Members min7b5 Posted August 15, 2006 Members Posted August 15, 2006 After a year of lusting for a dread, and checking out a LOT of guitars, I finally saved up the dough and found a great used Martin D-18GE that I
Members Freeman Keller Posted August 15, 2006 Members Posted August 15, 2006 My humble opinion is that that is the single best large bodied guitar Martin makes today. I happen to like the p/g. Since I don't have sound on this pc I have to wait 'till tonight to take a listen. Congratulation and enjoy
Members guitarist21 Posted August 15, 2006 Members Posted August 15, 2006 Its beautiful!The lighting makes it look like it came down from heaven.
Members riffmeister Posted August 15, 2006 Members Posted August 15, 2006 hey mr jazzchord, you have a penchant for taking good photos and playing some mighty tasty guitar licks! congrats on the new Martin!! and I'm in your camp........mahogany dread & OM are floating my boat Big Time these days.....
Members kwakatak Posted August 15, 2006 Members Posted August 15, 2006 Judging by the clip, you got yourself a great guitar and hopefully a keeper.*BTW, you have a great touch with that thing. * I see many folks with GAS buying guitars only to turn them over within a short span of time. I guess that's the perils of buying sight-unseen though.
Members postalsock Posted August 16, 2006 Members Posted August 16, 2006 it wouldnt load up (the song), but its a great looking guitar. Is that spruce?
Members t60 fan Posted August 16, 2006 Members Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by guitarist21 The lighting makes it look like it came down from heaven. As far as I'm concerned, it did.
Members WaveRay Posted August 16, 2006 Members Posted August 16, 2006 What a cool guitar. Looks new! How old is it? That Adirondack Spruce top AND braces beats all. I love the GE line. What beauty. I bet that thing smells great. Congratulations, Man. what a treasure.
Members min7b5 Posted August 18, 2006 Author Members Posted August 18, 2006 Originally posted by WaveRay What a cool guitar. Looks new! How old is it? That Adirondack Spruce top AND braces beats all. I love the GE line. What beauty. I bet that thing smells great. Thanks. It's one year old. The guy I got it from said there were a few dings, but I really can't find them. Looks and smells mint to me. And it was a pretty great price at $2K.
Members JasmineTea Posted August 18, 2006 Members Posted August 18, 2006 I don't think the recording does it justice, but it sure looks great. Wow!
Members min7b5 Posted August 18, 2006 Author Members Posted August 18, 2006 Originally posted by JasmineTea I don't think the recording does it justice, but it sure looks great. Wow! Thanks, I think.
Members ElixirofLife Posted August 18, 2006 Members Posted August 18, 2006 WOW! A GE, I like that an the Authentic, great guitars...what waiting for an Esteban comment? OK, I just bought an Esteban Golden Era, circa 1992.
Members blue meany Posted August 19, 2006 Members Posted August 19, 2006 Lucky dude. Awesome guitar. No sound though, fricken zip file thing.
Members min7b5 Posted August 19, 2006 Author Members Posted August 19, 2006 Thank Meany Try this: http://www.ericskye.com/music/AllBlues2006.m3u
Members blue meany Posted August 19, 2006 Members Posted August 19, 2006 Sounded smooth. Kinda jazzy and bluesy. Is the D 18 mahagany back and sides vs rosewood?
Members min7b5 Posted August 20, 2006 Author Members Posted August 20, 2006 Originally posted by blue meany Sounded smooth. Kinda jazzy and bluesy. Is the D 18 mahagany back and sides vs rosewood? Mahogany back and sides, with adi top and braces.
Members Throbak Posted August 21, 2006 Members Posted August 21, 2006 Nice guitar. If you are going to have a Martin D-anything I think you have to have the vintage style neck. I think much of the tone people seek in a Martin is in the neck.
Members tiger roach Posted August 21, 2006 Members Posted August 21, 2006 Good score. Coincidentally, I just talked to a friend Sat and he just got a D18-GE too.
Members min7b5 Posted August 21, 2006 Author Members Posted August 21, 2006 Originally posted by Throbak ...I think much of the tone people seek in a Martin is in the neck. It think that
Members Throbak Posted August 23, 2006 Members Posted August 23, 2006 My first Martin was a special run D-16 that had a brazilian rosewood bridge and very simple appointments. It was before Martin widely offered the D-16. The guitar I got was a special order run that Elderly had placed. I was scalloped, probably not a forward shifted brace and it had a slim taper neck. It was very nice but didn't hold up to pick attack with increased volume. It just started to feel rubbery and weak when you dug into it. A few years later I sold it and replaced it with a HD-28V. I initially decided I would just get a standard D-28. But after playing everything on the wall I realized that everything with the vintage neck sounded better. The guitars with the vintage necks probably had the forward shifted bracing and were scalloped as well but so were some of the non vintage neck profile guitars. The vintage neck profile seemed to be the main thing that all of the best sounding guitars had in common.
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