Topic: My new/old guitar and introduction

[alyoung]

Guitar and rug showed up nicely first time around in New Zealand ... it's seldom that something works here and not elsewhere. Some of those old Kalamazoos are real nice; I had one once, but a ham-fisted luthier stuffed it up by re-lacquering it with about a quarter-inch of  varnish. From then on, it looked great, but sounded like crap. I played it back to a degree, but eventually sold it.

[Parlor Picker]

Now I see it! When posting photos in the Weenie gallery, I have to reduce them in size considerably and have a useful program called "FastStone Photo Resizer" which does the job fine.

Nice guitar. I think the sunburst KG-14 looks smarter than my natural KGN-12, which is (theoretically) the better model.

Thanks again for posting.

[Turbo]

@ 'alyong'; Ouch, re-lacquering is never good, hate to hear that... my L-OO had some factory overspray from the 1950's but that's not as deadly to the sound

@ 'Parlor Picker'; I was going to resize but thought different, thanks for the tip. I've seen some natural and tea burst KG-12's when I was looking to buy. Does yours have the hidden truss rod?

[Pan]

Hi Turbo,

Welcome, and congrats on your fine looking KG-14!

Perhaps we will be treated with a sound sample in the future? 

Cheers

Pan

[Turbo]

Hi Turbo,

Welcome, and congrats on your fine looking KG-14!

Perhaps we will be treated with a sound sample in the future? 

Cheers

Pan

Thanks! Absolutely, I do not have my recording gear set up anymore but I'm sure my Mac mic can give you a basic idea on how she sounds.

[Parlor Picker]

@ 'Parlor Picker'; I was going to resize but thought different, thanks for the tip. I've seen some natural and tea burst KG-12's when I was looking to buy. Does yours have the hidden truss rod?
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No - it just has a metal rod in the neck and is not adjustable. It had been given a neck reset before I got it. Although an "Oriole" it appears to never have had the bird decal on the headstock.