Rainsong APSE owners likes vs dislikes

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Earl49

There was a time when I thought only about nut width -- an MLO neck with 1-11/16" just does not work for me, and I learned THAT the hard way.

I need an acronym translation - MLO?

Medium Low Oval?
Mild Level Ordinary?
Many Lovely Oranges?

[Earl49]

MLO = Modified Low Oval, a Martin neck carve. Since I hit age 48-50, that shape and a 1-11/16" nut width was just too thin for my hand. To this day I can play Emerald, Blackbird, Taylor, Rainsong, or others for 2+ hours straight without pain (90 minutes on my Lucky 13 after lunch today with medium gauge strings). I can even play their 1-11/16" necks too. But 20 minutes on most Martin necks and my hand aches for hours. That caused me to sell a J-40, a D-28, and a 000-16. They were all wonderful guitars for me for a long time, and now are for someone else. I've even learned to be careful when someone wants me to "...play my dad's old Martin so I can hear it...." at a jam session.

I thought this might be the one guitar geek place where I didn't have to spell out every acronym. My bad....... my high school English teachers certainly trained me better than that.

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Earl49

I thought this might be the one guitar geek place where I didn't have to spell out every acronym. My bad....... my high school English teachers certainly trained me better than that.

No worries, Earl. I've been here for 13 years, and my Acronym Decoder didn't pick that one up, and neither did the search function, Google or DuckDuckGo - hence my request for help.

For the record, my Martin has a 1 7/8" LSBB profile

[ed62]

Originally Posted by martinngibson

Ed62,
I may be in luck. Kevin at Emerald, has located a guy in Nashville that has an X20 who also has more Emeralds, and I’ve found a dealer also in Nashville that has a Sable. Hopefully the person that has the Emerald won’t mind me coming to play it , then over to play the Sable. I’ll find out tomorrow.

Great to hear that...honestly thats really the only way to find out which guitar suits your style of play the best...good luck

[Earl49]

Originally Posted by eatswodo

For the record, my Martin has a 1 7/8" LSBB profile

OK, I'll play. LSBB = long stocky baseball bat?

Knowing what I now know, I would have ordered that Martin J-40 with a 1-7/8" nut width and slight V-neck carve. I'd probably still have it -- it sure had great tone.

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Earl49

OK, I'll play. LSBB = long stocky baseball bat?

Close - I was thinking Louisville Slugger

[Earl49]

Speaking of Louisville Slugger, I taped the Capital Fourth fireworks program on PBS and watched it this weekend. John Fogerty and family played a set toward the end. For his song "Centerfield" his electric guitar was a baseball bat with a fret board grafted on, or was at least inspired by a Louisville Slugger. I think it even had the logo. Kinda cool.