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Yet another 12 string PU

I have read great feedback on the K&K PU made for the 12 string guitar.  I have recently come across a similar product marketed by JJB Electronics for the 12 string guitar.  The Prestige 330....

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My Lakewood Custom 12 string

Solid AAA European Spruce top;Back and sides: solid Padauk;Fretboard: Ebony.Played it at a Lakewood promotional event, and had to have it. Absolutely stunning guitar, very sweet sounding and...

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NGD - Yamaha LL16R-12 - Best 12 for under 1K?

Hi All,I have just completed an 8 month search for a 12 string acoustic I could afford, play easily and would sound good. I went through a Washburn WD30S, Guild D125-12, Taylor 150e and finally ended...

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Martin 12 String

What is the best Martin 12 string you can currently get? No cutaway and electronics are not important.

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Revisiting a familiar but decades-languishing twelve

Has anyone else resurrected a long-fallow-but "familar old friend" after decades' disuse? This might well belong equally in GMT but feels "twelvish" enough to start here. . As a mainly elec plyr in...

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recording my D12-35

I am recording my D12-35 again this week, I am pleased to say. Wow, its amazing how well this guitar records...my usual experience with big rosewood guitars, and Martins is that they can get too boomy...

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New Hoffman 12-string SJ

I want to thank all those members with either a Hoffman or  Guild Orpheum 12- strings who helped me make a final decision.  I've just closed the deal on a new Hoffman 12-string SJ with Sitka /...

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B-string bends

Hi all, I am learning "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and as you know it has some simple b-string bends.  While these are hard on the fingers and difficult to pull of with the correct intonation,...

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Custom Grand J12-40E in Mahogany???

Hello 12 string brain trust: I don't come here too often but I've been playing my EIR/sitka Grand J12-40E tuned down one step and I'm finding that on songs with a lot of complex finger picking the mid...

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Question about D12-20s "over the years"

My only Martin nowadays is my lovely 1964 D12-20, although it has little original about it as it was rebuilt and customised with ebony bridge and bound ebony fretboard. In my Martin reference books...

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interesting tuning

12th   A11th   A10th  G#9th.   F#8th.   F#7th.   A6th.   E5th.   E4th.   G#3rd.   G#2nd.  C#1st.   C#very cool to tune some string doubles to intervals not octavesI will try to post a clip Tony

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I need a T-shirt

Posted in the lounge, but this is where it belongs. My new 1970 D12-20

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Hands Up All Martin Grand J12-40E Special Owners

You know the story, dropped from production after 3 years, only 231 made. The best Martin not to be a success? Too expensive? Too closely specified to a (cheaper) Guild F-512? I'm in Australia and the...

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My 'No Cost' Octave G Tuning Trick.

Some years back I was doing a string change on my Taylor 355. I loosened off the bass E and Octave E and .. bang .. the Octave G just snapped by itself. Got me thinking that thin Octave G string...

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My Regal 12 Back Home

After some five months I made the several hour trek into the Middle of Nowhere, MO to fetch my Regal 12.  This is the guitar that was found sticking out of a trash can and which I never got to play a...

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Small Body 12 String Guitars

Hi there. I am interested in learning if anyone has experience with a small body 12? By small body, I mean anything smaller than a D or J size. I have never seen one. The only small body I know that...

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Bozo

Just a note that Bozo Podunavac passed away on 6/2. Odd, almost gaudy 12 strings, but a great builder, thick top 12's and whopping good sound.

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Octave strings front set or rear set on the bridge, any preference?

I have four 12-string acoustic guitars. My Morris B-50, Guild F-412 and Martin Grand J12-40E Special all have the 'primary' strings mounted closest to the saddle and the octave strings at the rear. I...

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neat custom J 12 slot head

pretty neat small jumbo with a slot head on B&S...no afiliation...I just like ithttp://images.yuku.com/image/jpg/ce6269d679c63f40fcc2d7e0f47d356c61738686_r.jpg

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The new Martin D12-35

Got an email from Martin yesterday announcing the re-release of the D12-35.  Has anyone seen or played one yet? It has a solid headstock.   Any opinions...Chris

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