Well, I made it. This is for 3/29/2007 and it’s just after Midnight of the 30th. Still at work, swapping workstations and configuring the new ones for folks to work on tomorrow at 7AM.
This is Charlie - One of my great-nephews. I have several.
One of the advantages of being the last of 8 siblings is having a big extended family!
The guitar that Charlie is playing is my old 6-string Applause (made by same folks, and looks like an Ovation).
The neck on this beast is made of cast aluminum. including the frets as I found out. I wore grooves into the frets. Wore them down so far, that the strings started buzzing against the fingerboard. I tried to fix it myself with epoxy and that didn’t work. I guess I could have ordered a new neck from somewhere, but the prices I was seeing were more than the original cost of the guitar.
So.. I bought a new one, and had this one sitting around.
Charlie’s dad and mom, Chris and Katherine, are musicians first in their hearts.
I saw that Charlie would love to come over and play this guitar, even when it buzzed. He didn’t know the difference.
I decided to give it to him as a play toy.
Not wanting his fingers to be accidentally cut, I took the strings off.
Uncles are good for some things.
Old guitars being one of them.
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