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Of the spruce and cedar ones you’ve got, I prefer the spruce (and would be in the market for it if you ever let it go), but have to acknowledge that the cedar has a lot of cut and power – it works really well for Django-style jazz and pick-based comping. The spruce is a little rounder and mellower and maybe a tad quieter, but the range of timbres is wider (IMHO, YMMV, ADA).
Ah, yes, it was an OM. It was a tremendous guitar, enormously powerful.
It also had a soft-V neck shape that was as close to what I have on my ’91 OM as anything I’ve come across, and which (for me, anyhow) is extraordinarily comfortable to play for long periods of time without hand pain.
It was also extraordinarily light. Just great all around.
Bert – that photo looks just like the headstock of my 2000 OMC-15E! I really like the SXN-510Vs.
Luke, I have the nickel / ebony button Waverly tuners on my 00-29. Gorgeous.
Waverly tuners are good – they last and have a really amazing warranty. I had an issue with the ones that I’ve got on my OM (old nickel plated butterbeans, worn to the brass) and Waverly replaced them without a problem. They’re excellent for new instruments. And they never, ever needed oiling. The reason they needed replacement was that the loctite on the threads of the adjustable bushings had broken free…..if I had known that, I wouldn’t have had them replaced, I’d just have put another drop of blue loctite in and adjusted them properly, because the old ones are in good shape – I fixed them after removing and replacing them. Kinda feel bad about exercising the guarantee when they could have been fixed, but StewMac doesn’t generally advise fixing.
For instruments that have had closed tuners installed (e.g., have a headstock hole larger than the 1/4″ that Waverly needs), your choices are limited:
- use the oversize bushings from Waverly
- fill the holes and redrill to 1/4″
- use the Gotoh SXN-510V series, which is what I did on a Martin – they’re open back but have a 3/8″/10mm enclosed shaft like a closed-back tuner. They fit beautifully and work mechanically in the larger holes without issue.
Which Waverly style did you get? Button style?
In the I-don’t-believe-this-sh@t category we had a very small fire locally caused by someone who’d left their generator running with the exhaust playing on a pile of leaves. Fortunately it was very minor and only left a twenty-foot circle of scorched yard, but REALLY……
No wonder the aliens don’t want to talk to us. We kinda need to up our game.
Thank you! I find plenty and I generally keep a broom around to sweep up the notes that fall on the floor during practice :D.
Mostly use the Cruz Low Tensions on everything with one exception (an old Martin that uses John Pearse Folk).
How it sounds from there is my responsibility (or fault, depending on how you want to look at it) 🙂
We’re right on the edge of the power outages and there have been a couple of nasty-but-thankfully-small fires in the canyon and two in town, one of which got right to the edge of our park.
I wonder how much of this is arson – it’s an awful thought, but a very present one since the firebug from Missouri spouting anti-CA animus was caught lighting fires in Milpitas (the next city south).
Hoping everyone makes it through this season ok. Can’t deal with another 2017.
