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  1. The Utch wrote: I bought a 000m-15 yesterday and I couldn't be happier with it. Incredible tone and playability and looks stunning too. Ok it's never going to match up to martins for build quality etc but it played perfectly straight out of the box, I took it to my luthier to check it over who was dumbstruck by it as it was set up perfectly already. He is now looking at buying one himself! Excellent value for money and a great guitar too. Congrats! Where did you buy it? Pics? Clips?
  2. billybilly wrote: Recently, I have played almost every popular guitar available in North America for $1500 and less, many have been Yamaha's, AC3R, LL16, L6, etc... While they are built well and good guitars, they didn't hold a candle to say the Martin DSR's, Blueridge, Eastman's etc... While they appear durable, they sound like an over-produced CD, sterile with no body (tinny). I suppose tone is subjective and while I still believe they are good value, they are overrated. The end. Definitely very subjective. My opinion would be quite the opposite. I've been thinking about buying another LL6, because my experience with the last one was so good in every respect. I was much more pleased with it than I have been with several much more expensive guitars I've owned. Not to say that it was necessarily "better," in the final analysis but, IMHO, for the prices they charge I can't beat 'em. I find that I am never unimpressed with a Yamaha acoustic, but it all really is just a matter of personal taste. I like them a lot.
  3. FretFiend. wrote: 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. Well, that's interesting. And fucking annoying. Here I was getting all excited about the potential to finally own something at least similar to a J-40 at a bargain price... No wonder. Still, attractive guitars. And if the YouTube demos I was able to find of the DR-41 are accurate examples, that's a damn nice looking and sounding guitar. Maybe some day if availability, GAS and finances are all aligned just right...
  4. anyone use one? how does it compare to other, more standard (e.g. plastic) materials? or how bout a compensated saddle? do they really help with intonation? No idea about brass saddles. Doesn't sound like something I'd want to try. Everything else aside, trying to file one down to fit would probably be a real bitch. But I do know this: Your avatar is brilliant! Regarding compensation, yes the point is to help with intonation. Intonation on a guitar is never quite *perfect.* A properly compensated saddle will tweak things just a bit closer to perfect.
  5. I have a 1932 Gibson L-00 that needs tuner replacement. It seems easy enough, but not sure with a guitar this old. Should I use a professional, or take replace myself (something I've never done)? Very easy to do yourself, provided the specs are a match. StewMac has a decent selection of vintage replacement tuners, and they provide good specs. If you're still not sure, their customer service is great. http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Guitar,_solid_peghead_tuners/Gotoh_Tuners/Gotoh_Vintage-style_Oval_Knob_Tuners.html?tab=Specs
  6. Just accept that there will always be other guitars out there that "sound better." Then get back to work on your writing, playing and your technique. No one cares nearly as much about tone as guitarists do. For normal people, it's all about the song. I completely agree with this, but at the same time I've accepted that I will always be GAS's bitch. I'll always covet "other" guitars -- not because they sound *better,* but because they'll always sound different. Who wants to eat the same meal three times a day, every day? As others have said, strings make the greatest difference. Ultimately, the guitar is the guitar, and there's really not much you can do to make it sound significantly different unless you want to get truly radical and start hosing around with the bracing, etc. In my case, I just buy/make/steal a new guitar whenever the opportunity presents itself.
  7. Why/How in the fuck does this inane thread keep coming back to life???
  8. Glad that pick works well for you. Looks awkward as hell to me. Like I could spazz and drop it just from looking at it. I think I've given up on searching for a holy grail of picks. Settled pretty much on Dunlop nylons 0.73mm and under for the git and Dawg picks for the mando. The rest do a nice job of filling up wee tupperware containers.
  9. Wow. I know this thread was posted some time ago, but I'm just looking through it now... Fantastic pics! And the skill exhibited here is really just amazing. As for the "sweatshop" comments, I just could not disagree more. It is rather silly and fanciful to apply American factory norms and standards to other parts of the world as a basis for moral judgment. It is ludicrous to think that every factory on the planet should either spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment or simply not exist. Not existing as a business is not an option. Things are extremely tough in many parts of the world, and these folks are doing the best they can. They need to make a living. I'm sure they are proud of their skills and the quality of work they turn out, as they should be. For anyone who fancies himself a champion of third-world human rights, you don't advance your cause or improve the conditions of those you ostensibly support by shunning their work because it is not produced in conditions identical to what you're used to here. Try asking the people you think you're defending whether they'd prefer OSHA-approved conditions or food for their kids. Commerce will eventually improve working conditions by increasing revenue and creating competition that will require employers to attract skill with higher wages and better conditions; shunning commerce, on the other hand, will not translate to improved conditions. It will just translate to people being out of their jobs. The United States wasn't sprouted from the cosmic womb with the working conditions we consider to be the standard today. We went through a long, nasty, bloody process to get here, and "here" is still very far from perfect. It is terribly arrogant to expect countries far less wealthy than our own to operate precisely as we would. How the hell do I order one of these things?
  10. Thanks for the info. Guess I am gonna have pay what they are asking OR... You can do what I did. I kept ordering pizzas, and then I would club the delivery guys over the head and drag them down to my basement and make picks out of their cartilage. The 1.5mm ones are the best - for me. The only problem is that after two or three pizza guys, you have to move because the cops start to get wise. BUT... the revenue from the nuts and saddles you can make from pizza guy bones more than covers the moving costs, plus you get a lot of free pizza.
  11. knockwood

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    Give me teh pins. With pinless bridges, I'm afraid they will fly off the top and shear off someone's pecker. In selecting a guitar, as in most endeavors, my first consideration is pecker safety.
  12. Tried an O-32 a few years ago and considered taking hostages to try and keep it. Paying for it was not an option. I try not to think about guitars like that.
  13. I've always liked Seagull gits. Never knew they used bolt-on necks, but as DonK pointed out, they're in pretty good company there.
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