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At the open mic night I go to the Tanglewoods seem very popular too. Cannot speak personally for them as not played one but they seem to be well liked.
Bit more background info. I've had the guitar for ~20 years and for most of that time it was my main acoustic. It's not been abused but it has been carted about all over the place, and has had a few "incidents", including a couple of strap-drop moments, plus other people knocking it off stands. It's also been out as a loaner to friends and so on, so it has a few minor scars, but nothing major.
Most of the damage should show up in the photos linked below - in fact, some of it looks much worse in the photos than in the flesh! The main notable bits are some dings/dents in the lower side, a good scuff on the top of the headstock, and some glue smear near the nut from a messily re-applied nut when it fell off about 15 years ago.
The other "bad bit" is that a friend stuck the neck strap button on for me donkey's years ago; we were both pig ignorant, so he shoved it on the back of the heel, not under the shoulder of the heel. It works fine, but it does mean you can get some neck dive if you take both hands off when playing stood up. That said, it's never cause me any practical issue.
It had a "professional" setup maybe 5 or 6 years ago; personally I think the action is possible slightly too low now, and if I was still playing it regularly I would tweak the truss rod and maybe get a new nut cut to remove a bit of buzz on the low E if you get brutal with it. However, it's never particularly intruded on my use.
Pictures are here if the link works
I also recorded some random stuff last night to give you an idea of sound. Caveats: the strings are fairly dead (changed them in January as it was backup for a show, but never got used); my playing is awful, as I didn't work out what I was doing in advance, and didn't bother re-recording anything because, well, it's not for my vanity.
I recorded it on two channels: the piezo is panned hard left, and a general purpose mic (probably not brilliantly positioned) is panned hard right. The recording runs through a mix of stuff: starts finger-picked, then with a light-ish plectrum, and swaps back and forth between the two, and between picking, chords, up and down the neck etc. Don't judge me
Sample recording with pan left/right:
Sample recording with everything centred:
(Links seem a bit weird - think you have to click on the pause/play thing, as it didn't auto-play here when testing)
Price-wise I really don't know. I don't need to sell it, but I don't need to keep it either. There's a small emotional attachment that means I wouldn't just sell it, but having it go to "a mate" to be used has some resonance. Original cost was, IIRC, £379 and then the Hiscox case on top. So I guess somewhere around the £200 mark including the case, if it'll suit your purposes; I'll even re-string it with fresh strings first
If not, no worries. Having got it out of the case for the first time in 8 months it's made me realise it's not as awful as I thought, so it may live in the lounge for practice for a bit!
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Oh, yeah, it's got EZ-Peg bridge pins (brass things that are supposed to improve sustain. I never noticed it did that, but it does make changing strings much less of a faff as they come out easy and stay in without the "pingf***it" experience). I still have the original plastic ones too.
The EQ was flat (I would normally cut the bass and boost the treble when plugged in) and I've done nothing to it in Reaper - not least because I don't know how.
I had no intention of getting an acoustic guitar - i had a cheap one from years ago that i actually really liked and really punched above its weight (Johnston cutaway - £55 new!)
I tried the Faith on an offchance.. i've played many fancy acoustics and found them nice, but nothing to go nuts about.
Within a few minutes of playing the Faith it was decided
Really recommend trying them. The sound is so rich and feels really good to.
So uh... +1 to Faith.
Sorry - intended to say - nothing wrong with that playing or recording. Thanks for taking the time to do it and upload it.
What's the action like on the guitar? And whereabouts are you (I'm in Norfolk-land, though not too far from the A11/A14/M11).
I gigged a Taylor 214-plus-Baggs M1A setup for years and loved it - that would be around your budget, assuming a used guitar.
But I'd probably have no such reservations about butchering a new (s/h) acoustic that had been bought specifically for that purpose. Good call @stickyfiddle!
The reason why electro-acoustics are the devil’s work is because most of them use an invasive, unique set of parts - which means they cannot be upgraded or replaced in the event of reliability problems (which although not that common are far from unknown) without a huge amount of work, if it’s even practical at all. So you’re putting a nice guitar which should last decades and improve with age at the mercy of electronics which probably won’t.
I can actually see the logic in cheap electros more than expensive ones, because they’re more or less throwaway products anyhow, but I still think it’s far better to get a nicer acoustic, fit a simple pickup, and do all the rest with outboard electronics where they can be easily upgraded or replaced as necessary.
And if you already have a half-decent acoustic, it’s no contest at all.
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