Quote Originally Posted by Jim Clark
Thanks for that, but the reality is that this one in particular is a better person than I will ever be...We went to BB and he asked for a price break so he could maximize his dollars and he bought 10 cd players and batteries to go with them and then he delivered it to the Family Christmas Store at the City Union Mission.

I don't recall if I mentioned it in this thread, but we were considering asking Mason to kick in a little towards his guitar since it was more than we originally planned to spend. After yesterday there's no way on God's green earth that this kid is going to pay for squat!
I've long believed that a man is ultimately measured by the character of his children. Bless you and yours!

My experience and two cents on the thread:

I've found that my first guitar was tremendously important. My first guitar: a "Grande" Les Paul copy. I got exactly what I paid for: Not much. However, it just whet my appetite to improve my playing and my equipment. Decades later, I've got a brother that is an Epiphone and Gibson dealer so I own several custom shop pieces from each but wish dearly that I still had that cheap, warped-neck, lightweight, tune-resistant piece of junk that suffered innumerable attempts at "Barracuda" on it. Tell your son to hold onto whatever you get him...