It’s About Time

This morning, the much anticipated Goodall arrived. Frankly, I was bracing myself up for major disappointment because of the problem encountered with the klutz who messed up the shipping besides being non-communicative throughout. I was dreading the need to call credit card company and Paypal to get my money back.

So as I was opening up the box, then the hard-case, I was almost going to say, “I knew it!”  Well, I am glad to say that the Goodall was beautiful and much cheaper than Guitar Gallery would sell it!  Emailed James Goodall to ascertain the year built but I’m glad that it was in excellent condition as promised.  I think it’s an elixir new strings, so will wait a week or so before bringing to Malcolm to do setup.  I know what he’ll say to me.  Don’t think he’ll complain about me giving him business!

Interesting that the inside of the body states not only the serial number but also the material: rosewood; sitka (spruce). My guess is that this particular piece was made in 2004.  It did have 3 flea sized dings on the arm rest section of the lower bout but nothing damaging to the overall aesthetics from I can see.  Tone-wise it is loud when lightly picked or strummed.  Sparkly tone I might add.

I suppose my GAS would stop now, and now time to up my finger-picking skill up another notch. Found a wonderful site that provides nice ditty tune pieces and tab to learn and play.  Need to learn new stuff to keep the brain cells alive and kickin’

Saturday morning, I got an email from a man called Abel Chun who wrote to enquire about our church. So I replied and ask a few general questions.  His reply made me curious enough to ask if he is from the same Army unit where I did my BMT.  Long story short, he turned out to my BMT buddy!  A buddy is a guy assigned to you to help take care of you, vice versa, so that you don’t get into trouble and neither will he!  It’s been so many years — 26 years? 

Well, I hope he would turn up to visit our church and that we could connect once again.  It’s fascinating to me cos I don’t usually have such contacts with local friends here. Life is simply too busy for us to connect. Sigh…

Larrivee L-10

Picked up my Larrivee L-10 from Jarvis this evening.  He told me one of the inlays was etched away when he cleaned the fretboard.  Not sure how long he “tonerite” the guitar, but he did mentioned that he felt it hadn’t opened up yet.

Another angle shot of L-10

It’s not as booming as my D-03R for sure, but then again it’s a different type of guitar. Sounded nice though.  Can’t remember what Jarvis said about Martin SP strings but it sounded alright with me. Maybe next time I’ll try D’Addario EXP PB to see how it is.

When I first opened up the box, I was rather apprehensive about it.  After changing from bone saddle to FMI, it sounds pretty good (not that it sounded bad earlier on).

Yes, it does sound like its bass is not as powerful as D-03R but I think overall it’s rather balanced tonewise.

Maybe, I will tonerite it several more hours and hopefully it will open up even more.