My fairly clean original open back Grover '73 D35 was $600, it would make a lot of other guitar look like poor values.
Part of being a musician, especially a guitarist, is being rather bipolar. One day something's great, the next day it's not. If you're feeling the need to back out, the time is now, before you fall in love with it anyway. The stuff you mention is all fixable, only the mainframe really matters, the box they built way back when, that's where the magic is.
With my D35, something makes no sense. The guitar was obviously gone over by a tech to have really low action by way of a very low nicely comped saddle - I mean there's no freakin saddle - everyone here would look at it, say "don't buy it it needs a neck set" but more importantly that tone would greatly suffer because of it but it's just a kick@$$ guitar, lots of tone, good volume, and to tell the truth, I'm as bipolar in my playing as I am about my guitars, meaning that one day I want huge strings with huge tone and think about every note, but the next day I want to play really fast difficult chords that only really work when strings are very low, flatwound even better, so I actually really enjoy the super low action on the D35, I don't think I would raise the saddle for higher action and "better tone".
It's about playability, not every note has to have monstrous volume, and the D35 probably has as low action at the 12th fret if not lower than some of my electrics. By comparison I had another D35 with a lot higher action, a '71, and it was boomier, bassier, because of the higher action but playability up the neck was terrible.
So there you have it, loud and hard to play.
Quiet and easy to play.
It didn't take long before I sold the loud hard to play one, I got the impression Hans holds 1973 acoustic guitars in fairly high regard, a very good year, and a meaningful one for me, I was 13, interesting times, wild.
