Relationship with Strings Attached

I have had a long love affair with stringed instruments especially guitars.  I love guitars especially Fender guitars.  I have owned several Fender guitars but never had the time or patience to learn more than basic chords.  I do like just having one.  Keeping a dream alive I guess.

I remember making guitars out of cardboard and wood when I was a child.  I remember being at Dudley McNeil's house making the guitars.  I also remember making instruments, especially a clarinet, out of wood and cardboard for a Roadshow performance at Church.  We cardboard/wood synced to "Baby Elephants Walk".

I played the cello for about 5 years but the guitar is really the instrument that intrigues me.  I saved up my money in junior high and bought a Fender Stratocaster copy from from a pawn shop on Main Street.  I started a band with three other guys and we named our band "Avocado Machine Gun".  I played that guitar until my fingers bled.  It didn't help the neck of the guitar was not adjusted correctly and the strings were too far from the neck.  I don't remember what happened to the guitar but the band broke up when my family moved away from Boise.

Nowadays I stay away from the guitar stores as I fear I will buy another guitar.  A Fender guitar.  A Fender Telecaster Thinline with the hollow body and the humbucking pickups.  Maybe I would find the time to practice and take lessons this time.

Yeah, I know.