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Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3828
Location: "Hit The North"
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 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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The fretboard does look like Indian rosewood. TBH, I don't have a very high opinion of the stuff. Not very interesting grain, very 'dry' and open pored. Nowhere near as nice as Brazilian rosewood, as used on earlier guitars. This one's a candidate for a bit of lemon oil. That "whiteness" you can see on the 1st fret is not a flash or other camera effect; it's really that dry.
The body cavities have been thoroughly sprayed, but I think it's ply (or else really badly machine-routed alder). If it had been alder or even poplar, I'd have been ecstatic for this price. Ply was what I was realistically expecting. It just shows, though; guitars like "Shine" and Stagg are easily under £100 (better still, Rondo's "SX" guitars under $100) and have a much better body wood. I like that '70s/'80s glossy neck, though - and Fender's headstock trademarking has since muddied the clone waters. |
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