Better Guitar

player opinions

Name: Marc Durso
Band: -----
Model Year: -----
Price Paid: $2000 used
Performance
Fast action. Comfortable, wide neck. Well dressed frets. It makes me play longer, study harder, and investigate more styles. Everything sounds so good on this instrument. I have had dealers, players and techs in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Nashville play this guitar and all are impressed with its rich sound and superb attention to detail.
Performance Rating: 10
Sound Quality
Rich, three dimensional sound. Balanced over the full range of bass, mids and trebles. Powerful resonating bass, colorful mids, bell like trebles. Can handle pounding delta blued style, flat picking and finger style. An inspiring sound.
Sound Quality Rating: 10
Construction
Exquisite detail. Meticulous interior. Full braces, non-scalloped. Uses “Benades Hinge”, where the sound board is thinner at the body edges than at the center, putting strength where needed — under the bridge, and providing thinner surface in outer areas for better vibration conduction. Flamed Koa back and sides, abalone rosette, flamed maple binding and back strip, ebony bound fingerboard, tuning machines, headstock and bridge, bone nut and saddle, brass/abalone pins, abalone diamond fret markers. Great resale value. Highly respected luthier who is very attentive to my questions regarding set up and care of guitar. Very personal service.
Construction Rating: 10