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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.

     

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  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. 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. :facepalm:

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    ... I've got better things to do than argue over guitar's' date=' so I'm gone. Best wishes to all. Nuff said😃[/quote']

     

    Looks like you lied about having better things to do, and being gone too. And now coming back just to troll. Shame shame shame. cop.gif

     

    Wait. Let me guess.idea.gif You don't know what a troll is either.

     

    I imagine many here find your posts entertaining, if nothing else.

     

    Maybe Valentsgrif will come to your defense.

     

    Here's a pretty good video about Zagers. http://tinyurl.com/2fcpre6

     

    Etienne, look what you started.

  8. 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. :-)

  9. This subject has been bashed to death here numerous times in the past by shills better than you.

     

    The bottom line is that if these Zager guitars were worth the ridiculous amount of money he asks for them (about four times what they're worth), plenty of credible people would be raving about them. It ain't happened. That says what needs to be said about them. (IOW, nuff said.)

     

    Is Zager still paying by the post these days for these shill posts?

     

    There was a time when there was enough membership here to call these Zager shills. Maybe that time is gone.

  10. Not nearly "nuff said." A one-post wonder reviveing a seven year old thread to extol the virtues of Denny Zager and his guitars. Reviving a zombie thread and shilling for Zager all rolled into one. Says a lot about your motivations and intentions.

     

    You're not the first one to hand us this line of bullshit, and I guess you won't be the last.

     

    Sorry, but no prize.


  11. 4x4_e30 wrote:

     
    ...I'm another "ghost" user that is "trolling" ...


     Quite true. Another one post wonder with profound words of wisdom for this fine forum.

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  12. The Sigma name is now owned by AMI Musical Instruments GmbH in Germany. The guitars are made in China, and are not related to the original Sigmas marketed by CFM. I'm betting they'll have a hard time trying to market them in the US, for obvious reasons.

    That Sigma logo is obviously intended to look like the Martin logo. Maybe just a hair on the legal side of lawsuit territory. Kind like the old "lawsuit" Takamines from the seventies.

  13. If you want to make sure that your guitars don't snap in half, just make sure that the temperature and humidity where they live is good. Hanging them over heaters is definitely not good. The humidity in the room may be fine. A cheap digital wall hygrometer would tell you whether you need to worry or not.

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