I got this here on TB back in January - thread here, including a recording clip by the previous owner.
USA made with Hipshot tuners and an LR Baggs preamp with EQ. Mother of pearl dots are a nice detail. Oddly versatile.
Not a Koa top, it's a bookmatched Myrtle with some nice figuring. There's even a bit of figuring on the neck. Swamp ash body, maple neck and I believe it's a roasted maple fingerboard. Current specs for the model are here, but I'm not 100% sure on the fingerboard, since I don't know how long ago this one was made, and whether or not they made any changes. Everything else looks correct:
Specs
TOP: Myrtle
BODY: Swamp Ash
NECK: Straight Grain Maple
FINISH: UV-Cured Satin
FINGERBOARD: Roasted Maple
BRIDGE: Richlite
NUT: Graph Tech Black TUSQ®
SADDLE: Richlite
TUNERS: Custom Hipshot Ultralite™
STRINGS: Road Toad Pahoehoe
ELECTRONICS: LR Baggs Custom EQ
STRAP BUTTON: Black x2
Measurements
Scale Length: 21.0 inches, Overall Instrument Length: 28.75 inches, Body Length: 13.75 inches, Number of Frets: 24, Body Depth: 1.5 inches, Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1.8 inches, Fingerboard width at 12th Fret: 2.12 inches, Neck Depth at 1st Fret: 0.88 inches, Fingerboard Radius: 12, Body Width: 9.0 inches, Neck Depth at 12th Fret: 0.9 inches
The bag this comes with is really well made - nicely padded and good quality all around.
It's been great - the only thing I've had to do to it is to unwind the strings to trim off excess length. As these stretch from where they are new, the poly strings end up with wayyyy too much string wrapped around the tuner, and it can cause instability. I've trimmed them back so there's an appropriate amount of wrap and good break angles at the nut.
I love it and wouldn't sell, but I have a bit of a debt hole to climb out of and I'm making some tough decisions to reduce my monthly interest costs. I have a really cheap Donner acoustic uke bass that will scratch my itch until the numbers make sense again.
$800 shipped/insured within US48. Perfectly willing to ship outside that area - just send me your address and I'll get the cost and we can go from there.
USA made with Hipshot tuners and an LR Baggs preamp with EQ. Mother of pearl dots are a nice detail. Oddly versatile.
Not a Koa top, it's a bookmatched Myrtle with some nice figuring. There's even a bit of figuring on the neck. Swamp ash body, maple neck and I believe it's a roasted maple fingerboard. Current specs for the model are here, but I'm not 100% sure on the fingerboard, since I don't know how long ago this one was made, and whether or not they made any changes. Everything else looks correct:
Specs
TOP: Myrtle
BODY: Swamp Ash
NECK: Straight Grain Maple
FINISH: UV-Cured Satin
FINGERBOARD: Roasted Maple
BRIDGE: Richlite
NUT: Graph Tech Black TUSQ®
SADDLE: Richlite
TUNERS: Custom Hipshot Ultralite™
STRINGS: Road Toad Pahoehoe
ELECTRONICS: LR Baggs Custom EQ
STRAP BUTTON: Black x2
Measurements
Scale Length: 21.0 inches, Overall Instrument Length: 28.75 inches, Body Length: 13.75 inches, Number of Frets: 24, Body Depth: 1.5 inches, Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1.8 inches, Fingerboard width at 12th Fret: 2.12 inches, Neck Depth at 1st Fret: 0.88 inches, Fingerboard Radius: 12, Body Width: 9.0 inches, Neck Depth at 12th Fret: 0.9 inches
The bag this comes with is really well made - nicely padded and good quality all around.
It's been great - the only thing I've had to do to it is to unwind the strings to trim off excess length. As these stretch from where they are new, the poly strings end up with wayyyy too much string wrapped around the tuner, and it can cause instability. I've trimmed them back so there's an appropriate amount of wrap and good break angles at the nut.
I love it and wouldn't sell, but I have a bit of a debt hole to climb out of and I'm making some tough decisions to reduce my monthly interest costs. I have a really cheap Donner acoustic uke bass that will scratch my itch until the numbers make sense again.
$800 shipped/insured within US48. Perfectly willing to ship outside that area - just send me your address and I'll get the cost and we can go from there.
