Blues51WETSB Artist Series Parlor Acoustic/Electric Blues

The Alvarez Artist Blues Series delivers genre-specific instruments to capture the very essence of American music history. Body shapes, bracings and constructions were carefully considered before opening molds for Alvarez’s body shapes and finalizing specifications.

Alvarez Blues guitars have a vintage vibe with a small rectangle bridge, V profile neck, 2 1/4” string spacing and back-shifted bracing to make these smaller bodied guitars feel and sound just right.

Tonally, they deliver the compressed bluesy bark expected from such a design but the refined back-shifted, scalloped bracing adds more openness for a slightly more modern style projection. Alvarez created the Blues51WETSB to offer a high-quality guitar with a vintage vibe, exceptional tone and value. The Blues51WETSB is perfect for any player looking for an outstanding instrument that is well-balanced and reliable. The Blues51WETSB features a great electronic system, an LR Baggs VTC with soundhole console.

Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Their tone woods are carefully cured; their components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques used are continually researched and developed, and their tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively sound box.

Each model is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include Alvarez’s designed bracing systems, real bone nuts and saddles, great quality tone woods and thin finish.
These guitars also demonstrate Alvarez’s great finishing capabilities; the gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible to help optimize tone.