View Full Version : Vintage D-18 in Roanoke
jdchapman
Mar-27-2015, 10:00am
Seems like a good deal to me, from a knowledgable owner.
No Financial Interest on my part. Don't know the guy. Wish I had the scratch myself.
http://roanoke.craigslist.org/msg/4949645407.html
barry
Mar-27-2015, 10:10am
13/32" action on the low E-String? Was it set up as a Dobro?
jdchapman
Mar-27-2015, 11:22am
looks like high action to me too, but if it's just a neck reset, still a good price.
Jeff Mando
Mar-27-2015, 12:54pm
I'm guessing he meant 3/32, since it has had a pro neckset.
jdchapman
Mar-27-2015, 1:59pm
Pictures look more like 3/32 to me.
Timbofood
Mar-27-2015, 5:15pm
I love D-18's! Wish I had the do re mi!
onassis
Mar-27-2015, 5:22pm
Looks interesting. I'd love to hear it. For me, though, '66 seems like the hairy edge of the dark years. I'd have to play it first.
Timbofood
Mar-27-2015, 5:37pm
I've known a few good ones from those days. Keep an eye out for a D-18 #196835
It was stolen from me in 1978! It belongs to Bill Halsey! Just for informations sake.
Jeff Mando
Mar-27-2015, 11:11pm
Looks interesting. I'd love to hear it. For me, though, '66 seems like the hairy edge of the dark years. I'd have to play it first.
30 years ago, I passed on a '64 D-18 (for $475) because it wasn't "vintage" in my mind. I wanted a 30's or 40's instrument. Strange to think how picky we could afford to be, back then. It did, however, have the Kluson tuners, tortoise pickguard and tortoise binding. This one appears to have the tortoise guard, but with the black binding, and Grovers, which may or may not be original for a '66 D-18. Certainly a very popular modification, back then.
My dad owns a D-18 that was made a few years later than this guitar. I have played it a few times, and I myself can say that it is fun and easy to play. I do not know if A D-18 from 66' would have the same pickguard warping problem with the ones from the seventies.
allenhopkins
Mar-30-2015, 9:09pm
Geez -- if 1966 is "vintage," what's that make me?
When I bought my 1957 D-18 in 1975 or so, I thought it was just "used." Now I'm old, and the guitar's "vintage."
Timbofood
Mar-31-2015, 8:08am
Yeah Allen, we are never going to become vintage, just old! Dagnabbit!
David L
Mar-31-2015, 9:51am
When I got my 1950's WFL (Ludwig) drum set in 1965, it was "used". Then it was "old". Then it was "classic". Now it is "vintage".
jim simpson
Mar-31-2015, 10:13am
I wanted to switch to a D-18 a while back after having owned several D-28/HD-28"s. I like the spruce/mahogany combo. I like the fact that mine has an adj. truss rod and pickguard that is self stick, not glued. Newer examples can be found for the same money as many 60/70's models.