Lounge Lizards

[JC.]

Originally Posted by Ludere

umm ... wouldn’t that be ... Water-lust ?

No, it’s definitely Waterloo- lust. Last time I had it, I was watching an ABBA video circa 1974.

[Silly Moustache]

Still don't understand why my small sunbursted guitar was named after a London Railway station which was named after our final defeat of the French tyrant.

(btw - I know really Kalamazoo were named after the town where Gibsons were made and Austin used to be called Waterloo presumably in celebration of the defeat of Napoleon).
I assume the name was changed to Austin in celebration of the fine British motor car brand of the same name.

[rmgjsps]

I don't know about "lounge lizards," but those are Bee's Knees!

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by JC.

Nice Andy. I'm getting Waterloo-lust.

I have to say that when I got my Waterloo in December 2016, once I got it home , I decided that I really didn't like the sound - harsh, thin etc.

Also the (barely) 1 & 3/4" nut width was a bit awkward for me as I prefer wider.

This is me playing it as soon as I got it, a month before they told me about my throat cancer.




It hung in my office wall for some months as I was "otherwise occupied" for most of 2017 and really couldn't play

It resonated to talk radio whenever I was strong enough to sit at my pc.

Here it is a year later, (Jan 2018) both of us looking somewhat more aged.




and another almost another year on (March this year) .




I don't think I've ever noticed the opening up of a guitar so markedly.

In the last couple of weeks I replaced D'addario Ej16s with some Martin SP lights, which sound even better, sadly no SPs left in the UK.

[Earl49]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

....I assume the name was changed to Austin in celebration of the fine British motor car brand of the same name.....

I'm not a Texan, but I would suspect renaming was in honor of Stephen Austin (1793-1836) one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Texas, long before statehood. By the same token, the city of Houston is named after Sam Houston.

[62&climbing]

Regarding your first pic, if you can kind of look past the guitar necks, they kind of look like 3 little Minions sitting on the couch. The ones with the one eyed goggle kind of Minions. But they are probably much better behaved.

[zmf]

Originally Posted by Earl49

I'm not a Texan, but I would suspect renaming was in honor of Stephen Austin (1793-1836) one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Texas, long before statehood. By the same token, the city of Houston is named after Sam Houston.

Thanks. I was so sure Austin was named after the Austin-Healey.

Might have been a bit of Brit humor in the original comment by SM.

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by zmf

Thanks. I was so sure Austin was named after the Austin-Healey.

Might have been a bit of Brit humor in the original comment by SM.

Yeah, there might well be!

[JC.]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

I have to say that when I got my Waterloo in December 2016, once I got it home , I decided that I really didn't like the sound - harsh, thin etc.

Also the (barely) 1 & 3/4" nut width was a bit awkward for me as I prefer wider.

I don't think I've ever noticed the opening up of a guitar so markedly.

In the last couple of weeks I replaced D'addario Ej16s with some Martin SP lights, which sound even better, sadly no SPs left in the UK.

Wow, that really did open up.

Know what you mean about SPs. I decided they were my go-to strings....about 24 hours before Martin announced their demise.

Also, whilst we're on name derivations, is it true that Martin (Est. 1833) was named after well known guitar maker and human rights activist Martin Luthier King?