Russ Because of my love of music and the guitar – and the fact that I owned a Store/music school I was in a position to lay my hands on many different guitars. I had the best of the best and boy was that fun. I considered myself as a good enough player to have the best. I was also good at lying to myself. (smile)

Here’s my story;
I bought a George Goble Gibson L5 CES guitar; it was red, had a floating pick up, a 16” body and it was 2 5/8 thick. It had a beautiful sound. I decided to mount 2 patent applied (Spelling) pickups to this red beauty. I did a great job, the controls were placed correctly and the pickups were set just right. It became my main guitar. Four months later I ran to Jimmy D’Aquisto’s repair shop because the top of the L5 was caving in. He said, “John, you cut the support struts on the guitar”. I wasn’t feeling too good. But leave it to Jimmy he put 2 sounds post inside the guitar under the bridge similar to a violin.

Bottom line – It was a great humbling experience, John C.