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Location: TX | I was scrolling through the mandos on ebay and this one caught my eye because of the Adamas-like epatulets. Yours for just paying the happy price :)
Ebay auction
I wonder if these sound any good at all? |
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Location: NJ | MAN, that's fugly!!! . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Epaulets AND the headstock!
Probably not worth the cost of a lawyer tho. |
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Location: south east Michigan | awful...just awful |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | rpofessional inlaid artist?
and what is "renknowned" i didn't found it in dictionary?
but look on his comments. it looks like he is making really good instruments. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I have bought inlay materials from this Seller before. Good stuff for cheap.
Reminds me of the time my Dad came back from working a Job in San Diego. He made one of those tourist/shopping runs to Tijuana and came back with some lovely matching hand-embroidered denim jackets for Mom and himself.
The multiple 5 leafed plants were well stitched. My sibs were in stitches as well...
This would go well with the WRB. Where is the WRB today? |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | The WRB is in South Jersey waiting to be personally hand delivered to its rightful owner at the tour.
I added a rubber bladder and a beer tap to it so now you can play it and quench your thirst at the same time. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | i found this on google:
antoniotsai opinion #1
antoniotsai opinion #2
and reviews on harmonycentral etc...
this is crap. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | There you go Michael, always thinking of others. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | OK boys and girls, repeat after me -
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
Why in the freaking world would you think that today is YOUR lucky day and you can buy a guitar that looks like it should cost $1000. and you can get it for $50. Ooooo, how lucky for YOU.
The sad thing is that this seller (and hundreds like him) could come right out in his ebay posting and say "This is a total piece of shit and I am going to rip off your money, you hopeless fool", and some people would STILL buy the thing !!!
Dave |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So far all I've bought is Abalone strips and dots. I haven't entertained the thought of a finished product at all. I don't think his overhead costs are that expensive, until you account for human suffering. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | Tupperware: i'm selling a lot on polish auction portal - something like e-bay - and i sometimes when i sell something without reserve, it goes for 20% of what is worth. But being a good seller means that no matter for what money something sells, buyer always gets product as adversited.
And if he adversites his guitars as fine guitars, that are playable, that are beutiful etc. he ought to sell guitars/mandos/etc that are fine, not those made of wet wood and cracking after 2 weeks.
Inlaid or not, he's still selling guitar. And if guitar doesn't play, it's not a guitar - it's a piece of furniture. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Must be #1, grade "A"; they used the "straight" mahogony for the neck. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The sad thing is, even though the guitars are crap, it looks to me like that inlay took a lot of time. I reckon the raw materials, like MOP, or maybe a truss rod cover, would be OK to buy, but not a finished product.
I've seen guitar workshops in indonesia, and unless the guitars are made in climatically controlled conditions, they will crack when shipped to the US. It looks like these vietnam things are not made in the correct environment. If they stayed in south east asia they'd be alright. But we are not there so caveat emptor. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I was thinking that it looked like some poor unsuspecting mandolin made the mistake of wandering into a body art palace staffed by someone on crystal meth, but I probably shouldn't say so.....poor thing; now it can't even go home again.
--Karen |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I was looking at this guy's stuff the other day. He learned how to do this stuff in Taiwan and they really get into the shell linay over there, for tables and boxes etc.
He should stay there, nothing with strings, well maybe for a blind person they'd be OK. |
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Holy MOP!