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Gary Collier replied to YooperMichigan's discussion 'Mahogany Top for bluegrass'

Mahogany tops tend to have a warmer, softer sound than spruce, especially red spruce. If you want "cut" in a jam then a mahogany top may leave you wanting for more. For the living room and for small jam situations it would be fine, but I'm speakin...

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Gary Collier replied to Steve Blanchard's discussion 'Stainless Steel frets'

I've never refretted with stainless but I have 2 custom guitars that had them from day one. One is 3 years old, the other is 2 years old. Both have hundreds of hours of playing time on them from a heavy-handed bluegrass hack and they show NO signs...

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Favorite Flatpickers

Bryan Sutton, Jim Nunnally, Robert Bowlin, Russ Barenburg, Norman Blake, David Grier, Mitch Corbin

Favorite Flatpicking Tunes

Too many to list

Favorite Guitars

Posch #002 (braz/ad dread), Posch #009 (cuban mah/ad dread), Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe

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I'm 49 and started flatpicking about 5 years ago. I've made some awesome friends in our world through the Flatpick-List, flatpicking.com and other sites. I help maintain LeftyFrets.net, a site dedicated to all things lefty in guitars and other instruments.

I live near Albany, Ga. - always looking for pickers to pick with!

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At 8:41pm on May 7, 2009, Greg Yavorsky said…: Hello Gary. Thanks very much for passing the info to Tom S. He had now owned 2 of my guitars. I shipped one to him midweek & left for Texas sunday.
The new D1AV varnish is everything I had been waiting for. Great tone, perfect neck. Pictures sooner or later. I owe you one
Thanks
Greg

At 4:19pm on March 28, 2009, Pat Kline said…: You guys just are hiding behind those hot six strings. Didn't you ever hear, Age before Beauty? Yeah and I never though a banjo picker could make such a nice guitar. Great Pics, Gary! Hope to see you both at Kamp.

At 8:14pm on December 2, 2008, Kellar Winkelmeyer said…: Gary,
Thanks for the contact. Leo really can make guitars with that golden age vibe. What years did you attend Kamp? We may have been there together. I went in 2001, 2002, and 2004. I will pass on your info regarding left handed pickers to Steve. HE actually plays a right handed guitar upside down. Self taught and really good but it drives me crazy to try to follow his finger positions when we play.

At 7:10am on November 10, 2008, Amy Ferebee said…: Hey Gary,

I wish I could go to Kamp for both weeks but ???$????. I might stay home this year too. My playing really benefits from it though. Maybe I'll get some big gigs to help pay for it. We'll see. Thanks for being a friend.
your chick picker buddy & home town girl,

Amy

At 11:03am on September 1, 2008, William L. Whitacre said…: Gary: Meant to post this sooner. Great being around you at Kamp. The gospel jam was special, and much appreciated by all.
Thanks for being such a positive and cheerful guy. I wish we could all keep that level of goodness showing as much as you do.

At 11:53pm on August 31, 2008, Guy Hill said…: You are right Gary, this photo was from last year's Kamp before I "saw the light"!

Yes, its addictive. I am now probably using a pick 75% of the time, as I am trying to learn more tunes for next year's Kamp. Also, my strumming with a pick is finally getting better, so I'm even playing a lot of my old stuff with a pick too.

At 8:35pm on July 17, 2008, Mark Parchment said…: I don't know which of the Bourgies it is. I just grab one from the pile when I don't feel like getting one of the pre-war 28's out from under the bed;-) Surely you know how it is when you have so many guitars you can't remember the brand and model #'s?

Mark P. (and the above is baloney, pure and simple. I've never even touched a pre-war lefty anything 'cept for my 21 Bruno.)

At 5:37pm on July 4, 2008, Norm Cox said…: Hey monkey-mug, thanks for the photo. I had to airbrush out your hand on my shoulder... didn't want folks to get the wrong impression of us :-)

See you around, big boy!

At 6:36am on June 4, 2008, Tom Sheridan said…: if it wasn't so crass,self-serving and blatenley oppportunistic, i'd say we should have a display somewhere of lefty's for sale,. Oh yeah, we have the web stite.....

At 7:19pm on June 3, 2008, Tom Sheridan said…: Nice pics man...Should be getting the hd tomorrow. I'll bring it along. I may bring a couple extra,,,,ones I'm thinking of selling. Hope there's other lefties. Also picked up a handwired Marshall 1974x. That should come tomorrow too. Not for Kamp though..

Looking forward to saying hi,
TS