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Artist Baritone, 8-String, Sitka/Mahogany, Baggs SP, Shadowburst/Gloss
Description
Inspired by the success of our ABT60 Baritone guitar, the ABT60CE-8SHB 8-string baritone acoustic again opens the doors of inspiration for players looking to expand the possibilities of their sound with a truly unique instrument. Tuned from B to B with octave strings adding an incredible chime and sparkle to the 3rd and 4thstrings, the ABT60CE-8 is truly a joy to explore. Delivered in a flawless Shadowburst finish with a cutaway to allow for optimum mobility across the fretboard, the ABT60CE-8SHB also features a fantastic electronics system, the LR Baggs StagePro EQ and Element pickup.
About Artist Series
Our multi-award winning Artist Series represents our commitment to quality and design, making it one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today.
Artist Series feel right and are exciting to play; whether you are strumming hard or picking lightly, the guitar will do what you ask of it. For a more focused sound with fewer overtones, choose a mahogany top. For a more open projection, go for Sitka. For warmth and response to a lighter touch, choose a Cedar top.
All of our tops are selected by our team and graded independently of our suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, we won’t use it. While top quality improves as you move up the Artist Series models, all are stiff and finely grained.
After 55 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes.
Our tonewoods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively soundbox.
This caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience.
The term “solid top” refers to the guitar’s soundboard being made of solid wood rather than laminates. However, even when the guitar top is made of solid wood, the tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series is built to do exactly this.
Each model is designed to get the best out of its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include our FS6 bracing design, which allows the soundbox to sing and brings uniformity across Dreadnought, Grand Auditorium, OM and Parlor body sizes. This means the voicing has a similar character, but the individual tone is more purely influenced by the size and shape of the guitar.
Our bi-level bridge is designed to heighten string tension and improve sustain and response. Real bone nut and saddle, premium tonewoods, and our crafted attenuated finish all further the quality of construction and positively impact the performance of the instrument. Artist Series gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible to optimize tone. The personality and voicing of Artist Series is open, dynamic and instantly responsive.
Key Features
- Top Wood: Solid A+ Sitka Spruce
- Body Finish: Shadowburst/Gloss
- Back and Sides Wood: African Mahogany
- Bridge Pins: PPS Synthetic Bone
- Shape: Baritone
- Neck: Mahogany w/Semi-Gloss Finish
- Bridge: Bi-Level Indian Laurel/Rosewood
- Inlays: Mother of Pearl
- Fingerboard: Indian Laurel/Rosewood w/12th Fret Inlay
- Nut and Saddle: Real Bone
- Tuner: Premium Die Cast
- Bridge Pins: PPS Synthetic Bone
- Strings: Custom D’Addario EXP23 + Octaves
- Bracing Systems: FST2 - Forward Shifted, Asymmetric Tone Bars
- Neck Joint: Dovetail
- Neck Meets Body:14th Fret
- Number of Frets: 21
- Pickup / EQ: LR Baggs StagePro EQ and Element Pick Up
DIMENSIONS
- Overall Length (mm): 1065 
- Body Width (mm): 439 
- Body Depth at Heel (mm): 102
- Body Depth at Base (mm): 122
- Scale (mm): 704
- Scale (inches): 27 23/32
- Number of Frets: 21
- Nut Width (mm): 44.45
- Nut Width (inches): 1 3/4
