Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama on Nostr: since my burnout and divorce and a lot of self discovery - like finally facing the ...

since my burnout and divorce and a lot of self discovery - like finally facing the fact of my KFC spork sized hands - I ‘ve been dreaming of and sporadically searching for a deal on a real, old, proper wood guitar that had been let go to end of life, that I could somehow fit with a skinny neck for myself. I’m from Vancouver, I was thinking about American legacy brands, Martin, Gibson.
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But in ten years I haven’t seen such a creature, they don’t let those ones die here, they get reset and restored.
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Apparently the luthier industry pays less attention to foreign brands, the euro brand I happened to to fixate on for those skinny laminate
Texan necks, Framus, I’ve found two of those so far, and only one Martin off-brand one - a Vega from Japan, not sure, maybe that’s the same as a Takamine - in these ten years.
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I hope it’s a model issue and not a brand issue, but the Vega was better than the Revenant, had the big Martin sound.
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But the new one, this 12 string, it is as close to the ultimare barn find dream as I’ve gotten yet, I think. The price of an American big brand proper twelve string from the ‘60s or ‘70s on Reverb, well, they start at two or three thousand and of course the Martins only go up from there. Not sure if I saw any Gibsons at all.
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I fear it’s too good not to buy the tuners and a proper bone nut and a properly cut saddle, and that’s what, $300 if I carve the bone bits myself, so maybe it will have been $1,000 all in.
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It’s been tuned up once a day since the evening before last, the plan is to wait until it settles, stays in tune overnight, and then start testing for buzzes and whatnot, try to finish the setup.
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