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Sharing my recent FREE guitar from GC! This guitar is a cannon! I’m truly impressed! It outplayed the Gibson J-200 GC had! That one was 5.6k wow! Maple of course! lol 😂

Got this guitar for free because GC broke my Eastman guitar!

This guitar features:
Thermally, aged Sitka spruce top
Scalloped X bracing
East Indian Rosewood Back and sides
Very heavy! lol 6LBS 5oz!!

Tone:
Very bright with 80/20s, it actually mellows out with PBs installed, it does have some beautiful bass! I’m gonna try 13s Monals soon!

Very happy!

This guitar has honestly met my expectations! Rich bottom end, chiming highs, it’s balanced with that scalloped sound!

I love the MR back and sides! Been enjoying the heck out of it!

By the way this one has Dana bourgeois’s bracing, Bass side of the X is scalloped but the treble side is tapered. (Shown in the photos)

If you own one let me know what you think! Btw those Sitka braces look GREAT! And that adi top is beautiful!!!!

Got my ‘49 D-18 back and couldn’t be happier, going from my old ‘52 D-28 to this D-18, the D-18 has more trebles and more mids and surprisingly it has equal bass as the D-28. These very late ‘49’s D-18’s have more full sound than others earlier in ‘49 through ‘47, Steve Swan called these sleeper group “magic 50’s” the neck has a fuller neck, just slightly. Here’s his quote

“Late 1949 through very early 1951:  The "magic" 1950 guitars.  Sometimes the decal is placed quite high on the headstock. The neck profile shape can be a little fuller than what is most often found on the 1948-49 guitars. Usually rich, full, and loud compared to the previous group. Some of my personal favorite postwar D-18s are sometimes found in this sleeper group.”

Here’s another quote regarding late vintage D’s “After buying and rejecting many, many 1948-1963 D-18s and D-28s, my experience is that there are generalities I can make about the sound differences. While I understand that the spec didn't shift during those years, there are significant changes in the sound. In general, as you get to the latter years of this period, the sound gets thinner, less rich on the low end. Late 40's, richer.

 I can't explain why, and while there are sure to be exceptions to this impression, I did not find them in the 35 odd dreads from the 50's and ealy 60s I have owned and then sold in the last ten years. I kept having guitars from the 50s-60's shipped to me in hopes I might find a prince among the frogs, but I did not find one. 

Each guitar is an individual, though. Last year I owned two 1949 D-28s that were just 6 serial numbers apart. For a short period, I owned them both. But after a month or two, the earlier one started to annoy me in a big way. It's gone now. Top end sounded closed off. Go figure!”