Ouch and yay! That Jasmine is lovely to look at. If it plays as nice it's a keeper for sure!
Good score! Cheers, frank Walt <[email protected]> wrote: >Welp! As some of you may remember, I was recently bitten by the guitar >bug, so I went out and got a Lâg Tramontane T66D, which struck me as a >hell of a guitar for the money. And I loved it. > >Fast-forward two weeks, and . . . well: > >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/10192635745/ > >Seems in my haste to get out the door at the end of my shift the other >night, I slung my gig bag over my shoulder without bothering to zip it >first. I was fairly heartbroken -- the closest I'd come to tears in >years. > >So, in order to help mend the heartbreak, I started trawling around the > >local classifieds and Craigslist. And, as luck would have it, I >happened >upon what seemed like a great deal: a Jasmine S35 (Takamine's budget >line) with a brand new set of unopened D'Addario strings, a Snark >digital tuner, a Kyser cap, a Stage guitar stand -- all for the >whopping >total of $50. I'd owned a Jasmine years ago and really liked it, but >had >to give it to my uncle after a friend of mine tripped over and stepped >on the one he'd loaned me at a party. This one, however, I like even >more as it has a satin/natural finish: > >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/10192719793/ > >So, my heart has mended quite a bit. I love the way it sounds, and >after >a good setup from the guitar shop, I think I'm going to really love the > >way it plays. The action is a bit high, but the tone is really nice. > >As I see it, I got a good deal on some accessories I already wanted, >and >a damn nice guitar thrown in for free. Tough to beat that, huh? > >As for my Lâg, I put some Gorilla Glue in the break and clamped it down > >for a bit. It still plays like new, and even still very good sustain. >The repair job wasn't the tidiest, but the fact of the matter is, it's >a >$200 guitar with a broken headstock. It's not like I was going to be >able to get good money out of it, irrespective of the aesthetics of the > >repair job. > >-- Walt “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
