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I had an S-6 (solid cedar top, lam cherry b/s) , and M6 (solid spruce top, lam mahogany b/s), and still have the Artist Mosaic (solid cedar top, solid mahogany b/s) ... I liked them both, but I thought that the voice of both the S-6 and the M6 when strummed aggressively, became a little overwhelming.
Recently I sold the S-6 and gifted the M6 to my son, but I'm hanging on to my Seagull Artist Mosaic ... combined with the Quantum II electronics, it's one sweet sounding guitar!
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I think the rustic series is Seagull's best deal. It's what Seagull started out as. A concious excercise in "strip away all that doesn't matter but don't compromise anything that really does..." I've had both the dread and the mini-jumbo and probably will own the latter again someday.
bonus is short scale and slightly wider 1 23/32 fretboard, so right between 1 11/16 and 1 3/4 with the cedar top it's really responsive, and slightly overbuilt so it's rock solid |
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Wow went to class and came back with a lot of posts, cool to see some 'Gull love here.
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re:Seagull entourage
I agree that this is a fantastic little guitar(I have the parlor). I've had a Taylor 814 for years, that I absolutely love, but I wanted something both smaller and less costly for road trips and camping, and I also wanted it to have a decidedly different voice. I now have a travel guitar that I love to play and doesn't get used just for travel. It sounds especially good in alternated tunings like open and DADGAD, and it's nice to not have to constantly be retuning one guitar! I didn't win mine but it was worth paying for! It certainly won't replace my 814, but it does go to show that you don't have to spend 2K+ to get a very nice sounding guitar.
I have observed the same thing re: size/shape. Dreadnaughts are uncomfortably large for me, but the GA body of the 814, which has a smaller waist though same size large bout as a dread, is quite comfortable.
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Just got my '03 Entourage Rustic CW QIT off Craigslist about three weeks ago, and still can't put it down... What a fantastic guitar! That cedar top just sings...
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I absolutely love my Entourage. I went through a few guitars as I was starting out and learning what I wanted tone wise from my guitar. I read, here especially, a lot of great reviews for Seagull guitars. I tried the Entourage Rustic (dread) at a local shop and fell in love. I, at the time, owned a Blueridge BR-160. I had no doubt about "down grading" to the Seagull. No regrets still after 5 months. Beautiful guitar and great tone for a few Franklins.
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I currently have a seagull entourage dred, a seagull rosewood sws dred a Martin GPCPA4 and a Rainsong dred. The wood ones are all brand new, so there will be some breaking in/opening up still to come, but they all sound great so far. I don't expect my Seagull guitars to be Martins. The thing I like is that I could buy an all solid, made in canada, spruce/rosewood dred with electronics and the nice sounding easy to play cedar/cherry dred with electronics for the same price as the Martin. The all solid Maritime Seagull is easily as nice of a guitar as many guitars twice it's price.
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bone saddle
A few months ago I put a Colossi bone saddle on my old S6 and it really brightened up the sound and added substantial sustain. I sent him my original for him to copy in "antiqued" bone. Great job at a very reasonable cost and worth every penny in tone improvement. I'll probably send him the saddle from my S12 in the near future.
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[QUOTE=Matt McGriff;2990626] The wood ones are all brand new, so there will be some breaking in/opening up still to come, but they all sound great so far.[QUOTE]
The Entourage I got off Craigslist is an '03, so that cedar top has had 9 years or so to open up, and it has really aged well - what a tone! |
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Yes it does
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I had one which i sold but ye it was a nice sounding guitar
but i prefer my Yamaha FG 730S over the Seagull Entourage Mini Jumbo. |
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I might well consider getting bone for mine too then!
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Personally ive always much liked the look of a dreadnought to any other build
of acoustic guitar, its just i like that traditional look best but all to their own |