Took my AP70 from good to great

[featherhead]

Long time lurker, but first (discussion) post. Just wanted to say thanks for a great community.

Anyway, the few guitars I've had have been exclusively 000 size and I'd been itching for a GA for a long while. Well I picked up an Alvarez AP70 a while ago for a little over $200 for a couch guitar to play after my toddler is in bed and as holdover until I could save up for a GA I really wanted.

I was pretty blown away as I'd never really played anything that small and was expecting thin and twangy, not the sweet sounding guitar I got. It's definitely made me re-evaluate getting a grand auditorium as the ones I've played (and dreads) since getting the AP70 have made me really miss the definition and feel of a smaller body. I guess I've just always fallen for the stereo type that small bodies were I'll suited for strumming (though I am not a hard strummer.

All that to say, I decided to take it into the shop to see if they could widen the string spacing at the saddle and I'm very pleased with the results. Big thanks to Brad at Guitar Technical Services in Tulsa, he got it out to a hair over 2 1/4 with room to spare. Absolutely loving it.

Here are a couple of pics of the results

[johbren]

Just got my ap70 a couple weeks ago. Big voice in such a small package.

1. Your pictures are too large. Make 'em a bit smaller to conform to our screen sizes.

2. There's a misconception that seems to abound around guitar circles that anything smaller than a dread has thin bass, or sounds boxy, or sound anemic. But guitars were smaller for longer than they have been larger. I've gotten used to the 00 size and now, to me, they have just the right tone for what I play, which is a pretty wide range of music.

[featherhead]

Ok that should be better