beecee
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Waiting for pix to upload to imgur but this is one sweet guitar.
Bought it off a gentleman who has 19 guitars. Vietnam Vet, used to jump out of gunship choppers. Says he was original owner, never touched truss rod but the cover was upside down
We ended up playing for close to an hour, I sounded pretty darned good a rhythm to his front. I enjoyed playing with the guy. A bit off center but a kind man. I kind of invited myself over in the future. He's widowed, and lost his elderly Mom 6 months ago that he was caring for. I think he'd have let me stay as long as I wanted. I'll be back.
My standards are a perhaps a bit lower than some but I'd give this a solid 95/100. There is some lacquer chips at nut, which hopefully I can post one of these days, but no other issues to speak of. No cracks, lacquer or otherwise, no chips, all trim is tight and lined up right, good neck angle, nice action and nice balanced sound.
Txbumper was kind enough to take my call and view some pix for real time set of brains. Thanks again George!!!
Strings must be original, but it still sounds great.
The maple is not the most striking I've ever seen on the back but the sides have that combo vertical/horizontal grain. Spruce top is nearly perfect, if not perfect, nice silking under the very tight grain. I really am digging the top!!
Tuners are clean, no pitting, I think the inlays are about the best I've personally seen on a Traditional.
Needs a good cleaning for sure, interesting amount of finger crud in lower frets! Probably 15 splotches where it looked like he may have opened one of his bud lights too close to the guitar. He had three while I was there.
He had a 1971 D-25 BR......no I already asked, but probably museum quality save for the dirty fret board...he plays it every day but you'd never know.
Well, still waiting for 25 minutes for pix to upload, not sure what I am doing wrong.
Wood, I have some shots of the BR for you too that I'll post as soon as they get to imgur.
Bought it off a gentleman who has 19 guitars. Vietnam Vet, used to jump out of gunship choppers. Says he was original owner, never touched truss rod but the cover was upside down
We ended up playing for close to an hour, I sounded pretty darned good a rhythm to his front. I enjoyed playing with the guy. A bit off center but a kind man. I kind of invited myself over in the future. He's widowed, and lost his elderly Mom 6 months ago that he was caring for. I think he'd have let me stay as long as I wanted. I'll be back.
My standards are a perhaps a bit lower than some but I'd give this a solid 95/100. There is some lacquer chips at nut, which hopefully I can post one of these days, but no other issues to speak of. No cracks, lacquer or otherwise, no chips, all trim is tight and lined up right, good neck angle, nice action and nice balanced sound.
Txbumper was kind enough to take my call and view some pix for real time set of brains. Thanks again George!!!
Strings must be original, but it still sounds great.
The maple is not the most striking I've ever seen on the back but the sides have that combo vertical/horizontal grain. Spruce top is nearly perfect, if not perfect, nice silking under the very tight grain. I really am digging the top!!
Tuners are clean, no pitting, I think the inlays are about the best I've personally seen on a Traditional.
Needs a good cleaning for sure, interesting amount of finger crud in lower frets! Probably 15 splotches where it looked like he may have opened one of his bud lights too close to the guitar. He had three while I was there.
He had a 1971 D-25 BR......no I already asked, but probably museum quality save for the dirty fret board...he plays it every day but you'd never know.
Well, still waiting for 25 minutes for pix to upload, not sure what I am doing wrong.
Wood, I have some shots of the BR for you too that I'll post as soon as they get to imgur.