Alvarez MD60BG Masterworks Bluegrass Dreadnought with Gig Bag (Natural Gloss)

With clear purpose Alvarez set out to build a market leading, all-solid Dreadnought designed for the flatpicker and powerful strummer in mind. The MD60BG’s deliver on all fronts.

These superbly dressed guitars are super responsive with clear, powerful bass and sparkling trebles. It’s cosmetics pay tribute to traditional Bluegrass guitars with open gear nickel tuners, classic inlays, high quality tortoiseshell style pickguard and even a slightly extended fingerboard.

Nothing can really match a guitar made from all-solid wood. The deflection of the notes is quicker, the quality of the sound is better, you can obtain optimal response and the sound of your guitar will improve as it ages.

After 50 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of Alvarez' culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Their tone woods are carefully cured; their components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques they use are continually researched and developed, and their tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively sound box.

This caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience.

Alvarez believes their Masterworks Series is the best value all solid guitar line in the market today. Their specification is incredibly high in relation to their cost and they perform as all solid professional guitars should, with fantastic response and projection.

The term “all solid” of course refers to the guitar top, back and sides being made of solid wood rather than laminated.

However, just because the guitar is made of all solid tonewood, it only performs to its full potential when it is designed to get the best out of its materials and components. As the tops they use in Masterworks are very high quality they can make them a little thinner to heighten vibration. The radius of both the top and back are also refined to help increase volume.

Specifications

• Series: Alvarez Masterworks
• Top Wood: Solid AA Sitka Spruce
• Top Finish: Natural/Gloss
• Back & Sides Wood: Solid African Mahogany
• Neck Meets Body: 14th Fret
• Number of Frets: 21
• Overall Length (mm): 1042
• Body Width (mm): 395
• Body Depth at Heel (mm): 100
• Body Depth at Base (mm): 124
• Scale (mm): 648
• Scale (inches): 25 1/2"
• Number of frets: 21
• Nut Width (mm): 44.45
• Nut Width (inches): 1 3/4"