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When you walk past all the shiny guitars at Long & McQuade without a second glance, but your heart starts beating faster when you see these outside the loading dock...

Score!!

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George :-)

Every time I go to L&M for strings, I look at all the shiny guitars, but they don't hold a candle to the acoustic and electric guitars that I see on this forum every day! It's like the difference between hamburger and filet!

Alex

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"Indecision is the key to flexibility" .... Bumper sticker

That started for me a few years back. I felt so sad, like...I really wanted to like them, but they just didn't do it for me anymore.

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Expectation is the source of all misery; comparison the thief of joy.
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I used to like to go to the high-dollar room in the guitar center and play the acoustics ...... haven't done that in a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

So you walk right by the guitars and instead collect the cat toys?

It's been a number of years for me too. I'm way more interested to see if there are any happy accidents in the $300-400 range at the guitar stores. The only time I play the expensive stuff is when I need a reminder that it's really fair to raise the price I charge for my guitars and when I feel like being reminded that I am making something very special.

Waste not, want not .....................and as my Mother told me when I was a kid " Eat your vegetables, don't you know about the starving kids in China."
Tom
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A person who has never made a mistake has never made anything!!!