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Prices (27)
Date | Price | Condition | Name | Comments |
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2011 | $130 | good | ||
2002 | $250 | excellent | ||
2008 | $50 | good | ||
2014 | $20 | good | ||
2014 | $100 | good | ||
2005 | $200 | good | Jesse | Love the sound of this guitar. I own three alvarez guitars and this is my favorite |
2014 | $120.00 | good | ||
2007 | $2 | wreck | Drew | |
2016 | $175 | excellent | ||
2016 | $120 | excellent | ||
2016 | $60.00 | good | ||
2016 | $60.00 | good | ||
1985 | $30 | excellent | With case | |
1979 | $0 | good | ||
1979 | $0 | good | ||
2017 | $150 | excellent | Becca | |
1990 | $0 | new | ||
1990 | $300 | new | ||
1990 | $100 | excellent | Boudi | hard case |
1998 | $50 | excellent | William Nelson | |
2016 | $50 | excellent | ||
2000 | $179 | excellent | Jt | SL |
1995 | $150 | excellent | ||
2017 | $90 | good | Donnie | This is just one of those guitars with great juju. Might have been some magical wood. I live tops as my take around town guitar. Fuck, I've played shows with it. It's a great guitar. I'd say comparable newer model guitars that sound toys good could ruin you up too 1000 USD and I'm being absolutely serious. |
1988 | $90 | excellent | Great sounding guitar at the right price. I've had it over 30 years now and would never sell it. It just gets better sounding the longer I have it. | |
1982 | $200 | new | Greg | My first (and still only) acoustic guitar. Nearly 40 years later it sounds amazing - deep, warm, ringing when it should. I'd never sell it! |
2018 | $50 | good | Once I adjusted the truss road and put fresh strings on it, this became a really sweet guitar! I love its mellow, warm tone and the balance between low, mid and high. Just a lovely guitar. I take it busking, teaching, songleading at camp, pretty much anywhere. |
Reviews (3)
ALVAREZ 5212 REGENT SPECIAL reviewed by From 86
From 86
My 5212 s# sl 861146 was purchased in 1986, in efforts to help keep me at home when I was 14 yo. Anyways, still have it.
It's been threw hell. And play it for a week, Then pick up an electric. Ha ha.
Yes it was* Hard' on my fingers. Especially as a thin skinned skinny kid. And taking oppertunity to use school walls to scrape my fingertips along as I walked in effort to build calis did work long term, but often excessively tender and waundering away from the schoolyard, I realized all it took was; Play.
Just play. Dont hammer it. Learn it. And that's when I fell in love with it. It Did have good acoustics. And right strings, with some minor mods; have made it a regular played. Too this day. But, too each there own. How I found here. Thought I'd look at what others thought of it.
Well there ya go. My review of the 1986 5212.
ALVAREZ 5212 REGENT SPECIAL reviewed by Anonymous
Anonymous
I've had this guitar for over 2 years now. I originally bought it from a pawnshop for $60. At the time I didn't know anything about buying used guitars and later found out that the action on the guitar was entirely too high. Ended up having around $150 into repairs. And i have to say even though I'm not a good guitarist, I love this guitar. I doubt I will ever get rid of it.
Laminated Spruce top,mahogany back and sides. I have a 1985 Alvarez Regent 5212.
ALVAREZ 5212 REGENT SPECIAL reviewed by Anonymous
Anonymous
I bought this guitar for $200 in 1995 and it has been great. The only problem is that the action is really hard and it kills my fingers! Got to have really thick calluses. I agree with the other comment about the "magical wood or something" because it has a rich sound that projects far which was great when I was playing in college on the beach or outdoors. I have often thought there was something special about it, maybe a solid top with special wood or something (though I can't tell). Great for a cheap guitar!
2 Comments
Dating for my regent?
Submitted by Seeks1 (not verified) on
Have a regent special s/n sl 9003395
Guitar dating
Submitted by Jacob Register (not verified) on
Yours was made in March of 1990