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10-25-2019, 08:53 PM
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Thanks again guys for all your input.
Anyone have any experience with a Martin 0X2MAE? Jim
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10-25-2019, 08:56 PM
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Just ordered one. I’ll post my thoughts when it arrives and i get the chance to test it out.
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10-26-2019, 03:12 AM
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I have been using the 00 sized Gretsch G9521 guitar for a year now for river trips, festivals and other travel. It is quite an amazing guitar for the buck if you play fingerstyle blues/folky stuff. It might be discontinued now (2017) but you can find them in great condition for $250-$350 if you look around. I have a nice tiny travel solid wood alvarez mini style guitar I bought way back, it is great for a motorcycle, but I am not willing to give up the ergonomics and tone I like from a real sized parlor guitar.
I like the gretsch as it has perfect specs (for me) on nut, short scale, string spacing, slothead type stuff and it has an incredible rich, dry, loud and balanced tone and they neck is very straight, so great action. The series comes in 0, 00 or 000 sizes, but they other 2 did not have as good of sound to my ear. as the 00 size. The gretsches have pretty good factory set up compared to the Alvarez AP/MPA which can require some work sometimes if you get a bad one (mail order). I also have an alvarez MPA 66shb and it plays super easy as is a tad smaller with the 24" scale and has a bit more resonance and sustain than the gretsch likely due to the full solid wood construction. But, I like the gretsch better for dry blues sound personally, and am hesitant to have a travel guitar that is all solid wood as they tend to get more abuse from sun, heat and cold and vibration going down rivers and surviving music fest jam nights and such. I think laminates are better for travel guitars that might get some abuse, they do not move as much and will last longer. I had a seagull "0" sized solid spruce top/lam cherry B&S parlor as a potential smaller travel guitar, but the neck felt too skinny at the nut for me and both the gretsch and the alveraz had better tone. Before the gretsch, I had a late 70's ovation celebrity model that survived 3 decades of outdoor abuse ( ton's of river trips, even totally submerged in a leaky case for several hours in 35 degree water in a pinned raft!). But a icy cold January 28 day grand canyon trip a few years back finally tweaked the neck and I retired it). I had a few vintage japan made guitars (70/80's) I picked up cheap that were pretty tough with great tone, but not doing dreads much anymore. If money was not object, then I would travel with my waterloo WL-S, but I worry about it getting stolen or abused to take it out too much. Perfect guitar will always be a personal choice depending on your needs, style and pocket book, lots of choices for sure. If you fly a lot, then get one that fits in overhead bins. Here is current reverb ads for the gretsch: https://reverb.com/p/gretsch-g9521-s...urst-2017/used Last edited by mcmars; 10-26-2019 at 03:20 AM.
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10-26-2019, 07:04 AM
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I have a Journey OF660 too which is also great but the bag is a full size carry on so if you’re carrying on luggage it’s a non-starter. The Furch is expensive but it’s a great instrument with good specs/ woods I play mine all the time when I’m not traveling - but I’m also a smaller body guitar fan.
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10-26-2019, 07:17 AM
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One of our sponsors at the AGF ( Fretted Buffalo) has the Furch Little Jane in an ad in the marketplace right now. Both mahogany and Rosewoods models and I just checked (after a bit of a search) to confirm the nut width at 1.75 inches.
I do not have one nor played one, but the system to put the neck on and to remove and store looks pretty slick, bringing it down to a back pack size that they say fits under an airline seat. That seems pretty cool to me.
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10-26-2019, 07:54 AM
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10-26-2019, 10:03 AM
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I did FOH last night for a guy who had an all-mahogany Taylor GS Mini. Really good. Loud and punchy. Better than average pickup, too, whatever it was.
He let me play it a little after show (very briefly as I'm allergic to the frets and probably the strings) and the only downside for me might be that the short scale makes the intonation a little iffy way up the neck, but it was still pretty okay. Although I get why people tour with Taylors, in general I'm not a fan. But I loved this one.
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10-26-2019, 10:23 AM
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Oh the other hand, to me "hog" is either "motorcycle" or "sausage."
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10-27-2019, 12:54 AM
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I am very curious about their Outdoor Guitar. At 30.75 inches it's well under the length for fitting in overhead compartments. I am curious even more so around how it will sound and play. It packs D'Addario XT coated bass strings with fluorocarbon treble strings. Thier carbonukes are really punchy so it should also carry that volume and tone. All their products are pretty much weather proof and very strongly constructed. I'm thinking that I will be shelling out for one
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