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There are $600 Taylors and Martins. There are $850 solid wood new Larrivees. There are $950 solid wood Martins.
If I wanted a $400 (or less) beater; I would buy a Yamaha.
If I wanted a $1000 solid wood guitar, I would buy a Martin or a Larrivee.
I'm biased. I have several Martin's and a Taylor and a Larrivee.
The imports with the really heavy gloss coat look dicey to me. It's like the one-shot thick poly that Fender uses on import acoustics....takes forever to open. The shell work on the head stocks of the better Blueridge guitars is a bit much for me.
Where do you get them serviced? If you kept a Blueridge for 10 years and it needed a neck reset is the guitar just a throw-away?
My only used guitar is a 100% solid wood Taylor 214. I paid $500 cash used (in minty condition) with a hard case.
I think that if you are spending more than $500 on an acoustic, you shop domestic be it new or used.
John
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