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TonyKarol
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Well, yesterday I received a special gift gutiar, and I am sorry to say that the tradegy that befells a finely delicious guitar in transit has caught up with me. This one was fairly devastating, the guitar being completely broken into three pieces - the neck came right off at the body joint, and somehow, the almighty only knows how, the body was split right in two, right across the soundhole, almost following one half of an X brace. The strings, those multicoloured ones (Daddarios?), were completely ripped off and curled up at the headstock. It must have been some kind of voilent crash that did this ....
























Oh well, at least its still edible I was thinking of using hot saliva glue to put her back together, then maybe add a cutaway .. or two !!! I am hoping that this is taken for the humor value that it provides - we all need a good laugh every once and a while, and the Big guy knows there has a been a rash of tragedies go thru us brethren of late ... cheers.

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Man.... thats a bad one.
I don't want talk bad behind the builders back.... but that was a pretty crummy finish, wouldn't you say?

I do feel sorry about your loss, hopefully you had insurance.

And do beware, those guitars are know to cause severe belly akes! peterm39063.770787037

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Eat it, Tony!!!

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and all this time I thought he made guitars from wood?
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NO worries Hesh .. I am leaving this one to a much more experienced choco-repair guru .. my son !!! I just finished a lovely Rocky Mountain Chocalate covered Almond cluster ....mmmmmmmm

now back to our regular scheduled Grolsch .... party leftovers !!! ... mmmmmmm

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Obviously the problem was the case.
Just look how flimsy that thing is!

Funny, Tony, thanks for posting.

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I opened the post with the same trepidation as Hesh.

Good one Tony!

Obviously the problem was the case... too funny Steve
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Delightfully sick sense of humour you have there, Tony!
Love it!
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What a pitty, such a nice looking set of coco on that one to, oh well.

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Tony, i feel for you man! I can really feel your pain and will pray the Almighty so that your son leaves at least a soundport ... or 2!

I was aching for real until i saw that pic and LMAO you funny dude!

Thanks for the great laugh coach!
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No claim on this one...you will have to eat it!!!!

As I was reading, my heart was sinking. I was wondering....FedEX, UPS???

You got me

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After a shock like that Tony, good job dark chocolate is good for the heart!

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thanks tony, that was a good laugh

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Touche!!!

I too was quite aprehensive opening up this thread...

Well done sir!

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Great Laugh Tony! You really had me going on that one.

Would've made a great April fools joke!

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Ah yes, the rare and sought after Glutton model, even more rare than the Envy and Lust models.

(If you could only get chocolate scented finishes!)

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you'll have to have them all pulled out after eating that one!!
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Hi Jeff, welcome to the OLF my friend, you'll find soon enough that there are great folks to hang around with here!

Have fun!

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Tony....Tony.....Tony......

I bet you heard that a lot in high school eh?

or was it


Kaaaarrooooooooooollllll

funny funny funny.

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OK, since no one else has said it:

Seems as if your experience with this guitar was bittersweet.

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Maybe Howard, but it was all creamy in the end (more ways than one, but I will have to let my son Jonathan vouch for that )


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