{"id":645,"date":"2022-07-30T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/?p=645"},"modified":"2023-02-10T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:39:07","slug":"ngd-just-got-another-aspen-ad-18-made-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/2022\/07\/30\/ngd-just-got-another-aspen-ad-18-made-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"NGD: Just got another Aspen AD-18 Made in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passed by local yard sale… thought I should stop ‘just in case they have any guitars…’ and they did. Junky toy one and then my favorite vintage brand: Aspen.
\nAspen made in Japan AD-18 acoustic. With case and strap. Tagged ‘$20’ and when I asked excitedly ‘is this $20 dollars?” the woman said, “No, it’s $10 half price end of sale”<\/p>\n

Uh… I don’t need to post my thoughts on that aside when instantly saying ‘sold!’.<\/p>\n

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Woman got the guitar about 1981 when she was 11 years old and had it this whole time, and never learned guitar. I guess it was barely \/ never played.<\/p>\n

After agreeing swiftly to buy it I noticed the soundboard bellying badly and the bridge ripping itself out… although still playable and low-ish action if you can believe it.
\nAncients – like decades ancient strings. Chipboard case. <\/p>\n

Anyway – I’m thrilled! A great knock around guitar I don’t have to feel guilty bringing on the road or outside with me. I will try my hand at repairing the bridge area too.
\nCase alone is worth $10 to me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passed by local yard sale… thought I should stop ‘just in case they have any guitars…’ and they did. Junky toy one and then my favorite vintage brand: Aspen. Aspen made in Japan AD-18 acoustic. With case and strap. Tagged ‘$20’ and when I asked excitedly ‘is this $20 dollars?” the woman said, “No, it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,2],"tags":[152,84,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}