Rogue herring bone 12 string-NGD!

[jd-drafter]

Well it showed up last night- from music123

 

i'll get pic's later today or tonight-

 

packed very well- no apparent damage.

 

definitely a spartan deal- they don't even include a wrench for the truss rod-

 

as expected the action was deathly high down near the 12th fret- not to bad up in the first position though- so i went through and tuned to DADGAD- not bad sound- of course i had to run it out to my dad's place-

 

we went ahead and took almost a tenth of an inch off the saddle, and cut some new string grooves in the bridge for the octaves- so now it's pretty playable. but my dad wants to do a fret leveling on it- then shave the bridge a bit and take the saddle down another 30 thou. or so-

 

the fret's are decent- no sharp edges- the fret board is not bad either-

 

over all i think it was a good deal- i'll get pic's and a clip asap-

[Tony Burns]

sound like a good deal- congrats going your way !

[happy-man]

Happy new guitar day. Nice to be able to do your own setup to make it playable. Why shave the bridge? Is the neck angle wrong?

Scott O

[jd-drafter]

thanks folks-

 

it's hard to not get a good deal at that price-

 

as for the setup- and saddle shave- i guess the neck angle would have to be wrong. several of the reviews i read mentioned removing as much as 3/16th of an inch from the saddle- unfortunately the result of a shorter saddle/bridge is less energy transferred to the sound board-

 

my dad is already planning on the necks falling off in 6 months- 8^) we shall see-

 

he claims they leave the action high to prevent fret buzz-

 

heck it's a cheap guitar- but he sure had fun with it so it's a keeper-