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Ended up getting an Epiphone Masterbilt AJ-500R for $400. Discontinued for some reason. It's all solid wood, which is cool, and has a neat rosewood back and sides. The top is sitka spruce like yer basic whatever, and then has the rosewood body and mahogany neck. Bone nut and saddle, too. Pretty great sound. I went at the fretboard with a toothbrush and some linseed oil... never touched up a guitar like that.

Should be a solid guitar for quite a while. Supposin' I'd rather have the 24.75" scale, but 25.5 on an acoustic is fine for me.

http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Acoust ... -500R.aspx

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Epi acoustics are pretty solid, I wouldn't turn a decent one down. My favorites ( )are vintage guitars with all 50+ years of finger grime on them... I had to take steel wool and naptha to my '64 Gibby to get all that shit off.

Looks nice, CBA. Great headstock logo on that, too.

For others who might be looking in the $400-800 range, I'd consider a Seagull. I've never owned one, but I've played a couple, and I've owned a LaPatrie and a Godin (same company, same/similar/shared factories). And Canadian made, hey!

dubkitty wrote:well, yeah, there are great-sounding Martins out there...i just haven't encountered many of them.

Interesting. Me either. And I'd like to have my Pennsylvania pride about Martin... But too many I've encountered in music shops didn't play well (high action)...and I've seen a few =with cracks (new, in the shop's humidified room). But there MUST be great ones out there, and a lot of them.
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