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I bought my Holy Grail guitar three weeks ago. I can say that because (1) I'm 77 years old and have no intention of buying any more guitars and (2) I've been looking at this particular model for 30 years.
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The Holy Grail will be different for different people and I suspect it is only recognized as such during the honeymoon phase and again after it has been traded or sold, with that oh so frustrating 20/20 hindsight as "the one that got away". In between these events, it becomes just another guitar in my collection.
So, as the song said "Love the one you're with" because it just might be The One - you just don't know it yet. Tony
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I played a small body custom shop Koa Martin once. Never experienced a guitar like that before - clouds parted, beam of light shined on me, angels sang, etc. I’ll never forget it.
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Yes, I can help you find the Holy Grail. To the north there lies a cave, the cave of Caerbannog, where in carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Olfin Bedwee of Rheged.” (thunder rolls) “Make plain the last resting place of the most Holy Grail."
We already have one, it's very nice. Now go away you silly English kniggets, or I shall taunt you again. |
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Pretty sure the Templars buried it on Oak Island….
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No matter what great guitars I buy, I still always could make room for another. Even though I just bought a Custom Shop J-45, I am still looking at other guitars.
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Personally, I've come to believe, much like you, the grail is nothing more than a ghost who haunts up and taunts us. I've lost track of my "holy grails". My 2 cents
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It know it exists but I also know I can't afford it.
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Being a blues roots fingerpicker, I probably found my holy grail years and years ago when I bought my 1937 Gibson L-00......but I veer musically all over the road/s and my most recent purchase early January had me thinking : buying my 1968 Ramirez Estudio was a bit like pulling Excalibur from the Stone! Right time, right place and all that.....a few years ago, I may not have even noticed it but now......
So anyone that actually finds the Holy Grail gets to keep it, that correct? But to pull Excaliber from the Stone requires certain conditions! BluesKing777. |
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Well said Glenn!!! And also...as Sheryl Crow sang so well... "It's Not Having What You Want It's Wanting What You've Got" I do think some people find the "Grail" for themselves... Willie and Trigger Tony and The Antique Django and The Selmer Pierre and The Old Lady MCC and her Greven #1 Some lucky folks are able to make that rare and exceptional connection to a particular instrument. The rest of us mere mortals get to enjoy various versions of the "variety pack". duff Be A Player...Not A Polisher |
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This^^^ has got to...for REAL...become a bumper sticker for AGF forum members!!! So perfect!!! duff Be A Player...Not A Polisher |
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The Holy Grail?
The 2013 Gretsch G6136DC double-cut White Falcon I bought in 2018 was the realization of a 55-year dream for me, ever since I saw my first one in the '63 catalog as a kid...
My 2016 3-PU cat's eye Gretsch G5622T-CB is a production version of a design I bounced off a then up-and-coming (and now world-renowned) luthier about 40 years ago: cost me about one-third what he quoted (in 1983 dollars - probably charge at least 5-6 times that now ), felt/sounded immediately familiar from day one, and I can live with the minor differences from my original conception... Learned my lesson when I sold my "Holy Grail" '73 D-45 for all the wrong reasons... Neither one is going anywhere while I walk this earth...
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Just find the guitar store near the Castle of aaarrrrggh… |