Seagull S6 Cedar Acoustic

Awsome guitar. Great price. What more can I say? Features? Hmm. Well, it has a neck with frets on it... Hey Its an acoutic what do you expect?

I play all the way from Simon+Garfunkel to hard rock and this guitar sounds awsome! I can even play Eruption on it (at speed)!!

The guitar was set up perfectly from the factory. The bridge is custom adjusted for intonation. There are no flaws and the mat finish is awsome!

Havn't really played it in extreme condition.(its my baby)

Hey they gave me a neat brochure with it!

Ive hardly played electric since I got it a month ago. If you knew me that would mean a hell of a lot.

Guitar was made in La Patrie, Quebec Canada. Handmade. Light finish which brings out the tone, not heavy laminated like similarly priced guitars. Nothing fancy as far as decoration is concerned, which I like.

This is by far the best sounding acoustic guitar I've ever played within this price range, and it even beats out many guitars that are much more expensive.

Set up was nearly flawless. Much care was taken in the construction of this guitar. It is hard to believe that such a finely made guitar could be so affordable.

I have had it for a short time. The guitar seems durable so far.

This guitar was the answer to my very common problem of not having $1000 laying around to drop on a guitar. I didn't think that a great sounding handmade guitar priced under $500 existed until I dicovered this guitar. I compared it to several other guitars around it's price range, and even some that were much more expensive, and I could not find anything that came even close! I will probably be an exclusive Seagull Guitar user, at least until all the other companies wake up and smell the coffee and make better made guitars that are affordable. if you can, TRY A SEAGULL ASAP, and you will see what I mean!

I purchased the guitar new in 1993 but it had been in the store for a few months at least and was labelled a demo. It was made in La Patrie , Quebec by Lasido(Godin).

The cedar top sounded a bit more moody than the maple counterpart. Bit mellower. Nowhere near as loud as a full-sized Martin or equivalent dreadnought. I like the sound very much. Good for folk, blues, but as someone said not for bashing or high volume. Compared to a plywood box it is complex sounding, with good note definition. The sound has tightened up quite a bit since '93 as the guitar has dried out a bit. Sounding a bit better with age, I think.

I adjusted the treble side slightly by adding a shim under the bridge. Otherwise great action. The finish is light, but that's what makes this guitar special. I would take this anyday over a Washburn which has a high-gloss, coffeetable finish. Mine has quite a few dings on the top, though nothing serious.

This is a very well built guitar and has been reliable. I am now experiencing some trouble with the bridge however. It is lifting slightly. I've decided to retire the guitar for now until I can get to a repair shop. I'm not exactly sure why this has happened. Probably dryness (I keep my surroundings and case humidified but live in a dry part of Canada). I do not bash strum or use particularly heavy strings (light-mediums).

not yet.

This is a follow up on my !!/6/98 review. I called LaSiDo and The Seagull folks sent me the newer Micarta intonated saddle for free. I had to sand down the saddle to get the action the way I liked it. Man, what an improvement!! The Intonation is right-on perfect !!
Thank you Seagull. Customer service was slow to respond but once personal contact was made it was at my home in California within 3 days, no-charge.

A ten.

The secret is out - its hard to find these guitars discounted if you can find them at all. Check out the Patrick and Simon's or Art and Lutherie's by La Si Do also.

This guitar was purchased from Canada (you could call it mail order). It was brand new, I suppose that means it was made in 1998, but that could be 1999-I really don't know.
The S6 Cedar is a dreadnought, non-cutaway acoustic guitar with no electronics.
It has a solid Cedar top and laminated sides and back of Cherry. It is made in Canada, and has a nice satin finish throughout. They did a good job of applying the satin finish. The binding is a brown and white plastic and looks pretty good (it is on the body only). The cherry wood on this guitar has a light stain on it to make it brown... Nothing like the S6+, but it is really nice. Every other S6 I have seen has a VERY light color to the cherry wood, and I think mine looks much better than these do. (I am assuming that the wood on my guitar is cherry and that they did not change the wood type, but I have not seen any other S6s that looked this way.)
The guitar has all the new amenities like a compound bridge and a thin maple (not mahogany) neck. The tuners are rather nice; each has the Seagull emblem on the back of them, and the headstock is supposed facilitate better tuning. It works pretty well-the guitar doesn't need retuning too often.
I guess if I was over critical of this guitar, I would say bummer it doesn't have solid wood back and sides. But I don't think it matters too much. The guitar is nowhere as tricked out as it could be-it has pearly dot inlays on the finger board and the rosette around the sound hole is not an inlay-but for what it does have, it is just fine.

This guitar sounds fantastic.
I play whatever style I hanker for and the guitar never sounds out of place. I take jazz and blues guitar, and the instructor is impressed with the tone. It sounds good in the highs and mids, and has the typical dreadnought low end, yet it is not boomy or overpowering. It is balanced real well, and the tone is pleasant (I play light bronze strings, I think they sound better than phosphor bronze-I have tried them both). It is warm enough without being muddy. The notes stand out nicely in chord playing. Sustain is nice.
This guitar can does "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Speak Softly Love" just fine. It got a good blues trial from my instructor and played very well.
Gonna give it a 9 because no one walks on water.

Fit and finish are great. The insides look good-from what I can see. There are no glue globs. The binding is pretty good, although you can see seam where the binding comes together on the bottom-there seems to be a minute gap there, but it has been filled with finish (I suppose it is finish, but it could be glue...). The action is too high, but that is resolvable. But it put me out about $20.
A couple of the screws on the tuners were not screwed in all the way. That was an easy fix, but it was weird that they were overlooked at the factory.
I give it an 8... Some problems, but nothing to worry about.

This guitar has a Cedar top. They seem to be a little on the soft side. I have been playing mine for about a month-it gets dinged on the desk or futon every once in a while, and the sides have shown no scratches or dents. They seem to be pretty hard. The top worries me a bit, but I seem to have avoided knocking it into anything (lucky me).
The finish seems to be a little thin. But I have seen used Seagulls that stood up to the test of time with no problem. I have also see one fellow try to buff a scratch out of the top of a Cedar Seagull and really mess up the finish. I am under the impression that the finish is real thin.
It only came with one strap button, and it is pretty stout. I would depend on this guitar. I just think one must exercise caution concerning the top.

This guitar came with a two year warranty, and I have had no need to use it.
I have no knowledge about the company from a customer service standpoint. Therefore, I will not give any opinion concerning this.

I love this guitar. For $300 I don't believe the guitar can be beat. This is the primary reason the guitar was purchased-I didn't want to put a guitar on layaway, and this guitar was really a pleasure to play.
The price of this guitar is WAY cheaper if bought mail order-even though you have to pay UPS $19 to import the thing.
I understand this takes a bit of faith on your part to mail order a guitar, but the gang at Murch Music is prompt with returning emails and straight forward with answers. They are extremely prompt about getting the gear out to you once the purchase is made. (I understand this is a single testimony concerning a single purchase, but BOY were they nice to deal with! Thank You Murch!)
The case it was shipped in is pretty stout, and the guitar made the transit to America just fine. Overall, I would highly recommend this guitar.

The S6 has a solid cedar top, wild cherry laminate back and sides, wide mahogany neck, rosewood fret board and bridge. Hand made in Canada in about 1996, I have had the guitar abot one year. It is a plain Dreadnought with about 21 frets, satin lacquer finsh, nice locking tuners that look like grovers, blah,blah, blah. It is a very simple, plain guitar with these exceptions - a very unique looking straight pull head stock, thin satin low luster finish and a simple but beautiful rosary. Everything it DOES have is top quality and conscientiously crafted.

The sound is as good as it gets in the under $1,000 market. That is a subjective fact all the other reviews seem to agree on. I am amazed every time I play it. It rings out with a full, rich and balanced sound. There is nothing to dislike, sound wise, in my opinion. Great for folk rock, blues or picking. Great sustain due to the neck to body construction and head angle.

The review guidelines state to be critical but it is hard on the S6. With one exception, this guitar is flawlessly crafted. The finish is thin but done to allow aging of the solid top. The bookmatch of the top is near perfect. Even the cherry ply back book mark is perfect! This is all cherry laminate and not cheap softwood plys with a veneer. Tuners are great. The straight pull head really stays in tune like no guitar I have ever heard. No glue blobs inside (check out the competion), Neck fit is superb as are the Frets, bridge (with macarta saddle) etc. all truely a piece of simple art.
The low rating I gave them here is why I have taken the time to do this review. The action is too high on an other wise superb value. Though a bargain at twice the price, La Si Do needs to lower the action. My neck is mahogany but I understand the new Seagulls are set up with a maple neck which are reportedly as good or better. They also come with a compensated saddle. May be they remedied the problem but I hear they have not. They need to work on this for it is the only common complaint. I found a truss adjustment will NOT fix it as stated in other reviews. My neck had text book perfect (as well as functional) neck relief. I adjusted my saddle and though I am still refining it as I write, I am back in love with the guitar. Seagull is sending me their new compensated saddle and we will see if that is a fix for this. Please note if you do your own adjustments as a novice, down load "guitar setup 101", read it twice and underline the important parts so you do not yank out your hair when you mess with your guitar.

I do not play out but if I did I'd leave my Martin Or Taylor at home and tour with this guitar. If it got wrecked no big deal (well....) and it would stand up and sound just as good. People would come up and ask you about your axe 'cuz it sonds great, looks different and that you are a wonderful player!

I have e-mailed customer support and they get back in a day or two. Warranty is two years. The response is very brief but that is the Yankee in them I guess! They are sending me a newly designed saddle so it seems they are working on the actio complaints.

Buy this Guitar! You will not find a better guitar for the price. They are harder to find at a discount but it they are a great value even at full price. Budget $25-50 (or bargain)to have the saddle lowered and neck adjusted and you will just smile every time you play. This is why I did this review - do not pass up this guitar due to the action - buy it and have it adjusted!.
I am a bedroom strummer that has goofed with the guitar for over 30 years. I own an Epiphone S-310 electric that I use to make noise with. I have eclectic tastes on the mellow side - Subdudes, NRBQ, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Dave Mason, Lyle, R.e.m., Blues etc. I am probably typical to the majority of players that make up the buying market. One difference is I did manage stereo stores for many years and feel I can claim to have a good ear for sound and music (though little god given talent or discipline!). I certainly know what I like! My last guitar was a beautiful looking catalog store Korean made piece of crap that I owned for 16 years. It had a three piece back with blonde on mahogany plywood garbage and inlay galore and all the right holes and high gloss looks. It was like most guitars out there - A honey dipped piece of particle board, designed by a corporate marketing/bean-counter team, built by a slave and sounded like @#%@! The Seagull is every thing but that. It is a little strange looking but is a finely crafted instrument built and designed by people who care.
If my Seagull was stolen I would curse humanity for stealing a piece of my sole then buy another one as soon as I could find one. I might look at the solid back model if insurance covered some of the loss. Fix the action La Si Do. Its a superior product and they should be proud cuz' I'm proud to own it.

The S6 is hand-made in Canada and is Seagull's entry-level acoustic. The S6 is a dreadnaught with no cutaway and no pickups. It sports a solid cedar top, laminated & figured cherry back and sides, Grover-type locking tuners, Brazilian rosewood fingboard and bridge, and a mahogany neck.
The neck is wider and a longer scale than my Gibson ES-135 semi-acoustic, but is on par with other acoustics that I have played.
Seagull positions the plain S6 as a beginner/intermediate guitar - which it is, but only in price. They did not sacrifice playability, sound, or construction.
I gave it an "6" because it is spartan without a pickup, binding, etc, but at the price I got it for, I completely and happily agree with the spartan nature of the S6.

The plain S6 does not come with a pickup, so I can only comment on its acoustic sound. One word comes to mind... Unbelievable!
The sound is excellent for fingerpicking. The notes ring on an on which is a credit to the solid cedar top, X bracing inside, excellent laminate back and sides, and the thinner satin finish.
When strummed vigorously, the S6 does not have the boominess needed for sustained rhythm. It seems best suited for lighter musical fare like fingerpicking, arpeggiated chords and such. I don't think Ani DeFranco would find the S6 suitable for banging out rock 'n roll :)
I play jazz as a hobbyist and wanted a cheap, good quality acoustic to play around on - take out on the porch. I wanted a guitar that was pickup and go and the Seagull is perfect.

The first thing I did when I got home with the S6 was to restring it with D'Addario Phosphor-Bronze medium gauge strings (13's). I also conditioned the fretboard/bridge and polished the body.
The S6 comes with D'addario lights (12's), but the strings needed to be changed - they were almost dead. The guitar has been in this guy's shop for at least 2 years unsold, so it's no wonder the strings were dead.
The S6 has a satin finish and no binding anywhere. It is a very simple, great souding gutiar. There were a few dings in the body but after 2 years of hanging on a rack in a guitar store, I figured so what. The scratches do not detract from the guitar and you have to look hard to see them which should attest as to how the guitar will fare over the long haul.
The tuners are great. They appear to be Grover locking tuners. The Brazilian rosewood fretboard was as good looking as my $1000 Gibson electric after I conditioned it.
The neck is not prefectly aligned, but the guitar plays in tune and sounds great, so I probably won't mess with it.
I gave it a "7" due to being in the guitar shop for so long and the fact that I am not a big fan of satin finishes. I prefer a high gloss finish, but for the price of the S6, I can't argue too much.

The guitar has withstood 2 years of guitar shop abuse and has only a few nicks. My guess is that the finish will hold up just fine.
As for the construction... the top is solid bookmatched cedar which means that it is 2 solid pieces of cedar from the same batch of cedar glued together. The seam on the top is visible which is due to the satin finish. A high gloss finish would have hidden it better. Even so, the seam is tight.
The neck is bolted on from the inside and glued on from the outside.
The inside shows good grain on the laminate wood used on the back and sides as well as an X-brace underneath the top of the guitar.
This guitar is built simply, but very well.
I gave it a "10" because I have no fear of breaking this guitar. I let my 2 kids play on it and did not feel afraid.

Unknown. I just got it and I can't imagine anything going wrong with it. The S6 is of simple construction without much of anything that can go wrong.

I have been playing for about 7 years total off and on. I own a Gibson ES-135 and a Fender amp. I used to own an Ovation standard Baladeer acoustic form the '70's and found that the Seagull sounds much better for fingerpicking, but not for rhythm.
If the S6 was stolen, I'd buy another one if I could find one for $200.
I really like the construction (solid top, simple) of the S6 as well as it's sweet, ringing sound.
I compared the playability and sound of the S6 to Epiphone's PR100, Espanola acoustics, Oscar whatever-his-name-is, and a bunch of other Korean, Indonesian, and Chinese guitars. None compared to the Seagull S6 in simplicity, quality, and sound.
I did not compare the Seagull to more expensive guitars like Ovation, but I have played those pricier guitars. The Seagull S6 compares favorably to guitars in the $300-$400 street price range ($500-$700 MSRP). After that, you may have to step up to a better Seagull model to compete.
I wish the plain S6 had a cutaway and a pickup, but that would have doubled the cost to $400 which I just don't want to spend right now.
Judging from my S6, Seagull makes an excellent product at a very afforable price. Seagull guitars are handmade in Canada, though at the price I paid for my S6, I wonder how they could pay a luthier and still make a profit. Maybe they are in training or something.
I was amazed that I could get a solid top, full body acoustic with such great sound and construction for the price.
One thing to watch for with the S6... it only plays acoustic songs. I tried playing jazz, but my fingers played acosutic mood music instead. I don't know what it is, but the S6 lends itself to acoustic music so well that you find your fingers not being able to do anything else - seriously!
I would have given the S6 an "11" for value, but the scale only wnet up to "10".

By far the best guitar you will ever buy for under 500 dollars!!! 21 frets its one of those plugable acoustics so for 375 dollars I absolutly adore this guitar. beutifull satin cedar finish on this dreadnought. great locking machines that are as solid as as my turds after a nice fiber filled dinner, and a wonderfull EQ system

I play a lot of my own christian music, and its mostly acoustic alternative/rock I use a laney 1 channel acoustic/2 channel electric amp and it sounds great at every one of the gigs I do it does have a weird hum when turned up to high but any guitar you ever but will do that. has a great full rich sound even bar cord sound awesome

guitar has a nice set up the pick ups arn't the best out there but they get the job done. perfectly semetrical, just a gorgeous guitar, that only real finish probem is the satin cedar finish is so easy to scratch that the slightest touch with the softest pick with put a nifty little scratch in it........but like some I think a couple scratches give character........

I play this at school shows and coffie shops and stuff and it sounds great it will probobly last me for a while unless you know I drop it in the toilet or off a tree in a music video or somethin there is only one strap buttonso the other side is tied on with a little shoe string but the one that is there is solid and even gives me a hard time putting the strap on

no clue

a acoustic electic acoustic hand made for 350 dollars.........I compare this guitar to the takamine EG330C thats 650 dollars and I'de take the sea gull over the takamine I wish I had a better pick up system but that might cost me about 100 dollars and I'm on a very tight budget so if you're ready to ditch your beginner guitar and move a sted up right before you get to the 1000 dollar guitars this is for you