Auden Neo Chester Cutaway.
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FREE Professional Setup Worth £90, plus 6 and 12 month check and reset - included on all *guitars (*except Vintage).
FREE Professional Setup Worth £90, plus 6 and 12 month check and reset - included on all *guitars (*except Vintage).The Same - Just Better
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Want a Better Guitar? Buy It From Richards Guitars - If you are serious about the guitar please do find the time to read this. I promise you that anyone offering you next day delivery are not offering what we do! Behind every guitar sold is our meticulous quality control and personalized setup service. We literally leave no stone unturned. From geometric to cosmetic - every aspect is checked and adjusted as necessary... |
We want your guitar to INSPIRE you.
In this first video I introduce you to a customers guitar which is about to go into our workshop for setup and I show you just how many modifications and improvements will be made to the guitar.
This second video shows the guitar going through the workshop process. This process takes around an hour but dont worry - its just highlights!
Its Not Always A Happy Ending
One of my favorite adverts was one by Honda which said at Honda they don't use the word "OK" and instead they use the phrase "What If". I LOVED that advert and found it so inspiring. This is the premise of every guitar setup we undertake. If that means rejecting guitars and starting again - that is exactly what we do.
No Time To Watch the Videos? Here Is the Summary...
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If you have bought a guitar before you will know all too well that not every guitar feels or plays the same. You may also know that due to the nature of the major component of the guitar (wood) that they can feel great one moment and awful the next (say for example after traveling half way around the globe on a boat - from some factory in the far east to the UK!) Richards Guitars offers a unique service offering the more discerning/knowledgeable buyer a host of "players benefits" which will ensure that ANY guitar purchased will give you years of enjoyment - regardless of the price paid. I can demonstrate that a guitar purchased from Richards Guitars will... Sound Better Feel Better Play Better Stay In Tune - Longer Look Better Want more reasons to buy from Richards Guitars? After Sales support A second guitar setup to your new guitars standard for just £35 - Got a guitar at home that you think could be improved? Drop it in and we will do over £55 worth of work for just £35 6 & 12 month checks and "re-sets". A *FREE follow up service for any of my customers. We will ensure your guitar plays like the day it left our store (minus your own wear and tear of course!) saving you £££ on pricey guitar technicians bills. If we find any parts that are failing that are not due to normal wear and tear we will replace them free of charge! Over the past 20 years I have worked hand in hand with suppliers, reporting back with fault "trends" and ways to improve products supplied to us. Companys I have dealt with have been listening intently over the years and we know what value our input has brought to their brands. To summarise, a guitar supplied by Richards Guitars will not just feel like a new guitar, it will feel like YOUR guitar. * Due to the need to check your intonation & adjust accordingly you must bring in your guitar with BRAND NEW strings fitted (original guage as setup when sold) OR pay our technician to remove your old strings and fit new ones - guide price £16 including strings. It is impossible to check intonation accurately with old strings. Past 2 Years Of Customers (Image only shows some of the UK!) Every red marker represents someone who I have supplied a guitar to, possibly starting with guidance and advice online, telephone or in store. I have provided a guitar meticulously quality controlled and set up to their personal specification. I have personally play tested prior to dispatch and have continued to provide back up and support via my live chat service...
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Need Advice? Call 01789 263333 (or open this tab)
Need Advice? Call 01789 263333 (or open this tab)- Call us during office hours (Monday To Saturday 10-4pm) on 01789 263333
- Why not book an appointment and spend a morning or afternoon in total peace and privacy? All the advice will be on hand whenever you need it
- Live Help is available which is run by Jon, Jake & Richard most hours of the day 7 days a week
- Richard has written many advice blogs relating to this brand, which can be found at the bottom of the page
- Richard has provided many hours of advice via our Youtube page at www.youtube.com/richardsguitarshop
- Special highlights are often featured on our Instagram
" This totally wonderful creation is hand made by a small workshop (a team of 9 men) in China with final setup & electronics fitted in the Gordon Smith workshop in Northampton"
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There are so many wonderful things to say about this guitar but the first isn't going to be about the guitar. It is about the man behind it - Doug Sparkes.
My hope is that I can raise awareness of such an important factor when buying any product around the World.
Doug has a wonderful humanitarian spirit. I have seen the most shocking photos - demonstrating the risks to health that workers in China are exposed to. These workers are building some of the guitars you see every day in music shops around the World.
Doug has a workshop in the UK which you can visit via appointment. If you want an electric guitar please do check out the wonderful Gordon Smith guitars.
His workshop in China is literally as clean, well managed and SAFE as his UK workshop. I have been overwhelmed by Dougs unique and very personal approach to his staff and ethos towards life.
Continuing on the humanitarian theme Doug is heavily involved with sponsoring a wonderful cause which you can learn more about in the link below and I have decided to donate 2% of every sale of this guitar to this charity - as it has struck such a chord with me personally...
Love - Hope - Strength supporting Caner sufferers
OK - so what about the guitar?!!!!!!!!
IT IS UTTERLY WONDERFUL!!!
All this talk is only of any value to you if the actual product is worth looking at right? Well Auden have blown me away and 2018 hopefully will be the year where I get them on my map of recommendations and into the hands of players like yourself.
I have taken as many pictures as possible to show the detail that has gone into this guitar.
The Chester is a cross bread with a lower bout a little more like a dreadnought and the upper bought more like an OM - the result is an attractive design with wide range of tones capable of full bodied strumming whist also handling fingerstyle too.
A gig bag is included too at this price.
Specification
AAA Cedar Top
Solid Mahogany Back & Sides
Staggering Brad Clark Supernatural pickup AS
Gig Bag
If you are looking for a wonderful character acoustic that looks beautiful, sounds wonderful and represents something deeper than "just" a selfish transaction this is the guitar to buy. You will be supporting the rights of workers in China - helping a wonderful cancer charity here in the UK and receiving an incredible - benchmark leading guitar setup to perfection in our workshop.
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Good Enough For Paul Weller
Please excuse the blatant name-drop - but its so nice when my own personal excitement for quality is actually reciprocated by not only a pro musician but a UK Rock LEGEND!
Auden Electro Acoustic guitars are one of the most exciting acoustic guitar brands in the Industry to date.
Over the past 10 years they have cemented their position as a consistent award-winning brand, often featuring as "Guitar Of The Year" or "Editors Choice" in the Industry Press.
Its no surprise to me that Rock Royalty Paul Weller chose Auden guitars to record some tracks at Abbey Road and is now touring with his Auden!
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Auden guitars are quite simply the finest acoustic guitars money can buy at the price.
No other store in the UK brings you Auden, Dowina, Furch, & Eastman - under one roof
We only stock the finest acoustic guitars at the price point - and you will be amazed at how much more guitar you can buy - for the same price or less than mainstream American brands (most of my personal recommendations are made in UK & Europe)
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