[GentleHands McCoy]

I noticed there is a new thing under the names for Main Acoustic Guitar, so I figured it would be cool to see what everybody is rocking.

This is my Contreras (built by Manuel Contreras I, his son, Manuel Contreras II, builds guitars as well). Its a lot nicer guitar than a player of my caliber deserves (worth a fair bit more than my entire rig) but heres the story behind it.

My Grandmothers brother was a professional guitarist in post war germany (mainly jazz/classical) and when he died (mid 1970s) he had accumulated a fair number of guitars. My grandmother and her brother inherited his collection and it was decided that they should keep his two favorites, a Ramirez and this Contreras, and sell the rest. Anyways my grandmother passed this down to my mother when she began playing classical guitar and it has now been placed in my care.

So, Lets See 'Em!

 

[GentleHands McCoy]

There is already a disturbingly large amount of mandolins in this thread.

My sister has one and it must be the most uncomfortable neck ever, its pretty much a perfect v shape (not softened or anything).

 

[GentleHands McCoy]

Yeah, getting used to the mandolin neck has been rotten. Bar chords are extremely uncomfortable.

The small frets and the high tension strings don't help either. All that combined with it just being a small instrument just makes it supremely uncomfortable for me.

Its cool to see someone really shredding it up on the mandolin though. Theres a cowboy guy on a ranch up here that rips.