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Location: south east Michigan | Buy, want, trade, need, sell, snipe.
For well over a year I've been smothered in a sweet fog of contentment being very happy with my modest guitar collection. I thought that Amelia might spark some desire, but no. Even after sampling any number of fantastic guitars I find myself as happy as a clam.
It's a great state of mind to be in. |
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Location: Michigan | You da man! Contentment congrats. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I wish I could say the same. |
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Location: New Hampsha | Gee, that sounds like a gauntlet being tossed to me....
The GAS - inducement contingent of the OFC needs to work a bit harder!
Sic' em MW! |
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Location: NJ | hmmmm .......
clam chowder
clam stew
fried clams
clams and linguini |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | Thats thinking with your stomach Al... and I concur. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Much like the Bhuddist Monk that asked the Hotdog Vender "Make me one with everything"! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Clam cakes from the Rhode Island building at the Big E! (Oh, don't get me started on seafood again!) |
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Location: Location Location Location | Ok, I'm gonna need a program with many steps to reach your state of enlightenment. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
Clam cakes from the Rhode Island building at the Big E! (Oh, don't get me started on seafood again!) Damn Alison!! I live here and I rarely eat seafood. Grew up on the shore (Branford) and the seafood down there was plentiful, cheap and incredible!!!!! I haven't been to the Big E in 20 years!!! To many people!!!! |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Ok The Aussie has to ask!!
What's the big E?
AJ |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Eastern States Exposition. We used to call it the Springfield Fair when I was a kid. Each of the six New England states had a building where they showed off their wares, and what they were famous for. (Vermont had maple syrup, and how it was made for example.) Rhode Island had a bunch of stuff, but you could buy really good clam cakes there. They also had a huge midway with rides and games of chance, cattle barns, the "Better Living" building, where all kinds of businesses sold the latest stuff. There was always live music. (I saw the Doobie Brothers there back in the 70's.) And they had a great draft horse show, which is the only part I attended in later years because, as Bob said, it was just too crowded. We used to like going on rainy days to beat the crowds, but then it got to where it didn't make any difference. So I would go to the horse show, zip over to the Rhode Island building for clam cakes, then leave. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Brad, you need to buy my Duotone so I can pay for a Patriot, so we'll both be content. At least I will be for a couple weeks. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I am doing very well resisting buying the Collings SJ cutaway on ebay. I guess I'm reasonably happy at the moment too. |
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Location: SoCal | I'm pretty well in that same state. I like all my guitars and don't feel a need to add to them.
Yesterday morning, every guitar I picked up sounded horrible. Just didn't seem right. About mid day, I picked up my GC 12 string and it sounded wonderful. Then in the early evening, I picked up the FD14. Same reaction. Then one by one I played everything else. Same reaction. Life is good.
I thought the "Big E" was the Enterprise. That's what it was known as in WWII..... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I was content until Patch had to go and post pic's of the gorgeous 1158 Custom Legend 12 string from '81...it arrived today...I'll post new pic's soon when it stops raining...here's one that Patch took:
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
when it stops raining... Mike,
Send either the rain or the CL on down. I'll take a pic of either one at this point...
Congrats on the new adoptee! 
BTW, I'll take Apalachicola oysters over any clam!  |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | the Big E is the World Series for all the local 4-H clubs. Take your cows and pigs and sheep up there for showing them. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Beal:
I am doing very well resisting buying the Collings SJ cutaway on ebay. I guess I'm reasonably happy at the moment too. Saw that one. Verrrrry nice but I currently have my eyes trained on a couple of other targets...one electric and one acoustic.
The electric will take about 4 weeks to build and the acoustic about a year. Haven't pulled the trigger on either one yet but I have come real close a couple times. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Slip, I agree, my little group is a keeper (for now).
Music, I know that the 1158 is wonderful. Very different than your A 12s, chimy and blingy. Truly a 12er for the ages, for a man who loves 12er's. ENJOY!! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Beggin......missed you at AI. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Music, I know that the 1158 is wonderful. Very different than your A 12s, chimy and blingy. Truly a 12er for the ages, for a man who loves 12er's. ENJOY!!
Yes Beggin, it is! Thanks!
I hope the new pic's will show the beauty of the Abalone inlays...it's breathtaking! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Originally posted by stephent28:
Beggin......missed you at AI. Stephen, I missed y'all too, work before pleasure ya know. I hope to have a picture of us all at the Huddle House next year...well, maybe not a picture but, you know what I mean. ;) |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The full expresion is:
Happy as a clam at high tide. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I think that after all of my recent wrangling that I will be content. Sold 2, 1 is on ebay and bought 1... a big one. It will be just about a break even proposition, so SWMBO is happy. It's the old "1 in 3 out" rule.
I was thinking about this earlier... before joining here, I was pretty content. I had a tak g series and a damaged, but usable Preacher. NOW... fugghedaboudit! |
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Happy as a Clam
