saga dg-370 dorado schmitt

harrye

i am thinking of purchasing one of these to upgrade from my cheap aria. Could people please share their experiences with this guitar?

thanks

andmer

It's a pretty good instrument. I like it a lot.

Has a great sound to it, plays real nice, pretty loud. A lot better than the D-500, the only other Gitane I've played. You should replace the bridge with a Dupont and get it setup properly and you'll be good to go.

You will probably need a #4 bridge if you get one anything like the one I saw and it will still need shimming to get up to ~3mm. For some reason (neck angle/top/fingerboard thickness?(i'm not a luthier)) the bridge really needs a lot more height than normal to get up to an adequate action for proper tone/volume.

Jazzaferri

Shimming a bridge is not the best thing to do to generate good tone.

andmer

Jazzaferri wrote:

Shimming a bridge is not the best thing to do to generate good tone.

probably, but it is not an uncommon occurrence.

Jazzaferri

Unfortunately you are too correct in that one

Unlike flattops which I gather produce sound from a rocking motion, Archtops and Selmac style guitars transmit all the energy in the vertical plane so one loses a bit of tone in shimming process.