-=> Rob Mccart wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 JA>Anyway - the manager said they had to scrap it. I offered to
  >buy it AS IS - no warranty - etc. That was about 16 years
  >ago, so it held up for over a decade! :-)

 RM> That's not bad if you get it cheap enough..   B)

$100 plus tax. Came with the gig bag too.

 RM> My Japanese Gibson copy I bought at a guitar store used when
 RM> I as looking for a guitar to leave at the cottage. The owner
 RM> said he had a trade-in he didn't want to sell but I could buy
 RM> it cheap if I wanted it. It seemed okay other than a sticker
 RM> it had on it near the bottom front, but he said if I gave him
 RM> $15 I could have it.

Can't beat that price!!!

 RM> I did that, and when I got it home the first thing I did was
 RM> peel the sticker off of it and under it there was a hole..
 RM> I ended up cutting a wedge out of that area and gluing in
 RM> a piece of similar spruce to seal it up and stabilize the
 RM> sound (it was much improved). I couldn't match the patch to
 RM> the rest, so I painted it black and got a small brass plate
 RM> with my initials burned into the brass in black and it came
 RM> out pretty well, and it worked well for a lot of years before
 RM> I finally had to do more repairs as the original glue started
 RM> to fail, by then about 50 years old..

WOW! So the 'hole' was covered by an improvement. :-) Like putting
a picture over a hole in the wall... Looks planned. :-)


... Cap'n - the spell checker kinna take this abuse.
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