#4 A New Fancy Acoustic Guitar Pick?
I ‘m one of those guitar players that once I find something that works I don’t really like trying other things. I’m just a regular routine guy so when I found the Dunlop Ultex Sharp Pick I immediately fell in love with it and thought, this is the pick for the rest of my life. However, in the last year or so I’ve tried a ton of different picks for review purposes. One particular pick came in the mail bag recently and it’s one that I think you’ll really enjoy, especially if you like the vibe of the Dunlop Ultex Sharp Pick.
See this Guitar Pick Review
#3 What’s On the Turntable This Week?
Watching this guitarist pick is a tour de force of tensionless playing, comfort, and confidence. The way he addresses the strings is void of any physical tension and the tone created is downright dreamy. Regardless of a songs difficulty his picking accuracy remains extremely high.
See this Acoustic Artist Review
#2 The Future of Acoustic Guitars?
As a guitar geek do you ever find yourself pondering the question, “With all of the amazing guitar manufacturers around today, in 100 or so years, who will have made some of the most sought after guitars?”
See this AskMatt Segment
#1 Singing and Playing With the Frogs
Small bench luthiers across the world are currently crafting some of the most amazing guitars ever made. I am talking about guitars that would make any guitar geek weak in the knees. This particular luthier crafts instruments that from the tone woods used all the way to the smallest of appointments would easily give any guitar geek the vapors.
See this Acoustic Guitar Review
#smallwin Bob P from Alexandria VA. Ended the summer by attending show by The Earls of Leister. While there picked up some tickets to see Ricky Skaggs.
Good morning gents.
Love love love acoustic Tuesday, and all things geeky.
Small win, my thumb has finally taken on a life of its own, giddy up
Also considering buying a ToneWoodAmp, certainly Mr Tony has thoughts on this.
Please share.
https://www.tonewoodamp.com/
Thanks for the great show, and special thanks to Noah for helping me get out of my guitar rut. Cheers to you (Laphroaig)
#You know you’re a guitar geek when you can do your laundry and replenish the supply of your favorite picks at the same time.
New Golden era? I would say yes! I’m new to acoustic guitar at 62 years old, but have gone way overboard after starting with a Chinese replica dreadnought. Now I have a couple of nice Larrivee’s, a Morgan, & have commissioned another guitar.
I had the chance to run across Randy Wood when I was working in Georgia and asked him if he were to build a guitar for himself, what would it be? He went over to a dusty old case & opened it. Inside was a 12 fret copy of a pre war J-35 slope shoulder dreadnought in mahogany he had built for himself many years ago. I strummed it through some basic cords & finger picked some basic exercises I’d been working on. To me it was magical. He did suggest instead of mahogany, he really preferred Koa. That was it, I placed an order. He called last week asking what strings I wanted, it’s almost ready. I can hardly wait. By the way, he built a couple of brothers, one in mahogany & one in rosewood that are for sale on his website. Maybe the golden era hasn’t ended.
#ask Matt: Matt, where (and why) do you rank Petros guitars in this group. Thanks
Acoustic Tuesday gives me a wonderful lift and I so much look forward to it.
Tony, Noah,
First of all, thank you so much for fully re-igniting my acoustic guitar flame. It has been a crazy few weeks since discovering you guys, right after episode 50 was released. Originally coming from an electronic background, artists like Fink, Jose Gonzalez and Gravenhurst suddenly piqued my interest. At the time I made music on a computer, but after it crashed a lot and finally gave up the ghost I got fed up with computers and decided to buy an acoustic guitar, a simple Tanglewood dreadnought. Unbeknowst to me it was not properly setup and has always been laborous to play and so over the years I started and stopped again and again, even though I absolutely love creating melodies, learning new stuff and spacing out for hours. Fast-forward 10 years, I suddenly discover Acoustic Tuesdays and what follows is a sleuth(?) of #smallwins. I found a really lovely 1995 cedar/wild cherry Seagull S6 Folk that has pretty much been hanging on a wall for 23 years, waiting for me to adopt it. And it plays and sounds wonderful. I also found a luthier that put in a K&K Pure Mini for me and will also finally get my Tanglewood set up properly. I got a Tonewood Amp, a PolyTune Clip-on tuner, Santa Cruz Parabolic Tension strings, bought a Washburn Rover travel guitar (’cause no moneys for Klos right now, lol) and today I just received my Kaki King-Rosenkrantz Pasarelle bridge, which I can’t wait to start playing with.
Really, I can’t thank you guys enough.
As an offering I have an #YKYAGGW:
You know you’re a guitar geek when you need to pause the Acoustic Tuesday show, because you just remembered that one missing part from that one song in that weird tuning that you never got to tabbing or recording.
Peace out, brothers! Acoustic for life!
Bask
The Netherlands
P.S. Thanks so much for the wealth of amazing artists. Totally in love with Caitlyn Canty, Colter Wall’s voice is unreal, adoring Pharis & Jason Romero (definitely that one rendition of Cumberland Gap!) and OMG how much do I love Benjamin Tod.
I Will Rise is pretty much the theme song to my life. You guys are absolute heroes!
#Smallwin. I went into a roadside restaurant wearing my Guitarsenal shirt, and just sat down when a guy in the next booth asked if I knew anyone who wanted to buy some guitars. (It seems a relative had died and left a half-dozen homeless instruments.) He handed me a sheet of paper with details about the guitars and asked if I was in the business. I said “No, I just play them.” I looked over the list and felt out of my depth telling him anything about the value of the instruments. Before he left the restaurant I suggested he visit Reverb.com to get some idea about which guitars might be valuable and worth the travel to get an appraisal. I also told him about Guitars For Vets and the option to donate. He appreciated the help and I really enjoyed my breakfast.
Way to go, Paul!
#askMatt
I think guitar geeks may have excellent opportunities to purchase used instruments of exceptional quality that might not be perfect in appearance. Assuming an instrument is physically intact and sounds great, what simple tests could be done prior to a luthier’s evaluation that might streamline the process and help avoid buyer’s regret? Thanks!
love your show. I have watched from the beginning. but please no leg warmers
hi guys now that you have made this show 1 year and this was just a couple of you guys getting together and sharing your guitar geekiness with the world what are your plans now. are y’all going to continue? what are your plans for the future?
hi guys from deep in the heart of Texas, cowboy country, we would like to see y’alls guitar arsenal can you take a photo of your guitars and show us
You know you’re a guitar geek WHEN: Hurricane Florence is barreling towards you, and your first thought is: I have to get a safe plan in place for my guitars (and banjo), and you envision using the tarps you have to cover THEM up. Even if it’s not wet inside.
Hey Noah and Tony tuning in from Port McNicoll Ontario. loving the show as always, was blown away last week to hear that Tony shares a birthday with my daughter Keiryn. ( to be featured in upcoming guitarsenal Photo)
Cheers Matt
You know you are guitar geek when you have a different guitar for every tuning.