The Studio1VintageGuitars vintage guitar market is vast, from tour-battered instruments with colourful histories to pristine guitars that are meticulously preserved. A wide range of options are available, from online auctions to specialty shops and forums to conventions.

The J-45 is a true workhorse of the blues, favoured by many players, new and old. It's been slung around the shoulders of country singers like Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, blues men like Buddy Guy and Dick Dale, and rockers such as Yngwie Malmsteen.

The Red Cedar Bass

Cedar is a great tonewood that works well with any genre of music and sits in the mix nicely compared to spruce. It has plenty of character and is very responsive, allowing players to hear their playing dynamics. Cedar is also more sensitive to string movement, allowing it to respond to changes in pressure and pitch.

This acoustic bass guitar is crafted from Ovangkol and red cedar with a 34-inch scale length and jumbo body shape for robust and rich tones. A side monitor soundhole allows bass players to be heard in larger groups, while the Fishman Sonitone electronics provide a powerful plugged-in tone and controllability for gigging guitarists.

The G-45 Studio is a fantastic little acoustic bass guitar that sounds bigger than its diminutive size would suggest. There is a nice smattering of low end to this bass, but it shines through in the mids and highs, displaying superb dynamic response when played with both strumming and fingerstyle techniques. This guitar can easily compete with other small-body acoustics when hooked up to an amp, making it perfect for the modern gigging musician.

Walnut is a popular alternative to tropical tonewoods for acoustic guitars and is often used on instruments of this type due to its sustainability, stability, and tonal qualities. It is used on this acoustic bass guitar for the fretboard, belly-up bridge (with compensated Tusq saddle and Tusq bridge pins), and headstock overlay, creating an aesthetic unity and a noticeable woody tone.

While this Studio1VintageGuitars vintage guitar is not the same as the famous instruments that belonged to Dave Gilmour or Jimi Hendrix, it still possesses some of the same classic styling and attention-grabbing looks. The Furch Vintage 3 OM-SR is a genuinely gorgeous instrument, featuring an orchestra body shape, a lustrous full pore high gloss finish, and mother-of-pearl inlays. This guitar is a real eye-catcher on stage and in the living room and will impress any music fan. It's not cheap, but it is worth the money for the quality of the build and unique look.

The Red Cedar Guitar

If you're searching for an acoustic guitar that can offer a warm and inviting sound, you may want to consider choosing one made with cedar. This tonewood has a soft quality that adds richness and fullness to chord strums that other more rigid and more complex woods cannot match. Cedar is also excellent for fingerstyle play, offering plenty of headroom and crisp definition.

The most common cedar used in acoustic guitars is western red, which comes from the thuja plicata plant of the Cupressaceae family. It is a soft tonewood, and like other cedar tones, it can be found in acoustic guitars built for fingerstyle playing or as an alternative to spruce. It is often combined with mahogany, which adds a focused sound to the mix.

Aside from acoustic guitars, it can also be used in electric guitar bodies to good effect. It is relatively lightweight compared to other hardwoods such as swamp ash, alder, and basswood. This makes it ideal for acoustic-electric guitars, as it can deliver a great deal of projection while also working well with high-end preamps and microphones in recording sessions.

This Studio1VintageGuitars vintage guitar from Breedlove is an excellent example of a solid-top Western Red Cedar model built in a comfortable, short-scale parlour-like Concertina format. This guitar features a premium mahogany back and sides and an LR Baggs pickup system. The result is a beautiful instrument that will offer a great tone and be easy to play.

As with all guitars, it's important to consider value over time when selecting a new acoustic or electric cedar guitar. While some guitarists are happy to keep their guitars forever, others prefer to sell them later. Either way, you can expect a classic cedar guitar to hold its value well over time, making it an excellent investment option.

In addition to the guitar's fantastic tone, its being made from torrefied cedar makes this guitar even more desirable. The torrefaction process involves baking wood at a very high temperature for a long time. This removes vapour, oils, and natural compounds from the wood, allowing it to resonate more freely. This is why torrefied cedar has a much more significant effect on a guitar's sound than regular cedar.