now, as for this takeharu...

it helps a lot to know that the adjustments are stock, and it's not that weird forold guitars.

but, i think the next step is to understand if the neck is straight and if there's any bows or warps. it seems straight, but let's be rigorous....

so, i got a mic stand for $15 today, which will help with recording guitars for period three.

when i got back, i put some oil in my bike chain - something long overdue - and went for a nice ride to let it sink in, rather than just track it around the basement. i decided to take a run around town, looking through pawn shops for old guitars.

i didn't find the gibson-style hh body i was hoping for, and think i've probably exhausted my options, but i'm going to repeat the exercise on friday morning to check some stores that happened to be closed on mondays, which seemed to be quite a few.

i did, however, get another hardcover case for $30. it came with a piece of shit mini classical that has a slightly wider neck than the hohner. i'll probably clean it up and put it up on kijiji for a few bucks. so, that's the new case for the electric/acoustic. and, i'll keep looking for similar style deals to fill out the cases.

i also got a stack of books, for $2-$3 each (the stephenson was a bit more), mostly for the alter-reality, and mostly books i used to own:

- 6/7 of the chronicles of narnia series (in a box set) (i read a few of these, not all of them, as a kid.)

- wuthering heights (i read this in late high school)

- three titles by f. scott fitzgerald (i read some but not all of these in late high school) 

- hardcopy covers of the tommyknockers & misery, as well as the first dark tower entry <---i was a huge stephen king fan as a kid and read all of these before 1993

- utopia by thomas more <---this is a text from i think the 8th grade that i remember well, although we did a man for all seasons, rather than utopia

- jonathan swift - gulliver's travels <--- middle school

- arthur c. clarke - 2010: odyseey two - this was read in elementary school

- two texts by neil stephenson - i read snow crash in early university, but have not read quicksilver

i will probably delve further into specific authors in the alter-reality than i did in real life.

- the following are not for the alter-reality

- a biography of glenn gould by mark kingwell

- a compendium of three plays by sophocles - antigone, king oedipus & oedipus at colonus

- timequake by vonnegut (i always grab everything by vonnegut when i see it, but have not read this one)

listen, i'm learning about this...i've never even heard of this...

no. no.

i actually think it's a copy of a martin d-35.

yeah. the pictures are much closer...

i'm an electric guitarist, i've never been picky about acoustics. i don't know the different types or models well. 

the d-35 is a spitting image, so that must be what it was.

https://myguitarfix.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/1970-takeharu-lawsuit-copy-of-a-martin-d-35/

so, yeah.

this is a gibson hummingbird clone...

if you look at the new models, they still have plastic pegs where the action adjustment used to be, years ago.

my sister stole some old vintage guitars from me years ago...nothing like this one....

the takeharu guitars also appear to have been gibson clones. 

solid top gibson acoustic guitars from this period nowadays run around $10,000. so, you'll excuse me for having never seen one.

but, the acoustic gibsons from that era have the same action adjustments as this takeharu does, and t hat seems to be the idea.

ok.

well, i'm glad i figure it out first, but my intuition seems to have been correct.

the serial number on this guitar is 01032.

i thought it was 1973, due to the model name, but i may have jumped to conclusions - the numbers appar to be chronological across the entire brand, so this is the 1032nd takeharu guitar ever made, and it may be closer to 1971 or 1970, given that they seem to have made around 1000 per year.

there only appear to have been 9000 or so of these guitars ever made - total, all models.

this guy's takeharu has the adjustments, too.

ok.

they're stock, and must be for tension.

great.

most of the pictures don't have the screws.

but, it seems like enough do to think they're probably stock.

wow.

this is a '74 model where they seem to have unscrewed them, answering my question.