Advice from experienced guitar players needed.

[Yaworski]

Oscar Schmidt makes reasonably priced decent guitars.

My guitar has a first name . . .

 

[GasGuzzler]

Making Lefties play right handed golf is old school. If you are left handed play left handed. My son is left handed and he is a good golfer.

I am right handed and play golf left. Always swung left and threw right in baseball so why not golf?

 

[Sasquatch]

I was 33 when I got my first guitar, an Adamas acoustic.
Still playing at 68 , last year I looked for months for an inexpensive good sounding acoustic and when I found one I knew straight away it was a keeper. It’s a Yamaha F320 I think and sounds just as good as some expensive Martins I’ve owned and it only cost me $330 OTD .

 

[Fox Mike]

I have three Yamahas. A six string, a 12 string, and a guitarlele (6 string ukulele). I also have a ukulele I built as well as a McNally strumstick.

 

[GasGuzzler]

One of my Yamahas is an APX600 and the one I bought for my daughter is an F355 I got on sale for $150 NEW. Lists for $199 and is more than fine for a beginner. The one I bought my wife is a Fender CC-60SCE in sunburst.

 

[jav]

I have a old 1955 Gibson es330 and Cordova acoustic and a old fender tube amp real clean sound

 

[Gopher]

Do old Custom Kraft guitars have any value today? I got one when I was 10 or so and took lessons until I started playing football and people started breaking my fingers. Every kid in my little town has had it at one time or another, and it finally came back to me about 10 years ago. Lord knows where the amp ended up. The volume control is seized, and the top layer of the body is separating, and it has the expected body dings for something 60 years old. The cardboard case is still in good shape, too. Is it worth restoring, or is it just a wall hanger these days?

 

[wproct]

I see this thread has been around for a while. I have always liked guitars and play a little, but not good at all. I had a really good local pawn shop for probably 20 years and he would get a lot of guitars in and I bought a few for me, family, and friends. My favorite for me just to jam on for fun is my little Baby Taylor. It was an older one that still came with a nice hard case. Gave my son a nice Samick acoustic, bought my daughter a Dean acoustic/electric, and a grand daughter a Taylor Big Baby. Also had a Fender Telecaster which was really pretty but was one made in Mexico.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Also had a Fender Telecaster which was really pretty but was one made in Mexico.

Made in Mexico (or MIM) Fenders are fine. The pecking order is USA, MiM or Japan .... then way down there at the bottom is Indonesia and China.

 

[gnappi]

Just picked up my Telecaster from getting new strings. He said he lowered the action a bit too.
I'm finally to the point where little things like that are very noticeable to me.

Was a long struggle working on barre chords and I'm still not real good with them.

Can't believe it's been a year already. I'm still not bored with it and still practice every day.

You can't be a guitar player if you do not re-string them yourself because most "guitar techs" have no idea how to do it properly and tie knots to try to keep strings from slipping while tuning... and fail

I had a good friend who watched me play for the first time ask me "what's the middle finger doing on your barre chords"?

You see he played them with two fingers (middle finger and pinkie suspended above the fretboard "fb" ) and did not get very clear sounding chords. I told him the middle finger pressed on the fb behind the pointer lent support and gave better pressure on the strings for the other two fingers but the middle finger did not affect the notes the other two were fingering.

If you are not using your middle finger for support try it.