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Permalink Reply by William Snead on December 12, 2018 at 10:07am

There's only one way to describe this "Classic, from Beginning to End!"  Great Work, and Congrats! 

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Permalink Reply by Greg Tiffany on December 12, 2018 at 11:10am

Great Video. On the build and performance.

My wife and I have been to a few VIP events at  local Johnny Lang shows.  I would love to give him one of my builds.  

My playing skills would not allow me to play along with a skilled player.

Again Great Video!

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Permalink Reply by Wade on December 12, 2018 at 3:14pm

What a terrific experience that you shared. I had the opportunity to see Tommy in concert - what a great guy and performer!!!! Thanks for sharing Del!

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on December 12, 2018 at 4:49pm

Crack open a bottle of  awesome sauce  ;-) congrats  on a great experience 

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on December 12, 2018 at 9:34pm

Tommy is a great bloke. we had a master class with him here in Brisbane around 1989 . he got held up and was about 40 minutes late.. kept apologising and our 1 hour class ( about 50 people) turned into over 2 hours.  Brilliant player and so was his brother. 

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on December 13, 2018 at 12:33pm

Hi, yes I also did a workshop with him years ago. He was friends with a mate of mine back in the early 1980's and I got invited back to his motel room. I took a recently built guitar for him to look at and his first comment was "you've put the strings on wrong". 

But he did make one encouraging observation, he said that, that small bodied, "000" size ish guitar, sounded like a big Gibson. I was happy with that.

Oh, and I have not changed the way I install strings, the method was shown to me by the late Bill May, owner of Maton Guitars at that time, Tommys guitar sponsor.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on December 14, 2018 at 1:22am

yes Taff thats how he started the show. got his Maton out took the strings off put a new set on and and showed us how he likes to string..lol 2 hr later at the end he said "you have now heard the death of a set of strings"!! they were noticably duller than when he started.. his 2 hr of playing is more like my 2 months...lol

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Permalink Reply by Del Puckett on December 15, 2018 at 3:53pm

Wow!!! Awesome stories and memories!! I've had the privilege of attending two of his workshops ... very inspiring!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 16, 2018 at 7:01am

That's awesome. I hope he starts playing it regularly on stage.

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Permalink Reply by Derek Rose on December 16, 2018 at 4:55pm

That is fantastic!

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on December 19, 2018 at 6:46am

Awesome! I tried similar project for the Bacon Brothers but there was no meet and greet at the concert and their manager was a real dick to me about it  when I asked for him and asked if he would arrange a brief meeting after the concert so I could give them the guitars I built  for them. So I have gifted BOTH of the CBGs I built for them instead to my friends.

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