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Mrs.k and I just celebrated our 52nd Anniversary. All my tools of the trade were approved, and in many cases insisted upon, by my infinitely better half. I am blessed.
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02-18-2020 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
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Originally Posted by Zina
By the way, he is very happy and does have a channel on youtube where he uses his *ex-mine* guitar for jazz tutorials:
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Originally Posted by MCampellone
Vinny, i have been also a Gibson blind, but as much as you I changed my mind.
Kind regards.
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
I think Dizzy Gillespie once referred to Charlie Parker as "the other half of my heartbeat."
That really is how I see my wife, and how she sees me. Just between us, I still claim I come out ahead in the Grand Bargain. I also sincerely wish for every person the kind of real life, tears and sweat, diapers and late nights, partnership that I've enjoyed these 42 years.
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Sweet
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Originally Posted by citizenk74
I think Mrs.k is a very lucky woman also. Mr.k is one of the nicest on the forum.
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
Count me among the "many guitars, one wife" group who would lose all of the guitars before the wife.
I have 15 guitars and have owned about 85 others.
I have one wife but have been intimate with over 50 other women prior to settling down with my better half (and that is no Wilt Chamberlain exaggeration/BS).
I do think (for most of us) a variety of guitars/partners is necessary along the way to finding the right one (or the right many). After all, whether it is guitars or life partners, how can you know what you like until you have laid hands on a few?
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Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
JD
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
From 1970, until I retired in 1995, I was an air-traffic-controller in the New York metro area. The first time I saw my wife Cynthia, who was also an air-traffic-controller, I knew that one day she and I would marry. A short while later we did, and I also came out ahead in our partnership. After a few years, I attended Law School which meant that for four nights a week for four years I was hardly ever at home. Hence, most of our family responsibilities rested on her shoulders along with the major challenge of raising our four daughters without much help from me.
Over the years a steady stream of guitars and amplifiers came in the door with nary a complaint from Cynthia. For a number of years we've been empty nesters with the concomitant vacant bedrooms. One is the "guitar room" the other is my wife's backup clothes closet. I'd like to think that this was the first 50-50 split we ever wound up making since we each got a room. But then I remembered our cellar and the train layout--ostensibly for our grandchildren--the driveway with "our" Mustang GT 500, and a few other things and realized I was way ahead again.
One more thing. Two years ago I had prostate surgery. A few months ago sepsis and pneumonia-both involved weeks of convalesce. I had the best nurse you could ever ask for.
No partnership is ever a 50-50 split--one person will always wind up contributing more then the other. The wisest decision I ever made was marrying my beautiful loving wife Cynthia.
Tony D.
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Originally Posted by Max405
hahaha..i thought the exact same thing!!!
cheers
ps- i knew this was gonna be a great thread...said it right off ^... not only seeing the build in progress, but all the other beautiful tributes & revelations besides!!! well done all around
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Mark is a very good egg.
I owned a Deluxe about ten years ago, realized the quality of Mark's guitars, and then asked him to build me an 18" blonde, non cut in 2012. I'm still enjoying it and I still remember the day it arrived at my home.
It was a humid, wet day in the Carolinas and the UPS dude left it beside my home. I took the box into the garage and opened it quickly. I ordered a gator skin Cedar Creek case with it, too. Brown.
Eight years later the blonde has turned golden and the binding has yellowed a little. There is some checking on it and it sounds wonderful. The wood has dried sufficiently so that there is now a reverb to the higher register of notes.
I have a Gibson S400 and it's excellent, too. But the Campy is special. It was made for me. Mark took the time to send me pics along the build process.
He made life happy for me then.
Thanks, Mark.
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The V1K Model
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side note : v1k is my technical code at work. Vinny my name. Hence how I came up with my handle here.
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That’s beautiful Vin. Maybe Mark could put a light in there?
JD
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Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
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Originally Posted by Hammertone
......Just kidding Vinny, honest ! It looks gorgeous !Last edited by Dennis D; 02-20-2020 at 11:41 PM.
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Gorgeous!
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V1K model = a mixture of a Standard, Deluxe, and a Special with special diamond fretboard inlays ( Mark’s idea ).
17x3x25x1-11/16. Built in humbucker. Thick top. Blonde.Last edited by vinnyv1k; 02-21-2020 at 12:11 PM.
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Originally Posted by Max405
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Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
I like the V1K!
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It’s coming along nice Vinny - thanks for sharing pics of the build.
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Originally Posted by Hammertone
Stay tuned and you will see it unfold.
So far you have seen Deluxe F-holes. The binding will be Standard single ply.
I am actually more excited this time than my Special as now I know how good it is going to be. This will be my Swan Song guitar. My last.
For me the builder / customer relationship becomes almost better than the guitar it shelf. I gained a great love for Jimmy D’Aquisto many years ago. I feel the exact same love and respect for Mark Campellone now. A special bond happens that can never happen buying a production guitar. The guitar becomes way more special also. For me now I enjoy playing my Campellone more than my Gibson’s.
That is a huge statement coming from me. Everyone knows I am a HUGE Gibson boy.
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Originally Posted by Max405
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Beautiful wood. I have had a "Special" for 10+ years. Love it. It's antique blond with flame maple back and rims. Mark was great to work with and sent me progress pictures as it was built. I drove to RI to get it. I was delighted to finally play it and it has been a joy since then.
I am working with Mark on a Cameo. We settled on the specs today! The back and rims will be quilted maple this time.
I'll post the progress. It's scheduled to start sometime in June. Can't wait.
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