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As part of my recent move to Devon I am now guitarless. I am thinking this might be a good time to finally get a half decent acoustic.

I really like the look of the Sigma S000M15 but it's a good bit more than I have to spend at the minute.

I'm thinking therefore that the mahogany version of the V300, which gets good reviews everywhere, might be what to go for.

Before I pull the trigger on one of these, does anyone have anything that I need to know or any other ideas?

i have the regular v300 in matt finish and cannot recommend it enough, especially for around 130 nicker

very nice neck and playability out the box, and after i paid for an action adjustment it plays wonderfully. it lends itself very well to fingerpicking and has a nice clear tone and string separation, probably helped by the size and 14th fret join. not boxy either. i can imagine mahogany works very well too

I was hoping you'd pop up as I was sure it was you who'd bought one recently.

Think I'll go for this, thanks.

good choice. stock strings are crap though so i'd say straight away have a set of elixir nanoweb phosphor bronze (in my personal opinion) to put on it, or maybe 80/20s might work better with mahogany. they really brought mine to life

Around the same price, but a different kettle of fish - I recently got the Fender CP-100 parlour guitar for my birthday. I wanted a nice small acoustic as I've never got on too well with them in the past, and have always played electric. It sounds really nice, and is a good volume for living room practice.

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Do not want an acoustic, but do want a diddy little Scottish man like him.

timhulio wrote:Around the same price, but a different kettle of fish - I recently got the Fender CP-100 parlour guitar for my birthday. I wanted a nice small acoustic as I've never got on too well with them in the past, and have always played electric. It sounds really nice, and is a good volume for living room practice.

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I tried all three(Vintage, Sigma and Fender) in the shop and I liked Fender the best. Sigma and Vintage was too warm or even a bit deaf to me, they don't have the depth of dreadnought body and they are not bright, especially when you play with fingers. Fender has a little bit smaller body, but it has good sound, again there is no depth of dreadnought but there is enough body to have bright and full sound, I think it's a perfect guitar to strum in the kitchen while your family watching TV in another room and I guess it's great for fingerpicking blues. Impressions of the finish and how guitar was build were positive. By the way I tried Gretsch Jim Dandy and after Fender it was not the guitar at all - it sounded very boxy and felt in general like a toy of not very good quality for a boy who wants to stay and mimic his father who plays his real guitar.

timhulio wrote:Around the same price, but a different kettle of fish - I recently got the Fender CP-100 parlour guitar for my birthday. I wanted a nice small acoustic as I've never got on too well with them in the past, and have always played electric. It sounds really nice, and is a good volume for living room practice.

Oooh. I was just about to buy one of those. Have never particularly got on with acoustics myself but wanted something small (ish) and quiet (ish) for messing about with. The holiday house I rented in the summer had a fairly nice Yamaha acoustic in it but I wanted something smaller.

Love the Scottish chap in the demo too.

timhulio wrote:Around the same price, but a different kettle of fish - I recently got the Fender CP-100 parlour guitar for my birthday. I wanted a nice small acoustic as I've never got on too well with them in the past, and have always played electric. It sounds really nice, and is a good volume for living room practice.

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Wow, I actually really like this.. and it's like £140?? Might have to snag one at some point.

That chap is lovely too, it's like a gear demo by Ivor Cutler.

So I got a decent deal on a Sigma 000M-15 on ebay. It's not the fanciest Sigma that they do, but I didn't want fancy and it worked out about the same price as I would have been getting the Vintage for. As an added bonus the seller lived fairly close by, so a Sunday night hammering up and down the motorway means that I now have my lovely new guitar.

I don't know if it's any nicer than the Vintage, but it is gorgeous. Really lively sound. I was half worried that a tiny guitar made of mahogany would have no bass on account of its size and no treble either on account of its wood, but I like this very much. It's a little bit louder than I expected too. I sort of thought this sort of thing was suitable for practising in the middle of the night but this is definitely loud enough to be head next door.

Fret wire looks to be vintage rather than modern, which suits me better. The only thing that I'm not entirely sold on is that the nut material looks a bit plasticy, like it might be made from recycled carrier bags or something, but this isn't something that is going to bother me. It sounds brilliant.

EDIT: Nut is made of bone, apparently.

I've played one - I was trying out some Martins and this was the equivalent Sigma model and I wanted to see how bit the difference was. I really liked it TBH, it compared well - HNGD

benecol wrote:Do not want an acoustic, but do want a diddy little Scottish man like him.

Tell me about it. The accent makes me want to rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr all my Rs. Fiddle with my Rs.