JasmineTea

Only one Mahogany 5 Rosewood 5 mahogany, 1 rose. All Martins:thu:

There was a time when I'd tap cigarette ashes in there as if it were an ashtray. My mando has several fortune cookie fortunes in there. Whenever I seek the wisdom of the cookies I turn it over and shake it like a magic 8-ball. I can't help feeling like I know you..from somewhere.

Love letters from a girlfriend..long ago. They resonate nicely.

Yep, I'd say buying a viola is pretty bad guitar advice.

Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck You can turn any acoustic guitar into electric by simply stripping the wires off of any electric cord, attaching them to any 2 strings and plugging it in. Ok, that's pretty darn rediculous, but I laughed.. edit: laughing some more...

All guitars can double as a snow-board, fly swatter, canoe paddle, rug-beater, storage for spare change, flower pot. Be imaginative. It's best to tighten the strings till they break right before changing them.

Bug spray works good for polish.

Get A Zager. Large metal files are handy for leveling your own frets. Etc, etc.

Sorry, don't have any info. But I do know that those were great guitars. If they were mine I'd hang on to them. I had a 180 years ago.

.:sigh:. There once was a guy from Nantucket...

Originally posted by MOJO de BEAU CS- If it's from the forties it probably needs a neck reset as well, which has to be done at the factory. Nah. any reputable luthier can do the work. Originally posted by MOJO de BEAU I have found from personal experience that even mentioning a defect with a Martin on this board can result in derision and all around unpleasant behavior. It seems some of these Martinites can get as venomous as a Bin Laden recruit Peace - Mo' I gotta disagree again. There are a few Martin fanatics around here, but they're not that closed minded, not all of them anyway.

Storm the castle.

Originally posted by FingerBone Bill These posts can be neatly divided into two groups.... Those who have seen Tommy Emmanuel. Those who have not seen Tommy Emmanuel. With a possible small sub group of those who have seen Tommy Emmanuel and yet did not realise they were witnessing the most amazing acoustic player ever. *Flame ON* This is probly the case however it creates some problems for the rest of humanity. It makes us all infurior by comparison. Instead of the competitive-who's-better-than-who approach, I prefer the 31 Flavors approach.

Hindsight is usualy 20/20, and worth something if you can learn from it. The 000-1 was the first acoustic I bought in about 11 years, the one before that was a Guild jf4 witch is still running good without any repaire/set-ups at all. The frets are shot. I did'nt think the hight of the pins/saddle on the 000-1 was a problem at time of purchase...go figure. Mabey it has changed since I got it. One thing I forgot to mention: A faint white, dusty line has appeared where the heel joins the body. It started showing up about a year after I got it. Anyway, Rauen recommended a good Martin-authorized repairman, I talked to him for a long time, described everything, answered his questions, and he said it's covered, send it. So I did. I never thought I'd put a guitar on a ups truck, but I did today. Why did Rauen do the ramps? Because I asked him to, along with making the pins seat all the way down. I bring a lot of guitars to Rauen, and I may be confusing one set-up with another. It could be (and would make a bit more sense) that I had the ramps and the set-up done at the same time.. I don't remember. The reciept(s) in the case with the guitar, on the ups truck. Will give a full report upon it's return.

And furthermore, I had the ramps done before the set-up, -two seperate jobs- and even with "normal" action the tops of the pins are above the hight of the saddle, aprox 1/8 -3/16 higher than the saddle. The top is not warping or anything, I think they just set the neck wrong at the factory. If it does'nt get a re-set now, it's gonna need one way before the 25-30 year mark. I will talk to Denny about it again.