PSA Ebay content Walnut Fylde Alchemist Bargain?

mgaw

just spotted this which seems really keenly priced

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fylde-Alchemist-Electro-Acoustic-/131985615489?hash=item1ebaf4aa81:g:kfUAAOSwHsRYE5u3

Wazmeister

Lovely guitars Fylde... never owned one but been close a few times

Moe_Zambeek

The ones I've tried have been very uninspiring and 'dry' sounding...

domforr

Very tempted by that. The Fylde Octavius Bouzouki I have is a lovely instrument. Difficult to spend so much without trying it though.

mgaw

if you bought i doubt you would lose money if you had to flip it though

earwighoney

Moe_Zambeek said:

The ones I've tried have been very uninspiring and 'dry' sounding...

IMO, they are like English Lowdens; work wonders in some peoples hands, completely indifferent in others.  

I think they are nice guitars though. 

mgaw

they are aimed primarily at the Folk/Roots scene

barry2tone

Mate has a Goodfellow, which is a rewarding throaty joy to play, but I just coping with the narrows of a 45mm nut.

The Alchemist is only 42.5 at the nut, which rules it out for fingerstyle in my plates of sand(s).

domforr

Well I'm playing a 1966 gibson J50 at the moment which has a nut width of 39.5, so it can only be an improvement on that for fingerstayle!

AliGorie

played a few over the yrs, a wonderful little Ariel 12 string decades ago, and in the '90's when looking for a solo gigging guitar got sent a Fylde Oberon to try out late '80's model IIRC - the neck was way chunky for me which put me off buying it, found out later that some things changed from time to time.
It sounded real good for solo fingerpicking stuff.
u'd need to play it, check it over.