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[pickdropper]

Nothing wrong with a nice Goldtop.  Looks great.

Just curious, did you get a chance to compare this to a Standard?  What was the difference in feel and sound?  I haven't tried one of these yet.

[jimilee]

I did not, but I watched a lot of videos online. The Anderton videos are really cool.


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[jprizz]

Love the Goldtop! I don't think you can call yourself a bass player anymore though, you've surpassed the legal limit on guitar ownership 

[jimilee]

Love the Goldtop! I don't think you can call yourself a bass player anymore though, you've surpassed the legal limit on guitar ownership 

True story, this is #19, basses only number 9. I'm enjoying learning how to play guitar better.


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[Timko]

This isn't a new guitar.  It's not even a new guitar to me.  But I just had my 1969 Yamaha FG-180 totally restored.  Neck reset, and a total refret.  This is one of the famed "red label" Yammys.  It also doesn't hurt that my favorite songwriter, Elliott Smith played them.  The guitar is incredibly light (it's a laminated body), and it's got a soft, shallow V neck.  A previous luthier put a maple cap on the bridge plate to repair some damage, and it softened the tone up just a touch from a normal 180.  It's still got a very dry sound (sort of Martin like, which is expected, since the FG0180 was sort of a copy of a D28), but the shorter scale length combined with the maple cap adds a woody sound to the bass notes, which sounds a bit like one of my friend's Gibson J-45.  Yamaha acoustics from the late 60's to about the mid 70's (when they were made in Japan) are great sounding guitars.  I've been looking for an FG-75 from the same era, which is 00 size.

I fell in love with this instrument when it had awful frets and awful neck angle.  Now I'm totally smitten.

[dan.schumaker]

Very nice guitar!  My father-in-law has a red label Yamaha as well that has served him well since the mid 70's.  Its taken him up until now to find a Martin that he liked better (he bought a HD-28LSV recently).  I've always enjoyed playing his FG-180 when we get together.

[jimilee]

Very cool, favorite guitars just feel like home.


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