martin D28 or 35

thejoe · Unread post by **thejoe** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:58 am

this page shows a breakdown of martin's neck styles:
http://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/fea ... index.html
for example, the d28 and d35's have low profile necks, if the guitar has a "v" at the end of the title, its a v neck (ie: HD-28v)

i find v necks a dream to play, but the only way to find out if you like them is to just try one out... i think a few others on these boards have v necks

czech · Unread post by **czech** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:28 am

didnt tim play a HD35 on one of the tours?

thejoe · Unread post by **thejoe** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:36 am

for some reason i think it was a D-35, but that's just a hunch
i know he used a martin 12er

and now i think he's using a taylor

srslots81 · Unread post by **srslots81** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:44 am

i always found it wierd that tim was able to do all the crazy shit he does on a standard guitar and not a cutaway. its part of the reason i dont mind getting a standard body.

gcom007 · Unread post by **gcom007** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:31 am

I'd say splurge and get the HD-35...it's got the scalloped bracing that really opens the guitar up...it's a rocket, let me tell you as I have one...but I don't really play it b/c I don't like the neck much on it...prefer a fatter one like on my OM-28V...

GrateDMB21 · Unread post by **GrateDMB21** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:27 pm

checkii wrote:didnt tim play a HD35 on one of the tours?

Nope

crash_in_to_me wrote:and now i think he's using a taylor

He still uses the D-35. Heres a current photo from his tour

filmdude100cms · Unread post by **filmdude100cms** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:32 pm

checkii wrote:didnt tim play a HD35 on one of the tours?

D-35 and its his rstandard acoustic guitar, he mixes it up some with his 714ce lately but mostly the D-35.

srslots81 · Unread post by **srslots81** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:30 pm

seeing how Tim Reynolds is who i base my acoustic playing around, seems the D-35 would be a good choice.

srslots81 · Unread post by **srslots81** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:16 pm

i played a bunch tonight, and i didnt really like the V neck, it was too meaty for me. i like something not as thick. Guitar Center is a bunch of douche bags, i was talking to a guy and he said depending who is there when i return, they might charge me a restocking fee.

filmdude100cms · Unread post by **filmdude100cms** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:23 pm

srslots81 wrote:i played a bunch tonight, and i didnt really like the V neck, it was too meaty for me. i like something not as thick. Guitar Center is a bunch of douche bags, i was talking to a guy and he said depending who is there when i return, they might charge me a restocking fee.

hate to say it bro but thats kinda standard.

srslots81 · Unread post by **srslots81** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:35 pm

how much is it normally? any idea?

jsgksu · Unread post by **jsgksu** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:38 pm

srslots81 wrote:how much is it normally? any idea?

35%

srslots81 · Unread post by **srslots81** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:51 pm

i find it hard to believe that guitar center will charge me $480 to return my guitar after 15 days, when they have a 30 day policy.

if they do that is absurd.

jsgksu · Unread post by **jsgksu** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:51 pm

srslots81 wrote:i find it hard to believe that guitar center will charge me $480 to return my guitar after 15 days, when they have a 30 day policy.

if they do that is absurd.

I KEED I KEED!

srslots81 · Unread post by **srslots81** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:15 pm

you never know with them. i just read this on the UMGF. if youve read it before then im sorry for posting 192482193819283 words. but its a good story. the concensus from the replies was that this was fucked up for anyone to do......

I have been playing the guitar for about a year and a half. My little brother lent me his Taylor 414k to use. It was ok and I told myself if I played for a full year then I could purchase my own guitar. After the year was up I started looking for a guitar….thinking Taylor. I had never seen or head of a Martin guitar. Well, one day I “played” a Martin and it was all over between Taylor and me. My problem now was what Martin to get…. I finally decided that I wanted an SP000C-16R. Ok, it was small, looked cool and I could afford a used one.

I found one on E-bay and sent the guy a cashiers check (boy was that a leap of faith) for $1050.00. Two days before Christmas I got the guitar. Being silly, I waited until Christmas to open it. I had a perfect almost unplayed guitar that sounded like crap. Then I changed the original strings and everything I ever dreamed of in a guitar came true.

There was one problem. I noticed that the guitar didn’t fit very tightly in its’ case. I e-mailed the seller and he told me that that was the original Gieb style case that came with it. Still I wondered and so I took it to Guitar Center to see if the case was correct.

In all of the Guitar Centers I have ever been to (3) they have a raised check–in platform where your guitar is taken and they record the serial number, model and whatever. Well I had the Guitar Center dude take my guitar and open up the case. Now the guitar is almost even with my head and I cannot quite see into the case as my eyes are even with it. The guy says “Cool guitar!” and reaches in and pulls my low E string up so high I can see the string and lets it snap back down on the fingerboard and I hear a sound not unlike the crack of a 22 short. Before I can react he does the same thing with the A and D strings before grabbing the E again for one last POP. He has pulled each of these strings up at least 4 to 5 inches off the fingerboard and let them snap back down just like he was shooting a bow and arrow.

Well, I don’t know anything about anything and I think that this might be normal and so I take back my guitar and this same guy starts to help me with figuring out the case thing. Yes, it is the wrong case he points out and as I look at my guitar I see three finish checks running from the bottom of the bridge below the G, B and high E strings all the way off the bottom. There are also finish checks above the bridge going up to the sound hole above the low E, A and D strings. I tell him “Dude, ya f***ed up my guitar!”

The manager comes over and they explain to me how there is no way that doing that to my guitar could cause finish checks and that finish checks don’t hurt the guitar anyway and that that is how you check a guitars intonation and that, by the way, they do that to all of their guitars and, as a matter of fact, were taught to do that to guitars. Ok, I still don’t know anything about anything and I have yet to find the UMGF to ask anybody anything and so I go home with my now finish checked to @#%$ guitar and wonder what to do. Then I call Martin.

The Martin customer service guy says ‘WHAT!” And then he tells me that Martin’s official position is that that is not how you check for intonation on a guitar and to tell the dude at guitar center to please never do that to any more Martins at the very least. He also tells me that pulling the strings up that hard and letting them snap back down is too complex of an issue for him to say for sure if it was the cause of my brand new finish checks.

I go back to Guitar Center and tell them this and show them all of the E-bay pictures and my invoice and they give me back my $1050.00 and promptly sell my finish checked guitar for $1450.00.

So, what do you all think? Did the string snapping cause the finish checks? Should I have kept the guitar? By the way, and this is true, the dude that did this to my guitar has been promoted to store manager. This all happened last January. Sorry this is so long.

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