body style

[BrandonBrinley]

ok i just played this washburn augusta http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Washburn-2008-Augusta-Series-Concert-Acoustic-Guitar?sku=511816

(one of my buddies ordered it and i loved it ) so whould the dread version http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Washburn-WD10-Augusta-Series-Dreadnought-Acoustic-Guitar-?sku=511815

or the concert version

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Washburn-2008-Augusta-Series-Concert-Acoustic-Guitar?sku=511816

be better for my playing which is alot of fingerpicking and heavy strumming

[moctzal]

Well, normally the dread is the quintessential strummer's guitar.

However you should play both and decide for yourself.

Many guitarists play many styles on all sort of guitars.

[Stackabones]

The dread doesn't do it for me ...

 

But I think the Concert is pure sex! All those curves.

[Cripes]

I've played a few Washburns. Nice guitars. It's one of those makes that leave you thinking there's no reason to pay more for a high-end and get little in the offing.

[BrandonBrinley]

 

The dread doesn't do it for me ... But I think the Concert is pure sex! All those curves.

 

 

i know that what i thought when i saw it :]

[guitarist21]

Well if you like fingerpicking AND "heavy" strumming, you're probably better off with the dread. Like moctzal said, you really ought to play both and pick one, but if I had to choose one for you right now I'd pick the dread. Many small-bodied guitars compress significantly under heavy strumming and sound bad. My Epi Masterbilt can take up to what I would call medium-heavy strumming before it compresses like crazy. I bought it because I found it to handle strumming better than many other small-bodied guitars.

 

Ellen

[T.B.]

Yeah, I would think the dread would be a better fit for picking and heavy strumming.

 

Trina