This is a review for two guitars which I picked up about a month apart. I cant seem to get enough of these Maple S&Ps!Guitar A has the classic maple sound - tight and bright. Like most S&P higher end dreads, this thing is loud, but not like a cannon. This guitar will cut through in an acoustic jam with it's rich clarion tone and timbre. Deluxe Pokemon Crackhead more. It also has a shorter scale at about 24.8' which makes for noticeably less pressure on the finger tips. It fells like I've tuned down a quarter step or more even though it doesn't have super low action. Haven't done a serial number inquiry, but I would guess that this is one of their earlier Showcase guitars.

Sealed tuning machines with white pearloid buttons (which I've always liked).Guitar B has a warmer and more bassy tone. Has the standard 25.5' scale but still plays like butter with it's low action.

Simon & Patrick 6 CW CEDAR - ' own grave and deep, captivating medium, acute rich harmony' translated. Mine has no serial number, the date is unclear, but it has at least 15 years. The woods are of high quality surely massive, the table is made of cedar, back and eclipses are cherry, the neck piece mahogany and. Simon Patrick Serial Number Yamaha Guitar serial numbers – dating your guitar. Information gathered from the web: Serial numbers on Yamaha guitars repeat every ten years due to the way they are formed. Simon & Patrick SP6 This is a nice dreadnaught guitar from Simon & Patrick, a Canadian company. By the serial number it seems that it was made in 1999.

I like the sound of this guitar a bit better because of it's balance. It's definitely one of their more recent Showcase runs. This one has brass-colored, high ratio, open gear tuner.Both came with factory installed bone nuts and saddles.

Both have very nice even grained solid spruce tops and gorgeous highly figured and flamed solid maple backs.The two could not sound more different, yet both sound and play great in their own right. Solid construction but sometimes there are minor things that bug me. Introduction Loudspeaker Design Murphy Pdf Creator. For example, recently I used a camera to look inside all my guitars to note construction differences like bracing patterns.

I was a little taken aback to find that the carving of the braces in all my S&Ps was pretty sloppy, Rough edges and unfinished looking, I doubt any of the sloppyness affects the sound or performance of the guitars, but it does make me think less of the manufacturer for letting little things like this pass. Another, is that that every S&P I've ever owned (and I have owned 5 of them, all top of the line models) eventually develops an ever so slight hump on the fretboard/neck where the neck joins the body. None of my guitars have ever buzzed because of this phenomenon, but it just annoys me because I know the imperfection is there.Still, I've owned five s&Ps, so what does that tell you about how much these imperfections really bother me? Simon & Patrick guitars are still one of the best deals going in the guitar world. Where else can you find North American-made all solid wood guitars NEW for around $1000 USD? I picked up each of these USED and in excellent condition for far less than half of that! If you must have guitar whose maker everyone recognizes than go ahead and pay the big bucks.