Recommended Entry Level Acoustics
Tanglewood TW28
Price £129
 TW28 - The proprietors favourite for at least 3 years. The TW28 has been my long standing favourite for many years now. We were stocking Tanglewood guitars long before it was "fashionable" to do so, based on their extremely high quality for the money you pay. These days they have built a reputation whereby we have people asking us for the guitars rather than us saying "have you tried one of these!". Many music shops stock Making Music magazine which is a free product guide in shops around the UK. The TW28 finds itself second only to the Yamaha F310 (also on this page).

The photo was taken by myself and I was keen to highlight the cleanliness of the interior of the guitar. It is incredible how meticulously Tanglewood appear to put their guitars together. My final reason why this is my favourite entry level guitar we sell is due to its quality "satin" finish. Many companies go for a high gloss finish which I tend to think looks a little bit cheap (but that is just my personal opinion!).

By the way - Tanglewood do also make this guitar in a red and blue gloss finish for those of you who want a bit of extra colour in your lives!

Oct 2003 Update - The TW28 has now been updated to the TW28SNQ which has upgraded machine heads at no extra charge! Good ol' Tanglewood.  
Click here to purchase the TW28 
   ...or, upgrade to these options at under £200

   Vintage V400
Price £119
 The Vintage V400 is now produced with a solid spruce top for improved tone and comes in a couple of great additional colours to the normal "standard". Vintage produce some of our best selling electric guitars & our most popular sub £200 elecro acoustic (the VEC500). The V400 has probably been slightly overshadowed by the popularity of the TW28 (shown above) but represents equally excellent value for money and comes highly recommended (especially for those who want to add a little "colour" to their lives!)

  Vintage V400
 Click here to purchase the F-310
My conclusion: Both instruments offer excellent value at their price points and when combined with our hand finishing process you will be guaranteed an excellent playing guitar.

We offer a promise to every customer and that promise is to hand finish every instrument we sell. Due to the quality of sub £100 guitars we cannot cost effectively hand finish these instruments. For this reason we do not sell them and we would not advise anyone to buy one either from us or anywhere else!