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I bought a BR-163 on impulse last year. The fake aging of the top is overdone. The nut is not cut well (spacing issue - I told you it was an impulse buy!). Will get that fixed one day. But on the positive side it is well made, has beautiful solid woods and sounds good. I quite like the distinctive headstock - separates the guitar from all the Martin clones. It's on semi-/permanent loan to my son, maybe I'll reclaim it in ten years after he's played it in!
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I sat down with a BR-143A recently at Guitar Center. I've been looking for an Adirondack top guitar and it was probably one of two with that top wood in the entire store so I had to check it out. It had a nice big sound, I guess what people call a canon. But the tone was full of chime and not too bass heavy. I liked it. Not really what I'm looking for since I'm more interested in a small body guitar and sound, as well as short scale.
If I were looking for an affordable adi top dread I'd be interested. The neck was very chunky though. Not really as comfortable as my Martins. But maybe that's just a question of adapting. The build quality feels somewhere between Eastman and Recording King. My biggest issue with Blueridge is they don't make many models with short scale. Their 000s are long scale. |
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I’ve had br43 as my couch guitar for 12 years. It works like new every time I pick it up.
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Fortunately, my favorite local shop is a Blueridge dealer. The owner once told me that Blueridge had early problems resulting from using improperly-dried tonewoods. This was likely in the company's first offerings and not the guitars made since maybe about 2005 or so when I first noticed the brand in his store. Quality since then has been good.
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I played a few in a shop recently and was underwhelmed. I'd would always prefer a Martin over an import guitar (Eastman excepted). Even the Mexican Martins have such good fundamental tone. IMO.
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Conversely I've liked every Blueridge I've played lately and have been underwhelmed by several Martin's, especially Mexican made Martin's.
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I own a Blueridge BR-43 and I have made a short video using my BR-43 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln0Ln0O4xuo However, I learned about Blueridge in the 2005-2010 and today I own a BR-43 and a BR-143. I would say that today Blueridge has improved a lot, better lacquer, better necks, better construction. And with a good setup they are hard to beat. Best of all, they have fat single note tone and they are louder than any other OM I have tried. So loud that you can bring it to a jam. The BR-143 is made of premium materials and is superior to the BR-43. But not much. The BR-43 is close and a damm good guitar. My BR-43 has survived several more expensive guitars that I have sold. My only wish for Blueridge is to change the bridge string spacing from 2 1/8 to 2 3/16 otherwise everything is just perfect. Good luck :-)
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