Getting ready to step out for breakfast with my three sons. Will return soon and be in the office for the remainder for the day. Looks like a nice day to polish a Martin.

Once again, I’m cash poor and guitar rich.

Looks like I’ll have to put the buying on hold for the time being. Well, at least I’m sitting on some really nice guitars at the moment (with another Martin and Kalamazoo on the way). Looks like it’s a great time to practice my finger-picking until that next big sale comes along!

I like this tune. The guy’s Guild is pretty cool too! Hope everyone is having a terrific Saturday! (:

I’m taking one of my favorite trips tomorrow.

It’s always fun when I get to take a road trip to see the Luthier.  Mike Weems of Anderson, SC is the greatest guitar doctor this side of the Mississippi.  I’m bringing three patients in tomorrow to place under his care.

Tomorrow’s three patients are:

1. 1974 Martin 00-28G – Needs a couple of top cracks checked out and your basic 100,000 strum checkup.

2. 1936 Gibson Cromwell G2 – This guitar was been in storage for 50 years. This is new to my inventory and I want Mike to give it a checkup and take a look at the bridge and bridge plate.

3. 1909 Washburn Style 115 – A very nice parlor guitar with a slight gap under the treble side of the bridge. I’m going to ask Mike to check the bridge and re-glue it if needed.

I should get these back late next week and will get them on Ebay hopefully by next weekend. Be sure to check back soon for my next update. And if you have a 80′s Guild GF-25, call me and “let’s make a deal”!

I’m still kicking.

Just wanted to write a little update about things and type some characters into my keyboard. The guitar business is fun. I’ve got guitars coming, going, ringing to the sound of the television, guitars in boxes, boxes without guitars, guitars without boxes. I even have a guitar I went swimming with once.

It seems like I spend a lot of time measuring nuts for customers. When I was a kid, if someone had told me that one day I would grow up and have a job that required me to measure nuts for customers, I would have told you that you were crazy. (:

Anyway, I’ve got a 2010 Guild F-30 coming today, a 74 Martin 00-28G also arriving, and a Martin Sigma shipping out. Notice how more guitars are coming in than going out? This seems to be the case most days. Did I mention that I need some more guitar stands? Hmmmm.

Well, that’s it. I’m tired of typing. Got it out of my system for now.

So long, good day, good luck, and cheers!

Greg (aka Lucky)

Here’s I Play Banjo Now rockin’ a really cool Martin!

This is great video of a rare Guild GF-25 being played. I’m going to add this to my “Wanted Guitars” list now. (:

This is (I believe) the authentic accurate tab for Mississippi John Hurt’s version of “Spike Driver Blues”.

I think this was originally transcribed by John Miller (note by note) from MJH’s Pete Segar Show appearance .  This was enlarged and converted over to .PNG files for ease of reading. This is the INTRO Only. The verse has some slight variations.

If you do a YouTube search you can find a video of John Hurt playing this song on Segar’s program.

(If this tab is copyright protected or if the author wishes, I will gladly remove this upon request.)