The Loar LH-204-BR Acoustic Guitar

The Loar are known for their range of very high quality hand made musical instruments - obviously at this price the Brownstone is not a hand made model but it's , having a solid Sitka spruce top and mahogany back/side. The brown satin finish is just beautiful and makes this guitar a real looker. It's an 00 scale guitar and looks like a 1920-1930 acoustic that should be on the knee of a blues man. The Brownstone doesn't come with a gig bag or hard case - having seen this guitar, you probably won't want anything less than a hard case to protect it - I found it difficult to get the information I needed on the dimensions of the guitar, but with a bit of research, found an Epiphone 940-EL0CS L-00 case that fits the guitar beautifully and offers a high level of protection for it. Perfect.Out of the box the guitar sounded great, had good intonation and the build quality was superb too - obviously the guitar hadn't been anything other than factory set-up and the action was just a little bit too high for comfort - I got this adjusted locally for me by a guitar tech who set the action perfectly for my playing style. With the default D'addario EJ16 strings, this guitar has lots of thick, dark bluesy and rock tones - it is actually very loud for its size - and the guitar tech tells me that the sound will get even better as the wood matures. It's a great guitar to play, it's a great guitar to look at, and the value is simply stunning - I've played acoustics costing twice the price of this one which don't look or sound as good or even have the high build quality of this one. Recommended...

This guitar is amazing. I have had probably about a dozen guitars in my time, and I would honestly say this is the first one I have ever felt was perfect from the moment I picked it up. It is comfortable, with a mid-size body and a wide-ish but not especially thick neck (I have quite big hands and this suits me). The sound is really nicely balanced, and does both finger-style and plectrum stuff really well. I have heard a few people say that the set up was not so good on theirs. I seem to have been lucky: the truss could perhaps do with the minorist of tweaks, but I doubt I'll even bother as mine plays really well.Finally, it looks magnificent. I think the only change I will make is to pop in some cream coloured string pegs, at the cost of two quid.Thoroughly recomended.