Blueridge BR-40 Historic
The BR-40 Blueridge guitar is certainly the workhorse of the Blueridge Contemporary line. Every detail makes for easy playability and a big, powerful tone. Features like a Select Solid Sitka spruce top, mahogany back, sides, neck and rosewood fingerboard and peghead overlay combined with a host of other gorgeous accouterments like multi-ply body binding, M-O-P inlays, and nickel-plated Kluson-style tuners really make this a professional-level guitar at an extremely affordable price. Authentic prewar bracing ensures tone and volume just like the finest guitars.
- Back and Side Material: Select Mahogany
- Back Inlay: Black
- Binding: Black ABS
- Body Type: Dreadnought
- Brace Material: Spruce
- Bridge & End Pins: Black ABS
- Bridge Material: Indian Rosewood
- Bridge Plate: Maple
- Fingerboard & Peghead Binding: None
- Fingerboard Material: Indian Rosewood
- Fingerboard Position Inlays: M-O-P Dots
- Finish: Natural High Gloss
- Headstock Style: Solid
- Heelcap: Black ABS
- Logo Inlay Style: M-O-P / Abalone
- Neck Material: Select Mahogany
- Number of Frets Clear: 14
- Number of Frets Total: 20
- Nut Material: Bone
- Nut Width: 1 11/16″
- Peghead Overlay: Indian Rosewood
- Pickguard: Black
- Plating: Nickel
- Saddle: Bone
- Scale Length: 25.6″ (650 mm)
- Side Inlay: None
- Soundhole Rosette: Traditional Multi-Ply ABS
- Top: Select Solid Sitka Spruce
- Top Bracing Pattern: Pre-war-style Forward Shifted X-Bracing
- Top Purfling: Multi-ply W-B-W
- Tuning Machines: Gotoh Vintage-style / Open-back / Butterbean Buttons