kydave
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... Is VERY good!! All 15 minutes worth.
Saw the UPS truck outside the office as I was just getting ready to go home for lunch Thursday. Got my box, drove home (I live close to work & go home for lunch every day), ripped open the box and inspected first for damage. None jumped out at me. Good!
Leaving the cardboard debri in the garage, I ran the guitar up to the house and tuned it up. Nothing flew off and it made a very nice sound first strum. Good!
Went into the room with best light and put on my reading glasses for close look: NICELY book matched top (really tight even grain - I think it might be Engelmann) AND back (pretty rosewood!). VERY GOOD!
Looking closer I saw what might be either a finish crack or wood split in the wider bout on the back, very minor though. I'll look inside tonight (I'm back at work).
Played it a bit more with fingers and pick. Not bad at all, and will improve with better strings.
The only thing I saw on it during my 15 minute once over that bothers me is an idiosyncratic thing that I see on other guitars nowadays, including Martins - the grain on the mahogany on the back of the headstock sweeps to one side. In my guitar making class we were taught not to mess with a neck whose grain wasn't straight. But I see that on lots of guitars now, so I won't whine too much.
Best $199.00 new guitar money ever spent!!! (I say "new" because of that $50 1962 fleamarket Strat years ago...)
Woo hoo so far!!!
Dave
Soundclip: http://www.davidtrabue.com/SILVRCRK.mp3
Home now and took some pics. Specs below.
This outdoor shot doesn't exhibit the two tone top that many pics show. Shows some nice silking!
Back rosewood with lots of reflection... sorry.
Headstock.
Shows what I think is both runout and book matching, but also gets silking and a bit of bearclaw in there...
More bearclaw...
Silver Creek T-170 Acoustic Guitar Features:
Body Style: Auditorium
Top: Solid Spruce
Back & Sides: Solid rosewood
Neck: Mahogany
Scale Length: 24.9"
No. of frets: 20, open 14
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlays: Mini Dots
Headstock Overlay: Rosewood
Headstock Inlay: Silvercreek logo with Flower & Vase Inlay
Nut width: 1-3/4" Neck width at body:
2-3/8" String spacing at saddle E-E: 2-5/16"
Binding: White with Black/White Purfling
Rosette: Ringed
Bridge: Rosewood
Pickguard: Tortoise Shell - NOT - no pickguard included?
Width at Upper Bout: 11-3/8"
Width at Lower Bout: 15-1/4"
Maximum Depth: 3-7/8"
Finish: Gloss
Tuners: Chrome
Saw the UPS truck outside the office as I was just getting ready to go home for lunch Thursday. Got my box, drove home (I live close to work & go home for lunch every day), ripped open the box and inspected first for damage. None jumped out at me. Good!
Leaving the cardboard debri in the garage, I ran the guitar up to the house and tuned it up. Nothing flew off and it made a very nice sound first strum. Good!
Went into the room with best light and put on my reading glasses for close look: NICELY book matched top (really tight even grain - I think it might be Engelmann) AND back (pretty rosewood!). VERY GOOD!
Looking closer I saw what might be either a finish crack or wood split in the wider bout on the back, very minor though. I'll look inside tonight (I'm back at work).
Played it a bit more with fingers and pick. Not bad at all, and will improve with better strings.
The only thing I saw on it during my 15 minute once over that bothers me is an idiosyncratic thing that I see on other guitars nowadays, including Martins - the grain on the mahogany on the back of the headstock sweeps to one side. In my guitar making class we were taught not to mess with a neck whose grain wasn't straight. But I see that on lots of guitars now, so I won't whine too much.
Best $199.00 new guitar money ever spent!!! (I say "new" because of that $50 1962 fleamarket Strat years ago...)
Woo hoo so far!!!
Dave
Soundclip: http://www.davidtrabue.com/SILVRCRK.mp3
Home now and took some pics. Specs below.
This outdoor shot doesn't exhibit the two tone top that many pics show. Shows some nice silking!
Back rosewood with lots of reflection... sorry.
Headstock.
Shows what I think is both runout and book matching, but also gets silking and a bit of bearclaw in there...
More bearclaw...
Silver Creek T-170 Acoustic Guitar Features:
Body Style: Auditorium
Top: Solid Spruce
Back & Sides: Solid rosewood
Neck: Mahogany
Scale Length: 24.9"
No. of frets: 20, open 14
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlays: Mini Dots
Headstock Overlay: Rosewood
Headstock Inlay: Silvercreek logo with Flower & Vase Inlay
Nut width: 1-3/4" Neck width at body:
2-3/8" String spacing at saddle E-E: 2-5/16"
Binding: White with Black/White Purfling
Rosette: Ringed
Bridge: Rosewood
Pickguard: Tortoise Shell - NOT - no pickguard included?
Width at Upper Bout: 11-3/8"
Width at Lower Bout: 15-1/4"
Maximum Depth: 3-7/8"
Finish: Gloss
Tuners: Chrome