LucSulla

Well, it started off as about $1300. Then if dropped to $1200. Now it is $1350. I hate it when sellers do that.

I had a pretty amazing Studio that I sold during a year-long employment drought. It was PERFECT. I saw it six months later on Reverb with a headstock repair. Still pisses me off.

Not for this one. The $2500 was for a Monaco Elite.

Lol, it's a good damn thing that I hate talking on the phone, or I might be picking that up. I've had a Super Pro but never an Elite.

I almost bought that. I have one just like that already and thought long and hard about having a twin.

Going to be in Roanoke this weekend. Wish I had some cash and faith in Delta to not destroy a guitar in getting back to MS.

I deeply appreciate this comment. Love old Pontiac V8s.

Being a fairly competent guitarist really is going from feeling like one of the best to ever do it one show to feeling like you should just sell all your gear and never mentioned every having been a musician the next.

For once, twas not me.

I have a couple of dedicated metal guitars for the metal band that I'm not in, lol. But someday... I was probably pushing about 105 dB out of the Shiva last night, which isn't unusual. Whatever it is will definitely get to eat. I tend to agree about nuts. I've gone back to using nylon nuts on Lesters. I think @murkat once said that those 50s LPs didn't tend to bind in the nut on the D and G strings as badly due to using nylon nuts back then. I've started using them when I replace a nut on a Lester, and low and behold...

I'm kind of looking at getting another Studio, but I've also had GAS for an Artist for a while. Not really in a position to buy one of each, so it would be one or the other if anything at all. I was curious what the differences were in tone for those of you who have played both.

If I'm still doing this that well for that many people at that age, I'll count myself a very lucky man.

I'm trying hard not to bite on it. I'm playing the Hamer Studio a lot again b/c, in my humble opinion, they are arguably the best work horse, HH guitar out there. As much as I love Lesters, Studios do it all with less weight and better tuning stability, and so I find it is going to more and more gigs. Which means I want a back up of course. If I wasn't waiting to see if the LP I just sold makes it in one piece to Michigan and for another one of the two I have up for sale to sell, I probably would do it.

I don't know. I'm taking it in the neck on some stuff I'm selling myself. Lessons from my finance classes from years ago are starting to come back I guess.

Final price drop on that Gibson.