No El Kabong Treatment, Please

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No El Kabong Treatment, Please
« on: 28 Oct 2014, 10:31 pm »









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Re: No El Kabong Treatment, Please
« Reply #1 on: 29 Oct 2014, 12:38 am »
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Re: No El Kabong Treatment, Please
« Reply #2 on: 29 Oct 2014, 12:49 am »
Close - 1999 HD-28 which just showed up this afternoon.
I really lucked out with this one as it was an eBay purchase from 3,000 miles away and it was 8 very long days in transit.
I was so afraid it was going to turn out to be a beat up, buzzing, rattling pile. 
Nope, it's like new with a great neck and really low action.
WHEW!

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Re: No El Kabong Treatment, Please
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dflee

Re: No El Kabong Treatment, Please
« Reply #4 on: 29 Oct 2014, 01:21 am »
It has that beautiful Martin aged coloration. Nice catch.
Put a herringbone bridge on her and she will sing.

Don

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Re: No El Kabong Treatment, Please
« Reply #5 on: 15 Nov 2014, 11:37 pm »
They do have a bone saddle and nut right from the factory and now for the bad news:
the shipper did a terrible job (he made a cardboard wrapper for the case with no form of packing material and then shipped it across the country the cheapest, slowest US Mail way possible) and the guitar took a real shot in transit.



After 3 or 4 days I removed the strings, lemon oiled the fret board, restrung it and to my horror, the neck cracked.



The seller told me to get bent and refused to help in any way, shape or form, I opened a dispute with eBay and they sided with me so today I shipped the poor thing back to the seller.
If he won't refund my money, eBay will so it will be HD-28, Take 2 in a week or three.
Such a shame.


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Re: No El Kabong Treatment, Please
« Reply #6 on: 17 Nov 2014, 04:24 am »
Ouch.

I have had one guitar where that happened - an Ovation 12-string in an Ovation heavy-duty case, where it was cargo on a plane.

I had a hand-made guitar ship across the county in a special Fedex box for guitars - made it just fine, due more to Fedex than the box I am sure.

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Re: No El Kabong Treatment, Please
« Reply #7 on: 17 Nov 2014, 09:49 pm »
I've always had real good luck with FedEx - guitars across the country, Magnepans to Norway - it all gets there undamaged.

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Re: No El Kabong Treatment, Please
« Reply #8 on: 1 Dec 2014, 10:20 pm »
 Moderator -- please delete my reply.  Entered in error.