I want to thank the Forum members and Mods

[Calvin]

Hi all,

As many of you may know, I've recently had a very unfortunate incident buying from a forum member.  Although the seller refuses to take back the guitar for any reason (not unexpected), I would like to thank the forum for its support and sympathies.

Thank you again for being supportive, also for being my reason when I was drowned in anger.

Calvin

[tuffythepug]

Calvin
Sorry to read that the seller will not accept a return.  I hope you'll be able to move ahead now and enjoy the guitar anyway, in spite of your dissapointment.   If not, and you decide to sell it, I'm sure you will provide full disclosure of the guitar's condition to any future buyer.    Just out out of curiosity, with your eyes closed and simply playing the thing, is it what you expected in every other respect ?  In other words is the tone, the action, the overall playability, what you expected ?

If cosmetic damage is widespread but relatively shallow and not too severe is it plausible to have the guitar refinished suitably ? 

I was sure hoping for better outcome for you pal.   Hope the guitar isn't completely spoiled for you now.

tuffy

[Calvin]

You can search for my past ad trading a Maple LV-09FM.  You will find that I've absolutely pointed out every single little item I can find with the guitar.  One message replying to that ad was a member saying how he/she was impressed with my full disclosure of every little detail.

I am a reasonable person and I dont expect to be sold a perfect guitar exactly, 100% as described.  Com'on though, it's gotta be at least CLOSE to the description.  You all saw the pictures  and her descriptions.

To be honest, a refinish of the guitar would actually cover ALL but the deepest of the impressions.  Although I am not sure how to get the dirt out from the deeper nail marks - and there are a few.  Refinishing would be like getting a car sanded and repainted for 13G's when a car is only worth 20G's.  It doesn't even make sense for me to return it even, it just means I have to deal with the seller again. At this point, I just dont want to anything to do with the seller, and enjoy my new lover... ...that has been around the block.

As for the sound of this guitar... If you can picture dating Eva Mendes, yes it's that good.  It did get significantly more dynamic in terms of sound after some desparately needed rehydration. The A string buzz is still there, I hope it goes away after a few more days. This is no doubt a full-out concert level guitar.  I can get complete different dynamics from the string by changing attack strength.  Going closer to the bridge gives you a classic classical sound (see Larrivee sound files from guitaradoptions), but as you progressively move closer to the neck the sound becomes very Spanish (whatever that means), and playing on the upper part of soundhole gets a great jazz sound.  Is this a Ramirez 1A... Gee, I've not played a Ramirez 1A before.  All I know is that this beats all other mid level guitars, including Ramirez, in terms of dynamics, volume and tone.