Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame

Now, must it be this chaotic? No, it doesn't have to be. But it is. Partly because I want the guitars I'm selling to be out & available so I can a/b different guitars easier as part of the process of determining for sure which ones get sold. Partly because I want to have them easily available if there are any questions about things I didn't notice or forgot to cover once they are listed on eBay. And partly so that I can box them up easier. But it is pretty crazy. Once this is all done, they will all fit on the rack/stands in the 2nd-to-last picture, and on the shelves in cases in the last picture.

Resolved: I will play guitar standing up from now on.

I was reading through some of the crap I've written on this bulletin board, and I realized: Crap, I sure think I know what I'm talking about!

Cool guitar and great story!

I am so happy I will get the chance to do so very soon...!!!! And Paul was wrong about the type of people who would want one. If he wanted to be correct, it should be "Virtuoso & Fanboy" or "Virtuoso & Fool and his money are soon parted"

Saw a license plate on the commute to work this morning: VOX AC30 I haven't wanted to meet a driver of another car this bad since I saw a license plate that said "DSLS4U" (full disclosure: the explanation of the 2nd license plate is NSFW. Also, I have never actually seen the 2nd license plate)

Apologies to everyone for not following up on this in a timely manner. I'll make the judgment calls and determine awards no later than Monday.

I want a B-Bender-equipped guitar. I don't know why.

If I formed a Steely Dan tribute band, I'd call it "Steely Gaze".

You asked Polara about the Chap case. Since I have the Swiss-Cheese Chap now, are you still interested in the case?

Is The CaliTed a widely-known title yet?

...but if you're going to hang here, you gotta realize the Heritage headstocks are fugly. Just sayin'

"Presenting the 76 Ten Most Righteous Hamers" Which, knowing Hamer guitars, would actually make sense.

We've got more than 10 here. Are we going to take a vote?

I agree. Correct? I'm not sure. No?

I will miss "It's Green" on some levels. There was not a dang thing wrong with it at all. Balanced, low action, great tone. Very nearly a perfect guitar. But not *my* perfect guitar. I just don't get into 2-pickup guitars very much. Not sure why, but I like 3 pickups...the B-Way Mercury Head came in and just dominated in tone, so It's Green became superfluous for me. Plus, I needed a Chap to round out my Hamer superstrats (sort of...the Big 4/5 of Californian, Centaura, Diablo, Chaparral, and maybe Vintage S), and I really wanted to get a sustainiac in the stable again. So I get another guitar that will get some playing time, and It's Green gets to be played more. I'm glad you appreciate it. Clearly it went to a good home!

I think you missed my New Guitar Day announcement. My trepidation about the color was no longer an issue after it arrived. It looks great, plays great and sounds great. Just an awesome guitar all around.

I'm *this* close to selling every single one of my guitars. And yet, it will never happen.

bump for an interesting guitar...

I was thinking about including his telephone number and/or address so she could respond to his suggestion more, ahem, directly.

So, about $20,000 in guitars and $500 in amps? I think you need more amps. $700 if you include the Roland Microcube and $750 if you count the solid-state Crate amp sitting in the garage that I can't even seem to give away. You are so right, tho. Mind if I quote you to my wife?

Mine is just over $3500...the Rainsong Jazz guitar. Funny, tho. In early 2009, I didn't own a single guitar that cost more than $500. I had 20 guitars, and 15 of them were $200 or less. On my deployment to Iraq, I kinda went crazy. The Blueburst Centaura, for a little over $1k, a 12-string Chap for $900. Then when I got back I got a Cali Elite for $1400, then sold it within a month (because I wanted something else and it wasn't *quite* as impressive as I hoped), a Peavey Vandenberg Custom for $1400, a Steinberger ZT3 for $1k, a couple Westone Pantera X390s for $1k each... Now, a bunch got bought/sold Now I have ~40 guitars, and not only are less than 5 are under $200, but no fewer than four cost no less than $1500/each and account for $8.5k in all (Rainsong Jazz, B-Way Guitars Mercury Head, PRS Custom 22 Soapbar 10 Top & Hamer Vintage S) And now, in addition to these 4 that are over $1500, I have an additional 16 that are at least $500: Yamaha RGX 1212 Yamaha PAC 812v Rainsong Acoustic Cort Garage2 Matthias Jabs Signature Hamer USA Diablo (red) Hamer USA Diablo (green) Hamer USA Chap 12-string Hamer USA California Hamer USA Eclipse Murkat Bengal Westone Pantera x390 Jon Kammerer Guitars small-body Walnut Jon Kammerer Guitars Jazz Hollowbody Jon Kammerer Guitars full-body Cherrywood Jon Kammerer Guitars small-body semi-hollow Alvarez Trevor Rabin Signature Pretty big change over the last 5 years for me.

Headpins. Based on the one album I heard back in the 80s, I believed they were an extreme dark/heavy metal outfit. Not so much.

Fixed.ETA: most play acoustics. Music via guitar just doesn't seem like something that is inherently male to me. Why do you all think it's so skewed? Wild conjectures welcome. Because playing guitars attracts women, which doesn't rank that high on the priority list of most women. And while women playing guitars does attract men, it takes much more effort, preparation, persistence, etc, than other methods available to women. On a more serious note, I'm not sure why more women don't choose to express themselves through guitar. There are plenty of female pianists and singers... Could it be that hand size and strength are limiting factors, making playing guitar more like work for women and thus more likely to give it up or never even start? Or is it that a not-insignificant number of women decide that callouses do not comport with their image of feminine attractiveness?

Interestingly, that's kind of the notion I settled on recently, for much the same reasons: I probably will never be able to impress anyone with 24 measures of shred...but there are all sorts of little 2-to-4 beat licks that sound cool as all get out that I can master. And from there, come up with my own. ...not that I've gotten that far down that path yet.