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Old 08-31-2019, 06:46 AM
Llewlyn Llewlyn is offline
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Default Recommendation for my first jazz box

I would like to dive deeper into jazz and was thinking of buying an archtop w following considerations:

- Price range around $1500.
- I play exclusively with my fingertips.
- I am not very comfortable with 1 11/16 at nut and prefer 1 3/4 ish.
- I am looking for mellow, jazz, warm tone rather rocky/country overdrived tone.
- It is desirable, but not mandatory, that the guitar is "loud" and nice unplugged.

From a quick google search I was gravitating around:

Peerless Martin Taylor Virtuoso
because it's fingerstyle designed but doesn't seem to be popping around the "best jazz box"

Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin CW II
On the contrary, this is ubiquitous among reviewers, but I've heard that the sound is rather thin.

Clearly will go to shops and A/B test as many as I can.

What guitar would you recommend me to add to my list and what do you think of the twos above?

Ll.
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