Seagull SWS Rosewood QI

wbmn,

First welcome to the Cabin, hope your stay is long and enjoyable.

Sorry can't be to helpful in answering your question, but sure someone from the cabin will have the answer.
But just to say, you have bought yourself a really nice Guitar, hope you get many years of enjoyment from the little beauty. 😀

This is just a guess, but it could also be, at least partly, the amount of duds they produced of that model. 

I wanted a rosewood/spruce guitar for some time a while back.  That model was one of the very few I could find that was affordable and I've been a Seagull fan for a long time so was really interested in getting that one.  Problem was, I could only find 3 of them over a period of time and all of them sounded pretty dead when I tested them.

I never ended up getting one and I have to wonder how many others had the same experience.  Dunno why all the ones I tested were so dead either cuz the little bit of "looking into it" that I did turned up nothing really relevant.  None of them had dead strings or were dirty, so, who knows. 

I remember being really bummed out about it and, after so many years of being a die-hard Seagull/Godin fan, that was the catalyst for me starting to try other brands.

Owned one and was stolen then the price went up fast and a lot I want to about $200 then they stopped making I don't think it was poor quality I think it was a cost thing the price increase put right up there with the artist line loved that guitar but mine didn't have electronics so nothing under the saddle but wood great guitar with the price so high I thought long and hard about the artist studio but couldn't come up with the cash just got one on eBay for a good price but the prior owner put a pickup in it gonna give a try but am already thinking about removing the electronics new saddle all the good stuff they are good guitars just need some time and the right strings ej11s made it really nice and bright but you have to change them out in the time I was waiting for the right Rosewood bought was concert hall a little small for me but does sound great it's a Seagull so sounding great is a given my son loves it's the only thing he plays anymore

What kind of strings you'll working with on the Rosewoods I'm thinking about trying the D'Addario NB1356