My 1st personal acoustic guitar!


Model Name: GD47SCE
Model Number: 095-4705-221
Series: Grand Dreadnought Series
Body Style: Single Cutaway Dreadnought

Colors: (221) Natural
Finish: Gloss, (Polyurethane)
Top: Grade "AA" Solid Spruce
Back and Sides: Solid Rosewood Back, Laminated Rosewood Sides
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Rosewood
No. of Frets: 20
Bridge: Rosewood with Compensated Saddle

Machine Heads: Grover Gold, (Die-Cast)
Electronics: Fender/Fishman® Classic 4 ACLR™ Pickup System with Active On-Board Pre-Amp which Features:Volume,Bass,Mid,Treble,Body (Mid-Sweep),Low Battery Indicator Light

Scale Length: 25.3" (643mm)
Body Depth: 3.87" (Front) to 4.87" (Rear)
Width at Nut: 1.69" (43mm)
Width at Heel: 2.25" (57mm)

Unique Features: Abalone Dot Position Inlays, Abalone Rosette, Abalone Fender Logo, Abalone Tipped Bridge Pins, Rosewood Headstock Overlay, Tortoise Shell and Black and White Multi-Lam Body Binding, Tortoise Shell Heel Cap
Strings: Fender 60L Phosphor Bronze, p/n 0730060003, Gauges .012 to .052
Accessories: Molded Case
Introduced: 1/2002

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bought it 2nd hand from a guy on classifieds
original cost $1k above... he sold it to me for $550 including hardcase!
overall very well maintained, considering this guitar is like 2 to 3 years old, just a little tarnish on the gold grover tuning head, and some light pick marks cos there is no pick guard on this guitar
there were already quite a number of small packets of silica gel to keep the guitar dry
the smell of the guitar wood is so crisp, that i can smell it once i open the case!
i will post real photos when i have time! =)

2 weeks of overseas confinement
lousy food
sunburns
wet & cold
flu medicine
hmm what else...

more pics to come, that is if i get them =)

i have my eye on this
considering...
but will it take up too much space in my CPU tower?

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btw i really think my home can become a "jamming studio" soon
i have a downsized drumset, a classical guitar, an electric guitar, an amp
leong's picking up piano in church and he's brought a keyboard home to practice
plus i bought a 8 channel audio mixer recently
so now considering getting a decent sound card, which can allow me to do some home recording or learn some basic multi-tracking

anyway, another thought
from what i heard from my cousin, leong's picking up keyboards pretty well
in fact, he's started playing strings on keyboard for church, just holding chords (he finds holding sustaining chords boring, so that's why he's learning to play piano stuff)
as for lele, he once played the trumpet for community club's kids band before for about a year
though he said he can't remember much how to sightread cos all he did then was mostly memorising the fingering..haha
and if i remember correctly, mum did send lele for piano lessons before (but probably ended the same way as my violin lessons)

we 3 brothers seem to go along fine with music
it's funny though that our parents don't really play any instruments, at least not that i know of..haa
the only music thing, other than listening to oldies/hokkien gua, would be my dad and his dusty/neglected karaoke LD player, plus 2 speakers which has an inbuilt scoring system for every karaoke song he sang

i guess it's the way my parents brought us up
exposing us to arts and music
such as all 3 of us went for art/drawing lessons for at least 2 years of our lives
i also remembered having to wear this silky red pants and red dancing shoes for some chinese poem recital and dance back in my early primary school days which i absolutely hate.. yucks!
of cos, not forgetting the violin lessons, where mum stopped my lessons cos i didnt practice
i learnt a couple of songs though, and wondered why my violin teacher always spend the first 10 mins of lesson tweaking my violin which sounded perfectly fine to my young ears then
now i realised i do the same turning knobs here and there on drums and guitars... hahaa

anyway
i realised we do not necessary understand many of the things our parents do for us at that moment
but as we look back, very often, we see how it was essential and how it played a part in moulding us into the person we are now today
down to the very minor details

i thank God for my parents!
Mum and Dad, i love you!

one thought leads to another
okok, i have digressed
hmmm.. i was talking about sound cards rite? ;)

was at sentosa with baby yesterday when i received a much dreaded sms
tuesday off cancelled, everyone to come back in the morning for IPPT
my heart starts to thump so hard (which always happen whenever i think of IPPT) that i feel i could almost hear it
i wasn't really ready for it, especially we seldom do power runs for training recently.. there were only the 4 to 6km runs on mornings

a good breakfast, creatine syrum, lots of stretching, less of worrying,
PLUS loads of praying..

unexpected results!
i cleared my crucial 2nd year IPPT!!!
clocked the usual, 12 chinups, 243cm SBJ, 43 situps, 10.0s shuttle run
and ran 9m10s for 2.4km
slower than my previous timing, but the important thing is that..
it's still gold!
and ya, got monetary incentives.. heh heh

alright,
i'll be away this friday for 2 weeks overseas exercise
till then, :)