NUGD 2013 Santana Green

GrumpyOldDba

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This is a 2013 SE Santana in green flame advertised as excellent by GC. It arrived yesterday. Sorry no pics guys wish this site let you attach images directly.

It seems like it was not played like at all. No scratches dings nothing. It even still has original plastic on the control cavity cover.

The knobs were switched to ( i guess they are called bells like witch hat but wider in middle ). The tuners were swapped for grover 406c mini auto locking ones.

I had already ordered a set of PRS locking SE tuners ( prs sold out but sweetwater still has some ). I dunno yet the PRS ones may still go on or maybe onto my SE schizoid man guitar ( which i dont play trying to keep it close to factory condition ).

Getting used to the pickups. I really like the neck one clean sounds pretty good and on gain channel thru mt15 its nice. Dunno if they will stay yet ... trying to keep an open mind i tend to like gibson 57s or well now the prs 85/15s are also sweet. But digging them so far!

The grover 406c lockers well they work fine. Took me a long time to do a first string change dang they are kind of weird compared to usual grover lockers.

Its a gorgeous axe a weapon of destruction!
 
A Hondo II was a brand of cheap Japanese beginner electrics popular from the mid '70s into the '80s. I guess I'm showing my age.

Nah, you're not showing your age. Well, maybe you are. I am, too. Hondo II was my first guitar. Looked just like this......


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Update i am liking the bridge pickup a lot more after moving it farther away from strings. These pickups on the old 2013 era santana se are more sophisticated than i was anticipating.
 
Nice guitar! Congrats

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Ummm thanks yeah that is pretty much what my guitar looks like. It has a black switch cover plastic and black with silver reflector bells on it but aside from that pretty close to identical. ( Well ha ha maybe mine looks a bit better than that picture ).

The emerald green has ( I guess my eyes not so great ) dark green striping going to black ish on the edges. I have no idea how they would be able to get those colors like that but it is impressive as heck.
 
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