Simon & Patrick guitar

This is a review of the Simon & Patrick Woodland Series Luthier guitar. While it is no Taylor, for the price this acoustic guitar gives good bang for the buck. Simon & Patrick offer their Woodland Series guitars are made in La Patrie and Princeville, Quebec, Canada. They feature a 22 fret silver leaf maple neck and dreadnought body . They offer some with optional B-Band A3T electronics. They also offer the choice of Cedar or Spruce tops. The sides and bottom are made with a polished finish, rather than a polyester finish, as S&P feels that impedes on the sound quality. Thus if you want a glossy guitar, this is not one for you. If you want a fairly cheap acoustic guitar that sounds good though, then you have come to the right place.

Along with the Rosewood fingerboard the frets include silver dot inlays. These guitars also feature a Tusq nut & saddle by Graphtech.  They also have chrome tuning pegs.

The tops are hand buffed and pressure tested. Simon & Patrick claim the Spruce top offers a brighter tone where as the Cedar top offers a more mellow tone.

Simon & Patrick's Integrated Set Neck system is supposed to eliminated downward pressure from the fingerboard onto the neck as well as minimize distortion and thus tuning issues due to climate changes. They place extra support where their engineers feel the enforcement is most needed and use a double function truss rod.

They claim the sound gets better the more the guitars are played with over time. That is something subjective though so you would have to find that out for yourself. I myself personally think the sound stays about the same, but that is not a bad thing, as I liked the sound from the start.

My Simon & Patrick Luthier holds the tuning very well, albeit I do usually use it in standard tuning so I cannot speak on how well it stays in other tunings.

I personally find the sound of of my Spruce top model fairly crisp with a medium tone. The action is better than some lower end priced guitars I have played, but not as good as some more expensive models I have played (again, this is no Taylor).

I would definitely recommend one of these guitars for someone on somewhat of a budget who wants a solid feeling and solid sounding guitar.

SImon & Patrick also offer higher end series with a variety of shapes including dreadnought, jumbo and songsmith, mini-jumbo and vintageburst and a variety of electronics and other features which you can read about at simonandpatrick.com.