F*** I’m the same guy who talked about owning that cheap BC Acoustic my uncle bought for me and my brother in the late 80’s, he gave to a buddy, who played it in a punk rock band for a few years, stickers all over it, gave it back to him, which gave to me in the late 90’s? I sanded off the brown paint on the fretboard, it wasn’t even a dark wood fretboard it was painted brown, I partially sanded it off before he gave it away, he brought it back to me, I finished the sand job, played the s*** out of it, it had to get marks all over the fretboard like Eddie Van Halen, all me. It got stuck under a roof leak sitting on my couch, water directly in the soundhole. Of all the places in the apartment for the steam to be coming in, directly in the soundhole. It was so perfect, I have always suspected it was my room mate/friend, his girlfriend, or the dude next door walked in, saw the leak, went “welp… I’m outa here…” And then as they were leaving “oh… Before I go…” And put the guitar in harm’s way. I have always suspected that. It was too perfect. I couldn’t remember if I had laid it on the couch, I was more like to put it standing up straight in the chair, or leaning against the chair.

Anyhow, it was a seriously awesome sounding acoustic. Even if it was cheap it sounded great. People straight up said it. People I k ew who played it and people out on the street who heard me playing it with a window open.

Then within a year, I noticed the neck heal was separating from the body. Which caused higher action, but it’s still played fine and sounded great. When I moved I sold it to buddy across the hall who was a borderline hoarder who smoked hash oil off of a propane BBQ tank with a torch and a tuna can connected, for a gram of oil.

2 weeks later I went over there and the guitar was gone. Where did it go? He gave it to 19 year old Luke upstairs because “he had to have it…” I never played it in front of him, it never left my apartment, but he had to have it.

I don’t they owning myself owning quality instrument is much of a stretch. Honestly, when I sold that guitar, part of me getting “responsible” and findingna direction in life, mid 20’s, 25, was forgetting about that kind of s***. Music, listening to it and playing it. It was almost a decade later, I was reaching back as a form of therapy. I think $1500 for a quality instrument, when really IT IS deserved, it’s almost logical, $1500 at that time is pretty reasonable. It’s a pit pricier now, almost $1000 more but at the time, it’s not like I dropped $2500 on a LP Standard. That was a bit much for what I need it for. I just wanted reasonable quality. I demanded it. I paid my “dues”