Not again. NOT AGAIN !
I've just finished a week of nights and found myself wandering bleary eyed into Manson, as you do. I had a go on several Yamaha acoustics. They are very competent and sure footed guitars but how can I put this delicately ?
BORING ! (They make darn good classicals though)
Then I tried out several different versions of the Gibson J45 to confirm to myself what a good buy I'd got with the Sigma J45. I was satisfied with the result but the True Vintage J45 is a league above, as it ought to be at three and a half K.
Then I spied something in the corner... a Sigma version of the Gibson J200.
It plays and sounds nothing like a Gibson J200.
It plays and sounds ... just like a Gibson J45 True Vintage - at £475 with pickup ! This is a stunning guitar if - IF you can get over the moustache bridge and the huge size of the lower bout.
(I assure you. I do not work for Sigma.)
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That Sigma J200-style must be a great thing, from what you say. Nothing wrong with the moustache bridge, and the perfect look for a bit of country if you ever fancy that kind of thing. Go on, treat yourself, you know you want to...
I don't think they've got worse, just that cheaper alternatives are now a lot better.
BTW - You may recall that I'd traded my Vintage V300, Epiphone DR 100 and Amalio Burguet M3.
The DR 100 had gone. And I'm not at all surprised. I was sorry to let that one go. If truth be known, if that were the only guitar they made in the world we should be very happy with it.
Hard to let a good guitar go I know, but sometimes it's for the best in the end. Someone was wise enough to recognize a fine guitar in that DR100, and you now have a new lease of life with the Sigma, so all is well.
The Sigma DR-45 would appear to be my Martin D-45 killer - £745, so I shouldn't really entertain such an idea! Judging by the Youtube demos, it does have that classic sound I'd be after, and abalone inlay including hexagon fingerboard markers all present and correct. I guess I'd also have to look at some others though - Faith for one, and perhaps I'd be better with something with a cutaway and good built in pickup system. But don't start me on acoustic guitar GAS - really can't afford it just at the mo!
Huge size lower bout can work - I'm sure it makes for a lot of the character in the sound of my Vintage GG.
Graham - ... to use the oft said phrase ... "resistance is useless"!
You sound like someone consoling a person who called the vet out with his pistol.
Best to let an old friend go a day too early than a day too late, I say. *sobs*
I'm planning on grabbing one of the Harley Benton all hog parlours - 45mm nut and open headstock for £150!