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(More customer reviews)The price of this seemed to be lower than normal and I had read glowing reviews on this guitar on the various guitar forums. So I took a chance of ordering a guitar on line. Amazon was awesome as usual as far as delivery speed. It arrived very well packed. Fit and finish are very good, I noticed a few very small dimples on the back but not significant. Interior bracing etc well done. Rosewood is beautiful, the finish is really smooth and glossy. It looks like a more expensive instrument. An important note, the headstock is not the gaudy one in the Amazon picture. This is the Br-160A2, which is a newer model with 1 3/4 nut and a much plainer headstock. For me, if it was not one of the newer ones, it was going back. I think if Saga went with less bling on the headstock they would be selling more guitars. This one has the less ornate version and I like it.
I read that Adirondack tops take a while to break in. The guitar was very tight sounding right out of the box. Kinda tinny. As a side note, I had read about this thing called a tone rite that accelerates the break in process on guitars. I alse read that an aquarium pump and a way to attach it to the strings is a rough equivilent to the $150 tone rite. So I invested $6 in a pump and some rubber grommets and gave it three days on the guitar. I also switched out the strings to medium PB's. I am happy to say the the guitar is already mellowing out. It is clear, loud with a great bass and shiny trebles. Lots of harmonics, setup is spot on. Intonation perfect. Lets face it, people that buy this are trying to get a poor mans Martin Marquis. This thing is really close, not as dead ringer but close. I would say the only thing stopping it from the Martin tone is the trebles are still a little tinny on the high E. But as time goes on, that seems to be subsiding, and I have only had it a week. Overall I would have to say that this was a good purchase, for the money you can't go wrong. Martin purist don't like this guitar because you are getting very close to the same result for about 6 times less. The fact that these seem to be sold out everywhere is an indication of their worth.
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