Hey BOB,
I started playing when I was thirteen after hearing Subterranean Homesick Blues for the first time while dragging along through the snow on my paper route. I've got an old J-45, a slightly suped up Squier Bullet, a Telecaster, a Regal steel resonator (new Korean type, not old at all) and a homemade diddly bow I've been messing with. It's getting a pickup set inline with it's single string when I get a tip for my soldering iron. Should sound pretty different... The Bullet came out of a pawn shop and was strung so tight the neck was almost u shaped. I rescued it and it's really not a bad playing guitar at all. Not a bad deal for sixty bucks and some tinkering. I play when I'm not on this damn computer and my wife has stopped communicating with me altogether;~) (apologies for the long drawn out blah..blahblablah...)