I recently bought a D-40 in Antique Burst.
Today I went down to a local store to put a mirror in the DV52 they just got in, so that I could measure the scalloping of the braces in order to modify the D-40 to the scalloped format.
As I was looking at the braces I realized that instead of shaping the braces with a nice sharp chisel (like I thought everybody did), they had shaped the braces with a Wood Rasp, and did not sand the braces to remove the little feathery slivers of wood that the rasp leaves behind.
Hence my question. Were the DV52's built in the Fender factory or the Tacoma factory or somewhere else?
The guitar stunned me because it sounded as good as the HD-28 Brzillian Martin that I used to own!!!
"gretschbigsby" made a lot of comments about the DV52 sounding better than the Martins, and I saw a couple of reasons for that. Martin only scallops the lower legs of the "X Bracing", where the DV52 has the upper legs scalloped as well. Also, the scalloping is a upside down "V" shape instead of being flat on top like Martin.
Today I went down to a local store to put a mirror in the DV52 they just got in, so that I could measure the scalloping of the braces in order to modify the D-40 to the scalloped format.
As I was looking at the braces I realized that instead of shaping the braces with a nice sharp chisel (like I thought everybody did), they had shaped the braces with a Wood Rasp, and did not sand the braces to remove the little feathery slivers of wood that the rasp leaves behind.
Hence my question. Were the DV52's built in the Fender factory or the Tacoma factory or somewhere else?
The guitar stunned me because it sounded as good as the HD-28 Brzillian Martin that I used to own!!!
"gretschbigsby" made a lot of comments about the DV52 sounding better than the Martins, and I saw a couple of reasons for that. Martin only scallops the lower legs of the "X Bracing", where the DV52 has the upper legs scalloped as well. Also, the scalloping is a upside down "V" shape instead of being flat on top like Martin.