Why no fingerboard markers?

[DawgBone]

Something like this? I’d love a gig in a Western swing band.


https://youtu.be/OTZqxocs7ZE?si=la2YKY0QyWMy6ytU

You could move to Texas and dress like that every day and fit in. Western swing is very popular in this area. They actually have a hall of fame for it here.

[StormyMonday]

I added some adhesive markers to my nylon electric and am happy with the look and function. I don't feel like I use them on tunes I already know, but when learning new material it seems helpful and I'm used to the look. And when I wake up at night and play it unplugged in a pretty dark room without my glasses it helps.

[stevo58]

Thats my new look! picture that with a blonde Golden Eagle and a wide jeweled strap (tied to the headstock) I sit in on bass for a friends country band occasionally...theyre gonna love it! Im gonna have to get some C&W chops so I can play rhythm on my GE
You could wear that to the Opry
makes a gig hat seem lame

That’s Nudie. He made all those suits the country guys wore/wear. He’s long dead, and a genuine Nudie suit goes for mid-5 figures today. So these suits were all over the Opry. Everyone from Hank Williams through Porter Waggone to Gram Parsons wore one. From my perspective, they are so over the top and tasteless that they are beautiful, like a rhinestone-and-MOTS encrusted jazz age banjo. Which, by the way, would have a fret marker at the tenth fret. You quickly get used to it. On the other hand, my 1925 Weymann plectrum has a 14th fret dot, and that throws me much harder than the tenth fret.

[SierraTango]

That’s Nudie. He made all those suits the country guys wore/wear. He’s long dead, and a genuine Nudie suit goes for mid-5 figures today. So these suits were all over the Opry. Everyone from Hank Williams through Porter Waggone to Gram Parsons wore one. From my perspective, they are so over the top and tasteless that they are beautiful, like a rhinestone-and-MOTS encrusted jazz age banjo. Which, by the way, would have a fret marker at the tenth fret. You quickly get used to it. On the other hand, my 1925 Weymann plectrum has a 14th fret dot, and that throws me much harder than the tenth fret.

Nudie had a shop on Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood. The Palomino Club was right up the street. When I was in High School my best friend was a guy named Bob November, who later started McKenzie River Music in Eugene, OR. We would go to that part of town and stop at Nudie's. He usually had his customized Cadillac convertible parked out front. It had tuck and roll upholstery with Silver dollars as buttons, chrome steer steer horns on the hood, pistol door handles. You didn't have to buy a entire suit, there were lightly customized shirts for sale for less than a suit. I saved up enough to buy two and wore them on the road. Long gone now-perhaps a blessing! There was also a display area of guitars, mandolins and banjos that belonged to customers that traded Nudie for suits.
After Nudie's we'd sneak into the "Pal". Of course we were under age, but we slipped the bouncer a couple bucks and he's let us stand in the back. I saw Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton (blew the roof off the place), Hank Thompson (Wow-his Super 400!), Ray Price w/Buddy Emmons (totally blew my mind) and Asleep at the Wheel with Johnny Gimble.
Bob sadly passed away in 2012 however I'll always remember those times and some incredible fun!

[Stringswinger]

Nudie had a shop on Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood. The Palomino Club was right up the street. When I was in High School my best friend was a guy named Bob November, who later started McKenzie River Music in Eugene, OR. We would go to that part of town and stop at Nudie's. He usually had his customized Cadillac convertible parked out front. It had tuck and roll upholstery with Silver dollars as buttons, chrome steer steer horns on the hood, pistol door handles. You didn't have to buy a entire suit, there were lightly customized shirts for sale for less than a suit. I saved up enough to buy two and wore them on the road. Long gone now-perhaps a blessing! There was also a display area of guitars, mandolins and banjos that belonged to customers that traded Nudie for suits.
After Nudie's we'd sneak into the "Pal". Of course we were under age, but we slipped the bouncer a couple bucks and he's let us stand in the back. I saw Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton (blew the roof off the place), Hank Thompson (Wow-his Super 400!), Ray Price w/Buddy Emmons (totally blew my mind) and Asleep at the Wheel with Johnny Gimble.
Bob sadly passed away in 2012 however I'll always remember those times and some incredible fun!

ST, Bob November had some incredible guitars, including an early 60's blonde D'Angelico New Yorker, a Loar signed L-5 and an oval hole Selmer guitar. After his 2012 death, I never saw those guitars advertised anywhere. Bob himself told me that those guitars were all for sale to well heeled collectors who wanted guitars that were never advertised on the Internet. Do you know what became of those guitars?

[SierraTango]

ST, Bob November had some incredible guitars, including an early 60's blonde D'Angelico New Yorker, a Loar signed L-5 and an oval hole Selmer guitar. After his 2012 death, I never saw those guitars advertised anywhere. Bob himself told me that those guitars were all for sale to well heeled collectors who wanted guitars that were never advertised on the Internet. Do you know what became of those guitars?

SS, unfortunately I can't be of any help. I spoke to his widow after his passing to offer condolences, however it seemed inappropriate to ask her about his collection at that time. I did speak to the fellow that was running the shop a few months later I think Arnie? and he indicated that the widow was going to keep the collection and sell as she wished to Bob's contacts.
Bob was a very savvy and smart guy, He got into the "Vintage" guitar scene way before the vintage mindset came to be a part of our thinking. I know he was buddies with George Gruhn and Stan Jay. He told me flat out that our visits to Norm Harris when we were teenagers inspired him. He was very knowledgeable about pre-war Martins as well.
In the course of doing business (he gave me buddy prices on my Pisano 880 and Shertler Unico) we would chat about his collection. I never really had the collector's mindset and the archtops he had were way out of my budget.

[skykomishone]

ST, that's quite a story!
Great memories.
Thanks for sharing.