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Thread #63831   Message #1039835
Posted By: Willie-O
22-Oct-03 - 02:54 PM
Thread Name: Cheap solid-top guitar?
Subject: RE: Cheap solid-top guitar?
Pretty low chance. Sometimes cheap guitars sound and play OK. Usually not. In the case of a mass offer like this, you can be assured that it's cheaply assembled and---what, you call an 800 number to order?--you're not likely to get to try 100 of them to find the half-decent one.

I imagine you can make cheap solid spruce-top guitars for not much more than plywood. Plywood is pricier than utility-grade spruce. They probably have a higher defect rate in manufacturing though.

W-O