruce top sound.

This was a gift from a friend who is a professional guitarist, but who I met because of skateboarding on the silverfish forum. It has been played heavily and it shows it.

From what I see online it’s probably not worth more than a couple hundred dollars, even though it is a pre-Korean vintage and definitely of Japanese manufacture.


This 1990 Avilla is Korean, and it is my nicest, cleanest guitar.



It’s because it was purchased new. It was for my wife who took about three lessons and then put it down forever, because she has stubby little fingers and she bought a guitar with a wide fretboard. Plus she has no patience.

This is probably worth a couple hundred dollars because it still in perfect shape.

None of these guitars are getting played right now because I am busy working all the time on my car.

But the truth is that, although I would like to buy myself an electric guitar, I am really a bass player. And by that I mean, in high school I played the classic double bass.

I only took up the guitar because I didn’t wanna lug that monster around with me. I still don’t, which is why I will probably buy an electric bass.