Jose Feliciano acoustic/electric by Strings and Things?

[DrNewcenstein]

So I kinda "inherited" from my Uncle this oddball e-coustic with Jose Feliciano's name on the head and the sticker inside of it. Apparently it's from 2009, but I can find zero information on it that 5 minutes with it hasn't already revealed.

I'm mainly curious if anyone has ever tried one? I can honestly say, it's worth about a 3rd of whatever he paid for it, if that. It's pretty, with its faux abalone/sparkly MOP body and board trim, and it doesn't sound bad either acoustically or electrically (might gut it for the guts), but whoever made it has absolutely no comprehension of fret spacing. Unless you're playing a D-Major, it's out of tune. Horribly. I've got it in an open tuning right now, and it sounds nice like that, but fretting anything is out of the question. You can either tune the strings with harmonics or by the 5th fret, but not both, and with either one, it sounds like you slammed it against a wall.

 

[Red_Label]

Re: Jose Feliciano acoustic/electric by Strings and Things?

Wow... sounds like an Esteban or Keith Urban guitar. Only their guitars aren't too awful bad.

I'm a long time fan of Jose, and a long time nylon string player. But it sounds like he should have skipped allowing his name to be associated with that guitar.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Jose Feliciano acoustic/electric by Strings and Things?

Of the pics I've seen of this model, they all have nylon strings. This has steel strings, and the neck is definitely a more "country" style neck (not wide and flat like Willie Nelson's nylon acoustic, for example).


Would the string type explain why it's not tuning correctly? It seems odd to me that it would, but given the thickness of nylons over steel, it might be enough to make a difference.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Jose Feliciano acoustic/electric by Strings and Things?

Steel vs nylon will definitely make a difference.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Jose Feliciano acoustic/electric by Strings and Things?

Thanks Doc. I'll see if I can dig up a set of nylons for it.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Jose Feliciano acoustic/electric by Strings and Things?

Found a set of nylon strings, and sure enough, that fixed it. Tunes like it's supposed to, chords are in tune all over the neck.

Still don't know why they gave it a steel-string neck. Nylons are not as easy to play on it because it's so narrow. I suppose Jose has little girly fingers? Anyway, RIP Uncle R.T., I bet he fought with this guitar every day he had it.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: Jose Feliciano acoustic/electric by Strings and Things?

Glad it's worked out!

Is it any "better",now that it's done up proper?

Pic(s)?

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Jose Feliciano acoustic/electric by Strings and Things?

But nylons are sure a lot easier on the fingers.