New guitar day Washburn wd20s

Mellish

@Tannin ; I'm not sure about that me old mate  

Sure, I can see the reasoning, but let's say that guitar is mine. It's all solid and I got it for £20.what a bargain!

I think I'd be inclined to want to make it sound better, if I could. But that's just reckless me  

GoFish

The headstock alone is worth £20, let alone a spruce top. Don't wash it or burn it and you'll be ok!

*grabs coat*

ICBM

DrJazzTap said:

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

It's hard to see in the photo, but it looks like the saddle was about 4-5mm above the bridge! I'm not surprised you needed to take 2mm - normally a huge amount - off it.

No matter, it was an enormous bargain - if it's any kind of half-decent case you bought that and the guitar was basically free with it .

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...

ICBM said:

DrJazzTap said:

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

It's hard to see in the photo, but it looks like the saddle was about 4-5mm above the bridge! I'm not surprised you needed to take 2mm - normally a huge amount - off it.

No matter, it was an enormous bargain - if it's any kind of half-decent case you bought that and the guitar was basically free with it .

Yeah the action was miles off of the fretboard. I adjusted the truss rod as much as I was comfortable with, and inline with a typical acoustic. 

I will say I pounced on the ad, I half expected it to be a typo. For the seller to come back with £120 for example. She clearly wanted it gone ASAP! 

Soupman

Bloody hell, a set of Elixir strings is £19.99 on Stringbusters .
I pay 20 quid to change a set of strings, YOU change the guitar and case!! Jammy git. 

Dave_Mc

DrJazzTap said:

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!

I was wondering what you meant by "plastic covers", but I guess you mean the clear film, like what you get on pickguards and pickups?

It does look like a pretty decent guitar, that's for sure. Judging by that link @DavidR posted you could add a nought onto the end of the price and still be doing alright...

Tannin said:

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?

Yeah I was thinking there can't be many guitars where you're worried that a restring is worth more than the guitar!

usedtobe

Absolute steal!