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I don't know about here but one of the forums I help moderate has been getting pounded from Pakistan lately. I'm usually the first mod to log on in the A.M. and I too break out Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

And you're right. Having the members report spam makes it soooooo much easier to get things cleaned up quickly.

Nice! Looks like a challenge for me as well. Think I'll play around with it.

You can't just upload from your computer like other forums. You need to use an outside hosting service like photobucket, snapfish, etc. Here are the instructions on how to post pics. From what I've seen, it isn't discouraged.

http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=14150

Look closely and you'll see that the inlay is missing at the fifth fret. That's the way I got it. I had a fellow make and install a new one about 25 years ago but it recently disappeared. I need to go back and have him make another. Won't be playing it till it gets fixed

I have no recording equipment except for my little pocket digital camera and that can't really capture the true sound.

On a different note (pun intended)

My first guitar, in the top pic, cost me $180 back in '82; pretty spendy for me at the time. The bridge (saddle?) was plastic. About a year after I bought it, my brother was banging it pretty hard and that piece of plastic broke. I was devastated. I took it to a guy ( same one that later on made the inlay) and asked if it could be repaired. He replaced the plastic with bone and replaced the nut with bone at the same time. It went from a cheap, dingy sound to a rich, bright sound that just astonished me. I couldn't believe the difference. The best $30 I ever spent. I still play that one more than any of the others.

I grew up in Williamsport. Graduated in '76. I didn't start playing seriously until I moved to the Hbg. area in '81. That's where I bought my first new guitar; an Epiphone acoustic with the sunburst finish for $180. That was a fortune for me back then. I put it on lay-away and spent the entire summer paying for it. It's still my go-to, EDP(every day player). Is that a new acronym?

First song I knew all the way through without the book was Nights in White Satin although I always stumbled on the F so I gave it up. First one I could play well was Down on the Corner. Yeah I know, still has the F but I had mastered it by then. Still one of my favorites and one that didn't get lost in my 20 year break from playing.

We made a similar move a couple years ago. Went from 2500sf to 1100sf. We have 2 outbuildings. One for me and one for chickens. We also now have a pond and a lot of area for gardening. There may even be a couple goats in our future.

I used to have 2 guitars on the wall. I hung them horizontally with the strap. They lived there for a year or so when it dawned on me that it could be putting undue stress on the neck/body joint that wasn't designed for continuous pressure in the direction. On top of that we heat exclusively with wood now. Loading the wood and cleaning the ash from the stove was leaving a layer of dust pretty quick. I decide they were better left in the case.

To someone like me who's never delved into scales, it actually is a bit intimidating. But it doesn't look as complicated as I imagined it would be. A bit like barre chords. When I discovered the finger structure and then realized how easy it was to transfer that structure to any place on the fretboard... and then realized everything was all lined up in neat little rows, it was like a giant floodlight being turned on. It opened up a whole new world of playing for me. I'm guessing it will be the same for scales.

Thank you for taking the time to put this together and share it with those of us that are a little less informed.

Yeah, Yeah I know. A newbie breaking out the ancient threads.

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

topdown- The name kinda just happened the first day we played at the assisted living facility. There were 3 of us that day. A girl joined us to sing. We finished our set with This Land Is Your Land so everyone could join in and one of the ladies asked us what we called ourselves. We sort of looked at each other with this perplexed look on our faces since we never really thought about it. Since I was known as UncleJoe in our group and we played a lot of Dead. I finally broke the silence and said Unclejoesband; a play on words with the Dead song Uncle John's Band, since we had played it that day. It stuck.

I've heard of skype but have no idea how it works. I'm guessing I would need a mic and camera of which I have neither.

[JoeyJoeyJoey, I was Joey for the longest time. A couple of my aunts still call me that.

Thanks again for the warm welcome.