SilverHamer
08-11-2008, 03:09 AM
...to do THIS?
This is my youtube friend, goldhat3...also known as Mark Easley (MarkE...OMG!!!) He bought himself a Martin Triple-O in 1998. Paul Simon recently chose this guitar model to be his second Signature guitar, and because Mark is a huge fan of Simon and Garfunkel he decided to do something special with it. But what he DID with it goes waay beyond my own intestinal fortitude...he shipped it to Italy, to someone he had only met on youtube, to have a portrait painted on it. I will stop writing at this point and allow you to watch this video...this is totally mind-blowing:
kHnNi5Kj04g
First of all, I would be seriously leary about shipping it across the STATE to someone I KNEW personally, let alone overseas to someone I have only met via online messages. I'd be scared that it would get lost or damaged, or worse yet, stolen.
Second, I would be VERY VERY VERY leary of allowing ANYBODY to mess with the finish on this guitar because it could be devastating to the guitar's natural tone. I have a '63 Gibson that is in terrible need of some refinishing work but I just can't bring myself to have it done for fear that it will lose some of it's natural resonance. But to allow someone you don't even know to paint the top of your very expensive guitar like that just takes all sorts of courage...more than I could ever muster.
The bottom line, though, is that Mr. Mark Easley has himself a one-of-a-kind guitar...a Martin OOO with a first-class portrait of a timeless image of Simon & Garfunkel on it. The guitar sounds pretty good in this youtube video as well. The value of this thing has probably shot through the roof and he could probably sell it on ebay and make enough to buy two or three more of them.
At any rate...I am totally blown away by this. Mark Easley has a lot of guts to do this, but I think that in the end he won!
This is my youtube friend, goldhat3...also known as Mark Easley (MarkE...OMG!!!) He bought himself a Martin Triple-O in 1998. Paul Simon recently chose this guitar model to be his second Signature guitar, and because Mark is a huge fan of Simon and Garfunkel he decided to do something special with it. But what he DID with it goes waay beyond my own intestinal fortitude...he shipped it to Italy, to someone he had only met on youtube, to have a portrait painted on it. I will stop writing at this point and allow you to watch this video...this is totally mind-blowing:
kHnNi5Kj04g
First of all, I would be seriously leary about shipping it across the STATE to someone I KNEW personally, let alone overseas to someone I have only met via online messages. I'd be scared that it would get lost or damaged, or worse yet, stolen.
Second, I would be VERY VERY VERY leary of allowing ANYBODY to mess with the finish on this guitar because it could be devastating to the guitar's natural tone. I have a '63 Gibson that is in terrible need of some refinishing work but I just can't bring myself to have it done for fear that it will lose some of it's natural resonance. But to allow someone you don't even know to paint the top of your very expensive guitar like that just takes all sorts of courage...more than I could ever muster.
The bottom line, though, is that Mr. Mark Easley has himself a one-of-a-kind guitar...a Martin OOO with a first-class portrait of a timeless image of Simon & Garfunkel on it. The guitar sounds pretty good in this youtube video as well. The value of this thing has probably shot through the roof and he could probably sell it on ebay and make enough to buy two or three more of them.
At any rate...I am totally blown away by this. Mark Easley has a lot of guts to do this, but I think that in the end he won!