If you like the way it sounds, though, and want it, I'd say haggle with the guy and see if he'll drop his price.īut before you do that, you should check with somebody at Martin and find out if there's any conceivable way that that guitar could be Brazilian rosewood. My point is that music store owners and employees don't always correctly identify these woods.Īnyway, $900 seems a little dear for what amounts to a forgotten off-brand guitar, even though it's all-solid wood (or should be, and is, so far as I know.) This woman had taken the guitar by her local guitar shop, and some head-banger electric guitarplayer onstaff had misidentified the wood as Brazilian rosewood for her.įortunately, she didn't want an outrageous amount of money for the guitar, so I bought it and used it in a trade for something I wanted even more, and came out ahead.
I bought a Mossman guitar from a lesbian folksinger who'd kept the guitar hanging on her wall for twenty years, and the years of sunlight had turned the sides into that shade. There is some Indian rosewood that can be the same brick red color that Brazilian often has, particularly if the guitar has been exposed to a lot of sunlight. So the one that you ran across was either one of the rare good ones that didn't yank up, or else somebody liked the guitar enough to have the neck reset.Īs for it being Brazilian rosewood, I can't imagine Martin using Brazilian on its budget import line at a time when they'd stopped using it on Martin guitars.
Chording up the neck was impossible, and would have been completely out of tune had I managed it. Dutch-made Vega guitars are fairly hard to find for the simple reasons that:Ī.) They didn't sell well, because the players who made up the target market (players who couldn't quite afford a Martin) didn't really have any awareness of the Vega brand name, either ī.) The neck joints on a high percentage of them developed serious problems, rendering quite a few of them unplayable.Īll but one that I've run across have had sprung necks, and were barely playable in first position. There were serious quality control problems at that factory, which ultimately resulted in the whole deal being shut down after a year or two. They bought the Vega brand name, and made Vega banjos for a few years shortly thereafter they gained control of a guitar factory in the Netherlands and attempted to introduce a less-expensive guitar brand by using the Vega name on guitars manufactured at that plant. The story on that is that Martin was in a period where they were expanding and acquiring other brand names. Doug, I seriously doubt that this Dutch-made Vega dreadnought has any Brazilian rosewood anywhere on it.
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