2006 Washburn 9/11 Memorial Red/White/Blue

This Washburn “United We Stand” D2001 acoustic is in very good condition considering it’s thirteen years old, made for the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. If you’ve ever wanted to experiment with adding a thematically appropriate dreadnought to your arsenal for your set featuring “Proud to be an American” and “Born in the USA,” here may be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. This guitar looks great for any price, but it’s a particularly good deal here, even at my buy-it-now price.

While the wood grains are not visible beneath the Metallic Blue high gloss finish, Washburn says that it has a solid spruce top; full body and neck binding (including gold-colored purfling on the top); and mahogany laminated back and sides. The bound rosewood fret board with star position markers leads up to the solid mahogany headstock with its three-per-side gold enclosed tuners. The bridge is also rosewood, with ivoroid black-dot pegs, and the bright blue finish of the top contrasts beautifully with the decorative red, white, and blue rosette and the intricate eagle figure in the sound hole. This one (serial number SC02022221) is one of this limited edition, apparently including 200 red, 200 blue, and 100 white guitars, and discontinued after the single run in 2005.

While this is not a premium guitar, the combination of spruce resonance and mahogany power gives you a fun jammer bound up in a single dreadnought style body. The action is set up at a comfortable 3/32” at the 12th fret low E, and it’s in very good condition: the finish, the action, and the mechanics are near perfect; a few small dings, but no scratches, neck joint issues, or cracks of any kind. The only flaw is a missing ½” fragment of the eagle figure in the sound hole—and I’ll bet if I hadn’t told you nobody would ever see it. Check out the pictures: this is one sharp-looking guitar!

While I have no real case for this guitar, it will be shipped in an inexpensive vinyl gig bag. I assure you that it will be carefully packed to ensure its safe arrival.

Buyer pays a flat rate of $45 for insurance and shipping to the lower 48 states; shipping costs elsewhere will be negotiated as necessary. Payment by Paypal is preferred; cashier’s checks are acceptable, but checks must clear before the guitar will be shipped.

I have tried to describe and illustrate this guitar with scrupulous accuracy. Please check out the pictures and ask any questions you might have before offering to buy it. Its return will not be accepted unless it can be shown that it was egregiously misrepresented in this listing.

Thank you for your interest in this cool reminder of our loss.

I am taking the liberty of including below a poem which I saw in the Archives of one of the crash sites which I read every September 11th. Just because….

IN MEMORIAM: THE GIFT

In the instant of awakening, the flicker at the gate,
when the servants of his holiness consume themselves in hate,
when the searing flash of judgment shows us all we’ll know of hell
and the eloquence of chaos thunders what it has to tell—
yet a still small voice within us whispers, whispers, “All is well.”

The street’s adrift in ashes masquerading as a death,
for the living freed as vapor are as real as God’s own breath,
and we rescuers keep digging, knowing we’ve ourselves to find,
excavating endless treasures in our country’s heart and mind,
elevating saints and martyrs and revealing God is kind.

In the loving eyes of strangers, in the gathering of tears,
in the vast mosaic of prayer now transcending all our fears
is the gift, the revelation shining clearer with each sigh:
those who give themselves for others will truly never die,
those who give themselves for others will truly never die.

                                    AHL

                                                                           9/12/01