jedzep
Senior Member
OK, I'll answer my own question. Got a good deal on this 3 yr old China girl, despite my aversion to buying Asian. After removing the wiggly loose fitting compensated saddle and replacing with my own cut and shaped bone, adding hard plastic Antique Acoustic pins, and 'real' strings, I actually came out with a sweet, even toned 12 fretter.
The build is very clean and sturdy, probably a little thick on top, like I remember my Gibson B25s and LG2s, with scalloped forward Xbracing and extra body depth both upper and lower bouts. Sounds better to my ear than the B25 and equal to the LGs, all for a little over 300 bucks. I bought it to set up in Nashville tuning, but I'm enjoying as is tuned down a step D-D with medium Curt Mangan 80/20s, so it'll hang this way for now, not humbled by the higher end instruments it shares the room with.
The build is very clean and sturdy, probably a little thick on top, like I remember my Gibson B25s and LG2s, with scalloped forward Xbracing and extra body depth both upper and lower bouts. Sounds better to my ear than the B25 and equal to the LGs, all for a little over 300 bucks. I bought it to set up in Nashville tuning, but I'm enjoying as is tuned down a step D-D with medium Curt Mangan 80/20s, so it'll hang this way for now, not humbled by the higher end instruments it shares the room with.
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