Recording King ROS-06

Ray

So I'm not going to do a review or anything but I just got one of these. I wanted a small body guitar with a wider at nut neck and I didnt want to spend any real money on this. I did once before and was quite disappointed but then again I knew nothing about guitars at that stage but then again what's changed? But the big thing is I'm schnoep so we leave it at that.
Anyway, all over the place I have been reading plenty good things about RK. OK, they're made somewhere in the far east I cant remember where and that really doesnt bother me. And I spoke to people about the guitars and in particular a guy who appears to speak with some authority based on reputation and so forth and has an acoustic guitar gear list suggesting that he has more money than can be good for any man. Well, I asked him about his ROS-06 (in his gear list) and he said dont wait. But I did but not too long.
Anyway, this guitar is about as cheap as you're gonna get for what it is I think. It has a solid top and lam mahogany BS. And bone saddle and nut. Those are by-the-by's and my selection criteria was based on: a)12 fret b)slot peghead c)wider neck at nut d)smaller body. And this is an OOO with 1 13/16 nut so it has all those.
But here's the thing. There is a distributor in SA for RK. And I mailed them with my query and the guy gets back to me telling me about dreadnoughts and other stuff which I really didnt ask about so I laughed them off. And I ordered the thing off Takealot (old Take2) and I wasnt happy to do it but it was just over 3 G's so what's the big deal. On the Takealot site they listed delivery as either 15 to 25 or 17 to 29 working days I cant remember but anyway, expected delivery in CT was for 18 November.
Late yesterday afternoon it got delivered. That was the problem because you know my wife she says there’s stuff that needs to be done around the pad. Like that little thatched afdakkie that looks more like the grass the Maori guys wore on their shoulders at the start of the rugby games in New Zealand and a whole lot of other things as well. I wasn’t there but it was handled well by my younger son.
So I went home and I must tell you that I am quite happy with this guitar. More than that though is that I’m happy with Takealot. I don’t think I’ll mail order an acoustic guitar again very soon but the time from placing the order to delivery (about two weeks) is pretty good. If you take a look at dealers in USA you will find this guitar. And you will think hey that’s a bit cheaper why not just order it from there? Well, I thought that until I asked how much the shipping would be. And when it gets here whatnot that you’ve got to pay. Off Takealot you see a listed price you pay it and they deliver it – that’s all. But you should do proce research because not everything is the best deal but lots is pretty good.
Another thing I bought the other day is a Zoom H2n recording device and I am helluva happy with that. So, I’ll slap something together and put it somewhere if anyone wants to hear what the guitar sounds like.
Sjoe! Talked so much now I’m quite out of breath.

Bob-Dubery

Ray wrote: More than that though is that I’m happy with Takealot. I don’t think I’ll mail order an acoustic guitar again very soon but the time from placing the order to delivery (about two weeks) is pretty good. If you take a look at dealers in USA you will find this guitar. And you will think hey that’s a bit cheaper why not just order it from there? Well, I thought that until I asked how much the shipping would be. And when it gets here whatnot that you’ve got to pay. Off Takealot you see a listed price you pay it and they deliver it – that’s all.

This aspect of on-line shopping is getting better. I know that I moaned several times at Amazon that they quote you a price that, they say, includes everything except import duties yet when you get the goods there's always a hana hana hana from the couriers about a disbursement fee and a cup-of-coffee fee and a this fee and a that fee and a standing-around-whilst-some-oke-at-the-airport-scratches-his-behind fee and all these extra fees none of which turns out to be actual import duties. I can't have been the only one.

So these days they have a better calculation that anticipates all these fees and the stuff just arrives without some courier calling you beforehand to say he wants this amount of money and no they don't take cards and no he doesn't carry any change with him.

Recently I got some stuff and the next day there was a nice email from Amazon to say that they had actually overestimated the extra costs and so they were going to refund 37p or something to my credit card.

RK's are quite nice guitars for the tom. I've seen some at TJ's. Apparently it used to Gibson or Gretsch's or somebody similar's mail order brand in the USA. These days some oke has the name and has the guitars made in the East somewhere. As with many such brands there is a range of prices and finishes. The ones I've seen are right at the top of the food chain, 000 models, and very nice.