Alvarez AC65CE Artist Classical Acoustic Electric Guitar w/Cutaway EQ & Tuner

Without doubt one of the world's leading lines of solid top guitars. Artist Series takes quality to the next level and leaves others behind through incredible attention to detail and design, delivering a rare level of value. Tonally, Artist Series has excellent performance and achieves clear balance and response across all strings. Energetic projection is helped by our FST2 bracing system, which we hope helps inspire your playing and enjoyment of the guitar. CASE/GIG BAG: Not included. More Alvarez uses traditional style construction for its classical guitars, incorporating a Spanish heel neck joint and tapered fan bracing to deliver stability, balance and volume across all six strings. The Artist 65’s are very responsive guitars with a warm and open voice. After 50 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Our tone woods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our 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. We believe our multi award winning Artist Series is one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today and demonstrates our commitment to design. The term solid top of course refers to the soundboard of an acoustic guitar being made of solid wood, rather than being laminated. However, just because the top is solid, it does not necessarily mean the sound automatically benefits from this feature. The tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series is built to do exactly this. Each model is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include our hand finished, scalloped bracing, real bone nuts and saddles, great quality tone woods and thin finish. All of our tops are selected by our team and graded independently of our suppliers. If it isn't worthy, we won't use it. Top quality improves as you move up the Artist Series models but all are stiff and finely grained. Artist Series also demonstrates our great finishing capabilities; the gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible, again to help optimize tone. Thank you for choosing Alvarez. Features Series Alvarez Artist Top Wood Solid A+ Western Red Cedar Back & Sides Wood Mahogany Shape Classical w/ Cutaway Neck Mahogany, 50/50 Semi-gloss finish Bracing System Traditional Spanish Fan System Bridge Bi-Level Indian Laurel/Rosewood Fingerboard Indian Laurel/Rosewood w/12th Fret Inlay Nut & Saddle Real Bone Tuner Chrome Open Gear Strip Binding Rosewood Strings D'Addario EXP Pickup / EQLR Baggs Stage Pro EQ and Element Pick Up Specs DIMENSIONS Overall Length (mm) 990 Body Width (mm) 373 Body Depth at Heel (mm) 96 Body Depth at Base (mm) 103 Scale (mm) 650 Scale (inches) 25 19/32" Number of frets 19 Nut Width (mm) 52 Nut Width (inches) 2 1/16 PRODUCT MATERIALS Series Alvarez Artist Top Wood Solid A+ Western Red Cedar Top Finish Natural/Gloss Back & Sides Wood Mahogany ADDITIONAL DETAILS Neck Joint Spanish Heel Neck Meets Body 12th Fret Number of Frets 19