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Got this used a few days ago. It's been played hard and put up wet but there's something living in it and the guitar wants to go. Whoever owned it before changed out the robo tuners, installed a plastic nut and had enough sense to sell the case because that would probably fetch more than the guitar is worth. Came with 10s which pushed out of tune easy on the open D chord etc. The intonation is probably about as good as it's gonna get. Nut slots need to be sorted out particularly the G which is sitting kinda high. Put 12s on which is all I had and that fixed the D chord then cranked the truss rod a bit. I can bend what I need to with 12s but might try 11s as a compromise then finalize the setup for one or the other. Didn't even notice the wide neck first time I played it but then 3 of my acoustic guitars have 1&3/4 nut width and I also play mandolin so you just get used to all that. It kicks out pretty good through the Champ with just one goose pedal. As for the Lester hologram, it made me laugh in an ironic sort of way because one of these days there won't even be a hologram left of me so that kinda puts things in perspective ... too much fucking perspective if I might quote David St. Hubbins ...lol
