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Hi all, I want to buy a spare acoustic guitar when I hang around at the beach when I am on holidays or when I do bbq on Sundays. I do not want to use my Martin or my Taylor as both they are all solid wood which means very sensitive in this kind of environmental changes. Of course I do not want to spend thousands like I did with those 2 guitars. I am looking for something which costs below than £200. I am checking out these 3 guitars: - Takamine GN10 sn (all body is laminate, £180) - Eastcoast G1S (back and sides laminate and they say that the top is from solid wood, £120) - Tanglewood TWR2 O (they say that the guitar is all solid wood but I am not convinced about that, £160) As far as I can listen to them from the youtube the Takamine seems to have better sound, the second best seems the Eastcoast and in the end the Tanglewood. I know that I have to go in person in a music store and spend sometime with each guitar before I decide but due to the COVID-19 this seems impossible. Does anyone have any experience or opinion about those 3 guitars? Or if you have in mind any guitar for the beach and in general for outdoors with less than £200 where its sound does not suck? PS: All of my guitars have a gloss finish. I want to try a satin finish guitar, that's why those 3 are all satin. Thank you very much for the help in advance!!