Guitar players looking for a quality all solid wood acoustic cheap

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I have read a few threads in here for people on the look out for a first guitar or wanting an upgrade to Martin or Taylor territory but out of most people's budget being over £1000.

Anyway I was after a guitar for the office and came across these.

All solid wood both top sides and back

Faith Guitars

http://www.faithguitars.com/faith-guitar-display.asp?id=80&cat=Naked Series

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Top Wood Solid Engelmann Spruce (2 Stage Satin)
Back Wood Solid Indonesian Mahogany (2 Stage Satin)
Side Wood Solid Indonesian Mahogany (2 Stage Satin)
Binding N/A
Bracing Material Quarter-Sawn Spruce
Bracing Pattern Patrick James Eggle X-Brace Design
Rosette 2mm Abalone
Neck Mahogany
Neck Finish Satin
Neck Joint Patrick James Eggle Bolt-On Design
Fingerboard Indonesian Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius 16
Fingerboard Inlays Mother of Pearl 'F' at 12th Fret
Machine Head Faith Precision Chrome
Trussrod 2 Way
Nut/Saddle NuBone
Nut Width Nut 43mm / String Spacing 55mm
Bridge Indonesian Rosewood
Bridge Pins Ebony with Abalone Dots Finish
Finish Type 2 Stage Satin all over
Pickup/Preamp Shadow PerformerTuner Preamp / Shadow Nanoflex Pickup 1,3


This guitar linked comes in at £385 and offers top class tone apparantly. I am checking one out on Friday at my local guitar shop...will feedback my thoughts.

Anyone got one here?
 
jumpy said:
That looks like a nice guitar. Wonder how it plays?

I do believe some of the Seagulls come in around £3-500. Last time I checked my S6 Folk would have been ~ 400 to replace with the current version. No cutaway or pickups though. (scratch that, I've just looked at sheehans website and they're now 500 quid)
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That S6 folk has laminated sides and back. Thats why I linked the guitar in OP its all solid woods :)

In terms of Playabilty I'll find out tomorrow.
 
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gregorius said:
Indeed; but it's one of their top-of-the-range guitars (and much better to my fingers and ears than more expensive Taylors & Martins). What I meant to suggest to the OP was to look at their range of guitars; even their inexpensive ones are very good.
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I am the OP

The point of this thread is the price for an all solid wood acoustic

Freshman don't offer any solid woods at this price point. £385
 
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jumpy said:
Yup, there's no beating a guitar that feels and sounds right to your ear, regardless of the pricetag.
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Solid woods will offer a more complex tone. Hence why they are used in the upper end models.

This is why I posted the Faith guitar in the OP. Its unusual for a guitar to be all solid woods costing £385
 
gort said:
I spooged around £900 on a 2nd hand Taylor 414CE a few years ago; that was an upgrade from a Yamaha APX4A.
Didn't mind spending it as you get what you pay for with guitars generally and if I ever wished to sell it on, I won't lose much as 2nd hand guitar values are generally pretty static on a lot of models.
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Mostly on the Martins and Taylors or the other American made guitars.

I have a Martin OM-18V and a Martin D15-M both will only increase in value.

I wouldn't spooge 1k on a built in China Freshman though.

These will not hold value.

As for the Faith... the all solid woods rival tone of the taylor and Martins costing 3 times as much apparently that was my point.
 
gregorius said:
Do you specifically want the built in pick-up? If you do, then the Freshman guitars are up a notch in price from that. But the FA250's are in your range without built-in electrics.

Your point about solid wood is well made; but, from my experience of trying lots of guitars before I bought what I have now, having a top-class solid-wood soundboard is the key feature. I'd be loath to compromise that for having solid wood all around when there are some very good laminate-sides + solid tops out there! But, as already remarked in the thread, go and play the Faith - and if it's love, buy it! Good luck!
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Not really...I'm going to ask the dealer if they do a model without.I also have a Martin LX1 which has a solid top and HPL back and sides and it's a nice sounding guitar. So I do get that all solid woods is not the be all and end all. But these faith seem to tick all the boxes...Quarter sawn solid spruce tops and solid mahogany back and sides. I also like the lack of any frills and lacquer ...I have a feeling these are gonna be little gems of guitars for little cost.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Now that's the kind of price I wouldn't mind paying to learn and not feel guilty if it just sits in the corner...as opposed to a Taylor.
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Your Taylor obsessed.:o


The sigma line are Martin copies and feature laminate sides in the price bracket I mention


Have you actually bought a guitar yet ?:o
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Not bought one, but borrowed one from a friend...and i don't like it. Action is too high and the sound isn't as "sweet".
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I don't think you want to learn tbh

I didn't give a toss what the guitar sounded like when I first started playing some 20 odd years ago.

I lived and breathed playing anything.

Just get a guitar ffs:eek:
 
Dimple said:
Virtually every major guitar hero when asked what they learned on have always said it was some awful acoustic that their Mum or Dad got out of a Walmart/Kays catalogue.
My first guitar was a Hohner given to me by my Dad who couldn't play it anymore because he'd got a shiny new Strat.

Raymond reminds me of an ex workmate who decided to play guitar and (seriously) he went out and bought a brand new Gibson Les Paul Standard and a 100 watt Marshall stack :D
He lasted about 6 months.
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My first guitar was a Hohner Strat sunburst. I got a job washing dishes in the local pub to pay for it.It was my mates older brothers guitar I used to see in his room when I went around to play:p His brother had a 1980's sparkly red USA fender Strat with gold hardware that he wouldn't let me touch.He used to try to play it lol.

Anyway I saved up think it was 40 quid IIRC and left the job washing up and went around to my mates house and bought that hohner off his brother.

I played and played and played it and worked out all the beatles songs from an old chord book of my dads.Didn't have an amp or anything.Just played it unplugged. Anyway as time went on I got better...learned some blues and stuff and some licks. I went around to my mates house and his older brother was there. I asked if I could have a go of his 80's USA strat...he laughed a bit took the mick but finally said yes.

I picked it up and remember it weighed and absolute tonne! Didn't like it! But I played that thing and showed off and blew his older brother out the window with my mediocre playing. But I must have sounded good.I got a lot of respect that day from his brother...Years later I saw him in a pub and asked him about that strat...He said he gave up a few month later and sold it...He hadn't played since.

How I would love that (heavy as a table) red 80's strat now in my collection...The hohner has gone (replaced with an SG) when I discovered Zappa...

Anyway jumpy is 100% spot on.
 
Raymond Lin said:
That is EXACTLY what is going to happen, hence I borrowed a guitar instead of buying a Taylor ! :p
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But you borrowed a guitar with a high action you didn't like. Why not buy a cheap guitar you do like?

Its not rocket science.:mad:

I learnt on an electric and didn't get a "proper" acoustic until about a decade later.

Excuses excuses:o

Anyhow...Rumour has it Taylor are selling the company to someone else. :D
 
I learnt on an electric.When I got an acoustic I found it easier. Wider neck etc..

There is no science here. Its a do it approach.

10's on an acoustic would to me sound thin though.

One has to work an acoustic...No pain no gain.
 
Xordium said:
I saw Jeff Healey not long before he passed and he was still playing that SQuire Strat he so loved. Mattered not though the sound he got out of it.
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Electrics are a different beast. Pickups and amplification largely dictate the sound


Acoustics though are less forgiving.
 
Xordium said:
Maybe so but if you think you can make a Squire Strat sound that good then slap a youtube video on here and I'll eat me words, apologise and change my sig to profess your genius.

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How are judging the sound? Clean, dirty? what? There are loads of youtube videos comparing the squire with the standard
 
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