I've been to the "real" Auctions again, another one with a lot of Guitars, but this time I stayed away from the pawn shop "Strat" copies, (though I did bid on a couple of actual Fender Stratocasters; but they ended too expensive for me). What I did bid on - and won - was an ESP SG copy and a JHS Vintage AMG1 steel bodied single cone resonator Guitar. The ESP comes with a Peavey gigbag and the Vintage with a hard case but I haven't seen these so I don't know what they are like. Truth to tell I haven't seen the Guitars either, apart from in photos, the auction was a long way away so I attended on line. Bit of a buggeration this, as the video feed was a couple of minutes, or about one lot behind where the auction actually was. This meant that for some time while watching the lots I was looking at had already sold before I saw them and I would have missed them if I'd wanted them. Once I realised this I switched the video feed off and just looked at the text bidding which was properly in sync so I was in time for the ESP, and two lots after that was the JHS Vintage. As a fully steel bodied resonator it looked very nice and shiny, (I have said lots of times I like Resonators). I had pre-bid but a couple of other people outbid that and as I still thought it was a good price for what it was I bid again; now its on the way to Ukulele Corner, I just have to drive up and collect it.

After a looooong drive and having to dodge the tanks, the shiny Vintage is very shiny and the unseen case is a very good, (and big - but it needs to be), hard case too. There was a surcharge for bidding on line so I could have saved a bit of money if I had attended the auction in person, (but then I could easily have ended up buying too much!?) Alternatively it would have cost a bit in petrol if I went and then didn't buy anything, (and this was one of the reasons I didn't go at the time, so really I shouldn't be complaining now). Anyway the Guitar is in good condition and still, I think, worth a lot more than I paid including the surcharge and the petrol. Now I really must improve my Guitar playing.

It's gone now 

and like I said I got it at an auction with a nice hard case, and it was very shiny but it always seemed to lack something when I played it? Not volume certainly, (or weight!), nor build quality, but something about the "feel" when I played it?? I guess it's days at Ukulele Corner, including the Pony Guitar Sanctuary, were numbered when I got the JHS Vintage AMG3 tricone. It's wasn't a direct replacement but, even with its damage I prefer playing it, and collection wise having both of my brass bodied resonators being part of the AMG series did seem a bit limited.

Now it's gone off to London to seek it's fortune; I'll say once again I didn't hate it, but this does give me the opportunity to look for an alternative brass body single cone resonator and with space being tight I can justify one out, one in and have all the fun of looking for, and trying to invite, this alternative...

And I've kept the hard case