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So happy to discover your channel. Love your playing over at Andertons. Definitely wanted to up my acoustic skills and this seems like the perfect place to do just that :)

I was going to get an Epiphone Casino before I watched this video.

Hello, saving this one to watch tomorrow, I was wondering do you use metronome for practicing? I bought this nice Wittner Piccolo for electric guitar practices, and I am aiming to use it... Cheers!

I'm simple man. When i see ben with acoustic, i click so fast.. amazing fingerpicker

Very interesting, Ben, thanks. One question; what was the mic that you were using? Sometimes it was still live whist the pick-up was in use. The Alan Entwhistle XS75 seems to favour one string over the others or is it my hearing - what's left of it! Best, C

Is it equipped with electric strings please?

Nope don't like the sound of it.

I bought one and sold it the next day. I think they suck big time. no fan of cherry wood in guitars...lacks soo much I don't know where to begin...save your money

An excellent guitar and another great review. Informative and with brilliant and clear sound comparisons.

Hi Ben, How's the string tension? I'm eyeing one and I play a lot of fills that reuire bends. Looks a little stiff, but hard to tell just watching you play it.

Something about it looks and sounds uninspiring. I'd rather add money and buy an ES-175. Even an Epiphone Joe Pass or an Ibanez Pat Metheny.

Crap website

surprised how good it sounds acoustically. I've been getting into Joe Pass and Chet Atkins stuff lately and this is a nice axe to start with. Same nut width as the old ones

Thanks to your excellent ‘promotion’ I’m collecting my flame maple Emily Rose next week. Now I need to keep watching you to learn how to play it. I know you’re not on a commission from Auden but you should be!

I was waiting for this since I saw it hanging on the wall in the other video. Is it similar in tone to the rapier 33?

For Jatoba fretboards, I'd recommend boiled Flaxseed oil, which I've read online back, and applied it's really cool, it was perfect for that wood imo... Niceee playing!!

Great review, very informative, excellent playing too!👍

Pretty cool. I’m getting one

Sounds freaking great. Nice playing bud

Have one on the way! Thanks for the demo.

12 frets sound so good. I like this guitar it's very crisp and balanced. I just ordered an AP66shb but would love this to go along with it.

Is the bridge attached to the body somehow? I hate those guitars that have the bridge just moving underneath the strings, when restringing you'll need to guess basically where to put the bridge hoping you'll be right and you haven't messed with the scale length and intonation.

That was as sweet as pie. Your affection for it shows. Thanks for the show.❤

When i see someone enjoy playing as much as you it brings me joy. Beautiful playing and great review.

That’s cool ass sounding guitar.

I picked up the fret dancer after one of your vids :-) wish I could play it well though

I bought me an Ortega six string banjo and I love it! However, I wish I could play it like you do. Love the joy you bring along with your playing. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

Hello! I am a 76 Y.O. whose been playing the single P90 version for well over two years at live gigs several times each month. This guitar does it all for my catalog of songs. I added some pedals to change the sounds (everything from ballads to light rock) and the guitar, IMHO, just does it all. It is SOLID, stays in tune, and I have had zero issues with it. I use D'addario Chrome flat wound strings which really mellows out the tone. I choose these because the majority of the songs i do fit that 'style'.

I make my own thumbpick by drilling two holes in a flatpick and putting a zip tie through them and size it to my thumb. Perfect for fingerpicking and strumming and flatpicking. A regular thumbpick is too hard and clumsy for me.

There's a L-122 for free on market place and I'm dying to pick it up for a guitar amp. Lol. Cheers!

Thank you for your well detailed review! I hope on your next video, you take a drink of water first so that you don’t appear like struggling✌️ Thanks again!

I absolutely love these strings. Have them on a Martin D35. I too like that these are not too "shimmery". They are more subtle when new but yet they keep sounding new for longer. They have a gorgeous mid tone and bring a new kind of sound to Martins I feel.

Interesting to come across a video like this. I've had my 5th Ave since around 2010 and it is hands down my favourite thing to play. I have acoustics and electrics which are in more demand for what I do, but given the choice I'd always pick up this guitar I love it so much. Particularly the neck; easily my favourite neck of any guitar I've ever played and I wish I could bolt one on my Strat. It's all laminate construction---which is perfectly fine on an archtop IMO---but that has the benefit of making it a tank. I do not humidify it in winters, and it gets played constantly and it just takes it and keeps on rocking. Godin and their family of companies (Seagull, A&L, etc.) are excellent value for money.

I have Alan Entwistle designed Nemesis AFG's on my Hamer XT, which makes me look at anything Alan Entwistle is associated with as something to listen to. The Surfmaster is a great guitar!

Great lesson Ben,can you tell me which name of guitar and model?thank you so much,have always nice music😊

I have a Yairi DYMR70SB, it's this same model, but completely hand made in Kani, in the hills north of Nagoya Japan , at Yairi's shop. It's made with East Indian rosewood that has been aged for 15 years, before being used. It is a 12 fret, with ebony bridge pins, ebony(Direct Coupled) bridge, ebony fretboard, and Gotoh 510 open gear tuners, with ebony buttons and a slotted headstock. I've owned A LOT of high end acoustic guitars. THIS guitar is my number 1 acoustic. The tone, the overtones, the projection, the balance and the sustain, the note separation, are better then ANY other guitar I've ever played or owned.

What do you mean by its harder to hit the open D than not hit it? :) Great lessons just confused as how during the strum you're not playing the open D or if you're muting it? Thanks!

How is this guitar under 500 pounds it's going new for over 700 dollars which is still over 500 pounds

Finally. Some one just says it, “yeah it’s uncomfortable. Life is uncomfortable. Deal with it.”

I like this guitar. You made it sound fantastic.

Great review and with a nice, not too dark tone. Could you also do the model with the 4 pickups? I wonder how they sound, if they are true single coils, etc.

While you are a fantastic guitar player, I'll never understand the idiotic faces some players try to impress us with.

I just got my DaveDavePicks Ord thumb pick. It's a game changer! I'm so impressed not only with the pick itself - very thick, smooth, carefully made - but with the packaging, thank-you note, and sweet stickers. Maybe someday I'll customize a pick like you showed here, but until then, I HIGHLY recommend the Ben Smith Ord thumb pick by DaveDavePicks!!

I don’t know why Alvarez doesn’t get enough love like a Martin or Taylor in my opinion they are just as good or even better in some cases

Great playing and a fine sounding guitar. The electronics seem really impressive. Looks like great value for money. I'd really like to hear the 12-string version!😎

I have an earlier version, no cutaway, only the one neck pickup (no bridge pickup). And natural blonde color, no staining. But otherwise very similar. I'm a crappy guitar player, but I like this one a lot! Very nice to see that someone who actually can play guitar also likes it! 😀

Awesome guitar and you are an awesome player

Nice guitar

Super demo. It seems a very sophisticated pickup system for such an inexpensive guitar. It captures the look and sound of an old timey guitar perfectly. It reminded me of a Harmony Sovereign a friend used to have. Now If only the neck was a bit wider---but that's just me. Can't wait to hear the 12 string!

I have been a big fan of Alan Entwistle since fitting a pair of HV58 pups to my old Epiphone Les Paul. I had been imagining my perfect Les Paul sound and it was right there soon as I plugged in after the swap. I have been obsessing lately how to get that great gretsch sound without spending 'vintage correct' Gretch dollar... Turns out Alan's got my back again..!! Thanks for such a fantastic demo. Nice 👌