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Based on 7 reviews

I am a novice guitarist but an enthusiast nonetheless. As well as this guitar, I have two other guitars, one more expensive and one slightly less. This guitar is beautiful to look at. The colouring and finish are quite frankly exemplary. It has a marvellous tone when played as an acoustic and in this mode is quite loud due presumably to the F hole construction. The fretboard, neck and bindings are all first class. Very good metal tuners with good standard strings. It's body is slighlty bigger than the other Les Paul types I own but is still easy to handle. The fret and neck spaces are slighly bigger but again still easy to play for a beginner. Through the amp the sound is lovely with good control with the pots. I love this guitar. I gather it is made in Indonesia, if that is correct the...

Based on 2 reviews

I bought this guitar as a replacement for a Peerless Monarch. It has a laminated top, as opposed to carved, and set in humbucker, so less top vibration and a rather more electric tone -- not quite as woody and 'natural' as the Monarch. Still, it's quite a classic jazz tone all the same. Compared to the Monarch, the PM200 is a tad more versatile, mainly due to its tone knob which works wonders in every position. I've never had a tone knob respond quite as nicely as this one does. Between its tone control, string gauge/brand changes and adjusting the pickup height, there's a whole ton of variation in clean tones at your disposal. You can get a lot more out of it than merely a Pat Metheny tone (which is achievable by rolling the tone off all the way). The craftsmanship and stability of...

Based on 2 reviews

The guitar is very player-friendly and easy to play. It's very beautiful and vintage looking. Came with a good setup, no actions needed. The guitar is pretty lightweight, has smaller body. The tuners look great and work stable. The same for the nut, bridge and tailpiece. Like the frets, slides are smooth as possible. The neck has perfect width (for me, at least), and very comfortable to play difficult chords and to play with a thumb. Acoustically, it's fun to play and has that archtop sound. But it's not that rich and quieter comparing to the regular acoustic. Especially when u use flat wounds, play fingerstyle without nails and pick. So consider it's as an electric guitar. Amplified, it's amazing. That warm jazz sound is possible! Also, u can get crispy funky sound if u put less...

Based on 1 reviews

By affordable I mean under three grand (less than a 175)...This guitar competes with my L5 - which I find very hard to understand given its construction, pickup arrangement and price. If you want a good jazz guitar and are frightened by the money involved (if you're a musician rather than a lawyer that is) this is really the right guitar to get. Its tried and tested - and it has real depth of tone, clarity, playability and aesthetic appeal. After maybe 30 top-end jazz guitars in as many years this is in a way the most impressive of all of them - because it produces the right sounds with laminated construction and a small ergonomic body. I have been convinced for years that even a 3'' body depth rather than Gibson's standard 3 3/8'' destroys tone - this guitar proves that I have been...

Based on 1 reviews

I have spent many hours checking reviews of The Loar guitars on the web (there are no dealers anywhere near where I live), and noticed there were people who have complained about the build quality of The Loar company's products and it was a concern. As I wanted an old style archtop and decided to buy the LH-700 and can only say any concerns I had were completely unfounded. The quality is excellent, I have a Gibson ES-175, J-45 and several Les Paul's as well as many other decent guitars and can say the quality of this guitar is up there with the best - the finish is truly stunning. The neck is comfortable and the action was good out of the box - just tweaked it a bit and moved the bridge to get the intonation correct. The tuners are super smooth, and the guitar stays in tune perfectly....

Based on 6 reviews

Very good guitar since the first glance, nothing wrong in the finish. The guitar comes with flat-wounds .012 - .052 and the factory set-up is acceptable. Every new guitar needs tuning and set-up, but this Guild out of the box is ?playable? immediately after tuning, but the pickup is much lower on the side of the first string than on the side of the sixth string, and the factory action in my opinion is a bit too high. After removing the plastic protection under the bridge, with the bridge at his minimum height, the factory setup had an action at the twelfth fret of 1,6mm for the first string, and 2,10mm for the sixth string. Since the standard for my hollow-body arch-top guitars includes flat-wound strings .013 - .056 and an action at the twelfth fret at 1,3mm for the first string, and...

Based on 4 reviews

I bought this guitar as I found myself playing more jazz gigs and my semi hollow guitar just wasn't giving me the tone I wanted. This guitar for the money is excellent. It is well built, nicely balanced, sounds fantastic and looks great. The hard case it comes in is very solid also. What I liked about this instrument straight off was the neck and body size. I was blown away by the playability of this neck. It is really smooth, nicely rounded and fits nicely in the hand. The action was also perfect for me straight out of the box. The depth of the body also adds to the playability as compared to other archtop guitars it is thinner which makes standing and playing a lot less cumbarsome. It is also very light. The super 58 pickups are fantastic and make it a very versatile instrument. The...

Based on 39 reviews

I bought this just for the look of it and when it arrived yes it looked great, then I started playing it, which was a pleasant surprise - even with my heavy handed style it stayed in tune and the more i played the more i enjoyed it i gave the tremelo a good rattling and still in tune compared with a friends very similar looking but two grand more machine it was better.. It sounded a little different but a small tweak of the amp settings and it was "there" three months on and it continues to thrill, no real concerns, no breakdowns unlike my mates falcon which needs surgery after every gig. Only thing is I am looking fror a wider bridge but this is because i do batter the hall out of it. see me - well chuffed Most fun guitar I have ever bought and it costs so little.

Based on 19 reviews

I've never bought a guitar by simply clicking on internet page (till now, as I bought two guitars this way within a month). So I was a little sceptical about outcome. After 40 years of playing guitars I had and still have eight guitars in my 'herd' and each one of them was purchased in shop or second hand but also tested before. Nevertheless I risked and ordered this rockabilly beauty without trying it. Out of box and at first glance it looked really awesome piece of instrument but I was also prepared that it might be necessary to tune this instrument to my desires and style of playing . By reading other customer's reviews I recognized that tremolo system doesn't meet expectations and I doubted that the choice of the correct strings that come with guitar is D'Addario .12-.56. So,...

Based on 2 reviews

I bought this to replace my Godin 5th Avenue which has been my regular go-to instrument for playing acoustic rhythm guitar with big bands for the last half-decade or so. The Godin guitar is a very good instrument and has a very punchy sound with plenty of bark. I would say that the Loar, which I have now used a handful of times in similar situations, is a noticeable step up. It has a fuller, rounder tone and will perform well in a wider range of situations including solo guitar and small guitar combos. Whereas with the Godin I found myself hitting it as hard as I good all the time the Loar has a wider dynamic range and benefits from being played softer at times. I would recommend this guitar to anyone who is looking to play unamplified jazz, especially with a big band.