Beautifull guitar 
Congrats Craig 
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Congrats Craig! Thatās a lovely guitar!
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Ha-ha
Nice guitar and I agree ādonāt buy stringsā and donāt watch YouTube, donāt look on Reverb or eBay to pass a few minutes or slow down when passing a guitar store lol
but hey we all love NGD and it keeps us inspired 
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Good decision Craig!!!
I love your (I presume) typo aboveā¦
Often perusing turns into pursuing!!! 
That is a beautiful new axe!!!
Lovely shade of blueā¦ I have a serious weakness for blue guitars!
Enjoy your new strings!!!
Tod
P.S. I think Rebecca got it rightā¦
LOL, yes a typo, damn autocorrect. But I guess it might have known something I didnāt.
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That sounds like a great goal! Buying a lottery ticket this afternoon.
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I love the āit was x amount offā
Just the thing to tell a wife or partner - rather than the actual cost 
Nice guitar btw
Craig,
Since we havenāt seen a whole bunch of NGD posts from youā¦
ā¦guessing that the Lottery ticket didnāt pay off!!! 
I saw this thread pop up in āLatest Topicsā & read through againā¦ brought back a memory from many years agoā¦
I owned one cheap guitar at the time & needed new strings. There was a small, family-owned music store within walking distance from my kids elementary school. I walked in one day only to realized that they mainly were a drum storeā¦ very few guitar related items. BUT, they did have a pretty large display of strings for various stringed instruments & above them was a sign that said:
FREE STRINGS FOR A YEAR WITH PURCHASE OF A STRINGED INSTRUMENT
I thought, āHmmmmmā¦ well maybe a quick look at the guitars, mandolins & bassesā of which they only had a few on displayā¦
They had a very pretty Ibanez acoustic-electric with a cutaway that sounded good to me but it had a large ding on the front which didnāt appeal to me. So I walked away. Told my wife about it that night & so a couple of weeks later she took me into the store to browse - Theyād gotten another one inā¦ a perfect oneā¦ I was waffling about spending the $400 (quite a lot of money to us then) when the owner said heās sell it for the same price as the damaged oneā¦ $325. My wife insisted on $300 or no sale & the guy gave inā¦ AND honored the free strings deal alsoā¦ I had a little punch card to get strings once a month for 12 months!
I later found out why the company came up with that little punch card - I would go in to get my FREE strings & spend $$$ - another guitar about a year later, a drum kit for my son, a violin for my daughterā¦ I got free strings but they got a customer for life! Unfortunately, the owner retired & his kids decided to sell the business to someone who ended up bankrupt after a couple of yearsā¦ such a shame to see a really good store that fostered goodwill in the neighborhood go underā¦
Tod
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Great story. I try to patronize the small Mom & Pop stores but they are slowly disappearing.