Northwest Vintage Guitars presents a bizarre guitar made in Japan in 1979 by the Zen-On Music Co, the all solid Wood Morales BM-100. The Morales line of guitars was distributed exclusively by Zen-on and Morales was one of their top two guitar brands. The BM Series Guitars are a bit of an oddity in that they are closest in size to a Martin 0000 Size like the M14 or JM guitars. They're big. But the BM is over 1/2" thinner than a comparable Martin. It's it's own thing. Production of the BM was supervised by Mr Mac Yasuda in Suwa, Japan. Mac designed the BM guitars and they are dubbed the "Big Mac" or BM models after him. The tonewood selection features a Solid Spruce top, Solid Indian Rosewood back and sides and a Mahogany neck with 20 frets in a bound and ornately Abalone inlayed Rosewood fretboard.
The nut measures 1.74", neck depth is .89"-.1.02" at the 1st and 12th frets respectively. The neck profile is a very vintage feeling Soft V. The neck is straight, the truss rod turns in both directions, and the relief is currently set for optimum playability. She has a fresh set of Phosphor Bronze lights, nicely polished frets, low action with perfect saddle height as pictured. It's a 25.5" scale length. There are scattered dents, dings and scratches as pictured. The bridge plate has an overlay, and the nut is not original. It remains in excellent playable condition and comes safely packed in the hard case in the photos.
It's a very nice playing and sounding guitar. Scalloped braces. Full, loud, and defined. No disappointments.
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