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Recording King Classic Series II OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar (Mahogany) Review

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(More customer reviews)Excellent Price! It just needed a basic set up like most guitars, consisting of lowering saddle a bit and some nut filing. That made the action perfect and custom to my liking. Before this I had tried and tested guitars in the $1000 - $$1500 range. If you are hard pressed for cash, this is the answer!

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Recording King Classic Series I OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar (Mahogany) Review

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(More customer reviews)Just a quick review...I received this guitar as a Christmas gift. I really can't say enough nice things about it. Solid spruce top and a nut and saddle made out of real bone. I am not sure how, given the low price, that they can make any money on this thing. I am really enjoying playing this guitar. One thing I noticed right out of the box is the fact that the set up on the guitar was excellent (the string height to the fret board, the feel of the neck all felt great.) Someone is paying attention to those little things. As it is an OOO-sized guitar it will not have the heavy bass response that a dreadnought sized guitar provides but the mid-ranges just jump out of this guitar! I am just amazed at what you get for the price. I can only imagine what the higher priced recording king models sound like - they have to be really nice (maybe for next Christmas!).

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Blueridge BR-73 Contemporary 000 Guitar with Santos Rosewood Review

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(More customer reviews)I have owned Martin and Larrivee dreadnoughts but have been playing jazz on an archtop for the last few years. I wanted to get back to playing some of my old material on a smaller acoustic which did not feel like wrestling with an elephant. This guitar is at least the equal of the expensive ones I have owned, with no dull spots on the fretboard; the tone is rich and sustained throughout. It strums as well as it picks. The finish is immaculate. Two minor quibbles: the headstock is a bit small and the tuner layout cramped, and I would probably have increased the string spacing by 1/32. I put on a set of 11-50s (slightly lighter than the 11-52s it came with) and had to tweak the truss rod a bit. I may have the bridge saddle filed down 1/64 depending on what happens with the changes of weather and humidity. You could spend $2000 and not get a better OOO than this.

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Blueridge BR-183 Historic Premium East Indian RoseWood 000 Guitar with Abalone Purfling Review

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(More customer reviews)I've owned my BR-183 for at least four years. It is still the favorite performing instrument of my bandmates, despite its smaller size and more intimate tone-- it is preferred over, for example, a top-end Taylor Grand Symphony Koa and a handmade mid-70s Brazilian Rosewood LoPrinzi dreadnought.
The fit and finish on this instrument is top-flight. Out of the case, it had a surprisingly full tone, and over the years of intensive playing and performance, it has only improved in tone. Intonation is excellent up and down the neck. The fingerboard is a bit narrow but I have yet to feel cramped on it, though I'm used to 1-3/4" nut widths. Played fingerstyle it is an absolute joy. Without picks, it has a finger-sensitive quality-- one can hear the smallest changes of finger-angle, the shifts between soft fingers, callouses, and fingernails hitting the string. Up and down the neck, notes glimmer and then arrive with nuance and authority. Strummed, with the action extremely low, it does compress, but in a very pleasing way-- it seems designed to provide a sort of percussive rhythm-guitar quality. "Snapping" the strings gives a delightful pop to the notes and they retain their sonority rather than simply dying, as occurs with the very-young and very stolid Taylor GS. While the Taylor has begun to open up over the year of its life with me, the Blueridge seems more like a 20-year-old instrument.
If there is a complaint to make, it's with the lacquer, which is fairly thickly laid on-- one wonders what the sound would be like with a thinner finish. The detailing is almost gaudy-- the abalone is beautifully inlaid, but there's a lot of it!
This instrument's extraordinary virtues inveigled me into buying a "B-stock" BR-180, the top-of-the-line Blueridge Dreadnought, to keep at a retreat where I travel to write and think. I imagined it to be a sort of on-vacation workhorse, and was delighted to be corrected by its balance, volume, authority, and subtlety. Like the BR-183, it has become a favorite of mine, and of the band's-- requiring that I trek it back for performances regularly. Both these instruments have been fitted with Fishman undersaddle pickups that are led into a Fishman Aura for recording and performance, and the result is amplified sound almost exactly corresponding to the sound of the instruments in rehearsal in a living room-- quite an achievement.

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Recording King Classic Series OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar with Herringbone (Mahogany) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a 000 "Martin style," solid wood acoustic guitar. The 000 body here looks like an OM - a feature of early guitars in this style was a longer scale (and was called an OM) - 25 inches plus, the short scale came later (24.9 and less) and was done with the intention of making the guitar easier to play due to the lack of choice when it came to string gauges (heavy or medium or nothing). This guitar is well constructed: hand carved neck, with an 1 3/4 inch nut width, bone nut and saddle, ebony fretboard and bridge, a real rosewood veneer over the peghead, and matched mahogany back and sides and a matched sitka spruce top...all very clean, it appears to be AA in wood grade and finished in an aged light gloss finish. The neck feels more like a modified V than a "C" profile. Body and neck joint feature grained ivoroid binding and a peek inside reveals scalloped bracing. The top presents with herringbone and a well done torch inlay on the peghead. This is a well designed, and well made guitar. The tone is very traditional - you get the presence and warm mid range of mahogany. This particular guitar has a bit more bass than I was expecting, but I find that to be a bonus. Otherwise, it is very balanced. To other consumers, I find this guitar to be a significant value...the quality of wood, inlays and workmanship come together to make a great guitar - perfect for fingerstyle blues, traditional country and ragtime. I doubt that this level of quality will be this affordable for much longer. If you cannot afford a Martin in this style, you will not be underserved by this guitar. It is highly recommended.

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Recording King Classic Series OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar with Abalone (Rosewood) Review

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(More customer reviews)I think this is a great guitar, but doesn't fit my hands as well as the 000 herringbone one. you would think they have the same neck and playability, but they don't.

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Recording King Classic Series OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar with Herringbone (Rosewood) Review

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(More customer reviews)This gorgeous acoustic arrived in perfect shape from Amazon, with a factory set-up that was incredibly accurate. Action, neck relief, neck angle, playability, everything was so perfect.
The Recording King RO 127 is a (very well made ) copy of a vintage OM 28 Martin Herringbone,
with all solid woods, 3/4 neck width, and V neck shape. Top is spruce, back and sides rosewood.
They are made in China under supervision and design of Johnson guitar co., USA.
The tone of the guitar is superb: very loud, full of overtones, great low end and ringing trebles.
I couldn't be happier. If you are looking for a beautiful Martin but cannot afford the price, this is the guitar you should look for !

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Recording King Century Studio Series 12th Fret OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar (Mahogany) Review

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(More customer reviews)This guitar has amazing sound for the price and for being a small-bodied instrument. The tone is clear and pure and sustains forever. Way more bass than I expected. It actually sounds better than 80% of all the acoustics I've heard, no matter what the size or price. The nitrocellulose finish is prone to cracking, which mine has done, but it doesn't affect the sound at all. It has a wide neck and low action, like a classical guitar, so it's easy to play. Electric guitarists accustomed to a narrow neck will have a little difficulty adapting, but it's otherwise a dream to play. Having played mostly dreadnoughts, I wasn't sure I'd like the smaller size, but it turns out it's a much more natural size to wrap yourself around. I just can't say enough good things about this guitar!

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Recording King Classic Series Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar with Abalone (Rosewood) Review

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(More customer reviews)Don't be afraid. You will be more than pleased with this guitar. Give it some time of course and it will blow your mind. Mine was flawless and beautiful. It really does sound good. Shop for the best price from a trusted dealer. I paid $200.00 less than advertised here but that was about 2 years ago. I do not regret this buy.

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Silver Creek T-170 Acoustic Guitar Natural Review

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(More customer reviews)I had just finished reading the book "Clapton's Guitar" so you may understand why I was blown away by an all-solid wood 000/OM acoustic guitar for next to nothing.
Thinking I would tell my wife it was for "market survey" all the while I was secretly drooling over what might arrive. (I'm in the building end).
Back and sides were a beautiful straight-grained Indian Rosewood.
The top is maybe an "A" grade Engelmann top and is punchy like Adirondac Spruce.
The inside bracing and kerfing are clean and sans glue squeeze out.
The backstrip, inside the box, is a very tight-grained Spruce and looks perfect.
Bridge is cleanly done.
The mahogany neck feels slightly boaty with a "V" shape but still very playable.
String spacing is generous and it's easy to hit all the notes.
The neck is stained dark and has a volute,
both Martin style. No buzzing but after the action is lowered it will need a neck adjustment or vice versa.
Peghead Inlay looks CNC'd and is perfectly done.
The finish is gloss and is very well done and polished without the usual wavy lines prevalent in cheap and poorly done high-end guitars.
The Tuners remind me of small Waverly's.. But!
Frets are cleanly done but could use a polish.
The action is too high and the saddle should be replaced with a
Martin Saddle seated flat into the bridge slot and intonated.
The nut seemed fine.
All in all, setup aside, this guitar is awesome with beautiful Tone!
and plenty of 000 vibe!
I was able to coax some very sweet notes from this guitar!
Even with the stock strings.
Now for the bad part: I should of bought two!
All this for "Market Survey"!
Someone has to do it!

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Blueridge BR-43 Contemporary 000 Guitar Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this guitar on "Black Friday", received it within a couple of days, and have enjoyed playing since then. It is a small 000 sized body, with mahogany back and sides (laminate) and bone nut and saddle (nice touch). Very comfortable thin style neck. While no one is going to mistake it for a Martin, it's an excellent player, was set up well right out of the box, and is a terrific guitar for just picking up on the spur of the moment. I replaced the strings with a set of Elixer medium-light (slightly heavier wound strings), which helped bring out the bass a bit more. Someday I'll likely replace it with a Martin, etc., but for now it's a terrific "couch" guitar that gets picked up and played a lot.

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Recording King Classic Series II Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar (Rosewood) Review

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(More customer reviews)I just recieved this guitar 3 days ago.
1) When I first recieved it, the string was rusted and the action was too high.
2) The bone saddle was slightly wider than the slot for it so the saddle was actually slanted.
3) I sanded down the height of the saddle to lower the action and also sanded off the width so that it would fit.
4) After that, I changed the string, and adjusted the truss rod a little.
Now it plays like a dream..It is really an amazing guitar.
*The neck is very thick, so if you have small hands, you might not like it.
I have small hands so it's little hard to play, but I still love it, because it sounds soooo good.
I highly recommend this guitar at ANY price range, because the sound is so unique.

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