What's special about Washburns?

[wingsdad]

... For the price washburn has some real nice Guitars and Mandolins, you get good quality Instruments for the price of cheaper guitars.

+1, magoo : I've had a number of Washburn & Oscar Schmidt acoustics & electrics. At this point, these 3 diverse instruments fill roles in my bag o' tricks:

Simply-put, a great Korean-made chambered semi-solid mahogany body/solid spruce top nylon string acoustic/electric, the NV100C is meant to be a plug n' play for direct recording or live apps. With sealed gear/adjustable tension tuners you don't often find on a classical, a bolt-on adjustable pitch neck, contoured back & heel and a B-Band A3.2 preamp/UST, with surprising unplugged volume & tone, essentially because of the bridge design, similar to a Tacoma. I A-B'd it against an Ibanez Exotic Wood (Bubinga body) thin-bodied classical last week, & the Chinese Ibanez failed miserably. This was under $500 new:


I'd had an Oscar Schmidt A-style a/e mando that ran about $150, but moved up to this superb all-solid wood (maple & spruce) Korean-made F-style Mando, the M6SW "Jethro Burns" model. Less than $700 new. I've A-B'd it against a Gibson at 3X the price, and the Gibson loses in volume and tone:


Oscar Schmidt, the 'economy' brand of the Washburn/US Music family, makes great Ukuleles. If anyone is thinking of plinking one of these little guys, this Indonesian all Koa (laminate) OU-6 Tenor model replaced a smaller Koa/spruce (laminate) Chinese model I'd had, the OU-3. Less than $250 new, the longer scale of the tenor is easier to handle and gives more range:


These 3 quality instruments for a total of around $1,400 pack a tremendous bang for the buck.

[Childbride]

Robert... it's one of those things you have to Play, you can't necessarily Explain.

i invite you anytime to our neck of the woods to play the herd, and then you'd Know.

don't get me wrong; i dearly, dearly love Odyssey, and the D'aquisto.

but i lack the words to tell you how the others speak in their own voices, and they sing a Symphony.

and how at the end of a day, when i come in from out of county and get home around seven, that picking up Storm
[the 12-er my husband acquired for me from Rocket] or Savage [the ea20 we acquired from Strummy] just puts all the jigsaw puzzle pieces Back in Place in my head.

[edit: (wince) i forgot Autumn... my very first Washie... and darned if that solid top isn't opening up. that girl can Sing. ]

they are beautiful, great sounding guitars.

and the people i've met since i've started this journey on that forum are Priceless, and True, Truest Friends.

k