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Blueridge BR-160 Historic Series Dreadnought Guitar

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  • Solid Sitka spruce top with scalloped braces gives you clean articulation and a crisp tone
  • Solid Indian rosewood back and sides guarantees deep bass and strong cutting power
  • Slim mahogany neck offers fast, easy action and inherently long-lasting stability
  • Choice East Indian rosewood fingerboard ensures silky smooth playability
  • Distinctive tortoise style pickguard recreates that 30's vintage look

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6
6
6
6
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Rosewood
Rosewood
Rosewood
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Rosewood
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Mahogany
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Spruce Wood
Spruce Wood
Spruce Wood
Spruce Wood
Spruce Wood
Spruce Wood
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Phosphor Bronze
Phosphor Bronze
Phosphor Bronze
Phosphor Bronze
Phosphor Bronze
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spruce;East India Rosewood
Mahogany
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Sitka-Spruce;Mahogany
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Mahogany
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Mahogany
Mahogany
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Mahogany
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Rosewood
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Rosewood
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This prewar inspired Herringbone dreadnought has it all. The BR-160's great sound and great looks are just part of what will make it one of the more desirable vintage style acoustic guitars in production today. It starts with a solid Sitka spruce top and handcarved parabolic top braces that respect the prewar forward x-pattern. Indian rosewood back and sides add a strong bass to the spruce top's already full sound. The slim mahogany neck is comfortable and features a dovetail neck joint and adjustable truss rod. Beautiful appointments include a Dalmatian tortoise style pickguard and mother-of-pearl neck and headstock inlays.


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Blueridge BR-160

This prewar inspired Herringbone dreadnought has it all!

This prewar inspired Herringbone dreadnought has it all. The BR-160's great sound and great looks are just part of what will make it one of the more desirable vintage style acoustic guitars in production today. It starts with a solid Sitka spruce top and handcarved parabolic top braces that respect the prewar forward x-pattern. Santos rosewood back and sides add a strong bass to the spruce top's already full sound. The slim mahogany neck is comfortable and features a dovetail neck joint and adjustable truss rod. Beautiful appointments include a Dalmatian tortoise style pickguard and mother-of-pearl neck and headstock inlays.

Quick Specs

  • Top: Select Solid Sitka Spruce
  • Back & Sides: Select Solid Santos Rosewood
  • Finish: Vintage Toned High Gloss
  • Neck: Select Mahogany
  • Fingerboard: Santos Rosewood
  • Nut Width: 1 11/16"

At a Glance

BR-160

BR-160

BR-160

Solid Sitka spruce top with scalloped braces gives you clean articulation and a crisp tone

Solid Santos rosewood back and sides guarantees deep bass and strong cutting power

Slim mahogany neck offers fast, easy action and inherently long-lasting stability and Gotoh vintage-style open-back butterbean buttons to always keep you in tune

Traditional American-inspired design assures that vintage tone!

The classic vintage style and modern improvements in playability and construction of the Blueridge guitars that make up the Historic Series have all the traditional features usually found on pricey vintage guitars, but at an amazingly affordable price! Taking cues from guitars produced in the years after WWII to present, the Historic Series combines more readily available tone woods from Canada for an already broken-in, vintage flavored tone. The slim, fast-playing necks and easy action makes these guitars truly professional-quality instruments—although they are priced within the reach of students and amateurs! Elegant pearl and abalone inlay on peghead, fingerboard and all borders characterizes our top models as well as the finest solid East Indian rosewood and solid Sitka Spruce. All tops are carefully braced with the same forward-X bracing found on costly Prewar Originals and the tone of our new guitars greatly resembles those old masterpieces. Our mid-line features traditional herringbone binding on top and back strip and delicate, tasteful pearl inlay on fingerboard and peghead. The mahogany series is noted for its power and clarity, making these guitars equally suited for lead and rhythm playing. Every Historic Series guitar features a slim mahogany neck with an adjustable truss rod to maintain perfect alignment.

Body Wood Selections

After WWII tone woods like Adirondack and high-end Brazilian rosewoods were no longer available to use for the production of acoustic guitars. Over-forestation and other factors encouraged guitar makers to find more abundant tonewoods that would perform just as well. In this series we use Sitka spruce for the top to impart an already aged sound that has made it the most popular top wood used to date by any maker. For the backs and sides, Santos rosewood was selected to replace South American varieties and more readily available species of mahogany were also substituted.

In more modern acoustic guitars made by the best, traditional American makers, Santos rosewood is the most common fingerboard and bridge material used. Its characteristics are perfect for use in these applications because it is very durable, looks great and adds to the desirable, yet complex tone of any instrument.

It goes without saying that traditional construction techniques used in the making of vintage instruments during the Golden Era of instrument production continue to stand the test of time. Therefore, Blueridge holds fast to traditional construction methods and incorporates the sought-after forward shifted X-brace pattern for the top. Conversely, this series also uses the more modern nut width of 1 11/16” for easier fingering for modern players.

With every Blueridge guitar, what makes each of them special is found in the details. In this series, we also combine rosewood backs and sides with traditional white binding and delicate herringbone or exotic abalone purfling, while the guitars with mahogany backs and sides will have Black ABS binding. The signature Dalmatian tortoise pickguard is also used for that look of distinction.

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Customers like the quality and sound of the guitar. They mention that it's a superb guitar made from top quality tone woods, and has excellent craftsmanship for the price. Customers also appreciate the rich overtones and the sounding board is light and active.

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Customers are satisfied with the quality of the guitar. They mention that it's a superb instrument made from top quality tone woods, with excellent craftsmanship for the price. It has an amazing tone and sustain, and is one of the best they have ever heard. The solid Indian Rosewood and Spruce top are beautiful, and the sound is amazing. The gig bag is a work of art, and it has a nice hard case.

"...The first guitar sounded awesome, very open, deep bass, crisp and loud! It has a wide grain spruce top with some heavy silking in the center...." Read more

"...This gig bag is a work of art. Anyway, to the guitar. The spruce top has a tinted finish to it that is fantastic...." Read more

"...Nice and bright. It is not a D-28." Read more

"It’s a fine musical instrument and an awesome value for the sound and quality that you get...." Read more

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Customers are satisfied with the sound of the guitar. They mention that it has a very nice finish, sounds great, and is consistent. The sounding board is light and active, giving it a nice resonance and transmitting harmonics. Customers also appreciate the rich overtones.

"...The first guitar sounded awesome, very open, deep bass, crisp and loud! It has a wide grain spruce top with some heavy silking in the center...." Read more

"...It is a wonderfully balanced and classic acoustic sound that will probably match the one you've been carrying around in your head...." Read more

"...The sounding board is light and active; it gives nice resonance and transmits harmonics to the other strings..." Read more

"...This guitar has an amazing tone and sustain, one of the best I ever heard.Beautiful solid Indian Rosewood and Spruce top." Read more

Great guitars! We have two!
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Great guitars! We have two!
Update April 2017: I still have one of these (the louder one-mine), and we sold the other as my wife prefers to play smaller bodied guitars now. (two of the same guitars is silly, if someone isn't playing them, at least!) I still love it and it still sounds great! I attached some pix that I took of it recently. I decided to switch out the pickguard for a black one, not too hard to do, and I prefer it. I also, have shaped a compensated bone saddle for mine, and it has ebony end-pin and bridge pins. The neck profile on these is unique and smaller than many, have to try to see if it's for you. Nothing to complain about with the guitar, I love it!We have two BR-160's and both are fantastic guitars. I originally intended just to purchase one, and decided to have a replacement sent, because of a small issue with the fingerboard. The first guitar sounded awesome, very open, deep bass, crisp and loud! It has a wide grain spruce top with some heavy silking in the center. The fretboard and bridge were also very dark, almost like ebony. The second one sent was even nicer looking! The top is VERY tightly grained with heavy silking over the whole top (FWIW, the fingerboard is a more traditional shade). While the second sounded very nice as well, I preferred the first by a slight margin. I have a luthier across the street, so walked over and showed him the first guitar, and the issue I was concerned about. He told me not to worry about it, and agreed that it would be ok to keep the one I liked best. Decision made. Before shipping back the second, I showed it to my wife one more time, because it has such an amazing silked top, and she said she wanted to keep it for herself!Anyway, we now have two! Both sound great, the one with the wide grain is a bit louder, crisper, deeper bass, and a great tone. The tight grained top 160 also sounds very nice, with good volume, nice articulation and rich overtones. They are both strung with D'addario EJ-16's, the wide top now has ebony pins (Martin) and the tight topped one has bone pins. Its interesting to have two of the same model to compare! Both guitars have a very nice finish and sound great, very consistent. I also was able to spend some time with a BR-180 and was prepared to buy it if it sounded better, but with that particular guitar, at least, I preferred the tone from the 160. OTHER GUITARS FOR COMPARISON:I sold my Martin DX1AE, that I bought in February; I greatly prefer the Blueridge! We also have a Yamaha FG700 (wife's prior guitar), which is great for what we paid, but the tone, volume and beauty are not nearly as nice as either of 160's! I've spent time at guitar center with the D35s and D28s. Though I'll surely still own one of them one day, (craftsmanship is just so nice) , the Blueridge guitars hold up pretty well tone wise, and are put together well. I also briefly considered the Epiphone Masterbilt 500MCE, but it didn't do it for me.The Blueridge BR-160s are great guitars! I recommend them!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great guitars! We have two!
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2014
Update April 2017: I still have one of these (the louder one-mine), and we sold the other as my wife prefers to play smaller bodied guitars now. (two of the same guitars is silly, if someone isn't playing them, at least!) I still love it and it still sounds great! I attached some pix that I took of it recently. I decided to switch out the pickguard for a black one, not too hard to do, and I prefer it. I also, have shaped a compensated bone saddle for mine, and it has ebony end-pin and bridge pins. The neck profile on these is unique and smaller than many, have to try to see if it's for you. Nothing to complain about with the guitar, I love it!

We have two BR-160's and both are fantastic guitars. I originally intended just to purchase one, and decided to have a replacement sent, because of a small issue with the fingerboard. The first guitar sounded awesome, very open, deep bass, crisp and loud! It has a wide grain spruce top with some heavy silking in the center. The fretboard and bridge were also very dark, almost like ebony. The second one sent was even nicer looking! The top is VERY tightly grained with heavy silking over the whole top (FWIW, the fingerboard is a more traditional shade). While the second sounded very nice as well, I preferred the first by a slight margin. I have a luthier across the street, so walked over and showed him the first guitar, and the issue I was concerned about. He told me not to worry about it, and agreed that it would be ok to keep the one I liked best. Decision made. Before shipping back the second, I showed it to my wife one more time, because it has such an amazing silked top, and she said she wanted to keep it for herself!

Anyway, we now have two! Both sound great, the one with the wide grain is a bit louder, crisper, deeper bass, and a great tone. The tight grained top 160 also sounds very nice, with good volume, nice articulation and rich overtones. They are both strung with D'addario EJ-16's, the wide top now has ebony pins (Martin) and the tight topped one has bone pins. Its interesting to have two of the same model to compare! Both guitars have a very nice finish and sound great, very consistent. I also was able to spend some time with a BR-180 and was prepared to buy it if it sounded better, but with that particular guitar, at least, I preferred the tone from the 160.

OTHER GUITARS FOR COMPARISON:I sold my Martin DX1AE, that I bought in February; I greatly prefer the Blueridge! We also have a Yamaha FG700 (wife's prior guitar), which is great for what we paid, but the tone, volume and beauty are not nearly as nice as either of 160's! I've spent time at guitar center with the D35s and D28s. Though I'll surely still own one of them one day, (craftsmanship is just so nice) , the Blueridge guitars hold up pretty well tone wise, and are put together well. I also briefly considered the Epiphone Masterbilt 500MCE, but it didn't do it for me.

The Blueridge BR-160s are great guitars! I recommend them!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful guitar, especially for the money
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Before getting to the 160, just wanted to talk about the gig bag. It is one of the best I've ever been around. I'm an old fart and just do not feel right spending four bills on a guitar protected by a bag so I bought I mid grade hard case. This gig bag is a work of art. Anyway, to the guitar. The spruce top has a tinted finish to it that is fantastic. Doesn't have that bleached white top look. This guitar is setup nicely from the factory. The strings were slightly oxidized, but that is to be expected. Still plays and sounds like a million bucks. Am very happy with the bass and treble response. It is a wonderfully balanced and classic acoustic sound that will probably match the one you've been carrying around in your head.

I would strongly suggest trying to buy one of these from a local shop. Why support big tech when your buddy down the street with a shop could use your business? Also, if you can afford it, buy a brand not made in China. Ethnic and religious persicution and slave labor is not acceptable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Blueridge Historic-Series BR-160 Dreadnought
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4.0 out of 5 stars Expensive guitar- Appearance, sound & playability should be better Update- SOUNDS BETTER WITH AGE!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great guitar
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5.0 out of 5 stars Blueridge BR 160 Historic series
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