Also Sprach Gary Smith:
GS>for the 12, about the only suitable AND good-sounding light 
GS>gauge string for that beauty is the Martin silk & steel.  
GS>ANY other set of strings I've used just doesn't hold 
GS>up...something will break or go dead MUCH sooner than the 
GS>Martins.
See, something else to clip & save when I go through 150 or so saved 
message packets to harvest guitar stuff.  Except I sold the Ibanez 12 for 
$200 to Dennis the Actual Band Guitarist.  He'd prob. sell it back if I 
traded him the Pro Reverb for his Super Reverb--which he's tired of 
lugging to gigs.  A 30's Stella 12 will only set me back $3000...
  I heard that one factor in the Byrds' sound was that McGuinn strang his 
Rick 12 with the string pairs reversed.  Don't know where I heard that 
--maybe here.
GS>     Have you tried White Bronze?
Why does this remind me of the little girl's butt in the old, old 
Coppertone ads?
GS>    Now playing:  "Can't Let Her Go" by Robben Ford
Hey, that ridiculously-expensive Ford video has "Born Under a Bad Sign" on 
it!  (speaking of ridiculous, I haven't watched it yet)  When I heard him 
guesting on the local PBS radio station, they played that tune off 
whatever CD (I've got 3, incl. that one), and I said "Gotta have it".
  Don't know whether or not you read VG, but this month's has an article 
about the short-lived Fender Master Series, incl. that Elite or whatever 
that he played & endorsed.  I had been puzzled back when I bought one of 
his records--looking at him holding that thing and saying, "It looks like 
a Gibson, but it says Fender on the headstock!".  I had learned of the 
Elite before the VG article, but of course learned a bunch more there.
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