Birth Year Guitars, Best present ever? (Heritage Content)

**rhoadsscholar** · 06-11-2019, 08:00 AM

This weekend I am proud to be traveling to California for my son Jeremy's graduation from UC Santa Cruz. He is graduating with a computer science degree and will be working for Facebook. I have twins (Jeremy and Jason) They both play guitar so what better gifts than birth year heritage guitars. I got them almost birthday guitars.
One guitar Born June 6, 1989, One was Born June 7th, 1989. They were born June 8th, 1989 Proud of them both .

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**mr. beaumont** · 06-11-2019, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by rhoadsscholar

This weekend I am proud to be traveling to California for my son Jeremy's graduation from UC Santa Cruz. He is graduating with a computer science degree and will be working for Facebook. I have twins (Jeremy and Jason) They both play guitar so what better gifts than birth year heritage guitars. I got them almost birthday guitars.
One guitar Born June 6, 1989, One was Born June 7th, 1989. They were born June 8th, 1989 Proud of them both .

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Awesome.

**joe2758** · 06-11-2019, 08:41 AM

that's cool. Makes me wish I waited two years to buy my nice guitar.

**GNAPPI** · 06-11-2019, 09:19 AM

Very cool, in all respects.

**Greentone** · 06-11-2019, 09:51 AM

Great presents.

**rabbit** · 06-11-2019, 11:34 AM

Congratulations to all of you, rhoadsscholar, on your successes.

Nice fiddles, too!

**vinnyv1k** · 06-11-2019, 11:58 AM

Sweet Bob !!! Really nice. My birthday is June 25. Will you be my dad

**citizenk74** · 06-11-2019, 05:04 PM

Congratulations! You might consider getting a little something for yourself to commemorate the occasion.

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**Onlyserious** · 06-11-2019, 06:24 PM

I happen to be born May 30th (Memorial day) 1954. On my 40th birthday, I bought my first pair of reading glasses...as as consolation, I bought myself a new 40th Anniversary American Strat.

I told my parents that our retirements would be so much sweeter if they had just bought a couple of Strats on the day I was born and put them in the closet.

My dad told me as a little kid that all the Memorial Day flags and parades were in honor of my birthday--I discovered in my 20's he was kidding me. He did share that I was born between two games of a double header between the Cardinals and the Twins so he didn't have to miss any baseball on the radio.

Very cool gifts!

**Dedalus** · 06-11-2019, 06:41 PM

That's awesome. I'm particularly impressed by how close the birthdays are between the guitars and your boys.

My son turns 21 in July. I've been a longtime watch nerd as well as guitar passionista. He doesn't play guitar but did grow up following my watch passion. My partner and I will similarly be surprising him, but with an Omega chronograph in place of a guitar. I can't wait.

You should be incredibly proud of your boys. Fantastic graduation presents, and thanks for sharing this with us.

**Ray175** · 06-12-2019, 03:50 AM

Great idea, and I'm sure they'll be treasured.
For myself, I've bought vintage wines for my 50th birthday in 2005 and 60th in 2015 - but my dream would be a 1955 L5 and Bassman from 1955 for my 65th next year. I suspect it won't happen.....