I used to own an all solid Maton 808TE. I unfortunately had to sell it and recently went to buy another, out of curiosity I decided to try some of the other guitars in the 808 series they had and ended up walking away with the cheapest of the 4 I tried. The 808L has a solid Cedar top and lam walnut back and sides. Despite it being laminate, to my ears it sounded better than the 3 all solid Matons I tried.
People just love to hate on laminate because it can be associated with cheapness, I also find a lot of guitarists are to proud to admit that sometimes an all solid guitar isnt the best of them.......their loss is my gain in this case.
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