yettoblaster
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I grew up on a '61 Gibson J-45, which I played exclusively for about the first 14 years I played guitar (minus the first year on an electric Kay, which was putrid).
Getting this D40 has been a lot like "going home."
I had a Larrivee D-05 once, as well as a Gibson Advanced Jumbo. This D40 is about as loud as either of those (which were cannons), and has more spank than the J-45, but I am still able to hear a difference in the Adirondak spruce that I haven't heard since the J-45, even though it is a different guitar with a different scale length!
I feel I'm pretty set for a dread with this D40, but I really like the SCGC '29 00 I've handled at Sylvan (though I no longer teach there, they're just up the street from our house, so I'm in there buying strings etc all the time).
My best fingerpicker (though I fingerpick on about anything) was an OM pattern made for me by my nextdoor neighbor Jim Patterson, who was kinda the "father" of guitarmaking here in Santa Cruz, and taught everybody who came after (though most have exceeded his work). Stewmac still sells a book he wrote on pearl and abalone inlay (one of the first books on that). He's 84 now and has slowed way down.
That OM was my acoustic guitar for many years, but I have been playing jobs steadily since moving top Santa Cruz in 1974, so most of my playing has been on electric rigs.
Now that I'm approaching my "rocking chair years" I think I could really love a SCGC '29 00!
Getting this D40 has been a lot like "going home."
I had a Larrivee D-05 once, as well as a Gibson Advanced Jumbo. This D40 is about as loud as either of those (which were cannons), and has more spank than the J-45, but I am still able to hear a difference in the Adirondak spruce that I haven't heard since the J-45, even though it is a different guitar with a different scale length!
I feel I'm pretty set for a dread with this D40, but I really like the SCGC '29 00 I've handled at Sylvan (though I no longer teach there, they're just up the street from our house, so I'm in there buying strings etc all the time).
My best fingerpicker (though I fingerpick on about anything) was an OM pattern made for me by my nextdoor neighbor Jim Patterson, who was kinda the "father" of guitarmaking here in Santa Cruz, and taught everybody who came after (though most have exceeded his work). Stewmac still sells a book he wrote on pearl and abalone inlay (one of the first books on that). He's 84 now and has slowed way down.
That OM was my acoustic guitar for many years, but I have been playing jobs steadily since moving top Santa Cruz in 1974, so most of my playing has been on electric rigs.
Now that I'm approaching my "rocking chair years" I think I could really love a SCGC '29 00!
