sounds like a very good idea. I don't know how you would go about doing it though.
I gave away a guitar once a few years ago. Nothing crazy, it was a Squier Strat.
I met the guy when I was working in a deli, he would come in and cash in soda cans, etc.
We always talked music and he wanted to play my guitar one day and to my surprise he was very,very good. I had a Squier I wasn't using and gave it to him. Everyone told me I was stupid and the guy would sell it. fast foward 3 or 4 years , I still see him around and he totes that guitar with him everywhere!

Very good thing you're thinking about doing Nevin!

There are always people that have unguided talents, and no platform to persue their "dreams," I guess you could say. Why don't you try to give it to somebody who really needs it? I don't mean something like throw one into a crowd of homeless people and watch them fight for it. I mean find the guy that's struggling, maybe had to sell his guitar in order to pay the bills (I guess you'll have to go out on a limb on it- trust that he won't go sell it after).

Just ideas.

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cost it what it will
for he who hides the wrong he did
did the wrong thing still."
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You could always emulate Duane Allman's charitable largesse. He'd often donate guitars to particularly promising and gifted kids he'd meet at a music store or some event.

Arjay

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very cool indeed.

giving back is what i think, life is all about. if all you do is take, you will have to much in the end to carry with you on to the next life. i know what you mean by people telling you your stupid. i get that when i give all the time, or use to.
a place i use to work at back in 2000 had this gas station at th end of the parking lot.
well a good friend of mine at work and i would stop there just about every day after work and have a hotdog and a drink. just drop the tailgate on my truck and set over in the corner of the lot just chillin out. well, one day we were setting there and i kept seeing this girl looking at me. she had that worried look on her face. i could tell she was in trouble.
so here she came. she asked me could she barrow $5 for her gas tank, and that if i would give her my address she would mail it back to me when she got herself situated.
she was in trouble and i knew it, i could tell right away she was serious.she pointed out her car. it was this old beater, cant remember what it was but i informed her that $5 wouldnt get her any closer to where she said she was going than the next gas station.
she burst into tears and told me she knew that but felt bad enough out here in the situation she was in and asking for $$ in the first place. her car was all packed up and i had this gut feeling that she was running from somebody. so i told my buddy wayne that i would be back. i walked into the store and dropped $30 on her some gas. her knees buckled and i thought she was going to hit the floor. we got outside and she let the tears pour. her face lit up with a sign of relief. she went over to pump her gas and head on her way. when i got back to my hotdog and my buddy, hes telling me how stupid i was for doing that. "shes probably gonna take the other money shes bumbed and go buy booze or drugs" he said. i told him that that wasnt my business. i told him that the big man in the sky presented me with an oportunity to give back and i did. i told him that thats where my duity ends. what she does with her blessing after that is between her and God, that the expectations of me have been fulfilled. he looked at me like i had lost my freakin mind at that point. from that point forward, i keep most of my "good deeds" unknown to others and ofent times too to the person who recieves them.
wanna have some fun? go do something very cool for someone and not tell them it was you that did it. watch them, its fun. only rule is it cant be to somebody in the family or somebody your great friends with. why you ask? well because its way easier to give to our family and loved ones than it is to a total stranger.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Duane was the real deal!!!
I'll whup the man who says he wasn't....I might have to drive a long way to do it though.

Elvis Presley gave away at least 200 new Cadillacs.

You could always check your local schools in your neck of the woods. I know here in the states alot of schools here have lost there music funding, or had that part of their budget cut down to the bone. Just a thought. Nothing like bringing the gift of music to a kid.

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+1000

Thanks,Marvin...you and Arjay take care of anybody west of the Mississippi,and I'll take care of the east....I might need a little help though.

Not a problem, I'm a pretty easygoin' guy, But let somebody start disrespectin' Duane Allman, Well..... I get angry just thinking about it.

you guys sound like the justa beaver fan club.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Duane touched a lot of lives during his brief stay on this rock.



Arjay

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Not to take away from anyone elces idea. I agree that making a gift of something is a good deal provided it gose to a deserving person. Like everyone is saying, a school or church would be a good place to start. Last sumer in Seattle someone broke into a local park storage locker where a small group of kids practised on all kinds of musical instruments, all donated by the puplic. the theaves got away with everything. The volinteer Directors of the program put out a cry on local TV. The instruments and gear were replaced over night. Would it be cool or what, if all Fender Forum Members that could affoard it, would DONATE something, and as a group, give it away to a deserving school or church. We could all submit an idea, and deside by popular vote. Once we decided on our target group, we of coars would be responsible for FRT.to get our gift to our new friends.

well this is kinda my plan for when i die but i guess it could apply here i would give my guitars to someone who knew about what he was dealing with someone who knew the importance and value that the guitars have both sentimentally and economically or either one... someone who knew how to use them and you had a feeling that that person would go far (far as in loving the guitar as much as you did) with that guitar in their hand someone who just loves the guitar and feeling the strings against his fingers and loves the way how he could make a diference with the sound he's making with his bare hands even if it's nothing more than a feeling... i'd give them to a guitarrist full of hope and knowledge or who only wishes to learn more and more about the guitar

Duane is my Number One favorite guitarist from the whole of history.

But right now I'm sorely tempted to diss him just to see what happens next on this thread. I especially want to see Rebelsoul take that long (wet) drive that would bring him within striking distance of me.

Cheers - C

PS Way to go, Nevin. I have no useful suggestions but applaud your ideas and wait with pleasure to see what you end up doing. Respec'.

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