I love old guitars. What can I say? I just love old guitars!

A bunch of years back, we were singing in a really remote, fly-in community and I couldn't believe what I saw hanging on a friend's back wall. It was a 1956 Gibson ES125-a collector's classic that was a few years older than me! I'd never played one before, and I was just wowed by this half-century-old guitar!! I was even more speechless when my friend gifted it to me!

Two weeks later, I was getting the Old Gibson ready to go to work-new strings, new strap, new case . . . Oh yeah, we got ready for that next gig! I remember my disappoi...