I decorated my white Millennium

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I decorated my white Millennium

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This is the one I found on E-bay. I got a great deal on the price, and I didn't have to wait for it. And when it arrived, it was in absolutely pristine condition. But I never liked its appearance, and always thought it needed something to jazz it up a little.

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after:

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I know some of you don't like the rose decal, but I do. But I think it needed the stripe across the top to tie it all together.

I've never done this before. I've always liked my steels clean and unadorned, but this one was too clean and unadorned. I think it looks a lot better now.
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Post by Colm Chomicky »

Heck, this is a hard instrument to play. I am thinking of decorating the back of my hand with a rose to remind me to keep practicing!

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Rose Tattoo

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My wife had a rosebud tattoo on her chest when I met her. Now its a long-stemmed rose....
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Steve,I think that's funny,Does your Wife :?: :D :) :lol: YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Post by Ned McIntosh »

The horizontal stripe is perfect and sets the styling off completely. Now it looks "finished".
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Post by Dickie Whitley »

I think it looks just fine Mike. Somehow it just look so bare with all that white space and nothing else on it. I think you done good.
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Thanks guys. BTW, My other one is a real beauty.

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Structurally and functionally, they are identical, but looking at them side by side, well, you can see the before picture.
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Post by Dickie Whitley »

Yeah, I think I would leave that one alone, she's got all the good looks she needs.
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Gafternoon, Mike--hope all's well w/u & urs--the guitar looks good--I admire ur taste and adventurousness in all that u do--
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Some gals don't need any facework ;-)


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Sorry, Mike.

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FFS 'rch.

No Kitten Decal??

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Kenneth Farrow wrote:Gafternoon, Mike--hope all's well w/u & urs--the guitar looks good--I admire ur taste and adventurousness in all that u do--
ken in alaska
Ken, I may be adventurous musically, but in every other way I'm a total wuss. :oops:

Archie, You're right. You guitar doesn't need anything. I would be happier if mine was the same color as yours.

BTW that cute little kitten from last summer has turned into a raving homicidal maniac who wants to pounce on and kill everything she sees. Shoelaces, little pieces of paper, the dog, (a 75 pound German Shepard mix,) me. Last week she brought me a "present" of a mouse she caught. :whoa:
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Post by Stephen Gambrell »

Didn't I read on here several years ago, that people thought white guitars were unlucky???
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Stephen Gambrell wrote:Didn't I read on here several years ago, that people thought white guitars were unlucky???


Stephen, I paid half of what it would cost new, and it was delivered in less than 2 weeks.

We should all be so unlucky.
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unlucky

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Doesn't SOUND unlucky when you play her !
Maybe an Erte pic would be more appropriate for that classic sound :)
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Post by Per Berner »

This MSA is even prettier than Archie's redhead - and it's not a Milly! Normally, I don't like any kind of gold paint, but this shade is just perfect - couldn't be classier!

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Post by Barry Blackwood »

A small, but most significant improvement, IMO. 8)
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