JohnW63
Enlightened Member
Well, if you've been paying attention, I was really going back and forth on a CO-1 on Reverb. When the seller got defensive about my questions and said he didn't want me buying it for fear I would find things wrong, I stepped away. Then Ray took a flier on it, for me and bought it to check it out. He posted an audio clip and said it was pretty darn nice. So, I bought it off of him. ( Let's not talk about how much extra I just paid to have Ray check it out on shipping costs. )
I got it today and it looks in really good shape. I through on some new EJ16 strings and gave it a play. It gets loud pretty quickly and plays well up and down the neck. The K&K Pure Mini that the previous owner put in works very well. I'm over all very pleased with it. The ONLY thing is the guitar as a slight fretboard hump on the bass side and the guy has the saddle down so low the 6th string will buzz from fret 11 to about 15. Maybe, down the line I might take the Ray approach and remove the bolt on neck and shave it slightly. For now, I think I will just play it and when the strings need changing, I'll have a new saddle made a few mm taller. I almost think someone made the saddle arc match the fretboard because the base side and treble side are the same height.
I think my Walden with Cedar top, has become redundant.
I got it today and it looks in really good shape. I through on some new EJ16 strings and gave it a play. It gets loud pretty quickly and plays well up and down the neck. The K&K Pure Mini that the previous owner put in works very well. I'm over all very pleased with it. The ONLY thing is the guitar as a slight fretboard hump on the bass side and the guy has the saddle down so low the 6th string will buzz from fret 11 to about 15. Maybe, down the line I might take the Ray approach and remove the bolt on neck and shave it slightly. For now, I think I will just play it and when the strings need changing, I'll have a new saddle made a few mm taller. I almost think someone made the saddle arc match the fretboard because the base side and treble side are the same height.
I think my Walden with Cedar top, has become redundant.