It wasn’t just that many had poorly bolted on necks and laminated (plywood) tops but even the better of the lot were poorly setup with inaccurate neck angles, poorly polished and finished frets, high nuts and high saddles. Once upon a time low priced guitars were junk, nearly toys. There are better values in acoustic guitars today than at anytime in my life.
The guitar on the left currently sells (ballpark price) for $2900. It sound’s great whether you play with a pick, fingerpicks or bare fingers. But if I had to do it over I think I would choose something else. Of course it has a solid spruce top with X-bracing.
It has a 25.4″ scale length and 1.75″ nut width with rosewood back and sides and ebony fingerboard.
The guitar has 14 frets to the body which is the norm now days.
