Well, now that the D50 is finally back from Nashville I find myself with one too many rosewood dreads. I bought this one back in September for a price that seemed too good to be true, and it was. The seller told me that it had "a little sticker residue" on it. OK, I've seen that before; a little naphtha or Goo-Gone should take care of it I said (har har). So I paid him and sent a shipping label...
The guitar arrives completely encased in sticker residue, which wouldn't have been so bad, except they did a really hack job trying to get some of it off and just made matters worse. I can't for the life of me figure out why somebody would do something like this to an otherwise really nice guitar.
Off to my luthier it went after the seller refused to allow me to send it back. Mike seemed to think that he could work with it, but that it would cost me (and it did, to the tune of $300). He did his usually excellent job, and the guitar plays and sounds wonderful. Wee all know and love DV52s around here, so I don't think I have to go to great detail describing it. I can't rationalize keeping both rosewood dreads. In many ways the DV52 is a better guitar, but there's too much of my life wrapped up in the D50 to part with it.
Sorry for the indoor pics, but there's just too much snow in my yard to shoot outside! There are a couple of fairly large dings and some finish checking on the top as you can see in these pics, along with some scratches on the pick guard.
There's also a couple of small dings on the back of the neck
The back's in great shape, just a small mark or two
If this guitar were completely mint, it would sell for more I'm sure. I have $750 into this one right now, and that's what I'd like to get out of it. I'll throw in ground shipping to the lower 48, and I'd love to see it stay in the LTG family here.
The guitar arrives completely encased in sticker residue, which wouldn't have been so bad, except they did a really hack job trying to get some of it off and just made matters worse. I can't for the life of me figure out why somebody would do something like this to an otherwise really nice guitar.
Off to my luthier it went after the seller refused to allow me to send it back. Mike seemed to think that he could work with it, but that it would cost me (and it did, to the tune of $300). He did his usually excellent job, and the guitar plays and sounds wonderful. Wee all know and love DV52s around here, so I don't think I have to go to great detail describing it. I can't rationalize keeping both rosewood dreads. In many ways the DV52 is a better guitar, but there's too much of my life wrapped up in the D50 to part with it.
Sorry for the indoor pics, but there's just too much snow in my yard to shoot outside! There are a couple of fairly large dings and some finish checking on the top as you can see in these pics, along with some scratches on the pick guard.
There's also a couple of small dings on the back of the neck
The back's in great shape, just a small mark or two
If this guitar were completely mint, it would sell for more I'm sure. I have $750 into this one right now, and that's what I'd like to get out of it. I'll throw in ground shipping to the lower 48, and I'd love to see it stay in the LTG family here.
