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Post by LeoThunder on Jun 10, 2019 15:05:52 GMT
Solid body acoustic guitars? I wonder what that means. Well, from the picture it seems they are full with just a narrow space beneath the top. They must be extremely heavy, unless there is a hollow space further down below the sound hole.
Yes, 200€ for a simplistic, one pick-up slab guitar that looks like something Gibson sells is a bad joke. I'd rather get a TE-52 for 138€ or DC-600 for 158€.
If I were to walk into that place, I think the first thing I'd want to pick up and try would be the Enhanced Jazz Bass. Then I'd try to lift one of these solid body things…
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Post by LeoThunder on Jun 10, 2019 15:09:33 GMT
Thanks for the show info ult . By 'solid bodies' they mean solid wood rather than laminate, not 'solid bodies'. Yeah, of course I meant solid back and sides. I thought something like that first but look at the picture on the web site. It seems there is no depth in the hole:
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Post by DefJef on Jun 10, 2019 15:13:01 GMT
Thanks for the show info ult . By 'solid bodies' they mean solid wood rather than laminate, not 'solid bodies'. Yeah, of course I meant solid back and sides. It's not your terminology that I was questioning ult, by the way. It's the term that Thomann themselves use. When that term is used I always expect to find something like the Godin MultiAc (which in itself is actually chambered). All very confusing.
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Post by ult on Jun 10, 2019 15:16:08 GMT
Shouldn't that lighter-colored stripe of wood be centered?
Here is glimpse of it on video. The guitar is pretty thick. Not like Fender's Acoustasonic.
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Post by ult on Jun 10, 2019 15:20:59 GMT
Yeah, of course I meant solid back and sides. It's not your terminology that I was questioning ult , by the way. It's the term that Thomann themselves use. When that term is used I always expect to find something like the Godin MultiAc (which in itself is actually chambered). All very confusing. Yes, that description is confusing. "Completely Solid Steel-String Guitar with Pickup". You can say the same about an electric guitar.
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Post by LeoThunder on Jun 10, 2019 15:45:39 GMT
Perhaps they muddled it up with the LP Jr, ult . Sounds exactly like one of those. The Thomann web site names them "solid wood". I didn't know others were made of liquid wood, but well… I thought acoustic guitars were of "solid wood". What is it then? I know it's not cardboard.
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Post by DefJef on Jun 10, 2019 16:39:37 GMT
Solid single pieces, not sandwiches of thinner solid pieces, is what they are getting at, LeoThunder . Mind, you, having said that, some very fine guitars are made of nice stable laminates, just as some bad ones are made of solid pieces. I played a solid spruce topped Sigma guitar the other day and, tonally it wasn't a patch on the laminate topped 30 years old Tanglewood I was comparing it with. Acoustophiles love a solid top, allegedly because it ages to a finer tone and is less stiff than a laminate top. Either that laminate topped Tanglewood had aged to a finer tone and lost it's stiffness as well or else it always sounded superb. I'm STILL toying with buying it. It's sound and playability have lodged in my brain.
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Post by ult on Jun 12, 2019 12:16:46 GMT
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Post by LeoThunder on Jun 12, 2019 14:36:40 GMT
Flippin' deckchairs with arms. Nightmare to play guitars on. Just think it could have been a Jazz Bass
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Post by jayjacque on Jun 13, 2019 11:52:16 GMT
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Post by jayjacque on Jun 13, 2019 11:55:25 GMT
I've literally bought and sold 80 guitars. Every frickin time I think I'm done, some hullabaloo like Ult posts some super snazzy guitar like this.
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Post by ult on Jun 13, 2019 17:50:45 GMT
I guess since we talked about other new models in this thread, I might as well post it here.
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