Dang You, Fender! Don't You Understand My Predicament?

Buxom · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:16 pm

the forum should get a gift your you. then your wife can be mad at us.

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:26 pm

53magnatone wrote:

I would say pick " Only One " .... One that is which is the most favorable.
Not to suggest underhanded tactics :twisted:

But is the Armadillo Tween on your side :?:

The Armadillo 'Tween is pragmatic and intelligent--she refuses to get involved! :lol:

As far as picking "Only One," it would (hands down) have to be the Pawn Shop Bass VI.
I've been gassing for one for many, many years, and have (in my mind) 101 uses for it, especially in the studio.

I already have a heck of a Stratocaster (and a second heck of a Strat-style guitar in my G&L Nighthawk), so the kick-butted-ness of a Lipstick-Caster is somewhat tempered...I could also (conceivably) get a pickguard loaded with a set of lipstick pups for my Strat, even if it's a temporary change to see if that setup really floats my boat or is just a passing fancy.

I also have an excellent resonator instrument in my Dean Chrome G, so that itch is mostly scratched as well...

So if it boils down to "Only One," it will be the Bass VI.

...AND I recently got rid of an old PA, so the "get rid of something for something else" policy could be covered by the removal of that big ol' hunkajunk.

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:28 pm

Buxom wrote:

the forum should get a gift your you. then your wife can be mad at us.

That's the best idea I've heard in several years!! :lol:

"It's the Forum's fault, baby, not mine!!

Her Wanna · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:58 pm **Posts:** 739

We can tell you are going to buy the pawn shop bass.

Do it! One lives only once. You've earned it.

Buxom · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:29 pm

there could be some kind of letter saying that it was donated. i'm sure she'd understand

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:50 pm

Buxom wrote:

there could be some kind of letter saying that it was donated. i'm sure she'd understand

SA: "Look, Honey! A letter to you from somebody named Buxom!"
LA: "Who is she, and exactly how 'buxom' is she?"
SA: "No, it's a guy from around the DC area...he is explaining how that Bass VI was donated and I really didn't buy it."
LA: "Humpft. Why would a 'guy' call himself 'Buxom'?"
SA: "I don't know...things don't always make sense. I mean, he's a musician who wears orange leisure suits; I think his screen name is the least of his problems...c'mon baby! Ask the Armadillo 'Tween!"
AT: "Leave me outta this, Daddy..."
LA: "Yes, leave her out of this. So you mean to tell me that people you never met gave you an $800 instrument? I repeat: Humpft!"
SA: "uh..."
...aaand scene! :lol:

asgeirman · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:52 pm

SA, I totally sympathize with you - it's a tough world . All those models are really causing seious GAS-attacks :shock:

I .for one , suddenly fell for this one . Maybe I'll try to get it ,but have just seen the video - and there are many different opinions about it !

M1KE · **Joined:** Tue May 29, 2012 7:00 pm **Posts:** 258

That guitar just screams surf

spacewolf · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:45 pm

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

Buxom wrote:

there could be some kind of letter saying that it was donated. i'm sure she'd understand

SA: "Look, Honey! A letter to you from somebody named Buxom!"
LA: "Who is she, and exactly how 'buxom' is she?"
SA: "No, it's a guy from around the DC area...he is explaining how that Bass VI was donated and I really didn't buy it."
LA: "Humpft. Why would a 'guy' call himself 'Buxom'?"
SA: "I don't know...things don't always make sense. I mean, he's a musician who wears orange leisure suits; I think his screen name is the least of his problems...c'mon baby! Ask the Armadillo 'Tween!"
AT: "Leave me outta this, Daddy..."
LA: "Yes, leave her out of this. So you mean to tell me that people you never met gave you an $800 instrument? I repeat: Humpft!"
SA: "uh..."
...aaand scene! :lol:

Fender not only knows about your predicament, you could even say they manufactured it. :wink:

So, you might consider using the other guitars as boilerplate in the negotiations for the Bass VI. :mrgreen:

And I, too, have always wondered how Buxom got his handle. :lol:

Buxom · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:49 pm

spacewolf wrote:

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

Buxom wrote:

there could be some kind of letter saying that it was donated. i'm sure she'd understand

SA: "Look, Honey! A letter to you from somebody named Buxom!"
LA: "Who is she, and exactly how 'buxom' is she?"
SA: "No, it's a guy from around the DC area...he is explaining how that Bass VI was donated and I really didn't buy it."
LA: "Humpft. Why would a 'guy' call himself 'Buxom'?"
SA: "I don't know...things don't always make sense. I mean, he's a musician who wears orange leisure suits; I think his screen name is the least of his problems...c'mon baby! Ask the Armadillo 'Tween!"
AT: "Leave me outta this, Daddy..."
LA: "Yes, leave her out of this. So you mean to tell me that people you never met gave you an $800 instrument? I repeat: Humpft!"
SA: "uh..."
...aaand scene! :lol:

Fender not only knows about your predicament, you could even say they manufactured it. :wink:

So, you might consider using the other guitars as boilerplate in the negotiations for the Bass VI. :mrgreen:

And I, too, have always wondered how Buxom got his handle. :lol:

It's been my name across many forums for probably 4 or 5 years now, maybe. I was looking for a name, just opened the dictionary, and there it was at the top of the page.

Ceri · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:46 am

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

Buxom wrote:

the forum should get a gift your you. then your wife can be mad at us.

That's the best idea I've heard in several years!! :lol:

OK, just dropping some change into the empty cardboard coffee cup. The fund is begun.

...Seriously, Armadillo, you think you've got problems? I need another guitar like I need three more sofas in my crowded sitting room. And yet: following a thread in the Strat Forum I found myself in a nice guitar shop inspecting a flamey Fender Select Strat in Dark Cherry Burst with a maple fingerboard - oh baby! How not to drag that home, bank account be damned?

And my particular marriage problem is that Mrs C is only too ready to egg me on. "I can't possibly justify it," I say. "So what? It's gorgeous - go for it!" says Mrs C. How is that helping?

Cheers - C

Nobby1974 · **Joined:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:22 am **Posts:** 231

I have also pushed my wife's tolerance to the edge, even though she plays too. It didn't take long for her to see through the "I bought this guitar for you" trick and I am now in one-in-one-out guitar territory too.

The only solution I can offer is to make sure you always have one guitar you don't really like, or at least don't like as much as the others, the runt of the litter, the weakest of the herd. If needs be, you can sacrifice it to the GAS wolves as an offering against something new. So, when I'm thinking of buying something else, I say to myself "this guitar might be different from those you've got, but is it better? Does the lamb have to go?"

If not, and I really like what I'm looking at, then I buy it anyway, and hide it in a cupboard.

I didn't say it was a perfect solution...

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:18 am

Ceri wrote:

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

Buxom wrote:

the forum should get a gift your you. then your wife can be mad at us.

That's the best idea I've heard in several years!! :lol:

OK, just dropping some change into the empty cardboard coffee cup. The fund is begun.
...Seriously, Armadillo, you think you've got problems? I need another guitar like I need three more sofas in my crowded sitting room. And yet: following a thread in the Strat Forum I found myself in a nice guitar shop inspecting a flamey Fender Select Strat in Dark Cherry Burst with a maple fingerboard - oh baby! How not to drag that home, bank account be damned?
And my particular marriage problem is that Mrs C is only too ready to egg me on. "I can't possibly justify it," I say. "So what? It's gorgeous - go for it!" says Mrs C. How is that helping?
Cheers - C

Lady Armadillo will occasionally surprise me with a, "Hey, why don't you buy that pedal/gadget/whatever?", but it's usually in conjunction with an anniversary or something like that...but if something is a significant investment/chunk of cash, I get the Ojo Malo real quick.
I can't gripe. She's awesome with the 'Tween, she's tolerant when I host a jam session or rehearsal (she will make sure we have food & drinks!) and she puts up with my daily quirks. She's thrifty (a bit too much so on occasion) and smart and good looking. She likes most of my friends, and tolerates my (insane) family. She's an awesome cook (I have to be careful not to get fat, not because she makes bad/fattening foods, but because she's figured out how to make healthy foods taste good). She's not overly jealous. When she gripes about something that I'm doing, 90% of the time she's right.

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to bring the subject up again and see there's any objection. I can live without the guitars--I can't live without her.

Ceri · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:44 am

Good. Frankly, you don't get to complain. Boast, but not complain. Lady Armadillo is gathering a fanbase round here.

By the way 1:

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

http://www.fender.com/series/folk/reso-tele/

Go ahead, click on the link. I'll wait.

Click. You are not wrong! That's pretty cool.

I've seen these done by home-builders before and contemplated it myself, though not got around to it yet. But am I right in thinking it's the first time Fender's done it? Neat!

I think you should buy this one, Screamin', and nuts to your previous reasoning, however sensible it might have been. You must have this guitar if only so's Fender get some support for a good piece of thinking, designwise. And so's you can post some very tasty electro-reso-slide playing with a Youtube clip right here on the Forum.

By the way 2:

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

I can live without the guitars--I can't live without her.

See, this is why we like you! You have your heart and priorities in the right place. Respec'. Hang onto this one, Lady Armadillo.

Cheers - C

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:42 pm

Ceri wrote:

Good. Frankly, you don't get to complain. Boast, but not complain. Lady Armadillo is gathering a fanbase round here.

Although deserves any and all praise that goes her way, you gotta realize that I need some support! :lol:

Ceri wrote:

By the way 1:

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

http://www.fender.com/series/folk/reso-tele/
Go ahead, click on the link. I'll wait.

Click. You are not wrong! That's pretty cool.
I've seen these done by home-builders before and contemplated it myself, though not got around to it yet. But am I right in thinking it's the first time Fender's done it? Neat!

I think you're right--I've never seen a production model of this particular design from Fender. I seem to recall a Custom Shop creation, but I may be wrong...it's happened once or twice before. :lol:

There was a guy in Tasmania (really!) who made both wood solidbody and metal hollowbody electric resonators; he spun his own cones and everything. He could convert a guitar you had or could build one from scratch. His creations were cool, unique and well-made, from what I read (and heard on the Internet). His guitars were called Molonators...fairly reasonably priced for the instrument itself, too--far less than you would expect for such a labor-intensive, unique instrument. If I were to get another metal-bodied reso, this would probably be the manufacturer I'd go with.
http://www.molonatorguitars.com/

Another interesting one was the National Reso-lectric...same concept as the Fender we're discussing...I like the P90 in the neck!
http://www.nationalguitars.com/instruments/resolectric/resolectric.html

The best I saw/heard in a solidbody reso was an SB MacDonald Resonator Electric...also a guy who would make it "your way," with your choice of color, neck pickup and other options. If I were to go this direction (solidbody reso) I'd probably go with his...
http://www.customguitars.com/resolec.htm

I've talked to Scott, and he's super nice...I've talked to people who own his instruments, and they characterize them as a "you can have it when you pry my cold, dead hands off it" type of instrument...high praise indeed.

Ceri wrote:

I think you should buy this one, Screamin', and nuts to your previous reasoning, however sensible it might have been. You must have this guitar if only so's Fender get some support for a good piece of thinking, designwise. And so's you can post some very tasty electro-reso-slide playing with a Youtube clip right here on the Forum.

Yeah, the idea of a Fender (my favorite manufacturer) Resonator and Telecaster combination (my two favorite types of guitars) all in one package is very tempting.

...and once again, you give my slide playing too much credit, but since I know you're not one for false flattery, thank you...however, that puts me back on the hotseat again...great reso-electric that I know will get large amounts of use, or a niche instrument (Bass VI) that I've always wanted. Dang it!

[quote:="Ceri"]By the way 2:

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

I can live without the guitars--I can't live without her.

See, this is why we like you! You have your heart and priorities in the right place. Respec'. Hang onto this one, Lady Armadillo.

Cheers - C[/quote]
Hopefully she'll stumble upon this and take your advice!

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