Nokomite
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Thanks so much, guys!
With new strings,how does it sound to your ears?Thanks so much, guys!
Wonderful! I played it for a couple of hours tonight and it sounds great. I use Ernie Ball Paradigm 11 strings, which I like a lot. Big improvement.With new strings,how does it sound to your ears?
That was the answer I was hoping for.Wonderful! I played it for a couple of hours tonight and it sounds great. I use Ernie Ball Paradigm 11 strings, which I like a lot. Big improvement.
Probably a healthy amount of lower frequencies? I never played a higher end jumbo.Wonderful! I played it for a couple of hours tonight and it sounds great. I use Ernie Ball Paradigm 11 strings, which I like a lot. Big improvement.
Yes and that’s what I was hoping for and missing on my smaller bodied guitars. Love a nice thumpy bass.Probably a healthy amount of lower frequencies? I never played a higher end jumbo.
The "not" is not supposed to be there, right?Also, since as Al says there are not "racing stripes" like they did on the bound fretboards I'd say this is original and looks super nice.
Me too, and I'd probably jones for a 17" jumbo if I wasn't pretty sure it'd be too big for me to play comfortably for long.Yes and that’s what I was hoping for and missing on my smaller bodied guitars. Love a nice thumpy bass.
It doesn’t have to be a high end jumbo to deliver those rumbling bass frequencies. The JF-30, imho, is one of the best buys out there in guitar land (although prices have been going up recently). My ‘94 has a beautifully deep tone, while retaining a well balanced sound overall. Always worth a test drive if you come across one!Probably a healthy amount of lower frequencies? I never played a higher end jumbo.
It has the racing stripes. I will take some better pics of the neck and post them for the curious, those were the seller’s pics. The seller claims he didn’t take off the binding, but someone who owned it prior to his 35 years with it may have. It’s still a mystery and may always be. My intention was to get a great player, so I’m just happy that this is true.The "not" is not supposed to be there, right?
But now what I'm curious about is how Hans knew the neck had been reworked, unless he saw other pics in the seller's listing, or already knew the guitar.. Meant to mention that to Nokomite (that Hans may already know the guitar), but got sidetracked this AM and forgot..
The part that may interest Nokomite is that the binding on the bass side of the fingerboard broke off, but the neck binding on the treble side is still flexible. Goes back to the discussion regarding why the neck binding on his F50R is missing; the binding may have cracked/broken off, and the owner may have decided to just replace the binding with strips of ebony instead, fearing that it would happen again.
You may be right, but if so, that is borderline insane. The amount of wotk to remove that amount of wood, then refinish the neck, as well as the impact to the value of the guitar, is massive. Not to mention that its not like F50R’s nech is not overly wide to srat with. You are right, tge only real way to tell is to measure the fretboard width, probably at a few points (just ro be sure), say at tge nut, and at the 12th fret or so.
Just to be clear, when I mentioned Nokomite's F50R, I was under the impression that there were ebony strips added to each side of the standard fretboard, and that my suspicion was that the binding had become unglued/disintegrated, and instead of redoing the binding on the neck, the previous owner chose to use the ebony strips to fill in the binding channels. This would result in a wider fingerboard.
Hans is saying that he believes that the entire neck has been reduced in width to the width of the fingerboard without the binding, and the neck was then re-carved, smoothed out, and refinished.
Wouldn’t reworking the neck to match the routed binding ledge still leave that ledge on the fingerboard extension over the top?
Okay, I just looked up Nokomis, Florida.I have a vacation rental cottage I just put a roof on, and when my guests arrived last week, the house was invaded by a swarm of Florida carpenter ants that no longer had any way to stroll outside the walls. Some of them were coming in through the ceiling fan and being flung by the blades around the bedroom. ARRGH!