LAG Tramontane T66D12 Twelve String Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar
We believe that this is the best value twelve string acoustic guitar under four hundred dollars!
Michel Chavarria began building guitars in the South of France back in 1981 and his company Lâg has become one of France’s highest-profile guitar manufacturers. Offering a superb range of Acoustic guitars, Lâg epitomises the French approach with innovative features and some very distinctive and tasteful styling.
With a growing legion of fans and under pressure to offer a more affordable range, Lag found the answer in China – and they haven’t looked back! Their beautifully designed and exquisitely crafted instruments are more affordable than ever and most people would agree that they are a bargain!
This is the Lag T66D12 Tramontane (Tramontane is a wind that blows across southern France) a gorgeous Dreadnought sized guitar with a distinctive appearance, thanks to the headstock design borrowed from Lag’s Imperator solidbody electrics, where the central portion of the peghead is raised from the outer wings. It looks classy and adds strength to the headstock. The increased mass also contributes to the rich and focused tone.
The front, back and sides feature softly radiused wide black-plastic binding with ivory-coloured purfling and coachlining, lending a smooth, flowing air and touch to the body profile. The soundhole rosette is inlaid with similar plastics and the stylish teardrop Lag cross-motif hallmark.
The body features an immaculately buffed high-gloss finish while the back of the neck has a slinky smooth satin finish.
The fully compensated saddle is black graphite – as is the nut – a material very unusual to find on a budget acoustic.
Acoustically, the volume, projection and depth of tone are superb with responsive dynamics.
The build quality and detailing are excellent – it looks expensively stylish and sounds the part.
- Top: Sitka Spruce
- Back & Sides: African Mahogany
- Headstock: Mahogany French Satin finish
- Machine Heads: Lubricated High Precision Satin Black, with Satin Black tulip buttons
- Top Nut: Black Graphite 48mm
- Truss Rod: 2-way System
- Neck: Mahogany French Satin finish
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius: 400mm
- Frets: 20 x Medium Jumbo Nickel Silver Frets
- Bindings: Black + Ivory bindings
- Rosette: Black + Ivory, with Occitania cross
- Bridge: Rosewood with Black Resin compensated saddle
- Finish: High Gloss
- Setup: Pro-SCM professional setup ($300 Value – included!)
