N
notCardio
I walk the line
I've come close to getting Carlo's a few times. I figure it's like most cheap guitars, some are good, some aren't.
Glad you found a good one. Where did you get it, Sam Ash?
Glad you found a good one. Where did you get it, Sam Ash?
BushmasterM4
Well-known member
Sam Ash gives them away free from time to time if you purchase over 300 at a retail store. I got one of their electric acoustics for free. Olays well but the pick up quit working the same day I got it. Oh well it was free.
Flamin Lip
New member
carlos robelli=Lucky? B+ for style d- for tone/action.
true-eurt
Maneater
I have never heard of those...but would love to hear how it sounds J....can you post a short sample please..?
Congrats on your purchase...if it makes you happy, that is the best deal of all.
Congrats on your purchase...if it makes you happy, that is the best deal of all.
N
notCardio
I walk the line
true-eurt said:I have never heard of those...but would love to hear how it sounds J....can you post a short sample please..?
Congrats on your purchase...if it makes you happy, that is the best deal of all.
They're kind of the acoustic guitar equivalent of those Rogues that MF sells. Like BMM4 says, Sam Ash often gives one away when you purchase a certain dollar amount. I really though they were the Sam Ash 'house brand'. I didn't know they were available anywhere else.
But I have played a couple that played great. They weren't much to look at, but felt good. They sounded like a cheap acoustic, though, but I'm not a very good judge in that area. When I'm playing them, I think most Martins suck but I like Gibsons.
true-eurt
Maneater
Thanks Notcardio for the explanation.
Yah..I think the love of any instrument, is in the 'feel' of the player. I love the sound and feel of my Samick elec so much, I would never get rid of it..it fits me hands perfectly
....but a lot of guys don't care for them.
Yah..I think the love of any instrument, is in the 'feel' of the player. I love the sound and feel of my Samick elec so much, I would never get rid of it..it fits me hands perfectly
....but a lot of guys don't care for them.
MadAudio
Damned if I do
So j, ya gonna bring it to Andover?
N
notCardio
I walk the line
true-eurt said:Thanks Notcardio for the explanation.
Yah..I think the love of any instrument, is in the 'feel' of the player. I love the sound and feel of my Samick elec so much, I would never get rid of it..it fits me hands perfectly
What kind of Samick?
true-eurt
Maneater
I don't know Notcardio. I have found a few that look like it...but none with the neck inlay or the abalone binding...
I don't even know what year it is. It is a Korean made one.
As soon as I get a digital camera or remember to take it to the music shop(they'll take a pic for me)...I can post a picture of. It is a pretty thing.
The closest I found to look like it, shape wise, would be this Greg Bennett Ultramatic UM3 ...the headstock on mine lacks the little hump on the top, but has a subtle slant from left to right upward ...and lacks the white circle around the S Logo. I have gold tuning pegs, bridge/saddles, jack, tailpiece, toggle switch inset and strap pegs. The volume/tone pot knobs are black plastic. The nut looks plastic to me.
It has those double humbuckers on it too.
The back of the body and the neck are a beautiful natural laquered reddish brown wood. The fretboard looks to be rosewood..? and the front of the body has a black transparent paint on it, so that in certain light, you can see the wood grain running side to side.
The most beautiful thing about the guitar is the ivory colored binding with abalone inlay next...then the black transparent finish...it looks cool. The fretboard is unique with its mother of pearl inlay of vines, flowers, and three cattails...a double one on the 12th fret, one of abalone..the other mother of pearl and a single cattail on the 19th fret of abalone.
This vine climbs top to bottom of fretboard. Where the two cattails meet on the 12th fret there is a ring that encircles them both. Why the designer felt the need to join the two this way is unknown to me, but seems symbolic in some way..perhaps of the player and their axe becoming one
...yah..I am a romantic I guess..now watch..someone will come along and post a link to a 1000 just like it and blow my theory all to hell....
I don't even know what year it is. It is a Korean made one.
As soon as I get a digital camera or remember to take it to the music shop(they'll take a pic for me)...I can post a picture of. It is a pretty thing.
The closest I found to look like it, shape wise, would be this Greg Bennett Ultramatic UM3 ...the headstock on mine lacks the little hump on the top, but has a subtle slant from left to right upward ...and lacks the white circle around the S Logo. I have gold tuning pegs, bridge/saddles, jack, tailpiece, toggle switch inset and strap pegs. The volume/tone pot knobs are black plastic. The nut looks plastic to me.
It has those double humbuckers on it too.
The back of the body and the neck are a beautiful natural laquered reddish brown wood. The fretboard looks to be rosewood..? and the front of the body has a black transparent paint on it, so that in certain light, you can see the wood grain running side to side.
The most beautiful thing about the guitar is the ivory colored binding with abalone inlay next...then the black transparent finish...it looks cool. The fretboard is unique with its mother of pearl inlay of vines, flowers, and three cattails...a double one on the 12th fret, one of abalone..the other mother of pearl and a single cattail on the 19th fret of abalone.
This vine climbs top to bottom of fretboard. Where the two cattails meet on the 12th fret there is a ring that encircles them both. Why the designer felt the need to join the two this way is unknown to me, but seems symbolic in some way..perhaps of the player and their axe becoming one
...yah..I am a romantic I guess..now watch..someone will come along and post a link to a 1000 just like it and blow my theory all to hell....