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Any of the HC crew ever owned one of the Carbon Fiber acoustics available out there? Seems like an interesting idea for a more resilient guitar to travel with and leave out for practice.

Happy Birthday Mike.

Really interested in hearing what everyone else here is playing. The amount of guitars out there to choose from is pretty great and the number of great small builders is very impressive. Up to this point I have only played Martin, Taylors, Collings, Stonebridge and Wechters. Really liking both of the Martins. I am playing the 000-28 more as the 12 strings are a bit more comfortable than the 13s on the D-18. I like the open geared Waverly Tuners a but more than the Grovers. Seem to have a bit more solid feel and I think they look great. Random pic of the D-18

Looks like way too much PS sharpening to me.

Yeah, I am trying various case humidifiers and hygrometers to see what it best. I have found the Planet Waves hygrometer to be very inaccurate but their case humidifiers seem to work better the Planet Waves Humidipak. The Caliber IV that I bought at the cigar shop seems to be fare better than the Planet Waves unit so I need to pick up more of those. The shop I was at last night has a new D-18GE for $2900, which is the lowest price I have seen for them.

Somebody's gotta keep this thread going. Took off early to check out another shop that I had not visited to look for a smaller / cheaper practice guitar to use for lessons, etc. Really nice shop and the people were all great. My salesman reminded me very much of Jacob and I figure since Jacob knows his shit, this guy might as well. Played tons of guitars but came back to my original favorite from when I first started trying out guitars. I really wanted this one when I got the 160. I tried a whole lot of Taylors but really did not like them for some reason. They were all pretty heavy and the 1.75" neck was less comfortable than the 1 11/16 on my two newer Martins. I also tried two Collings guitars and really liked them but not sure that is where I will end up or not. They had it for a really good price so I got a smaller, but not necessarily cheap Martin. I should probably look into expanding my guitar room.

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Mad Fibers without any doubt for me.

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The GS Mini sounded nice but it wasn't really small enough to bother with as it would still be a pain to commute with. I did manage to pick up another Martin, this time a Dreadnaught.

Thanks Dusty I might try that. I have found that a greatly prefer playing the acoustic to the electric. The electric has not been out of the case more than twice since I got it and that was only to play Rocksmith. I went over to JV's last night and saw Anthony Pirog play. Pretty good and the guy uses more pedals than I have ever seen on a stage.

I have a couple of case humidifiers to try and put a Air-O-Swiss humidifier in the room. I am contemplating picking up a Taylor GS Mini for lessons as I do not have time to go home after work before lessons so I need to take a guitar with me to work. Has anyone played one of these little guys? Are they close enough to a full size to be worthwhile?

Went out shopping for stands and ended up with these Hercules stands. Seem to work really well. I also got a humidifier for the room as my house was reading around 23% humidity and it seems I need between 40-50%. Now trying to choose a stool for the guitar room. I can almost play the intro to Sweet Home Alabama without fucking up at this point.

Snow is mostly washed away here but I am contemplating running to REI to get a big puffy coat for tomorrow as I am not prepared at all for the temperatures tomorrow.

It won't matter if I change guitars for every song as it will make me go through the tuning before each song if the key changes.

Thanks, working on it. I found it very interesting how different different acoustic guitars sound from each other. I guess the bracing and woods make a pretty big difference. The Rocksmith game has been kind of annoying as it makes you retune the guitar constantly and its tuner is way off. I have to tune my guitar wrong every song and then tune it properly again when I am done with my tuner.

Picked up an acoustic to start lessons with. Really like everything about it. Martin OMC-160 GTE. Not a rosewood body (Ovangkol) so a bit cheaper but I like the weight and the sound seemed pretty great. I liked the idea of having the electric capabilities though I probably won't use it. I even had a guitar player at the shop play me some music on it and several other Martin's and Taylor's and chose this one.

I am still on the hunt for amps but this one seemed to be pretty good for $400. The guy that built my guitar is going to give me lessons though I have to drive to Springfield to his studio instead of doing them in the store a couple miles from my house. Evidently he records and videos the lessons so I can see them later and he can only do that in his studio. I am going to check out Action Guitars this weekend which is about 4 miles from the house. http://www.actionguitar.com/ Looks fairly limited in stock but might have some interesting amps I guess.

Ended up going with a lower end shop build that seems to be put together pretty well. Chose this over the Reverend guitars and some refurb MIM Strats. They have a giant machine called a PLEK that they setup each guitar with that is supposed to be something worthwhile. Don't know what all it does but it is noisy and they charge $250 to set up you guitar in it unless you buy one from them. Locking tuners, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. Picked this up on a whim as it has a a Celestion G12M Greenback speaker and EL84 tubes. Sounded great in the store.

I also really liked this small brand acoustic 12 fret. Kind of strange but sounds great.

Any of you guys know the AXL brand of amps. The medway special model they have here is nice. Evidently they are owned by VHT but all I see are cheap guitars they make. They also have a little Chickenhead tweed amp that I like. The only VOX amp they have is a used solid state amp. I am buying a shop built guitar that the shop Dusty sent me to built. Strat body with Texas special pickups and some custom neck. Sounds good and has been pleck'd which is some giant machine they have here for setting up guitars. Seems good for use with rocksmith.

Yeah unfortunately not enough time to make it down there this trip.

Going to head to the Sanctuary again this afternoon to try to narrow it down. Craigslist here in Dallas is full of great guitars I wish I could take back with me. Everything in DC Craigslist seems to be overpriced garbage and I have yet to find a guitar store up there similar to this one. Might end up shipping guitars home before I leave.