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Alvarez MD60EBG Masterworks Acoustic/Electric Bluegrass Guitar with Gigbag

   
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With clear purpose we set out to build a market leading, all-solid Dreadnought designed for the flatpicker and powerful strummer in mind. The MD60BG’s deliver on all fronts.

These superbly dressed guitars are super responsive with clear, powerful bass and sparkling trebles. It’s cosmetics pay tribute to traditional Bluegrass guitars with open gear nickel tuners, classic inlays, high quality tortoiseshell style pickguard and even a slightly extended fingerboard.

Nothing can really match a guitar made from all-solid wood. The deflection of the notes is quicker, the quality of the sound is better, you can obtain optimal response and the sound of your guitar will improve as it ages.

However, just because the guitar is made of all solid tonewood, it only performs to its full potential when it is designed to get the best out of its materials and components. As the tops we use in Masterworks are very high quality we can make them a little thinner to heighten vibration. The radius of both the top and back are also refined to help increase volume.

Each guitar is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together. These components include our FST2 bracing system, bi-level rosewood /Pau Ferro extended bridge, real bone nut and saddle, carefully seasoned tonewood and a thin finish.

FST2 is a forward shifted X brace design, this means the axis of the X is closer to the sound hole and therefore creates a larger soundboard area allowing for more energy and vibration to be harnessed. Both the X braces and asymmetric tone bars are carefully scalloped. The scalloping design was the result of years of continual development in our Yairi workshops.

The Masterworks personality is open and powerful. FST2 also creates very good balance so both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other. All of our tops are selected by our team and graded independently of our suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, we won’t use it. Top quality in Masterworks is at least AA grade.

Along with a more angled headstock, our bi-level bridge increases string tension by making the break angel of the strings from the saddle to the top more acute. Improved string tension adds to our sound, feel and response, which are also heightened by the use of real bone nuts and saddles.

Masterworks Series also demonstrates our great finishing capabilities; the gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible, again to help optimize tone.



Specs:

  • Series: Alvarez Masterworks
  • Top Wood: Solid AA Sitka Spruce
  • Back & Sides Wood: Solid African Mahogany
  • Shape: Dreadnought
  • Neck: One piece mahogany, 50/50 Semi gloss finish
  • Bracing System: FST2M - Forward Shifted, Scalloped X
  • Bridge: Bi-Level Pau Ferro/Indian Laurel
  • Inlays: Paua Abalone & Mother of Pearl
  • Fingerboard: Pau Ferro / Indian Laurel Extended
  • Nut & Saddle: Real Bone
  • Tuner: Nickel Open Gear
  • Binding: Herringbone
  • Bridge Pins: Ebony
  • Strings: D'Addario EXP16
  • Accessory: Alvarez Hardshell Wood Case (USA Only)
  • Pickup / EQ: LR Baggs VTC
  • Overall Length (mm)1042
  • Body Width (mm)395
  • Body Depth at Heel (mm)100
  • Body Depth at Base (mm)124
  • Scale (mm)648
  • Scale (inches)25 1/2"
  • Number of frets21
  • Nut Width (mm)44.45
  • Nut Width (inches)1 3/4"