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Old 01-13-2020, 08:13 PM
swampyankee swampyankee is offline
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Default Dread shopping

Since quitting the band, I've been getting back to my acoustic roots. At this point I'm playing a 000C-16GTE I bought close to 20 years ago, and an 80s Washburn mahogany lam dread I picked up for kicking around.
I like my 000 for fingerpicking and such but I like a dread for that bottom end and resonance, and the Wash has that, sort of but a nice solid wood dread would be so much more.
I've been checking out the offerings in my $1500 1800 budget, and trying to decide what's the best bang for my bucks. I like the idea of either a D18 or J45, and I could possibly afford a used one of either. I went down to GC and tried one of each - brand new of course. I think the J45 edged out the D18 for playability.
But there are so many other guitars to try, and the sage advice is to try as many as possible. But GC put most of the other stores out of business around here, so opportunities to try stuff is slim.

How do you go about finding that "one" with such limited chances at hand?
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