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One that got away....
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Thanks much David. I love the "took up the guitar at 62 as penance ..."
I took it up at six, played "Till There was You" in front of approx. 350 people about 3 months after the Beatles played it on Ed Sullivan in late-February of 1964. A short while later my mother moved me and my siblings to the Hammond Organ, where I spent almost a decade taking lessons. Then, life and work got in the way. Now relearning and rediscovering the joy of guitar after a sixty-year hiatus. Notice you hail from Maine. My wife and I have a home midcoast. Gary |
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I only own 1 with bear claw, but it’s Adirondack & I think that’s a bit unusual. In any case, I like it.
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Taylor 114e
My Taylor 114e.
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Thank you TomB'sox!
Interestingly, I discovered a great deal of insight about this instrument here on AGF when I started doing some research on the guitar. I already had a new Bourgeois 00, which I love, but I made the serendipitous mistake of going to Matt's Music to buy a Mono bag for my tele. That's when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the 0 hanging in the store's acoustic room. The minute I picked it up it sang to me. It was an eleven-year-old guitar in "like-new" condition, not a blemish on it. Still had its original strings, and it was like it had hardly been strummed. I definitely didn't need it, but GAS took control. I came home, started researching it, found this thread (below) here on AGF from 2014. Turns out, best I understand the instrument's history, the original owner left the guitar to one of his kids who served as its caretaker before consigning it recently to Matt's. I feel very lucky to be its new owner and custodian. https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=364903 Last edited by FretMuse; 03-18-2024 at 07:58 AM. Reason: remove unnecessary commas |
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It’s tricky photographing bearclaw, and you really captured it!
Here are a couple of Martins that were at the Guitar Center in Manhattan at the same time a while back: |
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I'm a fan of bearclaw particularly when the bookmatch produces a symmetrical pattern around the centerline like on this one I built several years ago.
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She's a real beauty!
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Got just a bit of Bearclaw on my Gordon Guitar Works G-000.
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A few Goodalls with bear claw figuring.
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To the guitar uneducated, can’t help thinking if I brought one of these beauties home, friends would think I bought a “second”….
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