5 Things to Look For When Buying a Used Acoustic Guitar
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- We here at Emerald City Guitars understand that the used/vintage guitar market can be a bit difficult to navigate sometimes. We have even seen freshly purchased guitars that unbeknownst to the new owner were in need of some serious work. We would like to help you avoid this terrible scenario. So to help you all with your used/vintage acoustic guitar hunting, we put together "5 Things to Look For When Buying a Used Acoustic Guitar". Enjoy!
Music: The Hollers "When We Were Young" and "Zeb" (Instrumentals) 
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Dude!!! Came through in the clutch tonight!!! I just saved myself a BIG headache because of this! Sweet video and thanks for giving back to our amazing community!!!
Great video I don't know anything about guitars but was looking to buy one as a gift. Very helpful.
Excellent work! I’ve been buying vintage for a while now and I still learned a bit here. Keep it up guys!
Superb video, thanks a lot for sharing the guitar wisdom!
informative, concise, and stylish - awesome video, more please!
This video is super helpful. Thanks.
Thanks for those excellent tips.
Great, and very informative video.! Thank you
Thanks for the tips!
Best content out there. You guys kick ass
Thank you for the tips and great slides & close-ups with text. It helps to make a checklist.
PS that beautiful shot with guitars on the wall is so similar to Academie Duello in Vancouver BC (only they have swords there ;), I thought "wait a sec.. where are the swords?!".. funny.
I still have my film public so you can watch it and see what I meant.
Great, helpful stuff thanks. More tips please.
Thank you for watching!
I like this kind of videos keep them coming 😎
Thank you for watching!
Bluegrass action! ahahahah. thanks so much. Keep up the good works folks!
Thanks Great video
Very important information.
Thanks.
Thanks!
Love these 'instructional-type' (for want of a more succinct adjective) videos
"Instructional" would be an appropriate adjective, no?
I'm still trying to figure out who the "well-published luthier in the '70s/'80s" was who advocated using epoxy adhesives? I know that Irving Sloane acknowledged that epoxy bonds were very strong, but I believe he recommended animal glues, Weldwood, or Titebond for most tasks.
plenty of wiseass sellers unload there junker fixer uppers. Ive heard that quite a few times that this guitar has bluegrass slide action!
Stop tempting me to buy a vintage Martin tenor! ^^
Thanks
I bought a new all koa 1,400$ Takamine acoustic about ten years ago, Played it for about 2 months and an amp fell right on the bridge... It broke the bracing on the top right under the bridge. I was so bummed out I just put it away and tried to forget about it. Ten years later I still have no clue how to fix it the right way since the brace is on the top so I made a shim for it and ran an indicator across the top until my shim made the top flat again (within .010) It plays and sounds like new! I just hope the shim stays put, Lol. Thanks for the video bro 🎸🎸👍 Any ideas on a permanent fix? Thanks again...... Mike(Whitey).
When you say epoxy ruins guitars, exactly what does it do to them? Does it affect their tone?
Hi Keith, great question! You likely wouldn't hear a marked difference in tone between epoxy, hide, aliphatic, etc glues. The damning factor of epoxy is its permanence. Hide glue is preferred because it provides an incredibly strong bond, but can also be released with a little heat and moisture. Epoxy has no such reversibility. So, some years down the road when more maintenance/repair is required, nothing can be done for an epoxy-repaired instrument. If the bridge plate cracks again, there is no way to replace it. If the bridge cracks again, nothing short of hand planing the bridge off can be done. I wake up in cold sweats thinking about an epoxied neck needing a reset. Unfortunately though, this was standard practice for some years and is something we need to be wary of! Thanks again for your comment!
Thanks for the reply!
In the case you need a neck reset in x amount of years down the line, it would be alot of extra work for the luthier to take the neck off with epoxy.
...a solid body, pickups, an output jack...
Question we have a really old guitar and I am wondering if there’s another place besides the middle that older models may have it listed somewhere else and then it changed at some point to middle???
What about the headstock? What if thats angled a little bit down on the low E string?
1970 Martin 00 guitar, never had a neck reset, medium action as per seller. Would this need a neck reset and what happens if I dont get one