Can hep - lol - getting back at ya, sounds to me like you are a fella with lots of pickin under the belt; inwhichcase poke about in Mayo and you just might run into a spare Martin, try the 'Ruane' family which used for many years be the local band people, in Sligo you might run into the 'Henry's' - also in NY - which too are great musicianers. Anyway most of these good people would have several fancy Guitars laying around.

I use the Metronome mostly for fiddling but have by accident found it to be a great help to my tempo on Guitar. For fun I often deliberately pick back-to-front, in fact I could never have done that without the nome.

It does make a big difference - I would never ever have been able to play hard reels on Guitar without it.

I ain't that far from yall so one day perhaps we can all jam under a tree in South Texas ... there's lots of fine Parks to check out..

The fingers, ohhkay, short and sweet, for years I quit playing, then after I had donated the narrownecked Gibson - which I could not play - my missus bought me a gift of this Martin DM which I tried and HAD to have, then starting over made them fingers mighty sore. Now there are little brake pads where my finger tipes used be ...lol