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CA Guitars (a.k.a., Composite Acoustics) produces incredible dreadnought guitars. Model 8LB is unique among carbon fiber guitars. Specially designed for bluegrass music, the CA 8LB provides what bluegrass guitar pickers seek -- a dreadnought guitar with a deep, warm, somewhat punchy (yet not too punchy) bass that does not overwhelm the mids, along with singing highs.
The first thing that you may notice upon playing this guitar is the resonance. As with a lot of carbon fiber guitars, the resonance is booming and seems to come straight out from the soundhole in a floating cylinder of sound. My favorite part of the 8LB, though, is the control a picker has. Especially, I can strum a full and resonant chord, but immediately pick out individual notes that come through clearly. Most noticeably, during rhythm, I like to jump my fingers along the mids between chord changes - hammering on/off, sliding, and bending notes away -- and the mids come through fully during those chord changes, preceded and followed by chords that you can make either booming and resonant, or smooth and mellow.
Bluegrass guitar virtuoso Tim Stafford plays a CA Guitars Model 8LB and said the following about the instrument: "I was recently backstage at the IBMA Awards with my Composite Acoustics getting ready to go on, and Tony Rice asked me to play the guitar a bit for Del McCoury - both true legends of Bluegrass music. Tony said: "Listen to that. Isn't it something? It sounds incredible!" Del just grinned and agreed. But these comments are nothing new."
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