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Old 05-20-2019, 06:14 PM
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So many great suggestions. Cliche as it is to say, you do have to do your own due diligence; I was never a fan of a mahogany guitar until my custom shop Martin 00-18.
It spread to a Sinker 0000, then to an OM-18 Sinker from the Martin custom shop.

My wife has a great ear; she agreed with me that this OM-18 stands toe-to-toe with a really excellent (and expensive) custom 000-42 I bought and ultimately sold. The aesthetics were lovely, but closing my eyes and opening my ears found a guitar I'll likely never sell.

So that isn't to say an entirely different wood set wouldn't appeal to you more. Maybe it's Adi and BRW, perhaps Sitka and mahogany. As a side note, I recently played the Reimagined OM-28 with Sitka and EIR and I thought it played and sounded excellent.
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