2010 Recording King ROS-06 12-Fret 000-Size Guitar

This is a local's guitar that has been awaiting repair for ages. I'm a fan of the sound of most Recording King-branded guitars of the last 20 or so years, but I'm always bewildered by how the manufacturer constantly misses "last mile" opportunities to make their instruments players as well.

In the case of this ROS-06 model (and like the half dozen others I've seen in-shop), the sound is excellent, but the build is wonky. The bridge was placed almost 1/8" off from where intonation should have been and it was glued poorly (with a wide band of non-glued surface around the edges of the bridge foot -- typical for a lot of import guitars) to boot.

My usual fix for this is just what I had Jacobi and Jose do to it -- fit a new, belly-style bridge that covers the old bridge placement and allows for moving the bridge enough to get a properly-intonated saddle in place. I think that, after that, it just needed the usual level/dress of the frets, new saddle, and setup work you expect to do on most getting-a-little-older guitars. Oh, and -- the Waverly-looking tuners it was equipped with from the factory looked nice but were garbage. After scrounging a few replacements for a pair of broken ones, the rest of the original set started shearing-off and falling-apart at tune-up, so we scrounged some '70s Guild tuners for it that are, surprisingly, about 100x better than said originals. Oh my, what a world!

Anyhow, it's now got the sound and the playability to match. Good work, team!

Per the usual, this has a solid spruce top over mahogany back and sides, a mahogany neck, and a rosewood board. It had an ebony bridge to begin-with so we swapped to an ebony replacement when fitting the new one.