So, if you have scanned through this site before, you've seen this Suzuki No. 700 in different states of abused torture.
I've been really clear, the guitars I post on this site are more or less junk guitars that have little or no re-sale value (with the odd exception). Still, it hasn't prevented people from printing comments and asking me what their guitars are worth.
In the case of Canoras and plywood Suzuki's, 50 bucks top is my answer. The only value a cheap guitar has is when it's being played. I can't stress this enough. My tortured Suzuki is unsaleable. It has holes, bamboo skewers as dowels, a chunk of plywood to fill a gouge in the bottom bout -- but it's my guitar and I play it. It's a shitty guitar that goes with my shitty voice and shitting technique. We were built for each other.
I could buy better guitars but this one is mine.
Now that I have that off my chest, above is the latest pic of the poor gut box. Notice anything different? I glued the bridge back on. I never got a chance to order that fancy guitar glue from Stew Mac. I used Lepage's Carpenter Glue. I do not recommend you do the same.
The two holes on the bridge are where I ran bolts through so I could have a press plate underneath the sound board. I actually cut channels to avoid crushing the struts and braces but that's all I did in the area of fine lutherie work. The bridge is on. The sustain is ok.
The guitar has always been more of a box than a bell. Chiming is not in the cards for this old thing and recently, I've been disenchanted with its sound so I've been playing my Di Giorgio No. 28 Classico.
It is solid wood and hand built. The neck is huge. I've never been able to really get around it. But I finally did what I've done to all my other guitar...remove the E and the A string. Now it feels like a new instrument. The Brazilian Wonder is actually a fine guitar and it features woods that are probably illegal now. So, I'm glad to have it. Here's the thing, I've always worried its bridge would pull off. That why until now, I've left it stringless until I figured to go with four, which lowers the tension.
On top of that I've slacked the tuning by a whole two steps so D is now a C. It sounds pretty good and fits my range better without resorting to a capo - I know I could play different chords - that's how terrible I am. Any how, I'm playing the Di Giorgio now, fat neck and all...with four strings. Where there's a will, there's a lazy way.
