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Ha, here you go. The full body picture is a stock image from google, the other two are from the store's website but are of the actual guitar I walked out with. I was originally looking at faith's but they only did the cedar / mahagony wood combination with a 45mm nut. The Auden had it in a 43mm and the overall feel and playability of the guitar is wonderful.

I’ve bought a few new guitars for my son and I to play with during lockdown. These two arrived yesterday. To hot yesterday to play them but will put them through there paces later this morning.

I wonder if they're starting with the pricey one to create a perception of "value", then down the track a couple of years we'll get an "affordable" verison and we'll see it as "an affrodable veriason of that expensive guitar", rather than "an expensive version of the affordable guitar", which could be a harder sell. If I was a session pro, I'd have one for acoustic sounds in my rack already based purely on ther demos I've seen, but yeah, they're priced for a pro as they are. Fingerscrossed for "Player Series" vrasions that include lefties in future. My only difficulty would be choosing between the Tele and the Strat.... If they did the Strat with a baked maple neck, that could be decision made...

@EdwardMarlowe i'd suggest keeping an eye out for the Bugera V5, cheap as chips and remarkably good, especially at home volumes, i plugged mine into a 4x12 at a rehearsal room once and it gave a surprising amount of volume for such a small combo, the Tiny terror was great too, usable in the house with a small cab and then plenty loud enough for pub gigs when plugged into a bigger cab provided you didn't need cleaner sounds, i leant mine to a guest guitarist for a pub gig we played and even with just a 1x12 it didn't need any help from the PA. the laney LC15 hasn't been with me long enough yet but i've got plans for a new set of valves so i'll reserve judgement until that's done. Matt

My normal go to brand for guitars is D’Addario followed by Ernie Ball (I have used Elixr, but I find their tension quite high). However, in an effort to allow some electric type bending on my acoustic, I’ve been playing Optima Vintageflex. Not as forthright as normal tension acoustic strings, but a joy to play.