Can you buy a good acoustic for $200?

[hardycreek1]

Just curious as to what your experience has been. I've been impressed with what Yamaha can do for $200. Are there others out there? Alvarez?

[JakeStone]

Originally Posted by hardycreek1

Just curious as to what your experience has been. I've been impressed with what Yamaha can do for $200. Are there others out there? Alvarez?

I have had a couple of Alvarez and they are really nice for $200 (if they are on sale). Check Musicians Friend and Music 123.

Love my AP66SB parlor ($199 on sale).
I had a AD60 too... It needed a set up which I did myself...maybe some new grover tuners down the road. But it sounded and played great. (I sold it to fund my Alvarez MD60 Masterworks Dread) ..

[gerardo1000]

Maybe not for $200, but for around $250 it is possible to find brand new Alvarez or Ibanez acoustic guitars very well made, with solid tops and a good sound.

[chitz]

I think you can still get Yamaha FG-700 for $200.
There's a few other solid top guitars out there that I can't remember.

Others will chime in on those.

[Nyghthawk]

The Yamaha in my signature was purchased (a gift) during a President's Day sale in February of 2015 for $179. It is solid spruce over laminate sapele. Sounds pretty good for that price!

[kaos]

Originally Posted by chitz

I think you can still get Yamaha FG-700 for $200.
There's a few other solid top guitars out there that I can't remember.

Others will chime in on those.

The whole 700 series is being phased out. You don't need to pay $200 for an FG700. The FG800 is $200, if the shop still has FG700s ... make a lower offer. And if they won't bite ... get the 800. A much better guitar IMO.

Bob.

[Rosewood99]

Define good.

[Realbluesman]

An Alvarez ARD70 12 fret dreadnought with slotted headstock...MF SDOD!

[hardycreek1]

Good = something you can take on road trips or play at the beach without worrying about messing up a $2,000 guitar.

IN other words, a "disposable" guitar that doesn't hurt your ears.

[J45HD28]

I essentially bought my Gibson AJ for under $200, but there's a back story to that. So yes, you can get a great guitar for $200.

[Ralph124C41]

Under $200 is where (sadly) I've been living. For that price I'd recommend, as others said, a Yamaha FG?FS800 or an Alvarez if you can get them for sale. However, you can get right now a Yamaha AD30 for that price. It's cosmetically a no-frills model but it does have a bone nut and saddle while the Yamaha has a urea nut and saddle.

Or you should be able to get one of the discontinued Yamaha FG/FD 700 series for a good discount, just ask and point out the models are discontinued and you expect a fire sale soon. I'd still get the 800 series because of the scalloped bracing.

Sometimes you can get Alvarez models for great sale prices. I got my AJ80 jumbo for half off the street price. It was either that of the AD66 model and I wish I had gotten that one too.

I'm not mentioning used models unless you can get one yourself and check it out; if not, I'd advise buying one from a person or site with a liberal return policy.

[Rosewood99]

Originally Posted by hardycreek1

Good = something you can take on road trips or play at the beach without worrying about messing up a $2,000 guitar.

IN other words, a "disposable" guitar that doesn't hurt your ears.

I would recommend the recording king RP-06 though it would have to be used. And hurting your ears could vary widely to each person.

[gerardo1000]

If you strum the Yamaha is OK, but if you play finger style, I would not recommend them because not only they have a very narrow string spacing at the nut, they also have the narrowest string spacing at the bridge.

[Guitartanzon]

you could buy my Loar lh200 sunburst for $ 200 plus 45.oo to ship.
super nice action....very easy to play.....sound great with martin retros.
have too many guitars and another is on the way...

see
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guita...coustic-guitar

[Ralph124C41]

That's a good deal. However, I don't know if the OP has a size or wood preference.