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06-21-2011, 06:10 AM
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NGD : Cort Earth 70
I will go this summer to my home country, France, for 3 weeks. My relatives have a very old classical guitar. But it made me sad to picture me without any steel strings of some sorts.
So I decided to look for a very cheap guitar, keeping the price below 100 euros. Another difficulty (and also a reason why I need to buy), is that I will be traveling with my 2 years old daughter, on my own, without my wife who wont be able to take the plane as she is pregnant. So I dont want to carry a guitar with me in the plane, it has to be there, waiting for me  There was several alternatives: 1/ buy a cheap laminate guitar once I get to France. 2/ buy a used guitar in France via ebay.fr, and have a friend check it and pick it up 3/ buy a used guitar here in Sweden, and have it transported to France by a friend who will come to visit me in 2 weeks Option 3 was the one that happened, and I have since lunch a cool cheap Cort Earth 70 that I bought from a Swedish student whose guitar ambitions vanished. As I am at work, I couldnt play it much yet, but it is seating by my side, waiting to have a better life. I got it for 82 euros. (Maybe not super cheap for you lucky Americans, but quite cheap for Europe). It has some scratches, but I feel its gonna do its job perfectly as a vacation guitar, going back and forth between my parents house and their summer house by the coast. The action seems a tad high, but I can see there is saddle to sand off. I will be able to practice my fingerpicking the whole summer, and all the times I go to visit my family. As we say in french : Ouiiiiiii !! 
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06-21-2011, 06:25 AM
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Sounds like the perfect answer, and I love your phrase,
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06-21-2011, 06:28 AM
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Great choice, I love my Cort Earth 100. I think for that price range they are the best guitars in the world.
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06-22-2011, 02:31 PM
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I cleaned it well this evening after removing all the strings.
Then I sanded the saddle about 2.5 mm. Put new d addario 12s strings Adjusted a bit the truss rod (and learnt how to do it in the process) Plays like a charm now, and feels more mine.
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06-22-2011, 02:34 PM
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