Nagoya Suzuki Acoustic Guitars

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

F120 12-string back


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F120 12-string label


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F120 12-string headstock


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Saturday, February 28, 2015

SD337BR headstock


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SD337BR label


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SD337BR front


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SD337BR back


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Monday, April 21, 2014

AD225s front (2)


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AD225s front


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AD225s back


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AD225s label


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AD225s headstock


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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

SL365S front


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SL365S back


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SL365S label


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SL365S headstock


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Friday, March 14, 2014

F70 12-string front

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F70 12-string back

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F70 12-string label

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F70 12-string inside

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Older Nagoya Suzuki acoustics...

Many people have posed this question to me about their older Nagoya Suzuki...Am I supposed to have steel strings or nylon strings on this guitar?

On some of the older models: the #6,7,9,12, and 18, the answer is not immediately obvious, since all these models have slotted headstocks like a classical, and the saddle in the bridge is like a classical...not angled (compensated) like an acoustic steel-string. But they have truss rods like an acoustic.

The answer is: steel!

I have an old Suzuki brochure that describes these guitars and it says they were steel stringed-guitars. Although some people put nylon strings on them, they were made for steel. So don't be afraid to put steel strings on them.

A couple of observations: I took apart a #18 (lost pictures when hard-drive crashed)...removed the top and found out it was ladder-braced, and I assume so are the other older models mentioned. Ladder bracing was an old way of internal bracing steel-string guitars. All these too are laminate tops.
Also, the fret-board on the #18 was flat, not radiused like most other steel strings (same with the other models I'm assuming).
The rosette was faux-MOP or nylon, which also goes with an acoustic model.
The headstock rollers are thinner than classical rollers.

I changed the bracing to a fan-braced top and put in tone bars ala Overholtzer book on classical guitar-making.

I didn't have any purling so I replaced the top binding with pieces of straight inlay pieces and glued them in.

The end result was nice and jangly. I liked it, but being new to the setup work I didn't put in enough relief so the strings buzzed a bit, though the saddle was very high and action was low.
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