How About a Martin John Fahey Signature Model?

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hogwldfltr	How About a Martin John Fahey Signature Model?	Lead	[-]
(03/26/09 11:20 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Maybe a reissue of a D-76. Might it sell? -Lee *********** I've been known to play with the following: '71 D-18 : '06 D-18GE : Backpacker : '82 D-41 : '66 D-35 (in repair) : '30 2-17 (in need of fixing) : '67 00-18C : '44 00-18 : '44 00-17 : LX-175th : '30s 0 Uke: '20s 2-M Uke: '82 MC-28 : Gibson C-0 Classic : '98 Martin D12-1 : '08 DSM : '80 D-37K : '70 Guild F-112 : and a '98 Harley-Davidson FLTR Road Glide. Forum intro #992 *********** "What do you all look like?" Post #206
Davids Harp		#1	[-]
(03/26/09 11:27 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Signature? David They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens
d18dc		#2	[-]
(03/26/09 12:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I always felt the Elvis should have been a signature Model also. I don't think he has left the building. Mike
hogwldfltr		#3	[-]
(03/26/09 3:02 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	There is an Elvis, Jim Croce, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash. Plently of examples of Signature models done posthumously. OK Artist's Model if we insist. -Lee *********** I've been known to play with the following: '71 D-18 : '06 D-18GE : Backpacker : '82 D-41 : '66 D-35 (in repair) : '30 2-17 (in need of fixing) : '67 00-18C : '44 00-18 : '44 00-17 : LX-175th : '30s 0 Uke: '20s 2-M Uke: '82 MC-28 : Gibson C-0 Classic : '98 Martin D12-1 : '08 DSM : '80 D-37K : '70 Guild F-112 : and a '98 Harley-Davidson FLTR Road Glide. Forum intro #992 *********** "What do you all look like?" Post #206 Last Edited By: hogwldfltr 04/03/09 10:22 AM. Edited 1 times.
Davids Harp		#4	[-]
(03/26/09 6:26 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	We do. David They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens
Stringasaurus Rex		#5	[-]
(03/26/09 7:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I remember seeing a zoned-out John Fahey many years ago at Club Passim and he played a couple of old Martin dreads. The guitar I would get if I wanted a "Fahey" model would be this one being worked out by Tony Klassen at New Era Guitars: B&D Senorita Rhinestones and engraved mother-of-toilet-seat. What a combo ! Somebody posted a video not too long ago of Fahey playing that Bacon and Day.
Mfan		#6	[-]
(03/27/09 12:08 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have a tremendous respect for Fahey. I'd love to hear what he'd have to say about a signature model Martin. I wouldn't want to guess what he'd come out with.
MC28VR		#7	[-]
(03/27/09 12:20 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A John Fahey signature would definitely have to be a Bacon and Day or a Recording King. The D-76 came 18 years later, well after his prime and most of his truly great work. Although he poses with that D-76 on his "Best Of" in '77 and did play it for a few years, not a tune on that "Best Of" was recorded on a Martin and t hat never really was his main sound.
Davids Harp		#8	[-]
(03/27/09 1:55 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ummm.... David They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens
jscio		#9	[-]
(03/27/09 5:35 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Get a D28 and you'll have one of his models. However, if you want, Martin will add some bells and whistles, slap some poor scmoe of a relative's signature on it and be very happy to triple the price for you.
Dunpipin		#10	[-]
(03/27/09 10:39 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm no Fahey expert, but didn't he play a D-35 for some time?
hogwldfltr		#11	[-]
(03/27/09 2:49 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sometimes a D-35, sometimes a D-76. He went through many guitars. -Lee *********** I've been known to play with the following: '71 D-18 : '06 D-18GE : Backpacker : '82 D-41 : '66 D-35 (in repair) : '30 2-17 (in need of fixing) : '67 00-18C : '44 00-18 : '44 00-17 : LX-175th : '30s 0 Uke: '20s 2-M Uke: '82 MC-28 : Gibson C-0 Classic : '98 Martin D12-1 : '08 DSM : '80 D-37K : '70 Guild F-112 : and a '98 Harley-Davidson FLTR Road Glide. Forum intro #992 *********** "What do you all look like?" Post #206
Davids Harp		#12	[-]
(03/27/09 4:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	And most memorably, a Bacon&Day. But I have to cop to being confused. How come they get to call it a "signature" model if the guy is dead? And how do they get him to sign it? not for the first time, and not for the last, either David They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are, are changed upon the blue guitar." -Wallace Stevens
hogwldfltr		#13	[-]
(03/27/09 5:07 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Davids Harp wrote: And most memorably, a Bacon&Day. But I have to cop to being confused. How come they get to call it a "signature" model if the guy is dead? And how do they get him to sign it? not for the first time, and not for the last, either Below is the Jim Croce signature model link; the guitar is a commemorative model. Other example exist as well, Hank Williams Sr., Clarence White, , Woodie Guthrie, and Roy Rogers to name a few. The Custom Artists Series seem to be grouped in the signature model cateory as well. I'm really not sure what the rhyme and reason but it does seem to include all Artist's models. As far as signing, I suspect and inlaid (or printed) signature could be done posthumously. Jim Croce Signature Commemorative Edition *********** I've been known to play with the following: '71 D-18 : '06 D-18GE : Backpacker : '82 D-41 : '66 D-35 (in repair) : '30 2-17 (in need of fixing) : '67 00-18C : '44 00-18 : '44 00-17 : LX-175th : '30s 0 Uke: '20s 2-M Uke: '82 MC-28 : Gibson C-0 Classic : '98 Martin D12-1 : '08 DSM : '80 D-37K : '70 Guild F-112 : and a '98 Harley-Davidson FLTR Road Glide. Forum intro #992 *********** "What do you all look like?" Post #206
Michael Segui		#14	[-]
(03/27/09 6:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Stringasaurus Rex wrote: I remember seeing a zoned-out John Fahey many years ago at Club Passim and he played a couple of old Martin dreads. The guitar I would get if I wanted a "Fahey" model would be this one being worked out by Tony Klassen at New Era Guitars: B&D Senorita Rhinestones and engraved mother-of-toilet-seat. What a combo ! Somebody posted a video not too long ago of Fahey playing that Bacon and Day. Tony's guitar is amazing! Check out this video of Fahey playing his Senorita: Michael Segui Est. 1974 "I too was once penniless."
MC28VR		#15	[-]
(03/28/09 9:56 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	How come they get to call it a "signature" model if the guy is dead? I like to think of it as just one more of those mysteries of life... ... such as just how did Jimi Hendrix release more albums in the 80's, 90's, and 00's after he died so young in 1970...
New Era Guitars	New Era Guitars	#16	[-]
(04/03/09 8:46 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I am a HUGE John Faney fan. The Bacon & Day has to be the coolest guitar I have ever come across! The New Era Senorita will be finished in about 2 months. Here are some progress photos. The neck is at the banjo makers getting it's fancy engraving done. I am very excited about this project! I have often wondered if Fahey would have wanted a signature model?..... Tony ARK - New Era Guitars
teherie		#17	[-]
(04/03/09 6:29 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I once saw a You Tube clip of John Fahey on a cable access show from the 60's and he used his soundhole as an ashtray and the female host of the show was mortified. Was he "out there"? Absolutely. Eccentric? Without a doubt. Pure Genius? Positively. As the owner of a Martin D-35 which he played from time to time, a Martin model honoring one of the true pioneers of the steel string solo guitar would be a fitting tribute. I discovered John Fahey after I discovered Leo Kottke. Here's what Leo had to say about John Fahey shortly after he died from complications of heart by-pass surgery several years ago: "In a country full of crap, John created living, generative culture. With his guitar and his spellbound witness, he synthesized all the strains in American music and found a new happiness for all of us. With John, we have a voice only he could have given us; without him, no one will sound the same."
New Era Guitars	new Era Senorita	#18	[-]
(06/11/09 10:47 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The new Era Senorita is nearing completion! I just received the neck and the engraving is wonderful! Here are a few shots.
tonguy		#19	[-]
(06/11/09 1:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tony, Your New Era Señorita looks gorgeous. Based on this story (copied from the Acoustic Guitar Central web page - scroll down a bit for the Fahey article)... John Fahey John Fahey was not known to play fancy instruments. He tended to pick up inexpensive guitars and then pawn them when he needed cash. During his heyday in the late '60s and early '70s, Fahey was partial to a 1930s Gibson Recording King with a sunburst top and a bell-like tone. He used it to record some of his most enduring albums, including America, Of Rivers and Religion, After the Ball, and Fare Forward Voyagers. Sometime around 1974, Fahey smashed the Recording King in a fit of rage. A friend gathered together all the pieces of splintered wood and planned to someday put them back together. In the early '80s, Wisconsin guitar maker Fred Sheppard gave Fahey a lap-slide guitar, and in a deal Sheppard refers to as "a convoluted kind of a trade," Fahey bequeathed him the pieces of the Recording King. Sheppard, too, put the project on hold for nearly a decade and was finally propelled to make it happen after Fahey's untimely death earlier this year. Fingerstyle guitarist Peter Lang, one of Fahey's friends and protégés, told Sheppard that he'd be recording "Witness to the Messenger" 16 days later for a forthcoming Fahey tribute album. Sheppard unplugged his phone, locked himself in his shop, and spent the next two weeks madly refurbishing the guitar. While the top was pretty much intact, the rest of the guitar was absolutely shredded-the left side alone, for example, sported 24 major cracks. "I recognized that the guitar was a piece of Americana that needed to be preserved," Sheppard explains, "and I didn't want to replace the sides. I wanted to use every single scrap of the material that was in the guitar when John had it." He rebuilt the guitar from the back up, using hide glue and more than 150 lightweight spruce and rosewood cleats. "I also had to put a new bridge plate in, because it was toast," he says. "The headblock where the dovetail goes in was in five pieces, and I had to remove a lot of the braces and reglue them into a flat position." As he assembled the body and top, Sheppard could only hope they would fit together when he was done. "It was an absolute perfect fit," he recalls, "like two pieces of broken glass! When I brought it up to pitch, there was no doubt in my mind that this was the guitar used on those records. It's got that indescribable quality, and it sustains for ten full seconds!" Lang strung the Recording King with GHS light-gauge strings (the kind Fahey used), and he too was overjoyed with the familiar tone. "It sounded like a choir of angels," he says. "Fred didn't do a whole lot with cosmetics. The main thing was to get it playable. With all the cracks, I felt a little bit nervous playing it, but Fred assured me that it's solid. Hide glue is amazing stuff." -Simone Solondz ...the maker would have to completely smash and rebuild each individual guitar, wouldn't they? Bet that would make the Fahey model a very pricey one... Tony (Forum intro - page 11) Say hello to my little friend... Mr. Slots Street Name - J-Bang (Just Buy A 'Nuther Guitar) My cure for GAS - my wife asking, "Which one(s) are you selling to get that?" Last Edited By: tonguy 06/12/09 11:58 AM. Edited 1 times.
12barz		#20	[-]
(06/11/09 2:12 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yep, taking 'relic-ing' to a new level. Lovely senorita, that!

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