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"High-End" Guitar Features

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1. Spruce Soundboard

The D-10 offers a high quality, select spruce soundboard with a full sound.  Spruce is generally recognized as the best type of wood from which the soundboard can be made. Choice Sapele is used for the sides and back for a highly attractive look. The D-10 also has a high gloss durable finish. "Other" inexpensive guitars use a pressed wood or a lesser quality spruce wood. Nato wood is often used for the back & sides.

2. Dreadnought Body Style

The D-10 offers a traditional dreadnought body style.  The dreadnought is a good-sized body that produces an amazingly full sound.  The classic elongated body makes it a perfect fit for all guitar players. 

"Other" inexpensive guitars are also built with the dreadnought body.

3. Enclosed Tuners

The D-10 offers high-precision enclosed tuners that keep dust and dirt out. The D-10 Series uses die-cast tuners with a 14:1 gear ratio. These precision-cut gears allow you to perfectly tune your guitar quickly and easily, without slippage or backlash. The sealed lubricant means that the machine heads will last a lifetime.

"Other" inexpensive guitars are built using open tuners.  This will cause your guitar to come out of tune fairly quick.

4. Attractive White-Body Binding Compliments Fingerboard Binding

The D-10 is constructed using a white ABS very strong binding, protecting the edges from impact. Acoustic guitars without binding around the edges can fall apart with even the slightest bump on the edge. The TGX-D10 guitar not only has binding around the edges on the body, but also along the edges of the neck and headstock for extra protection.

"Other inexpensive guitars" use a thin paint stripe on them to appear as if they had a good binding on them.  Some guitars do use a very slim binding around the body only.

5. 15-Degree Peg Head

The D-10 comes with a 15 degree peg head angle for a better sound quality and optimal intonation.

"Other" inexpensive guitars use a lower angle, thus limiting the guitars intonation.

6. Decorative Rosewood Finger Board with Pearl Position Markers

The D-10 is built using a rosewood finger board along with the easy to see pearl position markers makes the frets easy to see. A rosewood fingerboard is easier on your fingertips and gives out a more full sound.

"Other" inexpensive guitars use a softer nato or plywood for their fingerboards.

7. Classic 25.5" Scale Fingerboard

The D-10 is accurately tested to a 25.5 scale (from nut to saddle) for maximum string to length tension ratio. The 25.5 scale is good for acoustic guitars to better transfer tonal energy through the components saddle and rosewood bridge to the soundboard of the guitar.

"Other" inexpensive guitars are generally built with a similar scale.

8. 20 Custom Alloy Frets with Beveled Edges

The D-10 has beveled alloy frets that will enable you to easily slide your fingers from one fret to another without having your fingers get stuck.  Properly beveled frets will make for smoother chord transitions.

"Other" inexpensive guitars may use cheaper frets and are normally not filed properly, thus leaving the edges sharp and making it uncomfortable to play.

9. Attractive Multi-Ringed Sound Hole Rosette 

The D-10 has a multi-ringed rosette around the soundhole which adds a great look to the guitar.

"Other" inexpensive guitars have a similar type of decoration around the soundhole.
 
10. Custom Designed Rosewood Bridge with High-Density Resin Cast Saddle

The TGX-D10 comes with a custom designed rosewood bridge with a compensated saddle for optimum string tone.

"Other" inexpensive guitars use a straight saddle and the bridge is made of plywood and is painted black. A straight saddle will limit the pitch of the guitar strings.

11. Back and Sides Select Sapele

Choice Sapele is used for the back and sides of the D-10 acoustic guitar.  This makes for a better sound, and a more attractive look.

"Other" inexpensive guitars use nato wood, a very soft imitation mahogany wood.  You do not want soft wood back and sides for two reasons: 1) The guitar will not produce a true full sound.  2) The guitar will not last as long, due to the wood weakening over time.

12. Gold Plated Strap Attachment Button

The D-10 offers a gold plated strap attachment button that will ensure a long lasting strap button. 

"Other" inexpensive guitars use a molded plastic type of a button.

13. Easy To See White Position Markers

The D-10 guitar has easy-to-read white position markers. When playing the guitar you want to be able to easily see the position markers so you can quickly move from one fret to the other without having to tilt the guitar to see the front.

"Other" inexpensive guitars may or may not have position markers.

 

 

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