Furch Blue Deluxe Gc-CM

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Steel-String Guitar

  • Style: Grand Auditorium with cutaway
  • Ergonomic Duo Bevel - bevel on top and back for more comfortable handling
  • Top: Solid Cedar
  • Back and sides: Solid Mahogany
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Fingerboard: Ebony
  • Front dot fretboard inlays with linear side position markers
  • Scale length: 650 mm (25.6")
  • Nut width: 45 mm (1.77")
  • 20 Frets
  • Ebony bridge
  • Black pickguard
  • Black binding
  • Double ring rosette with walnut inlay
  • Ebony end pins
  • CNR truss rod system
  • Furch machine heads
  • Stock strings: .12 - .53
  • Finish: Open Pore
  • Colour: Natural
  • Made in Czech Republic
Available since November 2021
Item number 521300
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Design Grand Auditorium
Top Solid Cedar
Back And Sides Solid Mahogany
Cutaway Yes
Fretboard Ebony
Nut width in mm 45,00 mm
Frets 20
Pickups No
Colour Natural
Case No
Incl. Gigbag No
$1,275
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Very good as always from Furch but poor setup and a couple of minor issues.
TERD 24.05.2022
I already own a couple of other other Furch guitars and all of them have been brilliant. I discovered Furch by chance a couple of years ago and was blown away by the quality they deliver at relatively cheap prices.

This is actually my cheapest Furch guitar so far. I have played LOTS of different Furchs in addition to the ones I own and I've always felt there was something special about these cheaper cedar top Grand Auditoriums so I decided to get one for myself.

The sound quality is up there with my more expensive Furch guitars. In fact, I would say it's up there with "big brand" guitars that cost 2-3 times as much.

However, this is the first of my Furch guitars where I found a couple of small issues.

The nut for the truss rod doesn't line up precisely with the access hole. The hex wrench can still be inserted but it was extremely hard to remove it again. This doesn't seem to affect the functionality truss rod itself but it didn't feel quite right and I would have expected better from Furch. Hopefully this won't be an issue in the future.

The neck also had a slightly unusual curve with a slight "kink" in the area around the 2nd-3rd frets. No big deal but it made it slighty more difficult to find the optimal relief and nut slot height.

Which brings me to the only complaint I really have about Furch guitars:

Why are they set up with such insanely high action from the factory? Every single factory fresh Furch I've ever played needed the saddle and the nut slots to be filed down. Especially the saddle. Factory fresh Furch guitars seem to come with close to 3mm action at the 12th fret which is way too high.

With a proper setup Furch guitars are world class but they are unfortunately also extremely hard to play out of the box. Ideally the shop is supposed to do a setup of course but shops don't really offer this service these days. Sadly it's all about keeping the costs down and offer competetive prices to stay in business.

I highly recommend this guitar, and ANY other Furch guitar but be aware that it will probably need a setup to unleash it's full potential. If you don't have the skills or tools needed to file the nut/saddle yourself you should factor in the cost of getting a luthier to do it. With a good setup a Furch guitar can become absolutely fantastic. Out of the box they are almost unplayable in my opinion.
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