Affordable Guitar for High Humidity
I favor large body 17" Jumbo guitars, and the best sounding ones for me are all-solid-wood spruce over rosewood. However they can sound a bit muffled and wonky if the humidity gets wicked high.
My solution is to use laminated back and sides guitars for such overly humid periods. My choices for such a fall-back position consist of:
'94 Epiphone EJ-200 Jumbo
Alvarez AJ60S (16.4") Jumbo
Sigma GS-200 Jumbo
Guild F-2512 Arch-back 12 string Jumbo
Except for the Sigma which was a bit higher, the others were all at or under $500. The EJ-200 was dirt cheap, but needed quite a bit of work (+$) to restore it to playing quality. And while I have played out with all of them, the Epiphone and Sigma get a lot of alone-time play too.
My smaller Grand Concerts seem to do pretty well too.
As does the all-solid-wood spruce/maple Epiphone IBG J-200, maybe due to the maple back and sides. But it is usually a back-up. Still tinkering with it a bit. Would be open to suggestions if anyone else has any good ideas for it. It's not quite as deep as my other J-200 body guitars, like 4.5" versus 5" for other Jumbo guitars.
The Grand Orchestra is a deep Jumbo with a slightly wider waist.
I fingerpick all my guitars using my nails as picks.
Be well and play well,
Don
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*The Heard:
85 Gibson J-200 sitka/rosewood Jumbo
99 Taylor 355 sitka/sapele 12 string Jmbo
06 Alvarez AJ60S englmn/mpl lam med Jmbo
14 Taylor 818e sitka/rosewood Grand Orchestra
05 Taylor 512ce L10 all mahogany Grand Concert
09 Taylor all walnut Jmbo
16 Taylor 412e-R sitka/rw GC
16 Taylor 458e-R s/rw 12 string GO
21 Epiphone IBG J-200 sitka/maple Jmbo
22 Guild F-1512 s/rw 12 string Jmbo
Last edited by donlyn; 04-06-2024 at 01:49 AM.
Reason: proof-reading
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