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Actually I bought this guitar Saturday Oct. 3 and I'm just now posting it ...uhmmm... guess I have become "Comfortably Numb" or just fat and lazy.
Music City Asheville is a Radio King dealer and they had received a shipment of Radio King guitars so I went there to check them out not intending to buy one. I also wanted to check out the Eastman Acoustics on @mickey recommendation but the closest dealer with stock was in Greenville SC about 60 or so miles from here. Anyway I was very impressed by the Radio Kings and I really liked the RD-G6 so much so it moved in with me that same day. The only thing this guitar needs are the fret ends dressed it has a bit of fret sprout it has a bone nut and saddle that are cut well and the action is great no sanding required. It has decent tuners that seem to hold tuning well however, I am anal when it comes to tuners and like many of you I'm sure have tons of good used parts so I'm going to dig out a good set and change them out. Best sounding/playing stock $350 acoustic guitar I've ever had in my hands then again I graduated High School in 1974 and $1.00 had the buying power of $5.56 today so I guess all things are relevant.
Anyway here's a link to the specs if anyone is curious and some pictures.
https://www.recordingking.com/rdg6

Nice and beautiful guitar, Randy! HNGD!


I liked its single cut sibling, the RDG6CFE4.

Specs here

https://www.recordingking.com/rdg6cfe4

Pic

Or this, a little smaller. RPG6CFE5

Looks great! Do you typically prefer mahogany acoustics?

BTW, I don't think anybody's gonna sweat you about not posting your NGD thread immediately after buying it. I never do... I'm too busy playing it.

Mossman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:52 pm Looks great! Do you typically prefer mahogany acoustics?

@Mossman I do have a thing for Mahogany in Dreadnaughts and Jumbos however Rosewood is nice too but I just like the tone of Mahogany in my bigger guitars. I do have a Gibson-G-45 that I just tried to list on Reverb and the site went down it's probably back up by now. Anyway it sounds good plays very well has the J-45 sloped shoulder dreadnaught but I also have a Yamaha A5M ARE I bought in the last few weeks that's simply an awesome guitar and blows the Gibson out of the water.

Yamaha A5M G-45

redman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:19 pm

Mossman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:52 pm Looks great! Do you typically prefer mahogany acoustics?

@Mossman I do have a thing for Mahogany in Dreadnaughts and Jumbos however Rosewood is nice too but I just like the tone of Mahogany in my bigger guitars. I do have a Gibson-G-45 that I just tried to list on Reverb and the site went down it's probably back up by now. Anyway it sounds good plays very well has the J-45 sloped shoulder dreadnaught but I also have a Yamaha A5M ARE I bought in the last few weeks that's simply an awesome guitar and blows the Gibson out of the water.

Yamaha A5M
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G-45

I've always owned acoustics that have Rosewood backs and sides, but the Guild D-240E I bought a couple of years ago is my first one made of Mahogany, and it took me a while to get used to it (yes, I broke my own cardinal rule to never buy an acoustic without without playing it first, but it was a really good deal!). To be honest, I didn't like it at first, and I thought about sending it back, because it's more mids-focused than I was expecting, and it doesn't have the shimmer of my last acoustic. That guitar was more scooped, with boomy (yet well-defined) lows and bright highs. The Guild is less boomy and has less sparkle in the strummed chords, and that was a little off-putting to me at first, but I came to appreciate how balanced and sweet it sounds... It's a richer, warmer tone... Almost vocal in quality. But the words that I think of most when trying to describe the sound are: "focused" and "balanced". That's what really sold me on the guitar. I do a lot of flat-picking, and arpeggio-driven type stuff, and this guitar is perfect for that. It's more articulate than I expected it to be, and there are no tonal or volume inconsistencies. No string or note overpowers, or outshines any other. My old acoustic was kind of awash in harmonic frequencies, which can be great for rhythm playing, but your intricate picking patterns can get kind of lost in all the harmonic overtones.

Also, my last guitar was a frickin' cannon (it was so loud that when I played in an all-acoustic Celtic band, I wasn't allowed to use a pick at rehearsals!), but this guitar projects... It's not as loud, but it has more punch. Though I think that's owing more to its arched back than the fact that it's Mahogany... Have you found that Mahogany acoustics project better than Rosewood?

redman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:19 pm

Mossman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:52 pm Looks great! Do you typically prefer mahogany acoustics?

Anyway it sounds good plays very well has the J-45 sloped shoulder dreadnaught but I also have a Yamaha A5M ARE I bought in the last few weeks that's simply an awesome guitar and blows the Gibson out of the water.

Yamaha A5M
N5g5dbZ[1].jpg
G-45

I almost forgot to comment on that... I remember when you posted the NGD thread for that Yamaha. I came very close to buying that same model instead of the Guild. I'm a big Yamaha fan, but after playing Yamaha for almost 20 years, I wanted to try something different... I hope I didn't make a big mistake.