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02-10-2020, 03:27 PM
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went to a real nice guitar store today...
Just across the Georgia line from me is a small shop that
has new Martins and some others and a large selection of nice vintage mostly Martins and Gibsons. It is the kind of shop where people come in with their own guitars and pick some and hang out and talk, people there knew each other. The folks that came in all invited me play their nice guitars  ...I called first since I had to drive an hour to get there, so I knew the manager's name when I got there. We shook hands and I told him I was interested in a Southern Jumbo he had and I sat down and started playing it while he went off to attend to some other folks that were there. It was a nice guitar, but it didn't make my socks roll up and down like my cf-100 does... of course I didn't know what to think of the cf-100 the instant I first picked it up either... Another fellow came in. He had a Washburn branded guitar that was made in the mid 90's by Bourgeois! They had some kind of deal where Bourgeois was going to make some high end Washburns that didn't end up working out, but some of the initial models were made and this fellow had one. It was a most awesome playing and sounding guitar, made me really interested in Bourgeois. This particular guitar had a lot of bling including an intricate kind of ivy scroll work all up the neck. Another fellow had a 71 or so d-35, he let me play that... another great playing and sounding guitar! The manager had an older d-18, and he let me play it, again, awesome. I played some of the new Martins and a used (not vintage) d-25, they were good guitars but they won't keep me awake at night thinking about them. The fellow with the washburn has a couple of gibsons he's interested in selling... he was telling me about them. One is a 57 country western. He only lives a few miles away, and he went home and got it. I played it some and dang if it wasn't great sounding and easy to play right off the bat. When I get my Ken Stika dreadnought back after the luthier reglues whatever is loose in it, I'm going to take it back over there and play it back to back with some of the other guitars and see if it has been brought back to life, I compared it to some Guitar Center J-45s the other week and it sounded kind of dull compared to them. I think it is funny that all the folks I met at the shop today know and think highly of the luthier I go to in South Carolina, in fact, he does all the Martin work for the shop... Several of the fellows had those nice capos I learned about on this site on their guitars, they seem to just push them back past the nut when they're not using them. There was one on the store manager's nice Martin he let me play with his Blue Chip pick, something I also learned about here... A good day -Mike "I kind of hope he doesn't sell that country western soon! " Last edited by hubcapsc; 02-10-2020 at 05:25 PM. 
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02-10-2020, 03:28 PM
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Name of store????
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02-10-2020, 03:34 PM
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02-10-2020, 03:52 PM
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02-10-2020, 04:07 PM
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I'm so glad I don't live in Georgia right now. They've got a 1954 00-18 for sale. My birth year.
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02-10-2020, 04:54 PM
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02-10-2020, 05:03 PM
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02-10-2020, 05:13 PM
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Dang...I drove right past it last weekend! Maybe next time.
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02-10-2020, 05:21 PM
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the washburn fellow played it a while and liked it a lot. -Mike
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02-10-2020, 07:54 PM
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Sounds like you had one heck of a time -
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02-10-2020, 08:11 PM
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Sounds to me like time well spent.
David
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02-11-2020, 08:32 AM
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The washburn fellow sent me some pics... I think he's talked about it before
on this forum... there's definitely some discussion of bourgeois/washburn on here, I just searched for "D96SW" (that's what his model is) and got some hits...   -Mike Last edited by hubcapsc; 02-11-2020 at 08:40 AM.
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