I'm the proud owner of a Recording King all-solid-mahogany 12-fret-to-body grand auditorium size guitar which I can bore people silly singing the praises of, and have done so in another thread on here. It's relevant to this discussion cos I think the same guy basically designed them all. I vastly prefer its sound to all the Blueridges I tried out in Hobgoblin Music (though they were nice, don't get me wrong). I recently won an eBay auction for the same model Recording King I have, only with Indian Rosewood back and sides and a spruce top. It reminds me a great deal of the Blueridges I tried out. Very similar feel, tone and playability. I don't like it as much as my mahogany, even though it's worth twice as much money. I think I just prefer the tone of all-hog, more bluesy, more what I think of as 'woody'.
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