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  1. I must be living under a rock cause I've never heard of them. A few searches turned up a lot of enthusiastic claims about reduced tension loads on your guitar. Sounds more like sales hype tho. Anybody using them? Are they worth the premium price? Inquiring minds want to know.
  2. Sorry for not getting back to anybody. I found a really great luthier practically in my neighborhood, well, 2 hours away near Asheville. The guy's name is Ken Jones and his business is Mountain Song Guitars. Nice guy! Check out his website. He custom builds guitars and does all types of guitar repairs. He does all the repair work for Dream Guitars in Asheville. You've probably heard of them. He's a bit pricey, but he does superb work. He has all kinds of references. He did a neck reset and fret leveling my old Martin. I just got it home and spent a few minutes playing it. I'm very satisfied. Intonation and action are spot on now, and it's got that old D-28 growl back. Check out the break angle over the saddle. You wouldn't even know the neck has been off unless you look VERY closely at it. Many thanks for the suggestions.
  3. My trusty old Martin D28 turned 35 years old this year, and it needs a neck reset. No, It's not under warranty. I need a good luthier who is familiar with doing these and has plenty of good references to back it up. I ain't rich, but I ain't gonna be cheap either when it comes to getting this guitar fixed right. It would be nice if this luthier was within maybe half a day's driving distance (Western North Carolina/ North Georgia/ East Tennessee/ Northwest South Carolina.) I really don't want to ship it. Any suggestions/ recommendations?
  4. I tried another sixth string, a Martin string this time. I can tune the open sixth string to dead nuts E, and then the string will be consistently twenty to thirty cents sharp on all the other frets all the way up the neck. If I tune the sixth string to dead nuts F at the first fret, now, the notes only deviate from normal maybe two or three cents all the way up the neck... except for the open E, which is now about thirty cents flat. This is about the same as before. The string was not the problem. I have no idea why this problem just started after the string change tho. If you think about it, that would indicate that the problem may well be with the nut. I have a set of nut files, but I don't feel comfortable messing with this myself. Guess I'm going to have to find me a good luthier to look at this.
  5. I just gave my trusty D28 its annual string change a couple of days ago. I put on a set of Musician's Gear light gauge strings (.012 - .052) Never tried them before. I tuned the guitar up, and everything seemed fine, until I tried a couple of barre chords a few frets up. With a capo on the third fret, the sixth string really sounded sour, it was noticeably flat. It was worse up the neck, nearly half a semitone at the harmonic. Only the sixth string, the other strings seem fine. This guitar has NEVER been like that. I have two guesses. First guess, the guitar doesn't like the light strings (I've always used mediums.) Second guess, something is wrong with that sixth string. Maybe those Musician's Gear strings are not any good. They look fine, nothing that appears to be the cause of this. I thought I'd run the question by here before I try a different set of strings, although I hate to take off a brand new set of strings. (I'll use a set of Martin strings this time) Anyone have any experience with those Musician's Gear strings?
  6. Unless something has changed, Zager is a sponsor/advertiser here on Harmony Central. No need to shill anymore.
  7. Hey! A one-post Zager shill reviving a dead thread. Just what we need to stir up shit. Maybe that'll liven things up around here!
  8. Just for those keeping score: 2005 2008. 2009. 2010. 2011. 2011. 2014. 2016. 2017. Zombie1, the appropriately named original poster, would be proud.
  9. Here's the scorecard so far. This thread was: Originated in '05. Resurrected in '08. Resurrected again in '09. Resurrected again in '10. Resurrected again in early '11. Resurrected again in late '11. Resurrected again in '14. Resurrected again in early '16. And now it is resurrected once more here in late '16. Zombie1 would be proud.
  10. It would appear that no one here has been talking about this brand since 2006. (That's the date of the last post in this thread.) Probably not a lot of new info on that brand since then.
  11. Zager has a simple formula: Start with an average $200 Pac Rim guitar, something like a Samick. Lower the action. Put on extra light strings. Mark the price up a couple of hundred percent. Represent this product as a miracle of modern science and craftsmanship, worthy of the exorbitant price. Exploit all available media resources to build this image by flooding them with fake endorsements and false praise. Nuff said. :-)
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