New guitar day Washburn wd20s

DrJazzTap

I picked this up from gumtree around a week ago. I know its not the most expensive thing on the planet. A quick Google revealed it had a solid spruce top with rosewood back and sides. 
It was being sold with a fairly decent hard/soft case for......£20! 

I enquired and picked it up after work. The seller was moving to Spain and had to move tomorrow. I had to adjust the truss rod, and sand a bit off of the bridge as the action was super high. It was incredibly hard to play.
 I used some wood soap and wire wool to clean the neck and frets and then polished them up. It was filthy! And now its a much easier guitar to play. 

Tannin

What a corker pick-up!

guitarjack66

Sounds great. Any pictures?

GoFish

Nice work!- pictures would be fantastic. HNGD!

thomasross20

£20 FFS lol brilliant!

bertie

I sold my old Washy  D28s   for a oner about 2 years ago - had it since 1986 !!  but hadnt played it for over 20 years !!!  

Dave_Mc

LOL hard to go wrong for £20!

Mellish

£20??!

 That's *got* to be a good deal. 

 

DrJazzTap

Sorry for some reason I was having an issue uploading photos.

Mellish

  an absolute bargain!

When you mentioned shaving the "bridge", I assume you meant the saddle?

 

DrJazzTap

Mellish said:

  an absolute bargain!

When you mentioned shaving the "bridge", I assume you meant the saddle?

 

Yeah my bad, the plastic bit. Only 2mm or so.

Mellish

If the saddle is plastic, I'd replace it with bone. I'd do the same with the nut if that's Plastic
It should give you better tone. 

 

Dave_Mc

DrJazzTap said:

Sorry for some reason I was having an issue uploading photos.

Wow that actually looks pretty nice! Again, for £20...

DrJazzTap

Dave_Mc said:

DrJazzTap said:

Sorry for some reason I was having an issue uploading photos.

Wow that actually looks pretty nice! Again, for £20...

Yeah its not too shabby. The case is pretty decent as well. I need to get some penetrating oil into some of the machine heads as some of them were very stiff. Still had the plastic covers on the machine heads!

Soupman

Very nice. 20 quid including case??!!
I nearly bought a Washburn back in 1985, about 150-ish new I think. In the end I bought something else but always liked the Washburn.
Looks a great guitar - and a ridiculous buy. Things like that only happen to other people! 

bertie

Soupman said:

Very nice. 20 quid including case??!!
I nearly bought a Washburn back in 1985, about 150-ish new I think.

mine was 1986  £225 IIRC  "aged" (stain) solid top and 3 piece lam r/w back  - no case

bought it cos of the ads in the music papers......."If your granddaddy was a picker, he probably picked a Washburn"

TheOtherDennis

DrJazzTap said:

Sorry for some reason I was having an issue uploading photos.

Twenty quid including a case? I mean, any kind of case? Even a new soft one will probably set you back that much. You didn't get a free case with your guitar, you got a free guitar with your case!!

TheOtherDennis

Soupman said:

Very nice. 20 quid including case??!!
...
Looks a great guitar - and a ridiculous buy. Things like that only happen to other people! 

This

Tannin

Mellish said:

If the saddle is plastic, I'd replace it with bone. I'd do the same with the nut if that's Plastic
It should give you better tone. 

 

Not on a 20 quid guitar.  Better to save up for a Bigsby.

Tannin

Instead, change the strings. For your £20, if we include the £8 for postage, you could get half a set of these! 

 https://www.thomann.de/gb/martin_guitars_mtcn160_titanium_strings.htm

Are you any good at playing a 3-string?

DavidR

Here's one currently on Reverb.......
Washburn WD20 Series WD20S Acoustic Guitar | Reverb
.....suggesting you just got yourself this year's cosmic megabargain, and are luckier than Mr. Lucky from Luckysville.  :-)