Got an e-mail asking why I don’t play this guitar anymore.  Fair question.

1) I have an endorsement deal with another guitar manufacturer so I use their guitars exclusively right now.

2) I use an alternate tuning (open C#) that puts extra tension on a couple strings, and therefore extra pull on the neck.  This guitar didn’t hold that tuning well for me.  it held standard tuning fine but I never use standard tuning anymore.

3) This guitar is smallish and has a thin body and so it sounds thinner to me too.  Not a bad sound but not the sound I go for these days.  I use a full body guitar now.

This is a great guitar to start out on, probably a little more than what’s needed for a beginner even.

Hope that helps.

Shaun

i hope you get a great price for it! the sentimental value for you, i’m sure, is great; it will be great if someone else can really treasure it and make their own memories and music.

Did you ever get in contact with Yamaha and say hey someone stole my guitar could you help me out here? I know that Yamaha in the UK still makes the cpx-15 west guitars.

BOO ON TURDBALL!!

I love the red sunburst!  I hope it sells for mucho dinero.  I didn’t know you were from Tyler.  My best childhood friend is from there too!

And Common Grounds...yummy coffee!

Let’s have slow un-employed winters together Shaun.

Want to fair another cold visit to ND?  I could check around again and see what we could do.

Beth

Sounds like November to January is a perfect time to be in the studio!

Yes, mark it is.  Here’s the plan: Make the live CD.  Sell the live CD.  Make a studio record with that cash.  No way that’s happening anytime soon.

But good thought.

Most of my songs are written this time of year.  That’s what slow is for I guess.

MPP. Yamaha is working on getting me another guitar for next week in fact.  The CPX-15 (weird that you know the model number) is not a current model for Yamaha stateside.  They want me to play a current guitar.  People ask what I play.  I tell them. They buy it.  Yamaha makes money.  It’s worth them to give me guitars then.  So, we’ll see what they give me this time.  I have a CPX I’m using right now, just old and beaten up.  It’ll be nice to hold something without worn down frets next week.

Shaun

Man, my first guitar is from Mundt Music in Tyler, too.  It’s not for sale, though....

Ohh come on Shaun I do READ. You mentioned the model number in your post to the guitar thief. So I went digging in the archives to get the model number to see if I could hunt down “Turdball” via eBay or something big hairy deal. And without your thorough description of your beloved captive cpx-15 west I would have been no where and wouldn’t have even been able to tell you that Yamaha makes them in the UK still. All I knew was that it was a Yamaha and that it was black and kinda orangish red. Didn’t even know it was an acoustic/electric till I researched it.

Not that you’re accusing me of stealing your guitar or anything like that.

Have you ever thought about putting out another guitar in the same place the Yamaha was unlawfully acquired?  Kinda like bait.

Turdball still on the loose.

10 bucks. take it or leave. final offer.

Actually I do have few Guitar students (with wealthy parents) who have outgrown their tiny guitars and and are ready for the switch, I tell the moms.

btw, did you ever find the turdball that stole your Yamaha?

Sounds a little like my husband’s business...home improvement.  Nobody wants their house torn up around the holidays so Nov & Dec are slow.  When people start getting their tax checks around Feb-Mar, things pick back up.  It makes it easier knowing this and planning for it in advance. ; )

Shaun,

Would you keep it if you could get the money elsewhere?  Do you see the kids learning on it one day?

Beth

Do you have to sell iton E-Bay? How much would you take for it not on E-Bay? It looks fricken awesome, i’ve been needing a new guitar, and if you ever feel like playing it again you could just send me an e-mail, or wow! call me! lol
just let me know what you want for it and I’ll see what I can do… also, in these slow winter months, as artists strive for anything and everything to keep afloat… We could probably use some help editing the music video that we just shot if you’d like to put some input in on that, or help with some graphic design, or anything that you can do I’ll see what kind of job we could come up with for you. You’re a good kid....Guy, Shaun, and with all the help Ikon was to me, it’s the least I could do to help you out as much as I can!
In Christ,
~Davidge
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Hey, why aren’t you advertising this is YOUR guitar?  You could make a little more $ for it!!!  Will you sign it for the winner?

1) No I wouldn’t keep it anyway.  I don’t need it.

2)Thanks, David, but I have a job, it’s just that my job slows down a bit this time of year.  No biggy, happens every year and we always have enough.

3)If the “winner” wants me to.

Cool.  My first guitar was a Jasmine… acoustic-acoustic … later electrified by a fishman bridge pickup.  I got it during my freshman year in college and used it to play praise songs at the BSU.  It’s since been with me to Canada, Jordan, and Turkey and is now my “extreme conditions” guitar for places like camp fires or the beach.  The Jasmine is an exceptional instrument for its price range, very solid.

Define Winter for me. Give me a list of months that you say is winter and let me see if I can get you at Toccoa Falls College. We just had Jars of Clay here last night. My influance is growing over other people and you’re becoming an outstanding artist that people want to listen to/talk to. It helps to have a couple of good stories from shlog under my belt to dish out.

Well, late Fall and winter actually, I guess.  usually December through January is tough.  The tough part is hitting a little earlier this year.  November is slim, then December through January, as usual is slim as well.  Slim means fewer gigs than other months, but still there will be gigs.

Again, this is the regular cycle of touring in our industry.  We’re dependent upon on colleges and churches.  Both have a lot on their plates as we near the holidays and budgets get tighter near the end of the year too.  Then at the beginning of the new year lots of stuff “launches” and “kicks off” so again folks are too busy to promote a show.  In February things begin to pick up and by March we’re running again.  It’s the normal business cycle for me.  I’m used to it.  Don’t be alarmed.  I’m not.

Well, late Fall and Winter actually, I guess.  Usually December through January is tough.  (That’s why the Gloria Christmas tours were good for us artists.) The tough patch is hitting a little earlier this year is all.  November is slim, then December through January, as usual is virtually empty.

Again, this is the regular cycle of touring in our industry.  We’re dependent upon on colleges and churches to book us.  Both have a lot on their plates as we near the holidays - budgets get tighter near the end of the year too.  Then at the beginning of the new year lots of stuff “launches” and “kicks off” so again folks are too busy to promote a show.  In February things begin to pick up and by March we’re running at full speed again. 

It’s the normal business cycle for me.  I’m used to it.  Don’t be alarmed.  I’m not.  But I sue appreciate the concern.

a takamine, nice choice, i have a takamine myself, btw, check this out, you might find it interesting.... 

Shaun groves concert bebo

I won your guitar.  Don’t worry.  I’ll take good care of it.  And actually it would be cool if you signed it.
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