ZAD80 Zager Guitar Review

Acoustic Guitar Review - zad80

David B. <****ordingDoc@aol.com>
Model: zad80

How did you hear about this brand?
I am not sure if I remember how I exactly heard about Zager guitars. Since it has been a few years and 3 Zager guitars ago. But I think it was through a friend who I saw playing his Zager at a small club.

How does this guitar compare with your old guitar, other guitars, or guitars you've tried in stores?
I own over 30 guitars and in amongst my collection I own a 1968 martin D 28 and a 1970 D 35 a 1964 Gibson J 64 AND A 1963 Gibson J200 a few guitars that I have had made for me and I am also a proud owner of a Zager Sigma Martin D 41, A Zager ZAD 20 and now my new ZAD 80. I use a lot of open tunings and I am in the middle of a new album project. Most of my guitars I leave dedicated to different tunings. But I must tell you that I am so spoiled with my Zagers that I find myself using those more then any of my other guitars. I am a firm believer that you cant trust everything you read but I must agree with what some of the other people said in their testimonials about comparing these guitars to 3000 to 4000 dollar guitars with room to spare. I love all of my Zagers. I have a friend who is a fairly will known guitar player and he is aware of my whole collection and sometimes will borrow one of my guitars for doing some studio work. The last couple of times he's been by he has asked with a little smile "are you using your Zager's for the next couple days"

What's your favorite part about this guitar?
Everything, the whole guitar as one instrument

If you didn't know the price of this guitar what would you estimate the price to be?
I recently went to Guitar Center with my wife and went in "the special" room and I started playing a bunch of guitars without looking at the price tags and what I discovered is that I have very expensive taste but the one I really liked was the Gibson 50th Anniversary 1960 Hummingbird I looked at the tag and it was 4699.69 To make a long story short there was only a couple guitars that I played that I thought were great. But in my opinion the Zager held it's own up there amongst the elite and when home, I got out my ZAD 80 and played happily into the night without the thought "I think I would rather have a ________" If you know what I mean.

How would you rate customer support?
I haven't had any issues so I am most likely not the right guy to ask that question to. I know that when I was thinking of buying another Zager I had a bunch of questions and must have made them crazy. But they were very polite and were very informative.

Would you recommend this guitar to others…if so why?
I am not sure if I would recommend Zager guitars to others because I wouldn't want anyone sounding as good or better then me. But I have recommended it to some of my very close friends.

Additional comments:
Keep up the good work.

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