Martin was always a little pricey for me.
The current price in Canada for a HD-28 is $4,600.00 and that is without any electronics.
It does come with a hardshell case though.
At 10 times the price of my Yamaha APX 600, which has electronics, but no case, I can’t see one in my future.
Taylor is another one that is too high priced for what you get IMHO.
Nice to hear there are other playing the Blues with acoustic.
I always felt that electric guitars in the Blues genre were more for soloing - But that’s just my opinion
Not sure if I’ve posted this guitar before. Locally made here in SoCal. Traded my ovation electric for it. Set neck. Single P90 with a black ice circuit on a push/pull tone pot. It’s glorious. I Also make no secret about my love of zoom products. This old thing direct to house was all I played Sunday morning and it got nothing but compliments from the gear junkies. Even a few smirks when they realized I wasn’t playing one of my full pedalboards. I turned the harmonizer on for melody work and rode the volume knob for gain changes otherwise. Modelers don’t normally sound great into standard amps. The flat frequency flat response speakers in PA systems are what they were built for. They sound great in keyboard amps for the same reason. Anywho, thought I’d share.
It is from Donner, not sure how you would describe it- semi hollow tele-clone?
After I swapped my other electric for a bass I thought that maybe I should have kept it so the kids could learn if they wanted to, I also started to think that maybe I should learn a bit as maybe the additional theory and chords could help my bass playing.
This is what I got-I can’t find them on the Donner site anymore.
It is a good solid instrument, nicely finished and put together, great sound from rock n roll to very Bluesy (which I like)
All in all a good budget buy
Oh yes I put DR Pure Blues on it straight out of the box because life is to short to use bad strings (unless there is a reason to)
And I changed the knobs, same reason; life short, ugly knobs bad.
I live on a peninsula. There is a single road, one lane, that runs from Seattle to here. FedEx, all the shipping companies, don’t make the drive during the day with peak traffic. They didn’t send it across last night. Chances are very low it will get here today. It’s taking longer to move the last 70 miles than it did to get from Japan to Seattle
I love Martins, and they have a unique sound. I’ve gigged it so much, played it so much. I never think, Wow, I have an expensive guitar. Rather it’s valuable to me now because it’s a part of my life. I bought a bang around because I couldn’t bear to lose the Martin. It’s a vintage reissue too, already sweet and got sweeter as time passed.
I talked to customer support this morning and they explained the snafu and sending my guitar on a walk around. But they assured me they checked and it was safely in Seattle and they would ship it out here soon.
Then 20 minutes later it was delivered. It may be just 70 miles away, but it’s a 3 hour haul if you catch the ferry right and the drawbridge is down.
They’ve no idea where their boxes are is the lesson learned.
After taking off the dubious quality 9s Fender had strung mine with and putting on some Elixir 10s, I am really bonding with my Tele. All it needed was the contour
Really pretty and musical clean sounds from these. Love it.
This came with EXL120s so will probably play with them a bit. I don’t have any preferences with guitar strings and D’addario is as good as any at this point
It does have a nice belly contour but feels so delicate after basses. Time to put down the bass a spell and start bonding
Yeah strings are a very personal thing. Some people like 9s like yours (or even lighter), others like 10s or heavier. 9s are easier to play if the tension is high enough so not a bad place to start.
My fingers ache and I sound terrible. My guitar doesn’t have good tone. I know from my bass journey the guitar sounds fine, it’s the player that’s the problem.
Played some bass parts I know and practiced a lot of scales. Worked well til I got to the B string. I have more to learn
