Tom: It seems to be also a '53 guitar, Hans wrote in the book on page 45 that no guitar he knows of (when he wrote the book at least) had a potentiometer date code before week 5 of 1953. And I bet he inspected Mark's #1001.davismanLV said:Nice to see that #1001 Guild guitar from 1952.
I only bought two acoustic sets (DR Sunbeam) and after putting them on the guitar the low E-String in both sets was dead after one day only. (not tightly wound, so the winding got lose). With the first I thought I maybe did not string the guitar well enough and maybe damaged the string, but after I had replaced it with the second set and the same happened I was really angry about them...Bill Ashton said:Most sets were great, but there were some with singular dead wound strings...
SFIV1967 said:I only bought two acoustic sets (DR Sunbeam) and after putting them on the guitar the low E-String in both sets was dead after one day only. (not tightly wound, so the winding got lose). With the first I thought I maybe did not string the guitar well enough and maybe damaged the string, but after I had replaced it with the second set and the same happened I was really angry about them...Bill Ashton said:Most sets were great, but there were some with singular dead wound strings...
But that is maybe 5 years ago and I never bought DR again after.
Ralf
Hi Don, thanks for providing those instructions! I might have not noticed them if they were there, at least I can't remember that I ever saw them. Actually I believe it is longer than 5 years when I had bought them...mr.d.bluster said:Sunbeams (and some other DR strings) are wound on a round core, and therefore subject to slip and unwind, causing deadening & bad intonation. DR acknowledges the problem, and they print instructions inside the box on how to avoid it.