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Earlier than planned GAS

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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    No-one was this nice about mine :D. Maybe I should have posted better pics…

    For reference, mine is exactly the same as this one :).

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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    I'm sure yours is lovely too :)
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    edited September 2014
    Update! This guitar is properly phenomenal. I've played it every day I've had the time to, and made time on a lot more days than I normally would've. 

    Having a really decent (and tonally bright) acoustic highlights just how quickly I knacker strings though - even with Elixirs I'm finding them dull 6 weeks after changing, including a fortnight when I wasn't playing. Not going to get a year out of this set like I do with electrics, but it's a small price to pay.
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    That's pretty normal - I've always found Gibson acoustics eat strings more than many other makes. I think it's because they tend to be warm and thick-sounding, so they need the extra brightness. It may be why I generally like them, since I normally don't like the sound of new strings - if that makes sense!

    I find the Dove not so much 'bright' as having clarity and punch. It's still a warm-sounding guitar, to me. It's also quite heavily built so it really needs to be driven at the treble end - it's an odd design in some ways, which goes against some of the things which supposedly make for a good acoustic tone (heavy bridge and headstock, big pickguard etc) but for some reason it just works. Brilliantly.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

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