generankin
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- Mar 31, 2003
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I've got me a 1942 SJ that's been rode hard & put away wet. Previous owners have stripped off the sunburst, filled top cracks, put a new back on it (several of these previous owners had bought the guitar from me, did the "work", then defaulted on paying, so I repoed it), and I had it shoved back in a closet for years. Played my new-in-1973 Alvarez-Yairi copy of a herringbone and was a happy bunny. Then I was cleaning out the closet, found the old Gibson with a ding in the upper bout, so I hauled it off to get fixed. A year later (the guy's slow, but pretty good) I got it home and played it.
Revelation: Even being beat-up, 66-year-old axe, probably made from some of the last pre-war wood Gibson had on hand, leaves a damned-good Martin copy in the dust! :wow
Revelation: Even being beat-up, 66-year-old axe, probably made from some of the last pre-war wood Gibson had on hand, leaves a damned-good Martin copy in the dust! :wow