Product: Almansa 459
Price Paid: 1095 (GB Pounds)
Submitted
04/13/2005
at
09:35am
by
N Jukes
Email: nick<at>tjukes dot wanadoo dot co dot uk
Features
:
10
Got my guitar from Birmingham Guitar Centre (England) last year - made in 2003 I think. Its got a solid red cedar top, two piece indian rosewood back, indian rosewood sides, honduras cedar neck with ebony strip down the back, ebony fingerboard and gold plated machine heads. Its got a standard 12 fret to body + 7. Nice rosette too!
Sound
:
9
Brilliant sound - I looked around Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Birmingham guitar centres all summer and THIS WAS THE BEST! Amazingly punchy bass strings with BIG volume. Whole sound is very loud and pure. Because of ebony strip on neck it will never bend and i've never heard a single buzz or rattle - always reliable. Very good sustain except around the 12th+ frets on top 3 strings when it suddenly weakens however this happens with all guitars - perhaps its just my string selection!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
The finish is almost completely perfect. The cedar is almost pinky/orangey red and so looks amazing and unique - you can tell its quality. There are no marks at all in the finish - (and ive spent a long time looking at it!). Only thing was that at the edges of the bridge there are tiny white marks - perhaps dried glue? but it takes a lot of looking to spot. The action is brilliant - like I said above - not a single buzz.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
This guitar will never break or even mark. After a year of playing (and careful cleaning!) the fingerboard hasn't got a single mark and the whole thing looks like it did the day i got it (just a shame its lost the new cedar smell). The ebony reinforced neck also means it will never go.
Customer Support
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Overall Rating
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10
Best around - buy it.
