Ashton D39 Acoustic Guitar

Top - A Grade Spruce, wooden inlay rosette
Body - Real Flame Maple
Binding - Maple all round
Neck - Mahogany
Fingerboard - Rosewood
Machines - Chrome Die Cast
Bridge - Rosewood

Perfect for small acoustic and/or solo gigs, the D39 provides you with a big, bright sound. With an A-Grade Spruce top, Maple body, Rosewood fingerboard and Mahogany neck, the D39 is a fantastic, versatile guitar with a great sound.
The face of the headstock is Rosewood, very dark, with Ashtons blocky logo in green and white Abolone shining out. The rear, gloss Mahogany is plain, with 2 rows of Chrome die-cast enclosed machine heads.
The neck is also Mahogany, with a smooth gloss lacquer showing off the brown speckled grain underneath. It's very much a standard acoustic guitar neck, not too thin or fat, nut width is 44mm, and as received from Ashtons Chinese factory, action at the 12th fret is between 3-4mm.
The Rosewood fingerboard is very dark, almost black, it has a good, tight grain and is polished up to a good standard. Large white dots mak the usual fret positions, and there is cream binding up both edges of the 'board.
The neck joins the Maple body at the 14th fret, and what a contrast in colours on show here, the bright golden brown of the neck and heel joint against the creamy white of the Maple body - it looks great. Ashton have put a useful strap button on the heel joint.
The flame Maple back and sides have a lovely spripey pattern to the grain, the back appears to be bookmatched as well with a thin black and white centre strip, so no expense seems to have been spared! The top and back are both bound in cream plastic with a thin black pinstripe.
Ashton have also fitted their built in tuner to the top bout of the D39.
The top of the guitar is A Grade Spruce, no flame Maple on show, but the colour is much the same, but Spruce has a much tighter, straight grain. The soundhole rosette is very smart, a mixture of dark and light coloured woods forming a cubic pattern.
Having a Maple body has mellowed the sound of the D39, it's not as loud and brash as a Mahogany or Rosewood bodied dreadnaught, rather nicer for gentle fingerpicking or background strumming. It's got plenty of charm, sustain is impressive and good clarity on picked notes.
A nice dreadnaught, with the Maple body being it's talking point, and this makes for a different sounding guitar as well as a different looking one. Good value again from Ashton Guitars.

Only £129