Washburn Dreadnought Acoustic HD10S Guitar

The Washburn HD10S model is a dreadnought acoustic guitar, introduced into the market in the spring of 2016 as one of the initial 16 models of the new Washburn Heritage Series, featuring four body shapes across the range. The Heritage 10 series guitars feature mahogany back and sides, the Heritage 20 series rosewood back and sides, the Heritage 30 series tamo ash back and sides and the Heritage 40 series flame maple back and sides.

The Washburn HD10S delivers a dreadnought body shape, solid sitka spruce top, mahogany back, sides and neck, a rosewood fingerboard and bridge, diecast tuners and a custom sound hole rosette.It features a solid spruce top for superior tone that improves with age, mahogany back, sides and neck, a rosewood fingerboard and bridge, diecast tuners for quick, easy and accurate tuning, a Washburn tortoise pickguard and a custom rosette.

The Washburn HD10S is the perfect entry level guitar for strumming, picking some blues or bluegrass flatpicking. It’s a great live guitar and records remarkably well.

The HD10S is priced not far above an entry-level dreadnought, but it doesn’t look it. The solid Sitka top is nicely grained and decorated with an attractive rosette. This is a heritage decal, rather than an inlay, but gives a nice impression of a beautiful shell inlay in an art deco pattern. There’s a tortoiseshell pickguard, and the top is simply bound in black and cream. The back and sides are veneered in nicely figured mahogany, which sits smooth against the cream binding, and the cream heelcap has a stylised ‘W’ engraving. The almost butterfly shaped bridge is rosewood, and has a fully compensated saddle, which, along with the nut, is Nubone. The neck is mahogany, and the rosewood 20-fret fingerboard – while decorated with simple dot inlays – is also bound, lending a further sense of quality to the instrument. The somewhat torch-shaped headstock mirrors to an extent the inlay, and also carries a classy, calligraphic Washburn logo. On the back are unbranded closed die cast chrome tuners giving accurate and steady performance.

The Washburn HD10S is the perfect entry level guitar for strumming, picking some blues or bluegrass flatpicking. It’s a great live guitar and records remarkably well.

SPECIFICATIONS:

MODEL: HD10S

SHAPE: Dreadnought

TOP: Solid Sitka Spruce

BACK: Mahogany

SIDES: Mahogany

BRACING: Cathedral Peaked Advanced Scalloped-X

ROSETTE: Heritage Decal

NECK: Satin Mahogany with 2 way Trussrod

FRETBOARD: Rosewood with 20 Frets

INLAYS: dots

NUT: Nubone

NUT WIDTH: 1-11/16”

SCALE: 25-5/16”

ELECTRONICS

PREAMP SYSTEM: N/A

HARDWARE

BRIDGE: Rosewood

TUNERS: Chrome Diecast

OTHER

STRINGS: Cleartone 7412B light gauge phosphor bronze

CASE: GCDNDLX- SOLD SEPARATELY