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Here's the box it came in. You know what instills confidence when I receive a $2000 guitar? A box sealed with painter's tape. Why is the box so big? That's a great question.
Let's see what's inside! Surely it's filled to the brim with peanuts, right? I mean, that's what I expected. As it turns out, peanuts would have been welcome. I've moved nothing - I opened the box and took this pic:
Hey, at least it was easy to get out. Then I noticed the case, which appears to be covered with a light misting of... honestly I'm not sure. Metalic gold spray paint?
The guitar is pretty, though:
Well, it's pretty from a distance. There are no major dings, but it's quite obviously sat out of the case for most of its life. It's very sort of... used looking with scuffs and just an overall sense of having been handled a lot. Plus the handwritten note in the case says to "not leave it in the sunlight or in the case in the summer...". It's also clearly not been played in probably years. The high E string is broken but still attached, the strings feel like they're from 2005, it's kind of dusty, the frets are like sandpaper, and the fretboard is very thirsty.
I'd venture a guess that at one time it was well loved and mostly well cared for given the fact that there are no dings, but it's been neglected for a few years and needs some love.
And there's also this:
The neck is fairly straight except for a dropoff near the soundhole, which is slight but there.
I'm kind of torn. On the one hand It plays OK especially in the cowboy chord frets, and we'll see how it does with a cleanup and some new strings, but it wasn't cheap for a guitar that will need a reset soon. But then it's an uncommon guitar in a rare configuration so...
Let's see what's inside! Surely it's filled to the brim with peanuts, right? I mean, that's what I expected. As it turns out, peanuts would have been welcome. I've moved nothing - I opened the box and took this pic:
Hey, at least it was easy to get out. Then I noticed the case, which appears to be covered with a light misting of... honestly I'm not sure. Metalic gold spray paint?
The guitar is pretty, though:
Well, it's pretty from a distance. There are no major dings, but it's quite obviously sat out of the case for most of its life. It's very sort of... used looking with scuffs and just an overall sense of having been handled a lot. Plus the handwritten note in the case says to "not leave it in the sunlight or in the case in the summer...". It's also clearly not been played in probably years. The high E string is broken but still attached, the strings feel like they're from 2005, it's kind of dusty, the frets are like sandpaper, and the fretboard is very thirsty.
I'd venture a guess that at one time it was well loved and mostly well cared for given the fact that there are no dings, but it's been neglected for a few years and needs some love.
And there's also this:
The neck is fairly straight except for a dropoff near the soundhole, which is slight but there.
I'm kind of torn. On the one hand It plays OK especially in the cowboy chord frets, and we'll see how it does with a cleanup and some new strings, but it wasn't cheap for a guitar that will need a reset soon. But then it's an uncommon guitar in a rare configuration so...
