Morris W-20 - 1970’s made in Japan 🇯🇵!! - Tone and Power from the Golden Age of Japanese Guitars! -

This guitar bumps hard! Beautiful and complex power comes pouring out of it, you feel like you’re conducting an orchestra at your fingertips with a huge spectrum of tone and dynamics!

This guitar is from the golden age of Japanese guitar production, it totally represents so many of their good qualities that they brought to the table of the world of guitars during that time. This is obviously heavily inspired by a Martin D-20, so much so that they called it the W-20. This guitar got players who couldn’t afford a Martin a really convincing and fantastic Martin experience, it really feels like a 70’s Martin to the core. Big booming and beautiful bass, and a nice shimmer across the mid range and the top end. This guitar definitely falls squarely in the “fingerpicker’s dream” catagory, it fingerpicks beautifully like a real D-20.

Neck is straight, action is low and comfortable, frets have tons of life left, it’s a very healthy guitar with a ton of years ahead of it. Super high quality woods and components all the way around, it’s a really professional playing and sounding instrument! Morris made some really proud and high quality instruments. The one is signed by two Japanese luthiers, I imagine one person who was the head of Quality Control and another who was the head of the whole operation. That’s somewhat unusual for a lot of Japanese guitars from this era, most of them have more of a production feel rather than a personal feel with a luthier’s signature. Morris was about taking pride in the instruments and carrying ownership with them from the people who made them, that’s a cool and unusual detail you don’t see too often from this era.

There’s a few scratches here and there, but the guitar sounds like a cannon and totally rips. It’s an epic instrument that I wouldn’t hesitate bringing into a super pro studio or live environment. Killer guitar, comes with what looks like the original case!