The One That Got Away...

Personally, I think the older ones are better in a few ways.
- The top has aged, so it’ll sound drier, and it will have darkened to a nice brown/ pumpkin shade
- The old ones were elegantly simple machines.
- The old logo (the winged bird in front of the sun, or a guitar sound hole) needed no improvement. It’s a perfectly elegant design. The new headstocks have this sideways script logo which looks kinda well, cheesy. The older headstocks were squared off at the end, now they are rounded. None of these changes improved the look IMHO.
- When the constant tension of the strings eventually distorts the body shape of the guitar, Seagulls made before 2006 can have the neck removed and the neck angle reset. Seagulls made post 2006 have an epoxied neck joint which won’t come apart.
-my 2 seagulls, an S6 and an S6 Folk are both pre-2006 and I’m happy they are!