Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

[Aceman]

This is the high-end tail category for acoustics. It is not restricted to those named. However…

NO SEAGULLS, OVATIONS, TAKAMINES, or even RAINSONG, etc….You need a pedigree to get in here. There will be a clear preference for classic, all wood, acoustic royalty.

* Falbo's and such Welcome
* Esteban/Urban's NOT


Closes Sunday July 17th

 

[Bludave]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor



I have a few more that I could have posted but I couldn't find the photos. The Martin D18 shade top is my newest acoustic. Great sounding and playing guitar, Obviously a D18 is Mahogany back & sides with spruce top. The Martin J40 I have owned for about 20 years. Lately I have been playing it a lot. Its an unusual guitar as it has the body shape of an OM or triple "O" but has the depth of a dreadnought. It has huge bottom end all rosewood back & sides as well as sitka top. The Santa Cruz "Tony Rice" The SC TR model is unusual as well. It has an oversized sound hole & a 1.75" nut so its a great fingerpicking guitar Huge bottom end but still maintains great note separation & clarity. I also own a Santa Cruz OM..... the OM is by far my favorite of all my acoustics. I had a Taylor a few years back that I just couldn't bond with, so I traded it & some cash for my SC OM. Truly an Heirloom guitar.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

As always - tell me WHICH ONE or I'll pick for you. And you might not like my choice., Or, I may decide choosing is to hard and pick someone else's axe….

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Highend nonwood guitar....read Martin.......bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaaha suckers

 

[hydro]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Taylor 516ce

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

My Martin 000CE1

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Ovation isn't high end enough?

 

[hydro]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Ovation isn't high end enough?

I had an Ovation ages ago, in the 80s and it was a GREAT guitar. Didn't they get bought by someone though and started making lower end models? I can't recall the details. I sold mine because I got frustrated with a loose brace inside it and I regretted it ever since.

 

[BriGuy1968]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Ovation isn't high end enough?

I had an Ovation ages ago, in the 80s and it was a GREAT guitar. Didn't they get bought by someone though and started making lower end models? I can't recall the details. I sold mine because I got frustrated with a loose brace inside it and I regretted it ever since.

I currently have two (6 and 12 strings) and they ARE great guitars. Not sure I'd put them up against the super high end Gibsons, Taylor's, etc., but I'd sure put them up against similarly priced guitars from those companies.


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[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Eh do not say highend and Gibson acoustic in the same sentence...those things they make these days...forget it!

 

[SlyFoxx]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

2000 Taylor 310-CE

 

[TRex]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Where is the general acoustic category? Some of those "lower end" brands make stunning guitars, especially for the price.

(I have a very pretty seagull i could enter)

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Sofar none of these "Highenders" has surpassed my "lowly" Seagull in any way...

Godin runs a different business model...if my model was a Taylor they would have added about 1500 Americanish Dollasses extra....heh

 

[SlyFoxx]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

I had a Seagull before I bought the Taylor. Lovley axe but the neck was on the wide/fat side and the Baggs mic/piezo ate batteries like nobody's business. Getting through four sets a night has been a whole lot easier with the 310.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

What kind of Seagull?

 

[crusty philtrum]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

What about Guild (better instruments than the three mentioned in the thread title in my obnoxious opinion) ?

If so, what about my Guild GAD ....built in China (a very fine instrument, all solid woods, bone nut and saddle etc.) ?

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

I'll leave this here - 2001 Collector's Edition - high-end enough?

 

[SlyFoxx]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

What kind of Seagull?

Hell, that was 16 years ago...can't remember the model. It had a cutaway and the nut width had to be 1 15/16 or 2 inches...plus the neck really deep. Had a real mid focused sound. The battery clip was inside the sound hole so you had to almost completely slack the strings to swap it out which you had to do all the time as the electronics just chewed through 9 volts.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Haha ok 16 year old Seagull.....they do not make them like that anymore

 

[Aceman]

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor

Ovation isn't high end enough?

I'll take it under consideration. Better be an effing Adamas….with a sweet top.