The body is a large, but not overly so, Dreadnought shape and finished in a semi-gloss coating that really accentuates the high quality grain of the woods on show. The Artist Mosaic is a professional acoustic with solid mahogany back and sides, a solid cedar top and a mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard and 21 frets. The Artist series sits at the top of the Seagull range, made from hand selected tonewoods and built by a select few luthiers to ensure the highest quality guitars that the brand produces. So far, so very impressive, but what are the guitars like? We’ve reviewed the Peppino D’Agostino signature model in a previous issue and been very impressed but what of their even more affordable non-signature models? Seagull sent us an Artist Mosaic Element acoustic to review. They are actually made in the small Canadian village of LaPatrie were half of the 475 strong population are guitar builders, so you know you’re getting some experienced and passionate people working on these instruments! Seagull sources all of its woods from sustainable resources, uses hydropower for its manufacturing facility and even offers a limited lifetime warranty for all of its guitars. Affordable, solid wood acoustics are a lot more common now than they were then but Seagull has a pretty unique claim to separate itself from the sea of other builders, in that its instruments are actually all build and finished in Canada, just like their high end Godin models. Seagull guitars began in 1982 when Robert Godin (of Godin guitars fame) first started to make acoustic guitars that would offer exceptional value for money – serious instruments that were within reach of ordinary musicians.
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