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Gonna buy me a plywood cheapy

Michael Martin

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...and head for the lake for a week-and-a-half. Wife and daughters, the pop-up camper, and this afternoon I'm going to go buy a Chinese dreadnought that sells for $48 (new!) at the local pawnshop. It will be my new camping guitar. I've been using a little 3/4 Applause for camping the past few years, but I want bigger sound. I played this plywood thing earlier today--not bad sound or action--I mean, why not? Not much to lose! (I'd love to take my 'bird or my Tak, but way too risky to leave those things lying around in a campground.)

 

The name on the headstock is "Lauren". Come to think of it, it's hard to tell what it's made of--no woodgrain apparent on the outside because of the paint job...maybe it's made of compressed rice stalks or freeze-dried tofu...? Recycled chopsticks?

 

I'll let y'all know how it goes.

 

Keep up the good work while I'm gone...

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Originally posted by Michael Martin

...and head for the lake for a week-and-a-half. Wife and daughters, the pop-up camper, and this afternoon I'm going to go buy a Chinese dreadnought that sells for $48 (new!) at the local pawnshop. It will be my new camping guitar. I've been using a little 3/4 Applause for camping the past few years, but I want bigger sound. I played this plywood thing earlier today--not bad sound or action--I mean, why not? Not much to lose! (I'd love to take my 'bird or my Tak, but way too risky to leave those things lying around in a campground.)


The name on the headstock is "Lauren". Come to think of it, it's hard to tell what it's made of--no woodgrain apparent on the outside because of the paint job...maybe it's made of compressed rice stalks or freeze-dried tofu...? Recycled chopsticks?


I'll let y'all know how it goes.


Keep up the good work while I'm gone...

 

 

My mother's maiden name is Wu.

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I bought one of these as my 'firewood cheapie.'

It spends its life in the desert at my mom and dad's, and I visit it once a year. For a $99 guitar, it really wasn't that bad at all. It's certainly miles better than the Gibson Blueridge I owned back in the 80's.

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I love the post heading

Gonna buy me a plywood cheapie
To take along on the ride
Gonna play it till my kids are sleepy
Then I'm gonna pull out my slide.

I love my plywood cheapie
It rides along with me
My little plywood cheapie
For all the world to see.

:D :D

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Originally posted by Kap'n

I bought one of
these
as my 'firewood cheapie.'


It spends its life in the desert at my mom and dad's, and I visit it once a year. For a $99 guitar, it really wasn't that bad at all. It's certainly miles better than the Gibson Blueridge I owned back in the 80's.



any chance you could post a review on that guitar? i've been searching for a cheap guitar for my dad (he wouldn't want anythign expensive, as he's not sure if he really wants to play again or not...he used to have a Gibson Hummingbird when he was a kid that he sold for like $50...man :mad:)

how's the tone? the stock action? the quality of build? i'm familiar with Takamine guitars (and Jasmine is their "Squier" line), and i do like Takamine.

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Originally posted by Frets99

I love the post heading


Gonna buy me a plywood cheapie

To take along on the ride

Gonna play it till my kids are sleepy

Then I'm gonna pull out my slide.


I love my plywood cheapie

It rides along with me

My little plywood cheapie

For all the world to see.


:D
:D



Post a clip! Insta-classic!

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At GC, they have some kinda deal where if you buy 10 packs of an elixir like brand of strings. (might be elixer, I didn't read it too closely but it's the same long lasting kind of string) for $9.90 each ($99.00) you can get a free Jasmine. I don't much care for Elixirs but I know they cost more than $9.90 a set. Seems like a bargain for anybody who likes those strings.

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I wanna buy a plywood cheapie.
Gonna roll some quarters and dimes.
When I buy that plywood cheapie,
Everyone will have a real good time.

Ok, Frets99, that's three verses. Just enough to make a real song! Cut it and post!!!

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Originally posted by Frets99

At GC, they have some kinda deal where if you buy 10 packs of an elixir like brand of strings. (might be elixer, I didn't read it too closely but it's the same long lasting kind of string) for $9.90 each ($99.00) you can get a free Jasmine. I don't much care for Elixirs but I know they cost more than $9.90 a set. Seems like a bargain for anybody who likes those strings.



think i'll be able to sell em on ebay in about a month for $9.90 each and get the jasmine totally for free? :)

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eh, nevermind, i just checked out their flyer. it's 10 sets of D'Addario EXP12's or EXP13's (neither of which are a gauge I would use), and they regularly sell for $9.99 a set anyway.

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Originally posted by Stackabones

I wanna buy a plywood cheapie.

Gonna roll some quarters and dimes.

When I buy that plywood cheapie,

Everyone will have a real good time.


Ok, Frets99, that's three verses. Just enough to make a real song! Cut it and post!!!



I'm loving it!!!!

Can't wait to get home n noodle!!:D

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eh, nevermind, i just checked out their flyer. it's 10 sets of D'Addario EXP12's or EXP13's (neither of which are a gauge I would use), and they regularly sell for $9.99 a set anyway.



Yeah but you still get a guitar... or a plywood cheapie to call your very own!!:D

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Originally posted by dwerlin



any chance you could post a review on that guitar? i've been searching for a cheap guitar for my dad (he wouldn't want anythign expensive, as he's not sure if he really wants to play again or not...he used to have a Gibson Hummingbird when he was a kid that he sold for like $50...man
:mad:
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how's the tone? the stock action? the quality of build? i'm familiar with Takamine guitars (and Jasmine is their "Squier" line), and i do like Takamine.



I could, but I haven't played it in seven months, and won't for another five.

The only guitar I have with Elixers. :D

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Originally posted by Frets99

Never got a chance last night. (Kids!!!
:mad:
) But I'm chompin at the bit to do the plywood cheapie tune!!



When I get my plywood cheapie,
Gonna satistfy my soul,
Gonna strum those strings so sweetly,
Gonna play that rock n roll.

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When I get my plywood cheapie,

Gonna satistfy my soul,

Gonna strum those strings so sweetly,

Gonna play that rock n roll.



Oh yeah!!!:thu:


I wonder if this is how "Tommy" started out.

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YESSIR!!! Frets99! Great vibe!

Of course, it's different than the one I've been singing in my head for the past couple of days--now it's sure to be influenced (replaced) by the classic Frets99 track!

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That was great! Best song I heard all day.

Seriously, I got a kick out of it. And a chuckle :D .

If you perform, you should include that tune.

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Originally posted by Stackabones

YESSIR!!! Frets99! Great vibe!


Of course, it's different than the one I've been singing in my head for the past couple of days--now it's sure to be influenced (replaced) by the classic Frets99 track!

 

 

Thanks guys!

 

Hey Stack.If you have recording stuff, toss up your version. I've actually done this before with folks. Collab'd on lyrics and everyone took it home and came back with how they heard it. It was way cool.

 

Here's a link to my version of that tune.

Drinkin Bout the Future

 

MyM.Mo! Ya know, with a little work on the phrasing, Yeah, it'll work for sure!!

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Originally posted by Frets99

Well here it is! The lyrical collaboration of Stackabones n Frets99 performed by the one and only, the inimitable... Clammy Sammy!!!


Streaming file link


Played on my Ovation Matrix!! Hows that for plywood cheapie!!!


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Totally. Fooking. Awesome, F99!!! Just got back from the lakes (Interlochen area of Michigan). The great irony of all this is that I didn't buy the Lauren "plywood cheapy" after all. I hadn't noticed that the floor model (only one they had at the pawnshop) was not only missing a string, but also a bridge pin--and I didn't have time to go find one before we bugged out.

Anyway, I took the little Applause along, and wrote lotsa new stuff. I really do like it--nice neck--I just want more boom than that little body can produce. You can't really whale on it to good effect, and I play really hard sometimes (I have NONE of F99's subtlety).

Good to be back, but now the damn semester begins...

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