Anyway - the manager said they had to scrap it. I offered to

>buy it AS IS - no warranty - etc. That was about 16 years
>ago, so it held up for over a decade! :-)

That's not bad if you get it cheap enough.. B)

My Japanese Gibson copy I bought at a guitar store used when
I as looking for a guitar to leave at the cottage. The owner
said he had a trade-in he didn't want to sell but I could buy
it cheap if I wanted it. It seemed okay other than a sticker
it had on it near the bottom front, but he said if I gave him
$15 I could have it.

I did that, and when I got it home the first thing I did was
peel the sticker off of it and under it there was a hole..
I ended up cutting a wedge out of that area and gluing in
a piece of similar spruce to seal it up and stabilize the
sound (it was much improved). I couldn't match the patch to
the rest, so I painted it black and got a small brass plate
with my initials burned into the brass in black and it came
out pretty well, and it worked well for a lot of years before
I finally had to do more repairs as the original glue started
to fail, by then about 50 years old..

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Rob Mccart wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

Anyway - the manager said they had to scrap it. I offered to

>buy it AS IS - no warranty - etc. That was about 16 years
>ago, so it held up for over a decade! :-)

That's not bad if you get it cheap enough.. B)

$100 plus tax. Came with the gig bag too.

My Japanese Gibson copy I bought at a guitar store used when
I as looking for a guitar to leave at the cottage. The owner
said he had a trade-in he didn't want to sell but I could buy
it cheap if I wanted it. It seemed okay other than a sticker
it had on it near the bottom front, but he said if I gave him
$15 I could have it.

Can't beat that price!!!

I did that, and when I got it home the first thing I did was
peel the sticker off of it and under it there was a hole..
I ended up cutting a wedge out of that area and gluing in
a piece of similar spruce to seal it up and stabilize the
sound (it was much improved). I couldn't match the patch to
the rest, so I painted it black and got a small brass plate
with my initials burned into the brass in black and it came
out pretty well, and it worked well for a lot of years before
I finally had to do more repairs as the original glue started
to fail, by then about 50 years old..

WOW! So the 'hole' was covered by an improvement. :-) Like putting
a picture over a hole in the wall... Looks planned. :-)


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Hello Rob!

** On Thursday 27.11.25 - 09:18, Rob Mccart wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON:

...the first thing I did was
peel the sticker off of it and under it there was a hole..

Speaking of guitars...


https://exclaim.ca/music/article/toronto-s-junction-guitars-is- moving-to-a-new-neighbourhood


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said he had a trade-in he didn't want to sell but I could buy
it cheap if I wanted it. It seemed okay other than a sticker
it had on it near the bottom front, but he said if I gave him
$15 I could have it.

Can't beat that price!!!

I did that, and when I got it home the first thing I did was
peel the sticker off of it and under it there was a hole..

WOW! So the 'hole' was covered by an improvement. :-) Like putting

>a picture over a hole in the wall... Looks planned. :-)

The sticker looked old enough I'm sure the last owner, who likely
traded it in on a new guitar, had done it. But I'd also wager that
the sales guy knew it was there or they never would have let it go
so cheap. I couldn't complain though since it was a fairly good
quality guitar and I was able to do the repair on it.

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Speaking of guitars...

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/toronto-s-junction-guitars-is-

>moving-to-a-new-neighbourhood

I don't think I was ever in that shop.. I was trying to remember the
big place I used to go to in Toronto and I think it was Steve's Music.

They had so much stock there it was unbelieveable..
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Nice weather we're having. Glad it's finally calming down some.

I hate the wind more than the cold since that helps it penetrate.
I usually leave one baseboard heater on overnight set at about 68f
and, if it's fairly cold, it's usually about 60f in here when I
wake up..

On Thursday it was relatively cold but 'shake the house' windy
and when I woke up it was only 41f in here.. My bigger blower
heater was running non stop for the next 12 hours or so trying
to get it up anything close to normal room temperature...

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Rob Mccart wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

said he had a trade-in he didn't want to sell but I could buy
it cheap if I wanted it. It seemed okay other than a sticker
it had on it near the bottom front, but he said if I gave him
$15 I could have it.

Can't beat that price!!!

I did that, and when I got it home the first thing I did was
peel the sticker off of it and under it there was a hole..

WOW! So the 'hole' was covered by an improvement. :-) Like putting

>a picture over a hole in the wall... Looks planned. :-)

The sticker looked old enough I'm sure the last owner, who likely
traded it in on a new guitar, had done it. But I'd also wager that
the sales guy knew it was there or they never would have let it go
so cheap. I couldn't complain though since it was a fairly good
quality guitar and I was able to do the repair on it.

I never 'grade' an instrument by the price or the brand. If you
gave that for it and it's a good instrument, then you got a
BARGAIN! :-)





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said he had a trade-in he didn't want to sell but I could buy
it cheap if I wanted it. It seemed okay other than a sticker
it had on it near the bottom front, but he said if I gave him
$15 I could have it.

I couldn't complain though since it was a fairly good
quality guitar and I was able to do the repair on it.

I never 'grade' an instrument by the price or the brand. If you

>gave that for it and it's a good instrument, then you got a
>BARGAIN! :-)

It was fine for a long time after I fixed it but, eventually, it
was getting old and I had to have it repaired properly, new glue
on a lot of internal braces and some bridge work and such.

That cost me about $100, so I eventually did pay a closer to
fair price for it.. B)

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