Guitar
Considering guitars have been my most-enduring passion for most of my life, they feature relatively rarely in my photo stream. I suppose because I play them incessantly, rather than photograph them.
Last week, Carolin and I had a couple of nights away in Ocean Grove and I took my 'travelling' guitar with me. As mentioned last time it featured, a few years ago now, I picked this guitar up 21 years ago in Melbourne at a second hand store. It has always been my second guitar, the one I travelled with because whilst I love it, I would not be as dismayed if it was damaged in someway, compared to my beloved 21st birthday guitar.
Samick are a South-Korean brand that have built guitars for a number of notable companies, as well as some of their own range. This time last year, I actually took the time to research the serial number of my model. It transpires it was a higher end model in their early 90s range.
The passing of time and some intense playing has not been kind to my 'birthday' guitar, to the extent that the fret board is now quite worn with definite finger indentations in the first three frets. With this in mind, I am semi-retiring it and will predominantly play this guitar for the foreseeable future, saving the other one for special occasions. As far as I can tell, the birthday guitar fretboard would not be easy to detach from the neck and I don't really want any attempted repairs to damage the guitar while it is still playable.
Guitar
Considering guitars have been my most-enduring passion for most of my life, they feature relatively rarely in my photo stream. I suppose because I play them incessantly, rather than photograph them.
Last week, Carolin and I had a couple of nights away in Ocean Grove and I took my 'travelling' guitar with me. As mentioned last time it featured, a few years ago now, I picked this guitar up 21 years ago in Melbourne at a second hand store. It has always been my second guitar, the one I travelled with because whilst I love it, I would not be as dismayed if it was damaged in someway, compared to my beloved 21st birthday guitar.
Samick are a South-Korean brand that have built guitars for a number of notable companies, as well as some of their own range. This time last year, I actually took the time to research the serial number of my model. It transpires it was a higher end model in their early 90s range.
The passing of time and some intense playing has not been kind to my 'birthday' guitar, to the extent that the fret board is now quite worn with definite finger indentations in the first three frets. With this in mind, I am semi-retiring it and will predominantly play this guitar for the foreseeable future, saving the other one for special occasions. As far as I can tell, the birthday guitar fretboard would not be easy to detach from the neck and I don't really want any attempted repairs to damage the guitar while it is still playable.