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Suhr Classic S - $3,000 (Nashville)
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Perfect in every way. Sonic Blue...my favorite. This is a professional guitar.
The build quality on this guitar is excellent...better than custom shop guitars I've played or owned. I mean exceptional and I have been playing since Mar 11 1991 and was a luthier's apprentice. Everything on this guitar is flawless. The quartersawn neck/ headstock has stunning flecking. Quartered wood is more stable than plain sawn wood. These are the best neck pocket joints I have ever seen on an S type. The neck is smooooooooth with wonderfully rolled edges. Oh, and the fretwork! This is actually my first guitar with stainless steel frets...wow! Flawless
I bought this guy, (this one's a male), at the end of June from Wildwood Guitars in Colorado. It is as close to new as you can get. There are only a few very light pick marks on the pickguard. Full Stop!
It has balanced tone pickups and the passive noiseless technology really works (unlike Fender's "noiseless" pickups). Specs for the P/Us are: Position 1 (bridge) 8.50 k; 2. 3.69 k; 3. 6.42 k; 4. 3.46 k; 5. 6.48 k Ohms, of course. Neck specs and weight: .80" at 1st fret: .93" at 12th fret: 1.650" nut: 8.02 lbs.
The Gotoh 510 trem bridge is rather nice...nicer than anything you can get on a Fender. It all stays in tune without a soul-sucking Floyd Rose. And even though one screws on the trem arm like a Fender bridge, it's angled so you can do so even when you're plugged in.
Other companies have tried treeless headstocks, but they failed. Suhr maintained the correct break angle on each string.
The rosewood fretboard on this is very warm and inviting. The carved heels and contours allow you to get up in the pocket more comfortably like modern Strats, but this one maintains four symmetrical screws, not offset.
As gig bags go, it's a very nice one with compartments and straps. I have heard that some people prefer gig bags, I just don't know any. But, there it is, that's what it comes with from the factory.
I have this set up with new Ernie Ball Super Slinkies (9s) and 3.5/64" action at the 12th fret. I lowered the bridge to 3/32" from the body to make less overall string tension (nerve damage and arthritis in my playing arm/hand demand that I have 'loose' feeling strings)
Have you ever owned a guitar that seems to 'autotune' for you, and I'm not referring to the locking tuners which do exactly as the name suggests and stay in tune. I'm referring to a guitar that somehow cheats your tone for you. Many times whilst playing this feller I noticed that if I were a millimeter off in my fretting, the guitar seemed to move my fingers to the right spot. THAT is the mark of a well made guitar. The compound radius ( 9-12") and the neck shape and the fretwork and the satin neck finish all allow you to play that chord, riff, lick with aplomb without having to wring the notes out of it.
Now, one may ask, why, if you think the guitar is so great, are you wanting to sell it? You may well ask. If I were younger I wouldn't. If I didn't have medical issues, I wouldn't. If I weren't going to be the caregiver to a family member with Alzheimer's, I wouldn't. But, I need space and money and this guitar is too nice for me. I'm too clumsy. I'm getting old. I'll keep my three guitars that I can beat up and who have scars on them and who know me well, and I them, and we'll let you younger, better players have the nice guitar.