Parlour for £500-£600??

[Stevieb76]

These are amazing in my opinion. I did eventually sell mine, but only because the nut was slightly too wide. Check the spec's though. For the money, superb:

http://www.classical-guitars-plus.co...Parlour+Guitar

[bertie]

These are amazing in my opinion. I did eventually sell mine, but only because the nut was slightly too wide. Check the spec's though. For the money, superb:

http://www.classical-guitars-plus.co...Parlour+Guitar

check the spec of the Mariner Cutter.........for over £200 less !!

[Stevieb76]

Mariner sounds great too. Couldn't find the full spec, but amazing what you can get for the money these days with acoustics. Would still go for the Blueridge though if the £200 extra was not an issue:

Mariner Cuter:
Solid Cedar
Solid Paulownia back and sides
Nato neck with slot headstock
(One-piece neck shaft and headstock)
Sonokeling fingerboard and bridge
Maple binding with Mother of Pearl purfling
Bone (46mm) nut and bridge saddle

Blueridge BR341
Solid Sitka spruce top with X-pattern bracing
Solid mahogany back and sides
Ebony fingerboard and pyramid-style bridge
Mahogany neck with traditional slotted peghead
Bone nut and saddle
Dark tortoise binding wtth matching soundhole rings
Nickel-plated high-quality tuners with black plastic buttons
Slotted headstock embossed Blueridge on back
Nut width: 1 7/8"
Scale Length: 24.6"
Natural high-gloss finish

[bertie]

Ive played the Mariner and it, - really impressed me, very light and quite powerful. The neck was even for me, just a tad narrow.
One of my guitars is the Faith parlor and its about the same price point as the Blueridge, tho I was lucky enough to get it used from another forumite, for less than 1/2 that !! It is very percussive, and quite loud,

Ive not played the BR parlor but I did play a few of their other models when they 'first' got popular over here (6 or 7 years ago) in Hobgoblin, TBH they were more bling than bang......very heavily built......very much a Martin copy/clone.......

[streethawk]

I play a Tanglewood tw45 (I think).

Cedar top, super jumbo(?) or super folk size. Complete misnomer, they're pretty dinky!

Very comfortable for slobbing around and fingerpicking, has a cutaway and onboard tuner/preamp.

Cheap too.