Product Description
Blueridge Historic series BR-180 AS dreadnought design acoustic guitar. The guitar features a solid sitka spruce top with choice solid East Indian rosewood back and sides with center strip of delicate wood marquetry, carved Mahogany, low profile neck complete with ebony fingerboard and bridge and a bone nut and saddle. This creates a well defined full tone with bags of projection from the solid rosewood body ideal for fingerpicking. The guitar has vintage-style 14:1 ratio nickel-plated open-back tuners with butterbean-style buttons. It has some gorgeous cosmetic touches including full Martin D-45 style ornamentation.
Blueridge acoustic guitars are superb looking quality sounding instruments at a fraction of the cost of an American instrument. Do yourself a massive favour try one. Whenever we visit The Worlds two largest music shows Los Angeles and Frankfurt the most interesting and busy stand is Blueridge where most of the guitarists seem to hang out.
The Historic series are all solid construction with a hand made quality about them that belies the price.. A great sounding very playable guitar. Finished in natural
SpecificationThe instrument is reminiscent of pre-war highly decorated guitars. The bindings are all MOP (Mother of Pearl), the headstock inlay, also MOP, is intricate and magical, the fingerboard inlays are striking as are the abalone soundboard and sound hole inlays. There is a rather delicate wood marquetry back center strip, a "Dalmation"(light colored) tortoise pick guard, and vintage-style 14:1 gold plated tuners with Butterbean-style tuner buttons.
Select solid Sitka Spruce top with hand-carved parabolic top braces in authentic prewar forward X-pattern
Abalone border and sound hole rosette
Premium solid East Indian Rosewood back and sides with abalone pearl on all borders
Premium ebony fingerboard and bridge
Abalone position markers on fingerboard
Delicate marquetry center strip on back
Kluson style enclosed tuners with "butterbean" buttons ? richly gold plated
Nut and saddle are made from bone
Full D-45 style ornamentation
Slim mahogany neck has adjustable truss rod and 1 11/16" nut width the traditional diamond volute on back of headstock
Scale length of 25.5"
Rosewood peghead overlay with uniquie, Mother-of-pearl and abalone design on peghead
Natural high-gloss finish with aging toner for perfect vintage look
Accurate vintage-style 14:1 ratio nickel-plated open-back tuners with butterbean-style buttons
Cutaway and Electric models with Fishman Prefix Plus tranducer systems are also availabe by special order
