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While waiting on my sons drum teacher (who never showed cause he got his schedule mixed up but we got a free lesson out of him) I happen to look in the acoustic room and found this beauty, left over from a "garage sale" of overstock and lightly used gear.  My Kamen is really too expensive to repair, so its a keepsake and ill try some Frankenstein repairs.

Welcome the new A/E with tuner and eq single cutaway TAK to the Metalizers man cave.  It was such a great deal!  Dangerous having cash in your pocket. big_smile

http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m321/beamer326/new%20tak.jpg?t=1473657578

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Congratulations. Nothing like a NGD. Be careful. It can be addictive

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Nice find, Beamer ... I love the sound and feel of my Takamine, and they certainly build solid guitars. Their compensated saddles are a simple proprietary innovation that really helps with intonation.

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Tenement Funster wrote:

Nice find, Beamer ... I love the sound and feel of my Takamine, and they certainly build solid guitars. Their compensated saddles are a simple proprietary innovation that really helps with intonation.

I was just noticing that....I have never seen a Tak saddle up close I guess. Cool!

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NICE! Happy NGD! Hope you can bring her to CSV!

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Happy NGD.

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Happy NGD, I have two Takamines one is a small size and the other a a/e 72 series both great sounding guitars. Good buy for you.

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So the tag on this one said MSRP was like 600 something, found it on Musicians friend listed at 429.  my buy was 300 w/ tax,  so 129 savings still aint bad! LOL  here are the specs
With deluxe appointments, solid-top construction and great performance features including a Venetian-style cutaway and Takamine electronics system, the GD51CE is built to bring your music center stage. Ready for the demands of any performance situation, the GD51CE features a solid spruce top and rosewood back and sides that produce a big, bold sound.

The slim mahogany neck and 12 - radius bound rosewood fingerboard provides great feel and playability, while the onboard Takamine TP-4TD preamp system gives you a built-in tuner with 3-band EQ and gain controls for rock-solid amplified performance and versatility. Other quality appointments of the GD51CE include a synthetic bone nut and split bridge saddle, rosewood headcap, abalone rosette and mother-of-pearl dot inlays, gold die-cast tuners and a beautiful gloss finish.
Body Finish: Gloss
Body Shape: Dreadnought Cutaway
Bracing: Quartersawn "X"
Body Back: Rosewood
Body Sides: Rosewood
Body Top: Solid Spruce
Neck Material: Mahogany
Neck Finish: Gloss
Scale Length: 25.4" (644mm)
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305mm)
Number of Frets: 20
String Nut: Synthetic Bone
Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.8mm)
Position Inlays: Mother-of-Pearl Dot
Special Electronics: Takamine TP-4TD Preamp with Built-In Tuner
Bridge: Rosewood
Hardware Finish: Gold
Tuning Machines: Gold Die-Cast
Strings: D'Addario EXP 16 Coated Phosphor Bronze (.012-.053 Gauges) ** will be changed as the ones on it are showing usage.

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Sounds like you got a great guitar and deal I love my Two My Jumbo sounds fantastic plugged into an amp and without an amp.

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Beautiful guitar!

I have a Takamine that my wife gave me as a gift last year,  and until today, never realized the saddle design.  I guess that means I'm not playing it enough.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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Gidday Beamer
nice guitar,i wonder what song of the mth would sound like on it(hint hint)

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I don't know, the selections have not really. Inspired me that much ,  I keep looking though.

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I don't know, the selections have not really. Inspired me that much ,  I keep looking though.

Metalize them.  Acoustic metal folk.  You could be a genre progenitor. 

That reminds me, I heard a guy's music in a pub that I think you'd like.  I should have paid him an extra $10 and picked up two of his CD's so I could send one to you.  I didn't think that fast at the pub.

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If you have one, rip it, put it in drop box and ill listen or you can put it om google cloud and share the links with me smile

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Zurf wrote:
beamer wrote:

I don't know, the selections have not really. Inspired me that much ,  I keep looking though.

Metalize them.  Acoustic metal folk.  You could be a genre progenitor. 

That reminds me, I heard a guy's music in a pub that I think you'd like.  I should have paid him an extra $10 and picked up two of his CD's so I could send one to you.  I didn't think that fast at the pub.


Gotta be able to play them first! LOL

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beamer wrote:
Zurf wrote:
beamer wrote:

I don't know, the selections have not really. Inspired me that much ,  I keep looking though.

Metalize them.  Acoustic metal folk.  You could be a genre progenitor. 

That reminds me, I heard a guy's music in a pub that I think you'd like.  I should have paid him an extra $10 and picked up two of his CD's so I could send one to you.  I didn't think that fast at the pub.


Gotta be able to play them first! LOL

This may inspire you, Beamer. Ben Woods describes his blend of flamenco-style / heavy-metal arrangements as "Flametal". Here's his version of "Holy Wars" by Megadeth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQnWbUWAMw

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Thanks TF! 
and for everyone else today (a Sunday later) Its home and Man dose it play nice!  Also picked up a pretty thick soft case today for 40 bucks also (it says Yamaha on it, but Ill find a TAK patch to put over it LOL) Here is the its real  cause there are pics part.  Yea they are big again since  I didn't copy and resize them.  This is my small side yard and back "yard" slope.  Two more steps back and I would be feet over tea kettle down a rough ride to the catch basin creek.

https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/l/t1.0-9/14344271_10211014289972478_4136404667187653149_n.jpg?oh=940e236196bdfb07adf5cc515d761dd4&oe=5872DB4D
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Atta boy, Beamer ... nice looking axe, indeed!

From the first photo, it looks like your Tak has the same pickup-preamp system as mine ... quite good, I find. BTW, I love your acoustic / electric T-shirt ... very cool.