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Hey Pix ,
   My wife doesn't really mind either , it's just kind of a joke between us . Also , she knows as well as I do that my vintage instrument investments have done better
over the last ten years than our retirement investments .
L O L .........Go figure..........

                  Jerry

Hi Deb ,
   Welcome to Chordie , you're gonna love this site .
   There's a few of us old guitar and fiddle players here that always want to talk fiddles .
   I've never played one , but I've heard that the Fender
FV 1 is a sweet instrument .
I bet it's nice to have controls right on the fiddle . I
play accoustics with a separate stand alone preamp .
   Do you also play guitar ?
       
                 Jerry

Joy ,
   Another idea is to do what I do . I usually keep one guitar tuned down one full tone , ( from top string tune :
D , G , C , F , A , D . )
   Then if I want to play in standard , I just capo 2nd fret .
   You do need a chromatic tuner to do this ( or you won't be able to get the C )
Otherwise tune the top string to D then relative tune the rest . Hope this helps .

                 Jerry

Hey 3CF ,
   I bet it really sounds nice .
In my experience Fishmans are good stuff .
   You can use a straight edge to check the frets without taking the strings loose . You'll want to use a short one though because the neck is bowed slightly . Basically just checking maybe five at a time should tell you what you need to know . Good luck............
               Jerry

Hi 3CF ,
   Without more details , it's hard to say . Are you just starting out , or been playing a while ? The first guitar I ever had way back when I was ten , was an old Stella accoustic with action that you could drive a truck through . It was badly in need of a neck reset , so there was no fixing it . Learning on that guitar made me a better player . When ever I got to play one of my friends guitars , I could really
rip ...........
   Back to your question.......
If you decide to take it in somewhere , be sure to get an estimate so you can decide if it's worth the cost to you .
    If the neck is in good shape , it might only have one fret standing proud of it's neighbors . You can probably fix this yourself with a sanding block . Then try lowering the action again .
   Let us know what you end up doing ........

                     Jerry

Hi all ,
   I was 14 ........about 41 years ago .........does that count .......and my wife says I act like I'm 16 sometimes .
   Welcome all you young ones to Chordie ...........We all have something to learn and something to teach , so we all need each other .
   I do agree with what the other old farts are saying about the e-mail thing , but like Nela said.......nuff said .
No point beating a dead horse ...............

Upyerkilt ,
   After reading your story about the oil can , I have to tell this story of my bro. in law.
   One fall day he was raking leaves and decided he would rake them into this ditch he had going across his property
and burn them . This ditch is about eight foot across and about five foot deep . Well
he got them all raked in and got a two gallon gasoline can
and poured gas all over this huge pile of leaves . My sister
was watching from the window as he set about trying to lite this cocktail . After striking many matches ,
and throwing them in , it just would'nt lite , so he went and got more gas , poured it on .
( The temp was about eighty five degrees that day ) .
  Then he started with the matches again . After twenty min. of messing around the vapor was mixed in pretty good .
   Well it finally went , WOOOMP . Knocked him on his rear . My sister just saw the fireball and his baseball cap go flying . When he picked himself up , his face was black , no eyebrows to speak of and his cap was about twenty feet away with the visor burnt . He always says the worst part was that when it was all done , the smouldering leaves were all over the yard again ...........

Hi ,
   I've done a lot of stupid things , but I'll just recount
two of them here...........
   First of all.........
NEVER , NEVER , NEVER ,
get drunk , fasten a lawn chair to a pair of water skis ,
tie on the tow rope , and go skiing with a beer in one hand and a cooler in the other...........
    The second was just last summer . My bro and I were scuba diving our favorite lake
and we found a large old anchor . Well I decided I had to have it , and well , have you ever tried to surface carrying an anchor ? So I popped a portable buoy on it
so we could come back for it .
   The next week we came back with a lift bag , everything went smoothly ,
we found it , strapped on the lift bag and started filling it from my octopus . I could'nt have had more than a few cubic foot of air in it before this thing lunged off the bottom . first it almost dragged me with it , then after I got control of the situation , and started to ascend under it , the thing must have broke surface , and somehow lost the air in the bag . Well I was only about eight foot off the bottom on my way up when this anchor came past me free falling . You can imagine how it was moving , we were in about forty foot of water .
Let's just say I'll be a lot more carefull next time.......
( It was still fun though ).....

Hi there ,
   I used to use strickly perlons ( nylon core ) strings.
   But over the years I've come to like the plain steel strings better . They're cheaper also , and not much difference in tone .
   I think fiddle string preference is much like guitar string preference , it's
all subjective .
   Most teachers or instructors in my experience
have an agenda for recomending supplies . I've
even heard of them insisting that you buy a certain brand
from a certain supplier and finding out that after buying the overpriced strings , the
teacher actually received a
commission ................
   I call this " kick back "......

Hey Doc,
  Whenever I see those guitars , I have to laugh .
  I also like the ones that come brand new , except all beat up like so and sos . The
day I spent money on something like that or the
" signature guitars " , is the day I quit playing . Like I want a guitar with someone elses name on it .
  It all goes back to these guys that go to their witts end trying to copy someone elses sound ...........
   I just don't get it.........

                     Jerry