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Houston area people. Guitar stores/shops?
Posted on 1/30/16 at 11:36 pm
Posted on 1/30/16 at 11:36 pm
Any cool places with vintage stuff in the Houston area?
I know Guitar Center of course, and know that the Westheimer location has/had the high end vintage room with easy 5 figure guitars.
I am mainly looking at acoustic, just looking to kill time and make the wife nervous.
I know Guitar Center of course, and know that the Westheimer location has/had the high end vintage room with easy 5 figure guitars.
I am mainly looking at acoustic, just looking to kill time and make the wife nervous.
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Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:33 am to LSU alum wannabe
Posted on 1/31/16 at 9:16 am to Kingwood Tiger
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Kingwood Tige
Pretty sure I have been there. Buying my first guitar, so I was too scared to touch anything and drew back with a gasp at the 2 or 3 price tags I looked at.
Now I know more of what I am looking at and am willing to place my grubby paws on everything and not buy anything. Just looking for a place to kill some time on a day off during the week that is NOT a bar. That's what today is for.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 9:28 am to LSU alum wannabe
Duck into Rockin' Robin Guitars if you're near it. I haven't been in many years, but they used to have a nice collection of vintage stuff in stock and very fair prices. LINK
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:27 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Southpaw Guitars for lefties:
LINK
LINK
Posted on 2/1/16 at 7:47 pm to Mars duMorgue
Bump...
To thank everyone for the input.
Fullers was cool. Helpful hippy with dreads. Actually let me paw on a vintage Martin D-28.
Rockin Robin was cool but looked like a hoarders place. Everything is marked off as "ask for assistance". Guy did come to help and was chatty, but I am not good enough to play in front of people. Especially people who can probably play.They had MANY guitars up in the rafters that appeared to be worth something but covered in cobwebs. If you are looking for electric or a bass though it is probably legit. They had a ton.
Ended up at Guitar Center on Westheimer. It is still the biggest, and has the room of 5 figure guitars. Got to strum 2-3 vintage Martins and another D-28 that was in the regular acoustic room.
This was all done because I purchased a Blue Ridge BR-160 that is a straight up copy of a Pre-War D-28. Just wanted to strum a few real ones to affirm my purchase.
Is my BlueRidge a Martin? Nope. Does it sound damned good but just shy of real Martins? Yep. And I keep the $2400-7400 (depending on vintage) in my pocket.
Now to learn to be half as good at playing guitar as my guitar is at being a guitar. 
To thank everyone for the input.
Fullers was cool. Helpful hippy with dreads. Actually let me paw on a vintage Martin D-28.
Rockin Robin was cool but looked like a hoarders place. Everything is marked off as "ask for assistance". Guy did come to help and was chatty, but I am not good enough to play in front of people. Especially people who can probably play.They had MANY guitars up in the rafters that appeared to be worth something but covered in cobwebs. If you are looking for electric or a bass though it is probably legit. They had a ton.
Ended up at Guitar Center on Westheimer. It is still the biggest, and has the room of 5 figure guitars. Got to strum 2-3 vintage Martins and another D-28 that was in the regular acoustic room.
This was all done because I purchased a Blue Ridge BR-160 that is a straight up copy of a Pre-War D-28. Just wanted to strum a few real ones to affirm my purchase.
Is my BlueRidge a Martin? Nope. Does it sound damned good but just shy of real Martins? Yep. And I keep the $2400-7400 (depending on vintage) in my pocket.
Now to learn to be half as good at playing guitar as my guitar is at being a guitar.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 8:01 pm to LSU alum wannabe
How is The set-up on it? It's definitely worth a few bucks to have that done,if it's not just right.
I'm not familiar with the Blue Ridge Guitars, I hope you like it.
Looking at their different models on Musician's Friend, they look pretty nice. Which one did you get?
I'm not familiar with the Blue Ridge Guitars, I hope you like it.
Looking at their different models on Musician's Friend, they look pretty nice. Which one did you get?
This post was edited on 2/1/16 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 2/1/16 at 9:19 pm to auggie
I got a BR-160
Posted on 2/1/16 at 9:33 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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I got a BR-160
I believe that would be my choice too,it looks great.Some really nice looking inlay work on it.
It's all solid,should be a really good one.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 9:55 pm to auggie
I'm happy with it. Action is low to me compared to my other guitar.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 10:09 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Action is low to me compared to my other guitar.
It's new,so it will probably settle in a bit and change. Bang the shite out of it, until it's time for new strings,then take it and have it re-tweaked and re-strung. Should cost about 40 bucks,and it will be worth it.
I really love that Pick guard pattern and color. Gonna check those out closer, next time I am at guitar center.
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