Walden G2070

The Walden G2070 is an auditorium sized guitar, as with all Walden’s it is designed in the USA and built in China. The G2070 is part of Walden’s Supanatura Line. The guitar is built primarily for the finger stylist and certainly doesn’t disappoint.

The guitar features a solid cedar top, solid African mahogany back and sides, rosewood fingerboard and bridge with rosewood bridge pins (a nice touch) and a bone nut and saddle. The one piece mahogany neck features Walden’s 2-way adjustable truss rod which allows you to adjust the guitars string height to your own preference, this allows the guitar to have terrific playability. A wood rosette and bindings, gold tuners with tortoise shell buttons trim out the guitar nicely, giving it a sparse but clean, modern look.

Pickup the guitar and it sits very comfortably in your lap, the neck is thin, fast and very easy to navigate with a 1 3/4 nut width. Look over the guitar and the craftsmanship is excellent, I couldn’t find a single flaw on mine. The all satin finish combined with the cedar top give the guitar a mellow but aged sound right out of the box. The G2070 also features “Pre-war” scalloped X-bracing which in addition to adding strength, it allows the guitars top the vibrate more in-turn producing more bass. The 25.6 scale is slightly longer than a standard scale, making it a great guitar for alternate tunings. The Walden guitar is amazingly responsive to a light touch, complex fingerstyle pieces are a breeze, the ultra low profile neck make changes smooth and swift. The guitar has an open airy sound with rich bass and clear trebles. It can handle strumming but brakes up when over driven, if primarily a strummer you may want to look at the companies dreadnought offerings.

I personally feel there is not a better fingerstyle guitar on the market at this price point; the price, features, build quality, sound and playability match guitars costing much, much more. So in the market for a high quality fingerstyle guitar, but don’t want to spend a bundle? The Walden G2070 might just be what you’re looking for.