Guest Steamin/ Willie and I are on just the same page.

I note I last posted to this thread in April of '07. In August of '07 Mizchuck and I took our annual pilgrimage to Montana to see the "kids." Since we'd had a more than usually traumatic flight the year before, and we had a nice new car, we elected to drive out. Naturally, we had to avoid greater Chicago, and we had to visit Elderly if we were within a couple of hours, so we turned northwest at Toledo, went to Lansing and then took the ferry across Lake Michigan.

At Elderly, I took down a Rainsong, the OM-1000. I'd played one five or six years previously, and been unimpressed. They worked on 'em some since. After I'd been playing it for an hour, the credit card came out.

I've used it ever since, almost any time I've played outside the house. It's not the best sounding guitar I have, by any means. But the ones that sound better don't sound enough better to justify the risk of traveling with them, and trying to protect them from heat, cold, humidity, dryness, and drunks. One doesn't even have to think about any of those things with a carbon fiber instrument. And you can transport it safely in a cheap gigbag and save your back.

On the other hand, I'm planning a road trip this weekend, to the Main coast. This may result in a drastic change of habits.

Peter