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hey, thanks for the personal review, Mech. That's a good note on the action, I do prefer the classical height but it's pretty crucial that it feels right, I'll schedule a setup right away (after explaining what the hell it is). Glad to hear you're pretty happy with the sound. What I'd really like someday is a solidbody headless nylon-string with a whammy bar and a bunch of body contact piezo's, but I have to wait until I can afford to have a custom one made. Somebody I also need a personal review of that two-month Japanese walking pilgrimage... cheers- Daryl Shawn www.swanwelder.com www.chinapaintingmusic.com > At 10:28 AM -0500 4/7/08, Daryl Shawn wrote: >> Well, this is timely, I just ordered a Traveler Escape nylon-string. > > Daryl, > > I've got one of the Traveler Escape nylon-strings (one of the Mark > I's, now discontinued). I've had it since ~2005, although I've got > amazingly few hours on it. I originally bought it as the one personal > item that I was to bring on a 60-day walking pilgrimage in rural > Japan. However, in the end, not even that much made the final weight > cut, so it's spent much of its life in the closet. > > Sound wise, I've had no real complaints whatsoever. It sounds good. > Maybe a tiny bit of piezo quack and certainly not as good as a > top-class classical guitar, but good enough for any applications I had > that might call for a nylon-string. The thing that always detracted > from it for me though, was the action. From the factory, it came with > an extremely high action -- even for a classical guitar -- which made > it difficult for me to really enjoy playing it. I kept meaning to > spend a few days working on it and correcting that, but it's been such > a side-instrument that those concerns have always fallen into the > "I'll get around to it" category. > > At one point, I even played around with the possibility of mounting a > GK to it (yes, you can track nylon strings, if they're a brand > fabricated with a bronze core), but again: "I'll get around to it". ;) > > I think you should spend a good deal of time right at the very > beginning adjusting the truss and action, as well as possibly having a > good luthier do a setup on it (assuming he's not a jerk and laughs at > you for bringing him a little backpacker guitar). If you can get it > so it plays comfortably for you, then I think you'll have a fine > little guitar on your hands. > > --m.