Shopping for an ES-335

[flagstaffcharli]

Originally Posted by Captain Jim

Congrats! That sunburst is gorgeous. I got my 335... next month will be 51 years ago.



Hope yours is "the keeper," as well.

Enjoy!

Wow!

I hope so too. I'd be 98 if I can make it 51 years with my guitar! I'd take that!

[Captain Jim]

Originally Posted by flagstaffcharli

Wow!

I hope so too. I'd be 98 if I can make it 51 years with my guitar! I'd take that!

I was 13 when I got mine. I kinda feel we "grew up together." It still plays and sounds sweet, although it doesn't get a lot of playing time these days.

Through my 12th year, I would go to the music store each week, to make sure it was still there. All the while, saving the money I made from playing in a band, mowing lawns, and working in the neighborhood grocery store. Perseverance.

Hope you and that lovely guitar have many good playing years together!

[flagstaffcharli]

That's awesome!

I bought my first guitar when I was twelve or thirteen. It was a $5 Conrad acoustic. Not much of a guitar, but I didn't know anything at the time. I probably didn't know what an eS-335 was until l was in college.

Instruments are great. But I'm most grateful for a life of music. That's the true good fortune. All through my twenties I played a cheap, imported acoustic guitar. It never stopped me from loving music.

This guitar - and all the guitars I now play - are (to me) an embarrassment of riches. I hope anyone who is young and broke (like a younger me) who reads this thread won't be put off by it. Go get a guitar - any guitar - and make music.