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Old 10-20-2016, 05:48 PM
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If you buy direct from Yunzhi Guitars or Mr. Wu guitars in China you can get an outstanding solid wood, hand carved archtop for around $1000. IMHO, they are better than the excellent Eastman guitars in terms of nitro finish and they are not quite so bright sounding generally. Eastman certainly has better hardware. Also, with Yunzhi and Mr. Wu you can specify things like nut width, inlays, binding, et al. which you can't do on an Eastman.

Though I have not played one, if you buy an $800 big box store laminate archtop, you are unlikely to get a guitar that will function well as an acoustic instrument. It will probably also have other issues.
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