Alvarez AD60LCE Left Handed Dreadnought Electric Acoustic Guitar - Natural/Gloss
At Guitar Paradise we have a great range of Alvarez acoustic guitars, available both instore and online through our webstore!
Our Artist Series Dreadnoughts are crafted to achieve outstanding levels of fit, finish, and tonal ability. They are powerful, articulate and voiced to get the best from the Dreadnought body mass through our FS6, forward-shifted, scalloped bracing system. Sonically, they have a broad projection with clear, sonorous bass frequencies and lively trebles.
The AD60Lce is a powerful, bold and open left-handed guitar constructed from all-Mahogany laminates and A+ solid, North American Sitka spruce top. It has a flawless, thin gloss finish on the top, which exudes a lustrous shine, complemented by a semi-gloss sheen on the back and sides. These features help the soundbox vibrate and respond intuitively to your playing.
This cutaway model allows for easy access up the neck and is fitted with the LR Baggs StagePro Bronze. The StagePro Bronze is a small-footprint side-mounted EQ incorporating the renowned LR Baggs Element under-saddle pickup. This is a low-profile unit with a large backlit tuner, volume, bass and treble controls and phase. The battery box is built into the end pin jack compartment for easy access with a simple push to open and change batteries.
About Artist Series
Alvarez Artist Series represents our commitment to quality and care. Our goal is to create an instant bond between you and your guitar through meticulous design in bracing, voicing and overall construction. Every component—from our bi-level bridge to our solid bridge plates and neck blocks—is carefully considered to deliver the best response possible from solid-top construction.
Artist Series guitars are responsive with impressive projection and balance that make them both rewarding and inspiring to play.
With a huge selection of body shapes and wood configurations, Artist Series has a guitar for everyone. For a more focused, woody tone, choose a Mahogany top. For a broader, more open projection, choose Sitka. For a warm response to a lighter, melodic touch, choose Cedar.
Our Approach to the Build
All of our solid tops are selected by our team and graded independently of our suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, it isn’t used. Our laminated backs and sides are uniquely constructed with Mahogany as our middle layer, and our inner and outer layers are always matched.
Artist guitars strike the right balance between strength and vibration, crafting a voice to both inspire and give players “tools in the tone.” Alongside this approach to development lies our respect for sourcing, preparation and nurturing the wood we use to make our guitars. No matter how considered design may be, it can only be as good as the wood we use to realize them.
Our all-solid wood tops, backs and sides, as well as the mahogany used for our necks, go through a curing process developed over years to create stability, strength and tonal benefits. Depending on the wood and its use, this process takes many months or even years for some of our models.
After months-long seasoning, we perform an extra drying stage in thermo-kilns to further enhance wood stability and improve resonance. We call this process ATR—Advanced Tonal Response. ATR™ is a form of torrefaction—oxygen controlled, vacuum curing at special temperatures to remove more moisture and volatiles such as saps and sugars from the wood.
Body
- Top Wood - Solid A+ Sitka Spruce
- Back and Sides Wood - African Mahogany
- Top Colour - Natural/Gloss
- Back & Sides Colour - Natural/Semi Gloss
- Bracing - FS6
Neck
- Headstock Facia - Indian Laurel
- Neck Meets Body - 14th Fret
- Number of Frets - 21
- Neck - African Mahogany
- Fingerboard - Indian Laurel
- Inlays - MOP and Arylic
Electronics
- Pick Up/EQ - LR Baggs StagePro Bronze
Hardware
- Bridge Pins - PPS Synthetic Bone
- Shape - Dreadnought
- Bridge - Bi-Level Indian Laurel
- Nut and Saddle - Bone
- Tuner - Chrome Closed Gears
- Strings - D'Addario XTAPB1255
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