PRODUCT REVIEW
S2000
Deluxe
TraDiTioN
By JoRdAn WAGnER
It’s difficult to gauge completely just how pivotal the
past several years have been for the guitar gear com-
munity, but it’s certain that a lot of rules and notions
have changed during that time. When I first started
playing, foreign-made guitars were not nearly as con-
sistent in quality as they are now. While it was easy to
find playable models, not every piece was as masterfully
constructed as a late-seventies Tokai. Korean-made gui-
tars, long the fodder for disdain among discriminating
players, have proven themselves to have attained
great playability and tone, as well as quality con-
trol. Some players even agree that their consis-
tency rivals American quality standards—even
though a lot of the brands being held up as
examples are offshore brethren owned by
those very stateside companies. So, with
skyrocketing demand for less expensive
instruments with high attention to detail,
it was only a matter of time before some
got into the game of crafting higher qual-
ity guitars overseas than we had come
to expect. Of course, credit must go to
Tradition Guitars and other companies like
it for designing good instruments and work-
ing closely with their overseas manufacturers
