Newbie Alert!!

[Mick Kyte]

Hi, just joined the site and wanted to introduce myself. I'm Mick and I've been playing guitar most of my life. I really just want to read and learn as much as I can about the mechanics of the acoustic guitar. I currently have three and I gig with all of them fairly regularly.

1st love: 1959 J-45. Appropriately named Spot. My dad got him for Christmas in 1959 and he's been in the family ever since. I lost dad in 1979 so Spot is about all I have left of him. Spot still gigs, but only at select locations.

This one is also really close to my heart. It's a 1994 Taylor 710 (East Indian Rosewood back and sides, Sitka Spruce top) and it must have been made on a really good day because this is the most lively acoustic I've ever played. My wife bought it for me just a few months before our daughter was born. Lot of sentimental value to this one too.

And the newcomer, Alvarez 5039 which will be the one that goes out with me most often. Great tone, easy to play and I got it cheap so I don't care to take it anywhere. I've read that this was a limited production model, but I'd like to have more info on

Anyway that's the family if you don't include a couple of teles. I hope the pics attached correctly. Thank you all for having me, can't wait to learn more.

[Mick Kyte]

Ok...don't think the images worked. Here's the links.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b303/elmicko2002/F258A617-9288-4D...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b303/elmicko2002/70510538-30EC-4D...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b303/elmicko2002/BE27FEEF-2E07-48...

[Peter Poyser]

Quote: "Hi, just joined the site and wanted to introduce myself."

 

Hi Mick, Welcome to the Forum.

Frank Ford really seems to have a Magic Touch. To be able to Organise everything he does in such a way that this website is THE go to place, for the low down on anything to do with Guitars.

The beautiful thing is, although the great individuals that generously contribute here, clearly have both a very  impressive knowledge and experience, there is always something to new to learn, new to experience and more fully understand.

It makes it a Mecca of Revelation for the true Enthusiast. Best of all you get to see so many different Guitar Brands and Models taken apart and their insides revealed. I'm very interested in Manufacturing Methods of the past, present and future so for me that is always noteworthy.

But as in Life, and in every Company, it's the People themselves that make everything of such a High Caliber. Here, it's the People that inhabit, contribute and endow their skill to it that make the place the Valuable Source of Accurate Information that it is.  I for one, feel humbly privileged to enjoy encountering them all.

 

P

[Paul Verticchio]

Hi Mick & WELCOME to the forum.

Those are some beautiful guitars.

I have a '96 Taylor 714 (Spruce top) and I know what you mean about that series. The mid-90's gave us some GREAT, luscious sounding Taylor guitars.

Take care & have a great week :)

[Donald A. Fortune]

Hey Mick - welcome to the forum--------- I have been a guitar fixer upper, maker, and player for a good long time

and I get a great deal of info along with giving my two cents here.

Check out my name and see some of the things that I've done here and some of the help that I have been given.

Be well and enjoy the time you spend here...

Peace, Donald

 

 

[sprocket]

Welcome from another newbee here .

You have some great guitars in there .