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Well, I didn’t get there on Sunday, but did visit the store yesterday to check out the SOL. 213176 although they have 1950s on the tag, this SOL is a 1930s with the MOP fret markers instead of the...

You are absolutely not that, but it is very common for creatives of all kinds to suffer from imposter syndrome, or as Amanda Palmer calls it, the "fraud police."



Everybody who takes music even...

I couldn’t disagree more. :)
But why listen to my poorly constructed rebuff of your statement when we have the Lord of the Dark Side to get us to think about our vocabulary and the statements we...

Jacob,

everybody is an eternal beginner. It just depends what we are looking at. So there is hope for all of us.

Your problem seems to be multifold to me.

Classical training:
As the prophet...

I have several commercial touch up markers, not sure if any are Minwax. They are basically felt tip markers with a fancy name and price.

If this was my project, and a Sharpie didn't match closely...

Quite important to listen, I mean extremely important to listen when playing, you’ll notice this in a session, later on at night…

However YES! there are a number of situations where it’s important...

The world of music is enormous but like all things that are huge, it's easier to get a handle on something by breaking it down into smaller increments. You seem to already know what you don't want --...

I would leave it be. That instrument has now been marked as your own and will carry the tale to whomever gets it after you.

Jamie

Consider it a battle scar and keep playing the Hades out of it, Sue! Pick marks and dings happen…you just need to come up with a better story for how the ding happened! Rhino attack while on photo...

I took her home today, she's great! Thank you all for your help and input.

The SOL I’ve had since new just has very thin black paint for a ‘binding’, and I’ve touched it up a few times with whatever black paint - usually enamel was handy. For such a thin area, if you do...

http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/TipsTricks/SteinwayKit/steinway.html
The Steinway touchup kit.

I have had good luck with furniture touch-up markers. Think camouflage. Start with brown, then add black as needed. I get the best results applying dots of color, rather than a single swipe....

You can also use the marker, and wipe it immediately after applying it. It will be less shiny and more dull, let the polish give it the shine. This way you can build up the black also. If it has a...

I'm afraid that my misses often outnumber my hits. I call a 95% match a bulls-eye. Dead center. I don't get those often.
The older I get, the more I cringe over touch-up work and try to talk...

Color matching is a rather difficult skill, and for me, at least, it can be hit or miss.
Hobby stores often carry small containers of paint for model makers. A handful of those and some scrap to...

You have three options:

1. Touch it up with some black paint formulated for model work from a hobby shop. This would only be a "cover-up," and how good it looks would depend on your skill with a...

Ok.. came in under that 800 stretch brand new. 213114

Bud,

You are one inspiring dude, go get 'em!

Rob

I’ll be nearby soon and will have to check it out. Always willing to look at a Strad-O-Lin, although, this one sounds like maybe a bit overpriced. Will try and take some photos to share. On...

The latest mandolin off my 'Barn Cat Mandolins' bench is something a little different for me. I've given it a slightly wider, rounder body shape than my usual Moggy model mandolin, and its ribs and...

This song was my introduction to the Allman Brothers. Here is a version with Dickey front and center.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmetEMv7SfQ

Hey, good for you and all the best!

Sue, what you describe about your school music experience is what I complain about...music ed that never addresses the basic issues of the inner ear.

Instead...

I wonder if D'Addario or Thomastik make ammunition for it.

Conversations here too often posit this as an either / or proposition which I find both amusing and saddening in equal measures.

In this case "versus".

I started off learning by ear and...