Nice to bring in a Hilux 🤠👍

Very understandable comment👍

Toyota is expensive, this is cheap lol.

these days sadly they are, wasnt always like that@@Praw-Too-Ehleem

You'll get there with your determination and eagerness don't ever give up keep it in your sights and manifest it ❤️💕❤️

Right? Had just ordered a bunch of musical equipment, that I needed tho, and it came out to around 220$ Got bored and surfed through a Sweetwater mag and decided to listen to the Penguin Parlor and this bad boy…. After listening to the first 10 seconds I loved the sound. And for 189$? Wtf? Too raw. Def gonna get me one of these bad boys to busk with. Eventually will give it to my nephew.

Whats vfm mean?

@@stevelewis8919 value for money, i guess

Do wish they have added a neck strap bottom and a volume control for electric version

Thank you for sharing. I was really struggling with small body guitar and no guitar seems to be the right one except Baby Taylor, but it’s too expensive. I was hesitating on Jim Dandy because if it having less frets and no neck strap button, but I guess it doesn’t matter too much in exchange of playability

I'm more of a Strummer, I write folk, rock and pop songs. Would you recommend this guitar even though I don't do much picking or blues??

@@martyrea79 yes I would

@@slimturnpike cheers man, gonna order one today 👌

@@martyrea79 I’m a chord progression guy myself. (have listened to an excessive amount of Elliott Smith and now it’s ingrained) I write an indie-like style of country, alt-country I guess, and I’m ordering one as well. I needed a cheap guitar for busking and this thing sounds bad to the buttocks and right up my ally. Can’t wait to play in drop-d.

@@louieo.blevinsmusic4197 I love seeing Elliott get mentioned in guitar spaces, one-man beatle through and through!

Never heard of it. Bout to look it up. Need a guitar for busking and the price/sound on this bad boy is just too good.

Yo Joe! Guitar players name is Adam Armijo, part of the music scene in the Phoenix area… he’s the real deal, solid!

They come with D’Addario EJ16 12’s. What do you have on yours?

Hi @@Doowopsid i have the same Daddario strings fitted but can get mine to sound any where near as good yours,, i must be doing something wrong

The mic is just recording the sound of the guitar.

Did you have to bore out the peg holes? Or was it an easy swap? Sounds like a good idea.

@@psych336 The machineheads went in and matched up well however two screw holes where not aligned but they are under the bar and you cant see them. I have a notion to maybe change the bridge and nut for bone next.The machineheads have definitely made a difference in keeping the guitar in tune. If you cant get Wilkinsons try a set of mini Grovers there superb.

Tennessee Whiskey...

The whole point of these guitars is they are copies of 1930/1940's parlour guitars that were made with bog standard wood. That's what gives it the vintage sound. Put a solid top on it and it will be in no-man's land.

They are both described as “basswood or sapele”. The only difference is the color/finish. Same exact model just different colors.

@@psych336 this is where knowing what both looks like comes in handy. If you stripped the paint off most jim dandys youd find a wood with lots of dark fingering in the shape of random rings. Thats basswood. Its a cheaper wood and doesnt always look great. Its been used to make cheap guitars forever. Any old sears guitar will probably be made of it too. It usually gets covered in paint because it looks like cheap wood. Now sapele is a mahogany substitute. Its actually not the same family as mahogany but it has similar physical properties. Namely its density, color, and porousness. Mahogany used to be a cheap wood before it became scarse, so cheaper parlor guitars were built of it. The natural finish jim dandy is an ode to those, not to the sears guitars like the other finishes. You can see the wood grain very clearly on it. Its like a cheap, uneven mahogany. Full of tiny little pores. I think they hit the nail on the head with the improved sears guitar jim dandys because they took something already cool and corrected a bunch of issues. For example adding a truss rod. but i think they dropped the ball by trying to immitate something that is frankly outside of the jim dandy budget. Like if you want a martin 0-15 you could buy a baby taylor for like $500 and still be sorta disappointed. Gretsch isnt even getting close. That guitar sounded awful recorded.

@@za4310 The guitar sounds great! It's not trying to sound like a Taylor or Martin. For less than $200 it's a steal. I leave my Martin and Taylor alone most days and spend hours of fun on my JD.

@@NoLefTurnUnStoned. I know, but I think trying to make it fancier is trying to be like those brands rather than what they're good at. I own some and play them when I can. I just don't like the sapele ones I've played nor the recordings I've heard. On the other hand the basswood is so good the price is really arbitrary, we're just sorta lucky they're inexpensive.

It IS cheap!