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July 28, 2018 at 2:04 am #1109
Haven’t had enough time with it to say much other than “I LOVE IT!!!”, but I had to get a pic of the siblings –
Isn’t the family resemblance wonderful? 😉 But I think I’ll have to find prettier tuners for the F – not a big chrome fan –
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July 28, 2018 at 2:43 am #1113
Those are very pretty. What is that top wood? I can’t quite place it in mental library.
Santa Cruz 00 — Goodall 000 — Martin 00-28
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July 28, 2018 at 2:49 am #1115
What a pair of beauties! Perfectly matched.
– Paul –
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July 28, 2018 at 5:23 am #1119
They’re all koa –
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July 28, 2018 at 10:54 am #1120
Beautiful Tad…Your right about the tuners. Gold or Snakewood ?
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July 28, 2018 at 1:33 pm #1123
Play it…..let’s hear it
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July 29, 2018 at 5:47 am #1125
Those are both gorgeous. Koa really is amazingly beautiful…..
If you’d like lighter tuners, the Gotoh SXN510V open back tuners are good and a direct replacement for many closed tuners. They also mount with a screw in bevel like a closed back tuner so they’re easy to swap. Just put a set on a Martin OM and am liking them.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Matt Hayden.
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July 29, 2018 at 4:43 pm #1128
They’re 16 yr old Schallers, so I will be looking at the Gotohs, gold body (gold seems to go well with koa) and right now I’m thinking ebony buttons, but need to think about it a bit. Ivoroid might work nice, too – are yours the 1:21, or a little coarser?
It’s got a warm, and sweet, although gentle, voice. It’s a very personally satisfying sound, but I imagine it would not be much of a contender in a group setting – which the H isn’t either. It came with a pretty fresh set of Martin Lifespan lights, so I’m not ready to change them yet, but I’d really like to try my fav SCGC lights on it – it may even be a good candidate for the mediums –
Whats also interesting is that it has a LR Baggs Anthem (pretty sure) which sounds rather different from another guitar I thought has an Anthem too – guess I need to look into it at some point. Maybe these have batteries? Anyway, whats interesting is the amplified tone of this guitar is really nice, although I need to figure out if I can get the string to string balance adjusted a tiny bit. May be the reason to try other strings. But the strong midrange warmth and clarity of this guitar may be a really good fit playing amped with my friends – with a Tele on lead, and a really strong clean bass, this might fill in and be a really tasty rhythm instrument, if I decide I’m willing to gig with it – but I still have lots to learn about this amplification and pickup stuff –
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August 1, 2018 at 1:05 pm #1151
Hi Tad,
Beautiful instruments!
I just put a set of Rubners on a mandolin. I really like them.
Daniel
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August 2, 2018 at 2:10 am #1155
Wow – never heard of them, but they look really nice! Unfortunately, they don’t look terribly drop-in for the Schallers –
I’m planning to be at the Cremona Music festival in September, and am really looking forward to seeing what’s happening in the guitar (and violin) building scene over there!
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August 10, 2018 at 11:44 pm #1172
One thing about the Gotoh tuners – the SXN510 and SXN510V are different insofar as the SXN510 has 15/16″ mounting hole spacing and SXN510V has 1″ mounting hole spacing. The latter is usually easier to mount using the existing screw hole….
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