I've been looking at some rather nice Martin guitars with a solid spruce top, and a neck, back & sides made out of a composite material which is wood mixed with a binding agent of some kind. It looks very much like normal wood, but is obviously tremendously strong.

These guitars sound darn good, but a little different sound in some way. One of them almost sounded like it had a subtle chorus effect (unamplified). Interesting.

Any opinions on these guitars from our veteran Mudcatters? I'd be interested what you think. The price is around $600 Cdn, which is around $400 American. Seems like good value to me.

- LH