jamminjim
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Guys, here's my latest acquisition. It's relevant to menvafaans post too, as it's an all white Silo. It's a 1998 with the recessed neckplate. Neck is still uncleaned and has a good bit of flame. When I get it cleaned I'll take more in depth pics. Take note of the pickguard, is it an original? Looks like it could accomodate metal covers on the hummers. It also has the earlier PAFs with non-adjustable pole pieces. It came with the stock G&G case.
This next info is mainly for guys that are tempted to buy a guitar used from CL (Craigslist). (PS, Ive bought more than few this way with very postive results)
It's got some dings. The guy I bought it from in N CA is somewhat clueless about guitars and shipping them. This one was listed in Chico CL. Slingy was watching it and even posted it here. I received no pictures of it prior to buying it, even though I requested them and was told I would receive them. I was told the only ding on it was a 1/2 of a pencil eraser width ding on the lower edge of the lower horn. I was told the neck had lots of birdseye. I was told there was very little fret wear.
Here's what I found upon receiving it and inspection. It has a flame maple neck with great flame in it. It has a good size paint chip on the upper side of the neck pocket. It has the usual cracks in the paint on either side of the neck pocket. It has several unannounced dings to the body, none being too visible or large. The back of the body looks almost perfect. It has really heavy pick scratching from cowboy strumming to the body above the pickguard, a silver dollar sized area, upwards of the middle of the pickguard, and some aft of the lower pickguard south of the knobs. It saw usage of a strummer from hell obviously. It has cowboy chord fret wear, but not too bad at all, still very very playable and years of serviceability left. It had NO strap knobs, and this wasn't explained to me upfront either. I put the Dunlop locking knobs on it in the pic. It was filthy, with greasy finger marks all over and years worth of dust and grime on the hard to clean parts like the bridge and the splines of the knobs. When I opened up the case for the first time there were two trem springs, an allen wrench and the trem handle laying next to the body, and I explicitly told the idiot to WRAP UP ALL LOOSE PARTS even if they were to be in the storage pocket. There are two nice dings on the face of the headstock, one pretty significant and neither of these were disclosed by the seller. The bridge saddles were all way too far forward and the intonation was accordingly way off. The high e saddle was almost touching the lower trem bolt and was measured at appx. 25 inches from the nut. That's about it for now. Haven't had the guard up yet so I don't know what I'll discover under it. The pickguard screws were all black. I don't know if that's the way it left the factory or not, but I replaced them with stainless screws as seen in the pic. The Silo isn't too bad really. It's a pretty nice player. Here's a pic, with more coming after cleanup, restringing and setup.
This next info is mainly for guys that are tempted to buy a guitar used from CL (Craigslist). (PS, Ive bought more than few this way with very postive results)
It's got some dings. The guy I bought it from in N CA is somewhat clueless about guitars and shipping them. This one was listed in Chico CL. Slingy was watching it and even posted it here. I received no pictures of it prior to buying it, even though I requested them and was told I would receive them. I was told the only ding on it was a 1/2 of a pencil eraser width ding on the lower edge of the lower horn. I was told the neck had lots of birdseye. I was told there was very little fret wear.
Here's what I found upon receiving it and inspection. It has a flame maple neck with great flame in it. It has a good size paint chip on the upper side of the neck pocket. It has the usual cracks in the paint on either side of the neck pocket. It has several unannounced dings to the body, none being too visible or large. The back of the body looks almost perfect. It has really heavy pick scratching from cowboy strumming to the body above the pickguard, a silver dollar sized area, upwards of the middle of the pickguard, and some aft of the lower pickguard south of the knobs. It saw usage of a strummer from hell obviously. It has cowboy chord fret wear, but not too bad at all, still very very playable and years of serviceability left. It had NO strap knobs, and this wasn't explained to me upfront either. I put the Dunlop locking knobs on it in the pic. It was filthy, with greasy finger marks all over and years worth of dust and grime on the hard to clean parts like the bridge and the splines of the knobs. When I opened up the case for the first time there were two trem springs, an allen wrench and the trem handle laying next to the body, and I explicitly told the idiot to WRAP UP ALL LOOSE PARTS even if they were to be in the storage pocket. There are two nice dings on the face of the headstock, one pretty significant and neither of these were disclosed by the seller. The bridge saddles were all way too far forward and the intonation was accordingly way off. The high e saddle was almost touching the lower trem bolt and was measured at appx. 25 inches from the nut. That's about it for now. Haven't had the guard up yet so I don't know what I'll discover under it. The pickguard screws were all black. I don't know if that's the way it left the factory or not, but I replaced them with stainless screws as seen in the pic. The Silo isn't too bad really. It's a pretty nice player. Here's a pic, with more coming after cleanup, restringing and setup.
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i think as long as it plays well...it's all good. 
