1861 Shipped today

cc407 Posted 2005-09-07 8:32 PM (#138091) Subject: 1861 Shipped today Joined: August 2005 Posts: 43 The beat up e-bay red 1861 Balladeer shipped today - will have to wait till Tues to see it! I'm hoping it will play as nice as the natural 1862 Balladeer I had some years back.... Soooo, I wait... Waskel Posted 2005-09-07 9:49 PM (#138092 - in reply to #138091) Subject: Re: 1861 Shipped today Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840 Location: closely held secret I picked up a slightly beat up 1861 about a month ago (the Africa guitar). I had my doubts when I first got it, as my expectations were high based on the sellers claim to "do a full setup and put new strings on it" before shipping. Well, the guitar was dirty, the strings were corroded and dead - it sounded like crap. So I took all the strings off, cleaned it up good and put a new set of D'adds on - it's like new again. It's becoming my favorite 'quiet time' guitar - not a lot of projection (shallow bowl) but just a sweet, bright tone. MWoody Posted 2005-09-07 10:40 PM (#138093 - in reply to #138091) Subject: Re: 1861 Shipped today Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13987 Location: Upper Left USA Congrats man! Take it far and do good things.