OT - DAMN...I just bought another guitar...case...

dog!

well crap. I have not bought/rcvd a guitar since christmas....my daughter is hinting that I should buy her a baritone saxophone....just around $3800.....

she is getting expensive a few years before I planned...

Craig

$3800? don't tell me that's for plastic? for that jind of moola it should be silver. that seems ridiculous. have you checked pawn shops? i see a lot of brass. but there almost always tenors, sometimes an alto. well, baritones are pretty big. $3800, damn!

...hmmmnn...I've never tried out a baritone guitar...maybe I should look for one...a National...

Got my eye on the coming Danelectro reissues...and Rick 620...

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Decent instruments aren't cheap. I just paid $3500 for a good new fiddle completely handmade from best Bulgarian tonewoods. The composite bow alone cost me $800 more. Non-musicians are always shocked at the prices of good, quality instruments.

I got a serious deal on the "twins"...

Interesting...a composite bow? I assume it's still strung with horse hair, though? How about composite instruments - I'd assume they wouldn't be that popular, but are they out there?

Rufus wrote in news:lCQyh.263397$aJ.201774@attbi_s21:

It's carbon graphite with white Mongolian horse hair.

Electric violins are often made mostly of composite materials. I believe both Fender and Yamaha make some.

Rufus, So when should we expect your concert tour to be performing in Austin, TX?

Twang (that's guitarish for Cheers)

Ray Austin, TX ===

Rufus wrote in news:lCQyh.263397$aJ.201774@attbi_s21:

Here's something that will shock a guitar player:

Good violin strings cost $60-80 for a set of four! I was used to paying $6 a set for good Fender electric guitar strings which lost much of their tone after just a few weeks. Then I got a fiddle and everything was extremely expensive for it. The composite strings do last a good three months of hard playing though so I guess the cost evens out somewhat in the long run.

I've seen the electric ones...always thought they'd be made of similar woods to electric guitars. I think I prefer the sound of a straight acoustic instrument, and then in small numbers - like a quartet; same tastes for jazz. I used to play the viola when I was very young...have no idea now how I did it. Shame I lost the skill, as I've become somewhat of a fan of Yo Yo Ma. I tend to like his solo recordings...and Bach organwerkes - Michael Murray on Telarc was what finally convinced me I needed a CD player...

My '06 Telecaster has a tiger maple neck on it, which I've yet to see another one like. The stripes are beginning to stand out more as it I leave it out of it's case.

...if I ever get good enough to play in Austin, I WILL quit my day job.

I can believe that...especially with all the cat-lover/huggers out there these days. Premium cat-gut must be getting increasingly hard to come by...

Price of guitar picks seems to be up higher than I'd expect...I paid $5+ for the last pack of Fender picks I bought. Either I got ripped off, or that's a rip-off.

Have you seen all the PE available for that U Boat. Check out:

Now THIS is a useful link...but...what, no brass propellers?..

So far I have and am using the Yankee Modelworks upper pressure hull kit (seems I got the last two of them from Squadron...), the Hoshinya turned aluminum periscope and gun barrels (seems I got lucky in grabbing those before they went OOP...), and the Eduard etch set. If I ever do another one, I'll probably opt for the Modelbrass set, though.

AND - I'm saving a TON of guitar money by cutting out all those limber and flood holes myself...even if I do end up a lunatic afterwards...