Man I loved that guitar! Great building, great sound, coolest color!! What a story, that guitar travelling here to Colombia and going back to You, let me tell you: nothing like a good guitar story to keep my musical faith alive!!
Hey you guys really played that guitar a lot. I figured most of the wear in the edges of the pickup covers and the bottom edge of the fret board was most likely from you. I have watched your videos and figured that was your picking technique. It still plays great. I had a high fret on the 11th that needed leveled but that was it. Very solid guitar. Once again thank you Sir. I am proud to own it once again after you both have played it. It has a great story.
Thank you for the update! This whole story is remarkable for a number of reasons, including: 1) It's pretty incredible that you managed to find your guitar in the manner you did, i.e., simply spotting it on RUclips; 2) It traveled the world; 3) Each owner (save for the last one possibly) sold it for money issues; 4) You coincidentally went back to Guitar Center AND met/talked to the first buyer, which seems pretty critical to any of this ever being possible; 5) Other than wear, it returned to you unchanged. It was extra fun for me to hear your story because I happen to have built over the past couple of years and be in the process of building a few Warmoths (my favorite guitar company) currently as sort of pandemic therapy. There's a certain type of joy you get from building a guitar yourself, it becomes way more personal to you. We're also about the same age and seemingly have the same level of passion for gear (which for me sometimes outweighs the attention I give towards practicing/playing 😂), and more or less just play at home, so I can definitely relate to you. Truly awesome that you could be reunited with your guitar, especially with it being a tribute to your dad. Now don't sell it again!! 🤣
You are 100% spot on about how much more connected you are with a guitar when you build/ assemble yourself. Being completely honest I grab one of my warmth guitars before I grab my Gibson or even my Suhr. They are terrific guitars no doubt. And even though I have had some misty eyed moments with both there will never truly be a connection like that of my warmoth guitars. So like you I LOVE warmoth which makes this even sweeter. But honestly I am still surprised that this came full circle. I am very appreciative of both of these gentlemen. Hell they could have just told me to get bent, sucks for you 😂😂😂. But they both realized the importance of that guitar. When chatting with Daniel on Instagram he had told me "Mario, in my hometown this guitar is famous". Hearing that was an honor and knowing that building this guitar and having to sell it gave the opportunity for others to enjoy it and play the hell out of. And never changed a single thing. I don't think I have the heart to change the pickups out. Even just to hear it for a week. It needs to stay as is. And no worries it will never leave again 😂😂😂😂. Thanks for the kind words and taking the time to watch the video and leave one hell of a comment!
😂😂😂, I have been down that road with other gear as well. There is a lot of gear I connected with and swore I would never get rid of.....then I did and regretted it immediately after. I got beyond lucky on this
Man I loved that guitar! Great building, great sound, coolest color!! What a story, that guitar travelling here to Colombia and going back to You, let me tell you: nothing like a good guitar story to keep my musical faith alive!!
Hey you guys really played that guitar a lot. I figured most of the wear in the edges of the pickup covers and the bottom edge of the fret board was most likely from you. I have watched your videos and figured that was your picking technique. It still plays great. I had a high fret on the 11th that needed leveled but that was it. Very solid guitar. Once again thank you Sir. I am proud to own it once again after you both have played it. It has a great story.
So happy for you buddy
Thank you Sir. I was in the middle of watching this very video as you commented.
Thank you for the update! This whole story is remarkable for a number of reasons, including:
1) It's pretty incredible that you managed to find your guitar in the manner you did, i.e., simply spotting it on RUclips;
2) It traveled the world;
3) Each owner (save for the last one possibly) sold it for money issues;
4) You coincidentally went back to Guitar Center AND met/talked to the first buyer, which seems pretty critical to any of this ever being possible;
5) Other than wear, it returned to you unchanged.
It was extra fun for me to hear your story because I happen to have built over the past couple of years and be in the process of building a few Warmoths (my favorite guitar company) currently as sort of pandemic therapy. There's a certain type of joy you get from building a guitar yourself, it becomes way more personal to you. We're also about the same age and seemingly have the same level of passion for gear (which for me sometimes outweighs the attention I give towards practicing/playing 😂), and more or less just play at home, so I can definitely relate to you. Truly awesome that you could be reunited with your guitar, especially with it being a tribute to your dad.
Now don't sell it again!! 🤣
You are 100% spot on about how much more connected you are with a guitar when you build/ assemble yourself. Being completely honest I grab one of my warmth guitars before I grab my Gibson or even my Suhr. They are terrific guitars no doubt. And even though I have had some misty eyed moments with both there will never truly be a connection like that of my warmoth guitars. So like you I LOVE warmoth which makes this even sweeter. But honestly I am still surprised that this came full circle. I am very appreciative of both of these gentlemen. Hell they could have just told me to get bent, sucks for you 😂😂😂. But they both realized the importance of that guitar. When chatting with Daniel on Instagram he had told me "Mario, in my hometown this guitar is famous". Hearing that was an honor and knowing that building this guitar and having to sell it gave the opportunity for others to enjoy it and play the hell out of. And never changed a single thing. I don't think I have the heart to change the pickups out. Even just to hear it for a week. It needs to stay as is. And no worries it will never leave again 😂😂😂😂. Thanks for the kind words and taking the time to watch the video and leave one hell of a comment!
I’m still looking for my 1977 hard tail Fender Stratocaster… Worse mistake I’ve ever made. Still looking
😂😂😂, I have been down that road with other gear as well. There is a lot of gear I connected with and swore I would never get rid of.....then I did and regretted it immediately after. I got beyond lucky on this