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Guild D40 Bluegrass Jubilee.  Best guitar I've ever owned and am ever likely to own.

A with no capo.

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3 acoustics, 1 solid body electric, 2 solid body electric basses, a fiddle, and an autoharp. 

If you count the guitars I have 'loaned' to people never expecting them to be returned, add 3 more acoustics.  My usual rule on loans is that they can keep the guitar for as long as they continue to practice or play, but if they decide at some point to give it up then I want the guitar back to pass on to someone else.

Also, two canoes, a raft, and six kayaks.

Best wishes from Virginia.

Russell's extensible pinky, though impressive, is nothing.  Normtheguitar has an extra set of fingers in his palms.  They retract like cat claws, but they come out when he plays.

It's looking like my June is pretty booked up.  July is the month where I'll be burning a bunch of leave camping with my family.  I'm not sure I'm going to figure out a getaway to upstate NY this year.  I love the idea, though.

I don't have the guit-box yet! Tomorrow.

I got the cash from the insurance settlement from when my truck was crashed into. On the way back from the bank, I stopped by the shop and told them I'd come get it if my Funny Little Honey approved. He gave the thumbs up sign. This is my fourth guitar or bass from this shop, so I think it'll still be there tomorrow with that notice. But...if someone has cash today and says he'll take it, he'd be a fool not to sell it.

- Zurf

I like it.  I like them both, actually, though on the Jesus Train I'd have to hear it.  Some of the meter and rhyme scheme was hard for me and might take some editing as you put music to it. 

Anyway, I liked it despite having been a bassist in a praise band at a church where there were hand waivers.  There's a time and a place for different things.  I think that's what you're getting at, or at least what I'm taking from this poem.  There's a time for entertainment, and there's a time for worship, and there's a time for study, and they're not necessarily all the same things!  Hmm, seems that Ecclesiastes had that message and The Byrds repeated it to great popularity among a less-than-religious group of people. 

- Zurf

I've got one of each and love each of them. The one with mahogany is meant for blugrass picking. The highs are clear and sharp, the bass is boomy, and it's LOUD. The one with rosewood has very good mid and high and responds well to hard attacks on the strings. I'm now looking at a Martin with their high pressure laminate (HPL), and it has very clear high and mid clarity, but not so much volume.

Russell is a mutant.  He's not just A mutant, but King of the Mutants.  He's got so much stinking talent, it's amazing.  I love chatting with him and getting his help (which is always freely given - he's not just a fantastic guitar player, but a heck of a great person too). 

- Zurf

Big ol' campfire circle format, with each taking his turn and others joining if they know the song. We've done a few jam songs where everyone plays, and those are neat, but for me the big fun is hearing everyone's individual selections and styles.

Now some folks have used practice amps, and that's OK, but it's not a big stage bash format.

This year its so big, I bet we'll see more than one circle going at a time with folks floating between them. Or maybe not. We've had quite a few pickers along the New and the Shenandoah and it's worked. The Gettysburg bluegrass jam got upwards of 40 pickers a week, and 'the circle' worked.