My name is Tony. My 1st guitar was a 1970 Martin 00-18 - was my wife’s but she gave it to me on my birthday after I played it every day for 5 months when I picked up the guitar bug. My retirement/covid boredom cure.
No longer have it - but recognize my luck in having a great sounding guitar to learn on.
No big secret for my username, my name and the year that will have me hitting a milestone birthday this December. There are some interesting stories in this thread though!
This movie traumatized me when I was little, lol. I really liked the second movie though.
I wish I had a good story for my username, but it’s just my name and my three favorite numbers. I think I just wasn’t feeling particularly inspired the day I signed up
No, I sold it. It needed some work, and I discovered that the 1-11/16 nut/string spacing was cramping my style (learning). Mostly play my late model 0-18 Martin with 1-3/4 nut. Or my 2021 00-28. Unless I’m camping - like all last week - then it’s my little Martin 00-jr. Love them all, play every day. Love the way guitar keeps getting more fun as one gets better.
Definitely a fan of Martins. Miss the old 00-18 sometimes, had a fine sound.
I’ve not been looking forward to it for probably a year already but yes I’ll have to do something. The first something I did was buy my dream guitar in March. Might as well make it a birthday year for such a milestone eh? (See - Canadian! )
Twin Six is what I’ve named my 1986 Alvarez Yairi DY-76 12-string, my main guitar, after a 1932 Packard Dietrich Twin Six Convertible Victoria owned by my grandfather while I was a kid. Here’s a photo of the car as it appeared in the Automobile Quarterly book on Packard during my grandfather’s ownership. What makes this car unique is the rear-mounted spare configuration, as Ray Dietrich designed cars with side-mounted spares.
I won’t guess cuz I’m pretty sure I know your ‘actual’ name. I don’t quite recall how I know, it might have been the very first Livestream and it might have been Justin who used that name, maybe based on an email address. I don’t remember the details - but I do remember the name!
Yes I recall that we had this discussion sometime before too, young man. I don’t think I’ve seen you express any … thoughts … about that milestone though!!!
Nope. Cast the line reel em in Nothing to do with fishing either. I had just joined the Scouts. That’s the only clue you’ll get but something you mentioned earlier was getting close. Maybe post the OM I’ll do a reveal.
My guess is that your name is Thomas but you didn’t like it and preferred Tom and when you joined the scouts you were deemed to be jolly/boisterous/mad as a hatter and the big boys started calling you Toby for a laugh because of the jug and it stuck!! (cigar?)