Art & Lutherie Legacy Concert Left-Handed Bourbon Burst CW Presys II Acoustic-Electric Guitar - No Bag/Case

For our left-handed friends: The Legacy CW from Art & Lutherie is a concert sized acoustic that is built for modern-day pickers, hobbyists and performers alikes. The generous cutaway gives you easy access to the high frets and the Fishman Presys II on board electronics makes it ready to rock whether you're on stage or under the stars. Underneath its tastefully rustic finish, the Legacy CW features a solid cedar top with wild cherry back and sides for a dynamic voice that is both authoritative and harmonically rich.

Photos are of the actual guitar.

The A&L Legacy CW Left Handed Bourbon Burst guitar features:

• Pressure tested solid Cedar Top
• Wild Cherry back and sides made with 3-layer lamination
• Silver Leaf Maple neck
• Rosewood fingerboard and bridge
• 24.84" scale, 1.72" nut width, 16" radius
• Fishman Presys II electronics with 2 band EQ and tuner
• 18:1 open gear brass finish tuners
• Graphtech Tusq Nut and Saddle
• Dual Action truss rod
• Hand-crafted in Quebec, Canada using 95% Canadian wood

A&L is one of Godin's younger brands but they have really made a name for themselves in the world of affordable acoustics. They are built with the attention to detail that we have come to expect from our Canadian friends, and they have put an impressive focus on environmental stewardship, building their guitars with 95% Canadian wood with no clear cutting, meaning they reclaim wood from fallen giants.

A&L also uses high quality construction techniques to insure great tone, long life and great playability. These features include quarter-sawn spruce bracing, a compound curved top, reverse grain kerfed headstock, maple dowel-fortified heel, and Graphtech nut, bridge pins and compensated saddle.

The Legacy CW is a comfortable concert sized with a look that is both retro and pleasingly hip. They really go all out on the aesthetic at A&L, combining beautiful rustic finishes and vintage open gear tuners. The top is solid pressure-tested Cedar and the back and sides are a special 3-part laminate of Wild Cherry. Cedar tops have a rich tone that feels broken-in from the start, and Cherry is an excellent alternative tone wood that Godin has used with great success. Cherry has a tonal profile somewhere in the middle of Mahogany and Maple. If Goldilocks played guitar Mahogany would be "too dark", Maple would be "too bright" and Cherry would be "just right". The low and midrange frequencies are assertive, with a clear and percussive character and reasonable low end extension. The combination of the Cedar top and the "maple-esque" properties of Cherry gives the Legacy a rich full voice with nice sensitivity suitable for finger pickers. We really like it, and it's less "dry" sounding than some maple guitars. And while it won't punch out the type of low end you'd get with a rosewood dreadnought, the guitar projects well and has impressive volume for a moderately priced concert size guitar.

The Legacy CW looks, sounds and feels broken in right from the start. Even though these guitars come in at a great price-point, the A&L Legacy CW has tons of character and is suited for both beginner and more experiences players. As a daily player, songwriting companion or Coffeehouse workhorse, it's a very satisfying and attractive instrument. Affordable acoustics have come a long way, and the A&L Legacy makes no apologies. Do yourself a favor and try one today.