I’m on vacation with my kids. I just took a call with an investor and I’m about to take a calm with another. Being a business owner is tough work. Always on. I’m vowing to not work the rest of the time I’m here. (Charlevoix) At the end of the month I head to Scotland with my wife. I will try, as best I can, to not turn the phone on. mk and ecib will hold down the fort without me. I find myself oversubscribed with offers to invest. A good problem to have. One very large and key investor is sending his sharks to our offices next Friday as a final due diligence step. I’m pretty excited about Forever Labs right now. I feel like we are really finding our footing. Happy birthday America! I love you, warts and all. I’m scared for the path you are on but I think you’ll find your footing too. I bought a new guitar. A Martin. I like it. Music coming soon!
I am returning to answer this comment. Why? Because it’s important people see this. I bought a composite Martin. Brand new. Apparently, it’s supposed to be every bit as good as Wood. Well, it’s not. It was total, shit. Just returned it got a fraction of what I paid for it and got a Taylor mini Koa in the same price point. A much better guitar.
Composite might be garbage or you might just have gotten a dud. I know other people who've bought a top of the line instrument and for some unknowable reason that particular unit was stillborn. A professional woodwind player who comes in the shop told me about his friend who purchased a $10,000 flute that is a model everyone who's played it says is awesome but which for that particular instrument sounded like student level garbage. But maybe composite is trash. The first guitar I owned was an ovation (rounded fiberglass backed) which I received for Christmas. Holy hell did that fiberglass back make it sound terrible.
Also, I know those ovations well. In high school everyone liked them because they were loud. But I couldn’t agree with you more, they sounded really thin. No heart; kind of synthetic.
When I walked in and the tech saw the guitar I was holding he said, “I know exactly why you are here.“ Apparently they are garbage.