May or may not be the last post on the Astro..

Brought the guitar with me to my girl friend's for the weekend. Lots of compliments from her and her dad on it, which was very nice. I got to play it quite a bit and begin the process of familiarization. It's a great guitar to sit and play and also stand, as it balances perfectly. My heaviest guitar to be sure, but still not too bad since it's under 9 pounds. It plays very well, but will need some tweaking. The E string seems a touch muddy, so I want to mess with pick up pole piece heghts on it. The G string is a bit loud, so those pole pieces need to be lowered.

The string spacing is comfortable, as is the neck profile. You can tell this was/is a professional grade Gretsch. I'm quite happy at this point and look forward to playing it a lot more in the coming weeks. Not sure when the next band practice is, but that will be it's first test of fire. Only real problem so far, is it does not stay in tune when the trem is used. Not 100% sure of the cause(s), but suspect a lot of it is the nut. I'm not 100% satisfied with how the first one came out, so I might just start a second one this week. I think I can improve upon it. When I initially mocked the guitar up the first time, it seemed to hold tune fairly well, much better than now. Obviously, I will be tweaking and trying things to get it back to that point. I will say the light fret level I did made all the difference in playability. It plays very well now.

Got a chance to shoot some photos saturday. Here's the gallery:

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