Got a £2000 Lowden for a week!!!!!

[martinedwards]

:smile:

Yesterday at church I was playing bass. AJ was leading but was called away by a text so I had to take over. No big deal, but I didn't have MY guitar, so AJ left me his Lowden 025 Custom to finish the service and said he'd get it back next Sunday :toohappy: :toohappy: :toohappy:

[mishmannah]

:smile:

Yesterday at church I was playing bass. AJ was leading but was called away by a text so I had to take over. No big deal, but I didn't have MY guitar, so AJ left me his Lowden 025 Custom to finish the service and said he'd get it back next Sunday :toohappy: :toohappy: :toohappy:

You are one very, very, lucky young man!

I would be absolutely petrified beyond all human recognition to have a piece of kit that expensive in my house...I would be worried that I would scratch it, break the strings, set fire to it, accidently leave it by the rubbish for the bin men to collect, and probably be the first thing I would grab if there was a three minute warning that the earth was about to blow up.

Obviously your mate trusts you implicitly. :D

[martinedwards]

You are one very, very, lucky young man!
I wish!! I'm nearly 40!!!

As for scratching it, it is already well used and the original high gloss already has a fair few dings, but its as tough as a tough thing anyway. the top is nearly twice as thick as my Turner. Both soild wood, but the Lowden has to be nearly 5mm thick!

And yes, AJ does trust me, but I'm still just a wee bit nervous about it.......

Lets Just say the kids won't be playing it, although Gowan has.........

[mishmannah]

I wish!! I'm nearly 40!!!

As for scratching it, it is already well used and the original high gloss already has a fair few dings, but its as tough as a tough thing anyway. the top is nearly twice as thick as my Turner. Both soild wood, but the Lowden has to be nearly 5mm thick!

And yes, AJ does trust me, but I'm still just a wee bit nervous about it.......

Lets Just say the kids won't be playing it, although Gowan has.........


ROFL!!!!

5mm thick? You's gets what you's pay for!

Do you reckon, if I spend 1 million pounds (or Euros in your lingo) on an acoustic guitar, the wood wood(would :) ) be a metre thick?!

Oh no, you don't want bogeys and chocolate smears on the gloss...been there, done that!

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or Euros in your lingo!Nope I'm in the UK bit so it's still pounds, did you miss the fact tha we had the biggest cash robbery ever in the UK a few months ago? round about 23million from the Northern Bank in Belfast.

No arrests yet...............

Wanna sell a guitar? :p

[mishmannah]

Nope I'm in the UK bit so it's still pounds, did you miss the fact tha we had the biggest cash robbery ever in the UK a few months ago? round about 23million from the Northern Bank in Belfast.

No arrests yet...............

Of course, I have a brain like a seive, and I forgot you were a northerner in the Irish sense!

Sure did... the PSNI's Chief Constable blamed it on the IRA...gotta be careful, there mate...

Wanna sell a guitar?:p

:D Nope- you won't want the type of geetars I have, after the Turner & co....cheap, but cheerful :D

[pagodas_fiesta]

is a thicker top really better? i know it would be sturdier but would it resonate as well? i thought i remembered taylor bragging about how thin their new tops are. maybe im mistaken..

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Dunno to be honest, but my strat 's top is so thick it's virtually solid!!!

I guess that there is an optimum thickness depending on the resonance of the wood. All I know is that the Lowden has a REALLY thick table and it resonates like a drum!!!

I was explaining to my 5 yr old how an acoustic worked (he asked honest!!) and he kept laughing and taking his hand off the Lowden cos it tickled!!!!!! That's hw much a 5mm thich lump of wood can vibrate!!!

[martinedwards]

Corrction to thread title.........

:toohappy: :toohappy: TWO WEEKS :toohappy: :toohappy:

[mishmannah]

Corrction to thread title.........

:toohappy: :toohappy: TWO WEEKS :toohappy: :toohappy:

A very very very lucky young man......

[ReverendFoghorn]

There are some super expensive hand made guitars at the local shop where I get my music gear. The store owner was telling me a while back that these guitars have a big disadvantage. They are so sensitive that as soon as the strings have been used for a couple of weeks the guitar starts sounding like hell. Which problably just means that it starts sounding like a mediocre guitar by comparison.

[martinedwards]

sounds like he just wants to sell more strings!!!!!

[mishmannah]

hope the lowden is back with AJ.

[martinedwards]

Sadly, yes it is..........

[mishmannah]

Sadly, yes it is..........

Sorry to hear that...

The way I get over GAS for expensive guitars is meditating on the quality of playing. I reason in my mind thus...."If I was the best guitarist in the world, can I make a "encore" or a "Samick", or a nato "yamaha" guitar when rigged up with quality strings sound like a £5000 guitar?

I think that is possible even for a ukelele (!) If a ametuer guitarist can make a Washburn or a Turner sound cheap, surely the opposite is true!

It is a worthy mission to go on. Otherwise my family would be dressed in rags, and the bailiffs would be my regular guests :eek:

[martinedwards]

Believe it or not I wasn't that sad to see it go.

The first week I played it to bits, but the second week I went back to my turner!

[mishmannah]

Believe it or not I wasn't that sad to see it go.

The first week I played it to bits, but the second week I went back to my turner!

What was it that made you go back to your Turner? Familiarity? Or was the sound better, or the handling?