Buy Blueridge BR-43AS Contemporary Craftsman Series 000 14 fret Acoustic GuitarBlueridge BR-43AS Contemporary Craftsman Series 000 14 fret Acoustic Guitar Product Description:
- Solid Adirondack spruce top with handcarved parabolic braces in authentic PreWar forward X-pattern.
- Rosewood bridge and maple bridge plate. Bone nut and saddle. Sunburst high gloss finish.
- East Indian rosewood fingerboard with adjustable truss rod carved mahogany low profile neck and dovetail neck joint
- Mahogany back and sides. M.O.P fingerboard dot markers. Nickel plated tuners.
- 5-ply body binding (B/W/B/W/B)
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BR-43AS Blueridge Contemporary Craftsman Series 14-Fret 000 Guitar With its beautiful Adirondack top in a vintage sunburst finish,you’ll know our 000 model guitar is something special. It’s theclosest you can get to that elusive, PreWar tone. A new, superfast and slim neck reminds you that this is a contemporary guitar, and the affordable price tells you that it’s a genuineBlueridge
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
beautiful little OM style guitar...
By John N. Fulmore
Blueridge (brand name for SAGA Music) presents a line of acoustic guitars in both dread and OM style patterned after the pre-war Martin acoustic guitar line up. This guitar comes from their "contemporary" series with design features that were of interest to me - 1 3/4 inch nut width (easier for finger picking guitar styles), red spruce (adirondack) top, and a well done traditional sunburst and an OM/000 body style that I find very comfortable to play. Not so traditional are the neck shape, which is in a slight "c" shape and quite easy to play. Other features are a rosewood fretboard, rosewood peghead overlay and butterbean tuners. Another pleasant feature of this series is that Blueridge toned down the bling - which in this writer's opinion adds just a touch of class to an otherwise excellent product. A quick review of older models and this series will reveal just how pleasing this change is.The only reason I cannot give 5 stars is related to quality control issues - specifically, the frets need some attention so that they do not cut into the fretting hand and the tuners were not quite in line. Additional concerns include a high e string that rolls off the fretboard. However all of these issues are easily fixed and for the price being asked should not be deal killers. A competent guitar technician can address all of the concerns noted above.The last point deals with the use of laminate (plywood to the less generous) as back and sides. It is made of mahogany and is quite light - that was quite a pleasant surprise. If you are worried that laminate may prevent the full development of this guitars tone over time...I would not let that be a concern. As the use of laminate increases, the product has improved significantly and moves further away from the early laminates that were in many cases, plywood boxes with strings. Blueridge does laminate very well and my feeling is that it will be very hard to discern any significant differences between an all solid guitar and the newer laminates...over time.I recommend this guitar (and others from Blueridge).
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
BR-43AS -- very, very nice
By Bokonon
This sucker sounds amazingly good. I was taking a chance ordering this without playing it, but the tone, volume and projection are excellent. The tone quality in particular is very rich and shimmery like a much more expensive guitar. I guess it's the Adirondack top that makes it sound so very, very good -- even without having been played for years (yet).I just don't understand how a solid back can supposedly give a better sound, the top is all-important sound-wise on an acoustic. I have a couple of very nice Epiphone OM models made of all solid woods (one a spruce top with mahogany body, the other a cedar top and rosewood body) and I've always been very pleased with their sound, but now this Blueridge with laminate back and sides just smokes them, sound-wise. The Epiphones sound rich and full, like the Blueridge, but the Blueridge also has that shimmery (expensive sounding) added tone quality.It was very playable also, but I still took the saddle down a little tad, put a touch less relief in the truss rod and now it plays like buttah (and no buzzing anywhere). I thought about taking the nut down a tiny bit, but after carefully evaluating it, I decided it was perfect as is.I've had no problems with any high-E string rolling or things of that nature.No, it's not a $2000 Martin, but for 100% as much playability and probably 95% of the tone, it was quite a deal for a whole bunch of bucks less.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Owned it for a year. Amazing
By J Gentz
I have had this guitar for a year.The sound is full, it has great separation, and excellent volume.It is the best all around guitar I have. Not the highest priced, but the best playing and sounding.The guitar is very lightweight.The finish is excellent.I had the guitar set up when I got it. I like the action a little lower.I would recommend a set up to your taste on all guitars, unless it just happens to be to set up to your playing style.No problems with build quality, and the frets were well done.The neck is 1 3/4 wide, but it is slim. Similar to Taylor. The neck feels slightly narrower than it really is.The string spacing at the bridge is 2 1/4 and is fine for finger picking.You can strum it with a pick, use your fingers to strum, or finger pick it. It is all good.I have other guitars from the major brands costing over $2000.This is my favorite. What a tremendous bargain.
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