Post by Steverb on Jun 11, 2010 10:07:30 GMT
A couple of days ago I took delivery of a new Busker Delta. It's a cosmetic second (for which read, 'more aged than usual') so I got it for a very good price.
Before sending it Robin told me that he had been playing it in his garden in Open G and commented on what a great tone it has. Well, he wasn't kidding - it's scarily good! It's so good it almost makes me sound like a half decent slide player. It's got that raw delta sound to the core, but with an incredible natural reverb, particularly on the high D string and loads of overtones, which I wasn't really expecting with a single cone and steel body. And all this before it is properly played in!
What's also great is that it is such a good contrast to my John Alderson Delta tricone, which has a much sweeter tone and sounds fantastic in Open D and DADGAD. I can now take a reso down my local pub jam session without worrying about it getting ding-ed, since anything that hits it is likely to come off worse and, in any case, more scars just add to the aged look.
I seriously cannot believe how well made and what fantastic value the Busker and MM guitars are. The set up is, of course, spot on. And of course the personal service you get is superb (eg Robin dispatched it without waiting for my cheque to clear).
My biggest problem now is working out when/how to tell my dearly beloved wife that I've bought another guitar!
Before sending it Robin told me that he had been playing it in his garden in Open G and commented on what a great tone it has. Well, he wasn't kidding - it's scarily good! It's so good it almost makes me sound like a half decent slide player. It's got that raw delta sound to the core, but with an incredible natural reverb, particularly on the high D string and loads of overtones, which I wasn't really expecting with a single cone and steel body. And all this before it is properly played in!
What's also great is that it is such a good contrast to my John Alderson Delta tricone, which has a much sweeter tone and sounds fantastic in Open D and DADGAD. I can now take a reso down my local pub jam session without worrying about it getting ding-ed, since anything that hits it is likely to come off worse and, in any case, more scars just add to the aged look.
I seriously cannot believe how well made and what fantastic value the Busker and MM guitars are. The set up is, of course, spot on. And of course the personal service you get is superb (eg Robin dispatched it without waiting for my cheque to clear).
My biggest problem now is working out when/how to tell my dearly beloved wife that I've bought another guitar!
