Walden Dreadnaught D550 - Price: $300
I picked up this guitar in Thunder Bay last fall but I think you can get them almost anywhere. I first encountered the Walden guitar at a store somewhere in the Okanagan valley a few years ago. Basically, they are an extremely good intro to mid-level guitar. I picked this one up because I needed a decent inexpensive guitar for traveling to areas of the world where I’m not confident it won’t be damaged or stolen. This guitar plays and sounds great- definitely worth two or three times the price. It has a solid spruce top, mahogany sides and back and a decent Fishman Classic 4 pick-up. The neck is a bit chunky but otherwise, it has remarkably full-rich tone and is quite rewarding to play. I do quite often pick it up and play it at home.
I actually took this guitar with me to Ethiopia in January but it got lost somewhere in Frankfurt and I didn’t get it back until the end of the trip.
