Seagull Minstrel

If the guitar is in good shape, I wouldn't let the solid cherry lam tun me off. I have an A&L Wild Cherry AMI, all cherry lam, and it's a really fine little parlour guitar - lots of volume, good tone, and more sustain than you'd reasonably expect from a small laminate guitar. It totally buries a solid spruce top Mitchell MDJ-10 parlour I have (a mistake, that one, even for $60), and I even like it better than the Crafter soild cedar topped LITE/TRV with 'hog lam back and sides.  Paid $75 Cdn. for the AMI sight unseen, and it is well worth every penny and a fair bit more. If I had to thin the herd, it'd be one of the very last to go...

And don't be knocking Godin's 'plywood'...in fact, their laminate has three equal layers of wild cherry, and I maintain it is a very respectable tonewood in its own right. I have three Godin acoustics with cedar tops and wild cherry back and sides; I think that's one of the best tonewood combinations out there - and it's way, way off the scale if you're measuring bang-for-the buck!

I got some Minstrel serial number clarification from Michel. 1985 & 86 models used the Seagull serial numbers and I assume the blue Seagull labels. In 1987 they gave them their own serial numbers and the red labels.

So the one I offered $50 for is a 1986 model, first version. I should have accepted the $80. But I don't need another guitar!! ARRRG!!!

But I don't need another guitar!! ARRRG!!!

Last famous words...lol...don't tell me you're starting to sort out your wants from your needs...that's dangerous territory...

I'm sorting by the evil eye I get from the wife with every guitar that comes in!  I think $50 is OK.  Over that is in the "do I really need this" category.