Joined:
October 2007
Posts: 283
Location: Portland, OR | So, got my '82 last week and have been hitting the search button here quite a bit for various subjects.
Guitar's 26 years old but I've always liked the understated elegance of it.
If playing breaks in the top this guitar should sound great. Someone played the bejeezus out of it. Fretwear, boardwear, pick sctatches. BTW, Twelfth Fret here in Portland does a fret dress for $110-$130.
OK so I can tell you that Meguiar's Mirror Glaze Swirl Remover works great. I had #9, but others may work. Marks virtually gone.
Don't have a stereo cord. Do I need one? Brown case BTW. |
Joined:
March 2005
Posts: 12761
Location: Boise, Idaho | My (my daughter's) 83 has some pretty bad wear on the first couple frets, just the high strings. Looks like the prior owners only played a D chord. The fret dress will probably cost about the same here, although I haven't got a firm estimate since I took it in. The local shop contracts with a guy who comes in and picks up.
Mine came in a brown case, too, but the deep bowl case didn't fit the shallow bowl well. I assumed that since the 83 was the first of the shallow bowls they might not have had a shallow case yet, but there were marks in the case indicative of the stereo jacks and the 83 didn't have those. I got a used shallow bowl case cheap and sold the brown one to someone who needed it for his 1537.
I used 3M Swirl remover, just because that's what I had in the garage. The guitar is close to where I can ship it to my daughter, with the ad for the 83 Collector's that I got. Beal and Nancy Wilson look good together. OK, Nancy just looks good and Beal isn't in the way. |
'82 Collector
