Brian Krashpad is obviously out of sorts because people aren't posting pictures to go along with their posts. Hopefully, this will keep Brian happy for a while.
I may as well post picture of my guitars also.
An Alvarez Yairi DY55 that I purchased in 1981 for $600. I sold my Gibson LP to buy the Yairi because I pretty much had decided that I’d never play in another band and I felt all I’d ever need again is one acoustic guitar and I’d live happily ever after. I still have the Yairi, but that wasn’t nearly enough.
I’ve bought and sold and also given away a few guitars over the years and now the rest of my family looks like this until I put a couple of them up for adoption.
Alvarez PF-90 SC NAT
Alvarez RD20S12 12 String
Ibanez GA5TCE Classical Guitar. It’s a cheapo and I should have known better than to buy it. This one is on my list to be given away to the first of my granddaughters who expresses an interest in learning guitar.
Westbury Guitar made somewhere between 1978 and 1982. A guy I once worked with gave me this guitar in trade for a johnboat and a trolling motor. It’s a solidly built guitar. I replaced the original pickups and I occasionally set it up with a Nashville tuning.
This Guild D-25 is an acoustic that I picked up a couple of years ago from my girlfriend’s brother. He bought it brand new in 1979 and it had rarely ever been played until he put it in my hands at a few picnics and late night sit around the campfire episodes. I’m thrilled to own it because it was made in Westerly, R.I. which is the town I was born and raised in when Guild was manufacturing guitars in Westerly.
This D-25 also has an arched back which is out of the ordinary for an acoustic guitar.
Carvin Bolt Guitar: I’m probably going to upset a lot of Strat lovers, but I’ve yet to meet a Strat that I was able to fall in love with on a personal level. I bit the bullet and bought a guitar kit from Carvin that I put together with custom selected pickups.It sounds amazing and has a faster, smoother feeling neck than any Strat I have ever played. I'll post an audio clip in another thread.
Gibson Hound Dog Dobro: I bought the round neck and on second thought I should have bought the square neck but I still like it.
The following four guitars are guitars that I acquired with the help of my good buddy, Wingsdad. Wingsdad has always possessed an insight into my likes and dislikes concerning guitars and he has always gone out of his way to alert me to the existence of a guitar that I might be interested in buying sight unseen. He has yet to fail me in that regard.
Wingsdad turned me onto this Tradition JR Telecaster.
Wingsdad was very much aware that I had long been in search of a bass guitar. My youngest daughter owns a Warwick Rock Bass that she once let me use for recording. I mentioned it to Wingsdad that the Warwick was versatile….clean to funk. Wingsdad located a Fender JP-90 Bass for me which is perfect!
Wingsdad knew that I couldn’t and wouldn’t resist a Larry Coryell LCS-1.
Last but not least…..Wingsdad turned me onto a Washburn that is by far the best guitar I own, my Washburn WI-66PRO G.
I also have an Eastman 615 mandolin and a Washburn B17 banjo which I won’t post pictures of because it’s against the rules of the thread.
