Eclipse Auditorium Spruce / Mahogany
US $1,800.00
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– Limited Lifetime Warranty
– Includes custom hard case
– Auditorium Cutaway Body
– Solid Spruce Top
– Solid Mahogany Body
– 25.4” Scale Length
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Case Included
Setup Included
Full Warranty
Solid Spruce Top
Solid Mahogany Back & Sides
Beveled Venetian Cutaway with Padauk inlay
Description
The Prestige Eclipse Series feature a Grand Auditorium body shape, with cutaway. The Grand Auditorium is tremendously versatile and equally suited to both finger picking and strumming. The GA is an ideal all around body shape.
The Eclipse Spruce / Mahogany features solid book matched Khaya Mahogany back and sides, with hand selected solid Spruce top. Coupling the mahogany back and sides with a Spruce top, allows us to maintain the clarity and crisp articulation in the upper range, while amplifying the thick midrange that mahogany can produce. That midrange stacking or blooming effect produces a very balanced tone. Spruce/Mahogany has a rich history as a tonewood combo, and would be recognizable almost instantly from the years of country and blues recordings it has left its mark on. Spruce/Mahogany is also well known to be one of the absolute best combos for amplification or recording, due to its balanced tone.
Specifications
Body
Body: Auditorium Cutaway
Top: Solid Spruce
Back and Sides: Solid Mahogany
Cutaway: Beveled Venetian with Padauk inlay
Scale Length: 25.4″
Upper Bout: 11.5”
Waist: 9.25”
Lower Bout: 15.5”
Body Depth: Upper – 4.25”, Lower – 4.5”
Neck
Neck: C-Shaped Satin Mahogany
Fingerboard: Ebony
Frets: 20
Nut: Bone
Nut Width: 1.8″
Fingerboard Radius: 16″
Headstock: Ebony Front with Maple Binding
Inlay: Mother of Pearl ‘Eclipse’
Width at first fret: 1.8”
Neck Thickness at first fret: 0.85”
Neck Width at 12th fret: 2.15”
Neck Thickness at 12th fret: 1”
Hardware & Electronics
Bracing Pattern: X
Bracing: Adirondack Spruce
Tuners: Gotoh 510 (21:1 Ratio) Machine Heads w/ Ebony
Bridge: Ebony with Ebony Bridge Pins w/Abalone dots
Saddle: Compensated Bone
Optional EQ: Fishman Matrix Ellipse Blend Pickup System
Accessories
Deluxe plush lined hard case
Limited lifetime warranty
John Fuller –
Just want to make this short and sweet. I just bought a Prestige Eclipse acoustic. This guitar is unreal! Best guitar I have ever played. It is the mahogany/spruce, cutaway model. I can’t thank you enough and I enjoy the case as well. Very nice and comfortable. Thanks again and look forward to buying another one someday.
A very satisfied picker, John Fuller
Eric B. –
This is my long overdue, honest and unbiased review of an absolutely outstanding guitar brand that I was, until about a year ago, completely unfamiliar with.
I have been playing guitar for the past 33 years, and have amassed a pretty solid guitar collection in that time. During a visit with family in upstate New York last summer I came across a local listing for a Prestige Eclipse guitar (mahogany/ spruce) being offered for sale for a ridiculously low price. The images immediately caught my attention – it’s a truly stunning instrument and looked to be of much higher quality/ value, than the listed price suggested. It’s appearance suggests that of a high-end custom built acoustic. Being that I was wholly unfamiliar with Prestige guitars I did some quick googling and was more than intrigued but also highly suspicious of the post because of the list price. To my absolute delight, the seller responded quickly and I was en route to meet him. I soon found myself in very exclusive neighborhood where I met with a middle aged man in the driveway of an impressive home. He explained to me that he had purchased the guitar several years prior with the intent to learn to play but never found the time. He and his wife were now downsizing from their palatial estate to a loft in the city and cutting ties with a lot of unused items at insanely low prices (good for me!). I played the guitar for all of about 3 seconds and purchased it immediately. I have owned this instrument for about a year now and I’m blown away by it every time I pick it up or look in its general direction.
So I am writing this review because earlier today I spent some time at a local Sam Ash store on Long Island to see if they had any worth while store closing deals. While there I played no less than a dozen different Martin, Taylor’s, Gibsons… throw in a Hoffman and a few other custom builds…. The average sale price of any one of the guitars was $1999-4000…. and let me tell you how not a single one held a candle to the aesthetic, playability or tones of this Prestige Eclipse. I’m honestly not writing this as a knock on any of the major players listed above… I have several higher end Martin, Taylor, Breedlove etc in my collection… I honestly love them all. This is just me giving high praise to Prestige guitars for manufacturing an instrument that I would very happily pay list price any day over most other options at or above its retail – it’s really that good! This guitar will never leave my collection and has been my go to option since it came into my possession.
Lastly, I recently had this baby set up by a prominent guitar tech/ luthier who was also unfamiliar with Prestige. When I picked it up a few days later he said “this is a really nice guitar. I am really impressed by this, they really did everything right… great find, great guitar”.
I couldn’t agree more!
Jonathan –
Absolutely love this guitar. 1.8″ nut width is awesome. Most builders are too shy to step beyond the 1 3/4″ threshold. Best neck I’ve ever played, period. Full C shape, satin finish, chalkboard black cut of ebony on the fretboard, Mother of Pearl inlays. Best feel in an acoustic I’ve ever had. I really love the tone. Brilliant with strong projection. Good sustain, resonance and overtones. You can really dig in and pull out some volume, and with that comes splashes of overtones. Love the woody growl of this beast. It projects like a cannon. Didn’t realize that until I mic’d it up and recorded it. Love the top end brilliance and crystal clear harmonics. The guitar is a good value.
Only gave 4 stars because the abalone border is a bit excessive imo, and the padauk cutaway bevel is honestly useless. I’d rather have those appointments left off personally. Wouldn’t mind an arm bevel though. Also the split saddle, and truss rod access under a plate on the headstock make maintenance more work to deal with. Rather have the truss rod access from inside the sound hole, and just a regular compensated saddle on the bridge.
All said though, this is an excellent guitar once you get it set up. Feels and sounds awesome. I think more people should know about them.