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Handmade Guitar. Solid Woods - Gorgeous Tone -Paua Abalone Inlays - $995 (South Chesterfield)
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Solid Spruce Top. Solid Mahogany sides and back. Deep Resonance. Long Lasting Sustain.
The builder of these guitars now sells them for over $2000 for dreadnoughts! He stopped publicly selling dreadnoughts in 2009 after a huge typhoon there (in Viet Nam), which I believe wiped out his larger stores of aged woods. On Ebay - His largest on Ebay until recently have been only OM sized guitars. For dreadnaughts like mine you'll now pay the $2000 each for relatively plain models. He sells his smaller ukulele, mandolins, and parlor guitars for much less, of course. See examples below:
Cash only - not shipping this.
This is my most decorated model and I was not going to sell it - I’ve basically stopped playing.
Do not ask if I still have this - if it's posted I still do. I will not answer spammers
asking that question.
For care: Note: With guitars from Tropical Countries - such as Viet Nam - often sold on ebay - such as Bruce Wei and Antoniotsai. In light of the high humidity of these countries - you should keep these guitars above 47% humidity. (It is interesting to note that the care of Taylor and Martin guitars requires 45% -55% humidity in support of their warranties.)
Whenever you read a review on guitars from tropical countries - they are colored by the people who bought them without knowing how to care for them. And, unfortunately, the makers, living in the tropics themselves, do not make it clear how to care for their guitars if you live in a non-tropical environment. Richmond is described as humid, sub-tropical. What that means is that for about 6 months of the year - our climate humidity is comparable to the tropics. However, if you buy a guitar made out of tropical woods, this is the baseline. It must always be kept at 47% humidity or above. Above is not a problem. Below is devastating over longer periods of time. Because lower humidity literally causes the neck to bend backward as the guitar dries out. And eventually if it gets too dry, the inlays will pop out, the frets, etc. People allowing their guitars to "dry out", and experiencing this - have given horrible reviews of these guitars. However, these critiques are actually quite unfair to the guitars themselves. They are great guitars - but not made for our climate without proper care. The proper care, however, is surprisingly simple.
I've had guitars from Viet Nam since 2008. These guitars have been kept at 47% or higher humidity or in a hard case with the same with this humidity maintained by a plastic food storage container such as Glad, Ziploc, Rubbermaid etc. in the case under the headstock. Put holes in the top of this plastic container and place two or three sponges in it - and always keep them moist - and the humidity in the case will always be adequate. I've never had a problem with these guitars when doing this. People who disregarded this and kept their guitars out in the open for many months in homes heated by electric heat and woodstoves - did have problems. Eventually their necks began to bow back and they began experiencing buzzing on the lower frets. .When they brought those to me, I did what I described above and the guitars came back to normal - though it usually took as long as the guitars were abused. Two months of drying out - usually took two months of rehydrating.