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Topic: I decorated my white Millennium |
Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 30 Oct 2010 2:50 pm |
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This is the one I found on E-bay. I got a great deal on the price, and I didn't have to wait for it. And when it arrived, it was in absolutely pristine condition. But I never liked its appearance, and always thought it needed something to jazz it up a little.
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after:
I know some of you don't like the rose decal, but I do. But I think it needed the stripe across the top to tie it all together.
I've never done this before. I've always liked my steels clean and unadorned, but this one was too clean and unadorned. I think it looks a lot better now.
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Colm Chomicky
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Kansas, (Prairie Village)
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Posted 30 Oct 2010 3:25 pm
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Heck, this is a hard instrument to play. I am thinking of decorating the back of my hand with a rose to remind me to keep practicing!
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Steve Spitz
From:
New Orleans, LA, USA
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Posted 30 Oct 2010 4:28 pm Rose Tattoo
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| My wife had a rosebud tattoo on her chest when I met her. Now its a long-stemmed rose.... |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 30 Oct 2010 8:32 pm
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Steve,I think that's funny,Does your Wife     YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Ned McIntosh
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 31 Oct 2010 1:43 pm
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The horizontal stripe is perfect and sets the styling off completely. Now it looks "finished".
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Dickie Whitley
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Posted 31 Oct 2010 4:47 pm
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| I think it looks just fine Mike. Somehow it just look so bare with all that white space and nothing else on it. I think you done good. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 31 Oct 2010 6:05 pm
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Thanks guys. BTW, My other one is a real beauty.
Structurally and functionally, they are identical, but looking at them side by side, well, you can see the before picture.
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Dickie Whitley
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Posted 31 Oct 2010 6:09 pm
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| Yeah, I think I would leave that one alone, she's got all the good looks she needs. |
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Kenneth Farrow
From:
Alaska, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2010 3:01 pm
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Gafternoon, Mike--hope all's well w/u & urs--the guitar looks good--I admire ur taste and adventurousness in all that u do--
ken in alaska |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 1 Nov 2010 5:05 pm
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Some gals don't need any facework 
Sorry, Mike.
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Eric West
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Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Nov 2010 6:53 pm
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FFS 'rch.
No Kitten Decal??
EJL |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 1 Nov 2010 7:12 pm
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| Kenneth Farrow wrote: |
Gafternoon, Mike--hope all's well w/u & urs--the guitar looks good--I admire ur taste and adventurousness in all that u do--
ken in alaska |
Ken, I may be adventurous musically, but in every other way I'm a total wuss. 
Archie, You're right. You guitar doesn't need anything. I would be happier if mine was the same color as yours.
BTW that cute little kitten from last summer has turned into a raving homicidal maniac who wants to pounce on and kill everything she sees. Shoelaces, little pieces of paper, the dog, (a 75 pound German Shepard mix,) me. Last week she brought me a "present" of a mouse she caught. 
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 2 Nov 2010 11:05 pm
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| Didn't I read on here several years ago, that people thought white guitars were unlucky??? |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 Nov 2010 11:24 pm
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| Didn't I read on here several years ago, that people thought white guitars were unlucky??? |
Stephen, I paid half of what it would cost new, and it was delivered in less than 2 weeks.
We should all be so unlucky.
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Rick Winfield
From:
Pickin' beneath the Palmettos
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Posted 3 Nov 2010 1:40 am unlucky
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Doesn't SOUND unlucky when you play her !
Maybe an Erte pic would be more appropriate for that classic sound
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Per Berner
From:
Skovde, Sweden
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 3 Nov 2010 7:58 am
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A small, but most significant improvement, IMO.  |
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