ras52 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Having happily stumbled upon a thinline nylon electro-acoustic earlier this year, my GAS for a steel-strung acoustic I can comfortably play while standing was stirred. I was leaning towards “parlour”-sized guitars with 12th-fret neck joins, which have a look-and-feel familiar from my days of classical guitar lessons. Then I found an eBay seller with a slew of ex-demo/ex-display models, and I was pleasantly surprised to “win” a Tanglewood for around half of its street price. The auction ended at the weekend, the guitar was despatched on Monday, and was delivered yesterday. Except I had the minor distraction of the day job yesterday, and was out and about in the evening. I got home shortly after ten o’clock, wondering… would the carrier just leave the box in the rain on the doorstep? Would there be a card saying I had to call to rearrange delivery, or visit some depot in who-knows where? But - oh joy! - there was card saying it had been left with a neighbour. Then the agonising – was it too late to go and knock on my neighbour’s door? I took the considerate route and decided it was. Also, unwrapping a new toy would have been too exciting close to bedtime! Tonight, I’ll be returning home briefly before going out again… I’ll have enough time to collect the box from the neighbour, but not enough to play with the new toy! Ah well… this is turning out to be quite a long new guitar day. :-\ BTW this is a straight acoustic, so expect queries on various pickup options to follow… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 the suspense is killing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 and seeing you're making us wait I will remind you..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1380751042' post='2230223'] the suspense is killing me. [/quote] Me too ;-) Just thought I'd spread the pain. (Tonight is play-with-new-toy night!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 Just the tiniest of dings on the side of the neck - literally the size of a pin-prick - and some tarnished strings to suggest it's not factory-fresh. Otherwise: yum yum! [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81099488@N00/10072615526/"][/url] [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81099488@N00/10072615526/"]image[/url] by [url="http://www.flickr.com/people/81099488@N00/"]searlesw15[/url], on Flickr [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81099488@N00/10072607615/"][/url] [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81099488@N00/10072607615/"]image[/url] by [url="http://www.flickr.com/people/81099488@N00/"]searlesw15[/url], on Flickr [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81099488@N00/10072619515/"][/url] [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81099488@N00/10072619515/"]image[/url] by [url="http://www.flickr.com/people/81099488@N00/"]searlesw15[/url], on Flickr [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81099488@N00/10072685356/"][/url] [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81099488@N00/10072685356/"]image[/url] by [url="http://www.flickr.com/people/81099488@N00/"]searlesw15[/url], on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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