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| | Features | All-solid wood construction, including solid Adirondack spruce top. Handcarved parabolic top braces in authentic, PreWar, forward-X patternMaple bridgeplate. Bone nut and saddle. High-gloss finish with aging toner for perfect vintage look.Carved, solid mahogany, low profile neck with adjustable truss rod & dovetail neck joint and nickel-plated tuners.Select, solid East Indian rosewood back, sides bridge and fingerboard with PreWar "split diamond" abalone snowflake markers.Delicate wood marquetry backstrip and white body binding.
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| | Description | Saga once again looks back in history to unlock the secrets to what features truly make a great guitar. We have decided to raise the bar for production guitars by offering three Solid Adirondack spruce top Historic Blueridge guitars to its already popular line of dreadnaughts. Long known for its rich fullness of tone and clarity at all dynamic levels, Adirondack has always been the primary wood used by many of the great pre-war American guitar manufacturers, as well as smaller custom makers of today. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 42.51 inches | | Product Width: | 18.5 inches | | Product Height: | 4.5 inches | | Product Weight: | 6.6 pounds | | Package Length: | 44.0 inches | | Package Width: | 19.5 inches | | Package Height: | 5.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 7.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Good guitar for the money May 18, 2011
By Egldriver
"Egldriver"
The price of this seemed to be lower than normal and I had read glowing reviews on this guitar on the various guitar forums. So I took a chance of ordering a guitar on line. Amazon was awesome as usual as far as delivery speed. It arrived very well packed. Fit and finish are very good, I noticed a few very small dimples on the back but not significant. Interior bracing etc well done. Rosewood is beautiful, the finish is really smooth and glossy. It looks like a more expensive instrument. An important note, the headstock is not the gaudy one in the Amazon picture. This is the Br-160A2, which is a newer model with 1 3/4 nut and a much plainer headstock. For me, if it was not one of the newer ones, it was going back. I think if Saga went with less bling on the headstock they would be selling more guitars. This one has the less ornate version and I like it.
I read that Adirondack tops take a while to break in. The guitar was very tight sounding right out of the box. Kinda tinny. As a side note, I had read about this thing called a tone rite that accelerates the break in process on guitars. I alse read that an aquarium pump and a way to attach it to the strings is a rough equivilent to the $150 tone rite. So I invested $6 in a pump and some rubber grommets and gave it three days on the guitar. I also switched out the strings to medium PB's. I am happy to say the the guitar is already mellowing out. It is clear, loud with a great bass and shiny trebles. Lots of harmonics, setup is spot on. Intonation perfect. Lets face it, people that buy this are trying to get a poor mans Martin Marquis. This thing is really close, not as dead ringer but close. I would say the only thing stopping it from the Martin tone is the trebles are still a little tinny on the high E. But as time goes on, that seems to be subsiding, and I have only had it a week. Overall I would have to say that this was a good purchase, for the money you can't go wrong. Martin purist don't like this guitar because you are getting very close to the same result for about 6 times less. The fact that these seem to be sold out everywhere is an indication of their worth.
 Intermediate $$$, Professional Tone Jul 19, 2011
By rooster
After lots of research, I narrowed my choices to the Blueridge BR-160A and the BG-160. I had played a BR-160A, but I couldn't find a BG-160 for comparison. So I went with the known BR-160A.
I have a 15 year old Yamaha f-310 that is my beginners guitar. This BR-160A feels very similar with the skinny neck. The Yamaha is a bit more comfortable to play. The Blueridge feels a bit sharp on the edges of the neck. But tone and quality far surpass the old laminate guitar.
Also, I purchased the Saga Golden Gate Premier arched top Case for Blueridge Dreadnaught Guitars and it fits like a glove. Got it for $44 from amazon.
Positives: Intermediate pricing, good quality, great tone. I was a little apprehensive about ordering from Amazon and getting the factory setup rather than professional setup. Guitar arrived in perfect condition and factory setup is great. Intonation good, action good with slight drag on high strings. I'll probably take it in for professional setup at some point, but nothing critical.
Negatives: Tuners feel weak, skinny neck, frets feel high. Grain pattern in the particular guitar that I received is not as striking as some of the others that I have seen. I guess this is a risk you take when you buy a guitar sight unseen.
Great guitar for the bucks Jun 24, 2011
By Bob
"Bob"
If there's a better guitar for the price, I don't know of it. Mine came without a great setup but a new set of strings and a little adjusting of the tension rod has it in pretty good shape. I couldn't be happier, I've played a lot of Martins and this Blueridge is just nearly as good for a fraction of the price.
Great value and excellent build, Love it! Mar 23, 2011
By Stevec77
I just recently purchased a Blueridge 160A and was surprised with the quality of the guitar both tonewise and aesthetically. The bracing inside is pristine without a speck of glue or rough unfinished edges. The tone is in the class of some guitars Ive sampled at guitar center costing $2000. The difference is primarily the lack of a USA brand name or high dollar boutique label( I believe it is a polyurethane finish as opposed to nitrocelluose on some more expensive guitars). I've owned an expensive Laravee Rosewood dreadnaught (sold it)and it did not resonate with the punch and clarity of this guitar. Nice setup out of the box. Killer tone. New Guitar smell...ahhhhhhh
Had the guitar two weeks now and discovered the harder I play it the better it sounds,wow. The soundboard comes alive under attack. Clear and solid voice...great punch. Exactly what I was looking for.
1 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Made Okay, in CHINA Sep 18, 2011
By Don Lewis
Please stop yelling about prejudice, I can hear it already, read and learn something from an analytical perspective. In spite of other reviews that seem so positive I am not going along. Blueridge? Thoughts of east coast mountain range workmanship? Well, "east" is all that is in common with that visualization. The product was shipped in a very thin cardboard box without any other protection. No foam stand-offs, no case, just a plastic bag. However, there was no shipping damage by virtue of luck. I might be wrong but the cardboard appears to be made from the same type of light-yellow pulp I see coming out of China all the time. This begs the question, "Are they even inspected in the U.S?" The guitar seems made alright; I returned it so I can't give any long term feedback. Mentioning's elsewhere of short term failure of the string tensioning hardware doesn't surprise me. Significantly lighter in weight by comparison to a Taylor of same size and style. This product is way too expensive for what you are getting. I am an engineer of significant experience in manufacturing and the mechanical engineering disciplines and guess what? I am NOT a musician. It may sound fine and may feature a specific mix of woods but how long will it last? I purchased this guitar as a gift for someone I love very much. I wanted to give her something that would last a lifetime and be a pleasure to have. In my opinion this product might be okay for someone who is on a strange type of budget, as a starter instrument or as a "beater" to use when you're out camping. If you are serious and want to have a solidly engineered and durable instrument, look elsewhere. HINT: If the guitar was NOT dirt cheap to produce wouldn't you, if you were the manufacturer or distributor, at least protect it better for shipment? In other words, I think this instrument is so cheap to produce that they can easily trash and replace them than worry about repair. Sounds like a high profit margin to me. I wonder how well the workers are paid. Finally, the beauty of individual observation and opinion is that an outsider (in this case not a musician) might have a perspective that other buyers who are not musicians might appreciate.
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