When I saw a 2007 Maestro CD-1 put up for sale, I had plenty of reasons to buy it.
- I am fan of Maestro guitars;
- I am curious of how an early Maestro custom sounded and played like;
- like me, the guitar was made in Singapore;
- I have never owned an AAA top (battery, yes but guitar top, no);
Tadah! Solid AAA Sitka Spruce top with solid Rosewood back and laminated Rosewood sides.
Not sure if it's due to age but I couldn't see the triple-A-ness of the top.
I simply love maple side bindings on guitars.
With a wider nut width @ 44mm and low action, the playability was ideal for fingerstyle playing.
Parabolic tapered X-braces and tone bars. Seriously, regular braces versus parabolic scalloped/ tapered braces, a whole lot of difference.
Grover Tuners.
B-band A3T pickup.
My first impressions of CD-1: exceedingly responsive; tone is measured and mellow, almost like a good cedar top.
There’s something inexplicable that made me take an instant liking to this guitar. Sounds absurd but it could be that the guitar has a similar character to myself.
So it quickly became my no. 2. The one that I use when I'm too lazy to take Raffles IR out from the case but want a nicer tone than Protégé SM-3.
But after cutting a sound port on SM-3 and stringing up with Elixirs PB, the tone became unbelievably beautiful.
So CD-1 stayed longer and longer inside its bag.
It no longer sparked that much joy so it was eventually kondo-ed for a paltry $260.
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