New Guitar Day S500

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standards guy
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New Guitar Day S500

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Standards guy here (meaning I play old standards, Showtunes, Sinatra tunes and the like, with a bunch of jazz guys in quiet restaurants, etc).
I used to play Rock and Blues, and a bit of Country, but I'm in my 60's now. :o

Today I bought a new old stock S500 because I've been farting around with various partsocasters and just got tired of it all and decided I NEEDED a new guitar (with fresher notes in it). :idea:

Anyway I think it's about '06 (haven't had it apart yet). White on white alder body- narrow birds eye maple neck with fairly large frets and locking tuners.

I use a Polytone for the quiet stuff and a Tech 21 for the crunchy stuff (don't get much call for that anymore).

Retired from my day job a couple of years ago so decided to reprise my old jazz studies from College (30 years ago). Boy, has my learning curve got rounded over!

Anyway the guys I play with think I can read music :happy0007: and they're a good bunch: so we have two guitars; cornet; bass; and a vocalist. Sometimes piano and drums too but not usually.
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Re: New Guitar Day S500

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Welcome! :greet:

When you get a chance, please add your S-500 to our G&L Registry and
there are some here which require photograph proof or they will say it does not exist. :lol:
You can find the details for posting photos in the guitarsbyleo.com History and G&LDP Guidelines.
We all enjoy seeing G&L Porn, so when you can, take some pictures of your new G&L and post them here
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standards guy
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Re: New Guitar Day S500

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Oh yeah of course!
I'll have our youngest (the drummer, but he has a phone!) shoot a pic or two, maybe tonight.
I'll get it registered asap. I haven't even got the black with grunge strings off it yet (still sounds good though: I went to change the strings and got lost playing through the amp).
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Re: New Guitar Day S500 + 2 pics I hope

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OK. That worked!
Here's the NOS (sending in the card tomorrow) '05 - S500, plus one of yours truly holding some chord I can't play:

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June 10, 2005 build S500

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April 17, 1950 build with '05 S500
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Re: New Guitar Day S500

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Nice!! Congrats!