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praisedave wrote: if all of the models in the 03 line are under 700 ill be impressed, humbled, and buying a guitar from them this summer
All the models won't be. I know the ones with cutaways or electronics won't be less than that and the 03r's might not be, but the straight mahog 03's should be.
but he said he wanted a cutaway and electronics...
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kf2817 wrote:don't buy a low end martin, they're garbage. i would know, i went through two d-15's before i got my takamine. the same exact thing happened to both martins, after about two weeks the fret buzz became unbearable, nearly every note sounded like total shit. i'd buy a rogue ra-100d before i bought another low end martin and save $700.
Thats a shame, when i played the d15 at Sam Ash, i loved it. The mahogany one. I really enjoyed the tone of it.
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kf2817 wrote:don't buy a low end martin, they're garbage. i would know, i went through two d-15's before i got my takamine. the same exact thing happened to both martins, after about two weeks the fret buzz became unbearable, nearly every note sounded like total shit. i'd buy a rogue ra-100d before i bought another low end martin and save $700.
i hope you had medium strings on em...otherwise you got 2 lemons - thats surprising though, i know at least 3 people i can think of off the top of my head that love their d-15's
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kf2817 wrote:don't buy a low end martin, they're garbage. i would know, i went through two d-15's before i got my takamine. the same exact thing happened to both martins, after about two weeks the fret buzz became unbearable, nearly every note sounded like total shit. i'd buy a rogue ra-100d before i bought another low end martin and save $700.
i hope you had medium strings on em...otherwise you got 2 lemons - thats surprising though, i know at least 3 people i can think of off the top of my head that love their d-15's
add 1 to that. 3 and a half years so far...
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yeah, im sure it was just some bad luck, but two in a row was enough to taint my image of martins
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^understandable
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were they both from the same store?
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bbatsell wrote:were they both from the same store?
exactly what I was wondering
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save $150 more bones and buy a D16-RGT
i think that they would stand up to andy D28 around
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