The One I Play:

000-50

The One I Want:

An orphan guitar hiding in a store...

Confess...

The one I play (the most):

OM-3W with an Engelmann top

The one I want (today):

An Avalon Gold or Legacy with cedar top/rosewood back

Kevin

The one I play:

50/50 split between the L-03 and the all mahogany parlor....they're all I've got and are completely different.  I love 'em both.

The one I want:

a nice Martin rosewood OM either an OM-28 Marquis or one of the new OM-21 Special.   I did play a nice R. Taylor a couple of days ago.  It was a Madagascar rosewood/Englemann spruce combo.  Pricey but wow, it was nice...

The one I play (the most):
Om-03MT Forum :nana_guitar

The one I want (today):
OM/PW

kdonovan

The one(?) I grab:
Too many to pick from.
First choice the SD-60.

What I want,
none in particular, but will decide when I see/hear it.

The One You Play:

OM-05MT

The One You Want:

OO-50

Yeah that would do it for me... :thumbsup

:cheers

Blue

the one i play: DV-05E

the one i want: DV-05E (and maybe a gibson super 200 custom antique natural)

:beer

Hmmm. Well. I play them all. When my playing partner comes over he always grabs my 000-50 though. He doesn't even bring his own 1977 L09 any more and believe me it's a sweet guitar. Of course, we all get to play our own guitars all the time.

The one I grab first is the om-03 forum.

The one I want is an om-03mt forum. I'm enjoying the sprucetop so much that I wonder what her sister would be like  :cheers

The one I play:

Lately the L-05MT seems to be my favorite.

The one I want:

A 12 fret slot head, maybe a 000-60 or 000-28VS

The one I play
  Depends on the mood
The one I want
  Already got

Play:

SD50

Want:

Depending on my mood - Larrivee parlor or 12 string - Martin OM Marquis or 0018V - Another slope D maybe Santa Cruz or Bourgeois

I could go on! And I haven't yet touched on my really secret dreams - the ones I won't even admit to myself!

The one I play:
L-05
The one I GAS for
12 fret to the body slothead. Pamela Anderson :thumbsup.
I mean 000-50

QuoteThe one I play
  Depends on the mood
The one I want
  Already got

:+1:

:nanadance  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nana_guitar  :nanadance

I grab most any of my instruments -- tho' the 00-19 gets the nod at my boy's bedtime.

Not sure what is meant by "the one you GAS for" -- what a silly notion.   :whistling:

Were I to win a lottery, I'd offer Dave Wren whatever it took to get him out of 'luthier retirement'.

I'd also be knocking on the doors of Ms. Manzer, (Joshia) deJonge, Park & Wingert, and Messrs. Barry, Beardsell, Beneteau, (Sergei) DeJonge, Duncan, Dunn, Graff, Harrison, Karol, Laskin & (Alastair) Miller.  Apologies to those who I omitted -- no slight intended. 
(Yes, there are many fabulous non-Canadian builders; must be the maple syrup in my veins).

As regards workshop or assembly line instruments, the list would include an L-03 or L-05, as many LS models with different woods as I could get my hands on, an L-09 FM or C-09 maple.  And, most definitely, a Santa Cruz H-13 and a Huss & Dalton CM cutaway w/ Honduran Rosewood.

And a baby Collings.   :smile:

Oh yeah ... I'd certainly ask Messrs. Capek, Dudenbostel, Gilchrist, Heiden, Holoubek, Holst, Janish, Kemnitzer, Lebeda, Ratcliff, Triggs & Woodley to build me a mando (not that my Weber is lacking in any way ...).

Finally, I'd look high & low for an old, no-name fiddle that looked like hell but played & sounded great.

- Richard
(who is not averse to the occasional flight of fancy ... )

Quote from: expatCanuck on February 17, 2007, 10:08:18 AM
- Richard
(who is not averse to the occasional flight of fancy ... )

:+1:

BTW, Richard, your inbox is full  :winkin:

The One I Grab: my '99 Sitka/Hog unbound parlor

The One I GAS for: The Martin 016-NY from my birth year that I'm currently negotiating on.

The One I Grab:  the SD-50 one day, the 000-15S the next, and so on

The One I GAS for:  honestly nothing right now.  Last year I wanted a 000-18GE but changed my mind.

One I grab: L-03R

One I want (At least for now): HD28

I realized that I love martin's very deep and resonant bass and sweet, pretty trebles. No need for fancy abalone - I just want that martiin tone with scalloped braces and the classy herringbone bindings. 

My current GAS guitar is either a SD-50...
or an HD-28VS

The 1 11/16 nut is just a little small for me.

Quote from: expatCanuck on February 17, 2007, 10:08:18 AMApologies to those who I omitted -- no slight intended. 
(Yes, there are many fabulous non-Canadian builders; must be the maple syrup in my veins).

The following was originally part of an intended reply to a pm from expatCanuck. As mentioned above, his inbox is full, but this part sort of belongs here anyway:

There's no "maple syrup in my veins" per se. Sugar maples don't even grow well in the limestone soil of Kentucky; it's better suited to making "adult beverages". Nevertheless, I do have a soft spot in my heart for Canadian luthiers (ever since I discovered Larrivee in 1994, when they were even more unique) and their willingness to stray from the Martin path and find their own way. I'm not knocking Martin (I have two), but for years I found it frustrating that even the custom builders mostly copied Martin.

This part is new:

Closer to home though, the late Homer Ledford was best known for his bluegrass band (The Cabin Creek Boys) and his Appalacian dulcimers (one of his is in the Smithsonian), but he loved to experiment. He was of an age and background to have suitably folky beginnings, and carved his first fiddle out of a treestump from a picture in the Sears and Roebuck catalog. I've seen it. A visit to his basement was like, as someone said at his funeral, "a visit to Santa's Workshop". He was always dreaming up innovative experiments and odd instruments. Most seemed to work out well.

And that's really what I GAS for: innovative, experimental stuff.

L-03 is my only,
I was in the 12th Fret the other day and a Taylor GS African Mahogany/cedar was amazing.

The one I play:

- My Larrivée L-03

The one I want:

- It's the one I play.

I am a very lucky AND a very happy man.    :nana_guitar

The ones I reach for:
OM-03R - for fingerstyle
Takamine F-360 - for strumming
Fender Stratocaster - for playing quietly with headphones or (not so) loudly in church

As you see, each has a different purpose! :bgrin:

The one(s) I'm GASing for:
HD-35 - for loud strumming
L-05E - for everything in between with the option to play with through the church PA (because sometimes the electric just isn't appropriate for traditional worship songs)

The one I play: Hog top D-03 (LUV IT!!)

The one I gas for: I no longer gas for another.......I stay out of the stores.....it helps.  Seriously, my satin parlor and my dred keep me good.  Plus, I've got 2 little kids that take my $$ and attention (and very happy with that  :roll

Here are my current options for acoustic (not counting a metal-body resonator).   I currenty reach for the Larrivee OM-03R most often because it's the newest and I'm infatuated with it.   Which one would you grab ??


(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q147/tuffythepug/4guitars.jpg)






As far as gassing for another...................I have to admit I've been dreaming about a lefty LV-05 lately.  Somebody stop me before I strike again.!!


tuffythepug

Quote from: tuffythepug on February 21, 2007, 06:24:45 PM
Here are my current options for acoustic (not counting a metal-body resonator). 

Tuffy, that Gibson on the right is beautiful.  Do you find that your Gibsons are as easy to play as Larrivees?  How 'bout the Guild?

Tuffy:
Quick...take them back....they stuck the pickguards on the wrong side. :humour:
Looks like they got the Larrivee lettering on the right way.

Greg
Yeah the Gibson Hummingbird plays real easy now.    When I first got it the action was way too high and pretty difficult to play:  especially barred chords.  I had the truss rod tweaked a bit and a prof. setup done on it and now it plays almost as easy as the Larrivee.   It has that legendary mellow hummingbird tone.  The other Gibson (a less expensive Gospel model) plays great but is in need of a fret job.  It had major playing time for about 10 years.   It has opened up real well and has a great sound as well.   The Guild was a right hand to left hand conversion about a year ago.  I'm still working on getting the action set up on it properly.    It has a nice big sound though as you can imagine.

tuffy,

your lefties are giving me bad gas...  :niceguitar:   :niceguitar:   :niceguitar:   :niceguitar:

The One I Play:

OM-05

The One I Want:

SD50 TSB (hey, I can dream, can't I?!)

Tuffy, I would love to own a Hummingbird or a Dove based on looks alone.  I would buy an Epiphone version of either one except they don't sound that great to me.  And they aren't even in the Masterbuilt line.  Don't know if I'll ever own a real Gibson, but I sure like to look at them!

The ones I play most:

Martin 000-15S
Larrivee 0M-03R Twelve string

The ones I want haven't been built yet (but I'm gearing up for it):
1) 000 12-fret slothead with Venetian cutaway and 3-piece back;
2) 000 12-fret paddle-head with Florentine cutaway & 3-piece back TWELVE STRING.

YeeeeeHarrrr    :guitar

I'll need therapy after I'm done :arrow. . . and it might drive me to drinkin'   :beer  but I'll have some really nice guitars while I'm in recovery.    :nana_guitar 

Quote from: whiskeyjack on February 24, 2007, 02:37:40 AMThe ones I want haven't been built yet (but I'm gearing up for it):
1) 000 12-fret slothead with Venetian cutaway and 3-piece back;
2) 000 12-fret paddle-head with Florentine cutaway & 3-piece back TWELVE STRING.

:niceguitar: :niceguitar:

The one you grab?

Right now it's been my 1970 Ventura acoustic.


The one you GAS for?

Looking at the pics of a SD-50 and SD-60 or both  :nana_guitar  :guitar

SR:
Just did a search on YOUTUBE (Larrivee) and found some SD-60 videos.  The SD's are 2 of my favorites.  One would make a nice "big brother" to my 000-50.

QuoteThe one I play
  Depends on the mood
The one I want
  Already got

:+1: :+1:

d.

QuoteSR:
Just did a search on YOUTUBE (Larrivee) and found some SD-60 videos.  The SD's are 2 of my favorites.  One would make a nice "big brother" to my 000-50.

I have seen those as well.  :smile:

I have some new GAS though. I have been looking at the Composite Acoustics.
The idea of being able to have the guitar out on a stand and not worry about humidity is
appealing.  :bgrin:

The one I grab (and the only one I have left)

My Larrivee LSV-11

The one I GAS for (and the one I sold my other three guitars to fund)

A nice archtop jazz guitar that I haven't found yet -- but I'm looking!

The one I grab:  My Larrivee D-03 Blackwood, which is my best guitar

The one I GAS for:  I'd really like to have one of Huss and Dalton's smaller-bodied guitars.  They make a 12-fret 00 model that looks extremely nice.  I tend to like anything that they make though for some reason. 

Quote from: the_sound_of_acoustic_soul on March 02, 2007, 08:20:37 PM
I tend to like anything that [Huss & Dalton] make though for some reason. 

Ummm ... 'cause they make terrific instruments?
(I've never picked one up that I wouldn't be happy to own.)

But as far as small-bodied guitars go, my current object of desire is an 0-series Collings.
The one thing that I disliked about the H&D 00 is that it only accepts light strings.

- Richard

I believe that I will open an H&D thread on Other Guitars page.

I have some serious splainin to do.