Blueridge BR-40 Contemporary Dreadnaught Guitar | 
 enlarge | Brand: Blueridge
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $495.00
Buy New: $315.00
You Save: $180.00 (36%)
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 16330
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.5
Dimensions (in): 41.4 x 19 x 5.9
MPN: BR-40
Model: BR-40
UPC: 688382000711
EAN: 0962327003693
ASIN: B001G7DD4G
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Solid Sitka spruce top with handcarved parabolic braces in authentic, PreWar, forward-X position | | • | Rosewood bridge and bridgeplate. Bone nut and saddle. Natural high-gloss finish. | | • | East Indian rosewood fingerboard with adjustable truss rod, carved mahogany, low profile neck and dovetail neck joint. | | • | Mahogany back and sides with M.O.P. dot markers and nickel-plated tuners. | | • | 5-ply body binding (B/W/B/W/B) |
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Product Description
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The BR-40 Blueridge guitar is certainly the workhorse of the Blueridge Contemporary line. Every detail makes for easy playability & a big, powerful tone. Features like a solid Sitka spruce top, mahogany back, sides, and peghead overlay. Gorgeous accoutrements like 5-ply body binding, mother-of-pearl inlays, and nickel-plated Kluson-style tuners. Authentic pre-war bracing ensures tone and volume just like the finest vintage guitars.
Suggested Retail Price: $495.00
* East Indian rosewood fingerboard and bridge * Dovetail neck/body joint * Ornate mother-of-pearl peghead inlay * Bone nut and saddle * Black pickguard * Accurate vintage-style 14:1 ratio nickel-plated open-back tuners with butterbean-style buttons * Nut width: 1 11/16" * Scale length: 25.5" * Shop Adjusted
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| Customer Reviews:
Great Instrument for the Money January 19, 2010
Ben Jammin (Midwest)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a music industry professional, teacher, performer, songwriter. Recent travels took me to North Carolina where I played the BR-40 and absolutely loved it. I had played dozens of guitars in showrooms along the way and this was hands down the best sounding guitar I played. I was shopping in the $1000-1500 range, but this far less expensive guitar had impressive tone. I brought a chromatic tuner and checked the fretted notes. Intonation is flawless on all but the 6th string, which becomes slightly sharp on higher frets. This is easily corrected by a decent luthier who can file the saddle to shift the end point for that string.
The appearance was very clean and the finish was nice, although not completely glassy on the top, i.e. some slight grain texture apparent in the finish. I assume they kept the coats thin on the top to keep it light and responsive. The back and sides have a great gloss that is indeed glassy and smooth. The entire guitar is very light and you can tell that the wood was shaved to a very tight tolerance. The tone is responsive and deep, with great detail. Even the fourth string rings with plenty of low-end authority.
The grafted headstock is small and nicely detailed with inlay work. The joint is on the stock itself, rather than behind the first two frets, a system that can be problematic in some instruments I've encountered. The tuners are simple, but sturdy and seem to hold tune well (I've had it less than two weeks). The body is top-bound with a single strip of black. The book-matched mahogany back is gorgeous, void free, and finished to a deep luster.
Clearly Saga musical instruments (parent company of Blue Ridge) is making a superior solid-top at an incredible price. Nothing too fancy, just all the right parts assembled well and no unnecessary frills. I played a few of these and found one that seemed superior to the others with regard to depth and presence. This guitar might actually have too much bass for a pick player. I play fingerstyle and love being able to articulate bass lines with such power. My $1000 Takamine Jumbo has become a wall hanging since this guitar came home with me! I have nicknamed it the Blue Boomer. A recent trip to the studio confirmed my suspicions. The guitar has a great voice, deep and woody without losing the character of the middle strings. High notes are clear and bright and the response seems very even. I sing in the James Taylor range and the guitar supports my voice beautifully.
Highly recommended.
Such a great guitar May 14, 2009
M. Cunning (NC, USA)
I've had one of these guitars for a few years now, and it's great. I'm a rank amateur, but have had several pros borrow it and compliment me on the rich sound, even in comparison to their preferred big name brands.
I haven't taken meticulous care of it, but the neck is still straight and have had no problems.
When I bought it, I couldn't play at all yet, so I had my friend/teacher play nearly all of them in the store. This one was the clear winner!
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