Alvarez Masterworks MF70ce Folk/OM Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar – Natural Gloss
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All-solid AAA Sitka spruce over East Indian rosewood with the LR Baggs HiFi dual bridge plate sensor system — Masterworks-level tone, balance, and live performance fidelity in a cutaway Folk/OM.
Alvarez Masterworks MF70ce Folk/OM Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar – Natural Gloss
All-solid AAA tonewoods, a genuinely professional pickup system, and boutique-level appointments throughout — this is the OM acoustic-electric for players who are done compromising.
Who This Guitar Is For
The MF70ce sits in the Masterworks Series — Alvarez's professional tier, built from all-solid tonewoods throughout and appointed with the kind of components you find on instruments costing considerably more. This is not a guitar for someone buying their first acoustic-electric. It is a guitar for a player who already knows what they want: the balance and articulation of a great OM, the projection that all-solid construction allows, and the confidence that comes from plugging into a pickup system that actually does the instrument justice. The solid AAA Sitka spruce top is individually selected and graded by Alvarez's own team — the AAA designation reflects consistent grain and exceptional tonal density, not just cosmetic grade. Solid East Indian rosewood back and sides bring depth, sustain, and the crystalline high-frequency complexity that has made spruce-and-rosewood the benchmark acoustic combination for generations. Alvarez voiced the MF70ce specifically around the OM body's natural strengths — near-perfect tonal balance across all six strings, fast response, and an articulate, detailed sound that rewards nuanced playing. The LR Baggs HiFi dual bridge plate sensor system takes that voice to the stage with a fidelity that the standard undersaddle pickups on Artist Series guitars cannot match. For a player who is ready for this level of guitar, it is a compelling instrument at any price.
Key Highlights
- Solid AAA Sitka spruce top — individually selected and graded by Alvarez, delivering exceptional tonal density, projection, and dynamic range
- Solid East Indian rosewood back and sides — all-solid construction throughout, adding depth, sustain, and sparkling high-frequency response
- LR Baggs HiFi dual bridge plate sensor system — a premium non-invasive pickup design with studio-quality preamp voiced to complement the sensors for natural, transparent amplified tone
- FS6 forward-shifted scalloped X bracing — maximizes the vibrating soundboard area around the bridge for powerful voicing, inspiring articulation, and instant response
- Cutaway Folk/OM body for clean upper-fret access without sacrificing tonal balance or structural integrity
- East Indian rosewood fingerboard and bi-level Indian rosewood bridge — premium natural materials throughout the playing surface and string anchor
- Real bone nut and saddle for optimal tone transfer, sustain, and intonation stability
- Premium open gear tuners for smooth, precise tuning with a classic, refined aesthetic
- Premium mother of pearl inlays, ebony bridge pins, and East Indian rosewood headstock facia — Masterworks-level appointments from headstock to bridge
- Ships with D'Addario XSAPB1253 strings
AAA Solid Tonewoods Throughout
The difference between a solid-top guitar and an all-solid guitar is significant and audible. Where the Artist Series uses a solid top over laminate back and sides, the MF70ce is built from solid tonewoods on every surface — top, back, and sides. This means the entire instrument resonates as a unified acoustic structure, producing a depth of overtone and a quality of sustain that a laminate body cannot achieve regardless of how good the top is. The AAA Sitka spruce top designation reflects not just cosmetic quality but exceptional tonal density: even grain, high stiffness-to-weight ratio, and the natural capacity for broad dynamic response.
LR Baggs HiFi — Professional Pickup
The HiFi system is meaningfully different from the StagePro Bronze or StagePro Element found in the Artist Series. Rather than a single undersaddle transducer, HiFi uses dual bridge plate sensors — lightweight, non-invasive pickups that mount to the bridge plate without modifying the instrument's acoustic integrity. They capture the vibration of the top directly, producing amplified tone that is more balanced, more detailed, and more acoustically accurate than a conventional undersaddle pickup. The built-in studio-quality preamp is voiced to complement the sensors rather than color the tone, and the closed sensor design delivers excellent feedback resistance in live performance settings.
The OM Shape — Designed for Balance
Alvarez built the MF70ce around what makes the OM shape exceptional when it is voiced correctly: near-perfect tonal balance and separation across all six strings, fast response under the fingers, and an articulate, even voice that works for any style of playing. To preserve the OM's natural warmth and roundness while improving projection, they used a lighter weight X-brace design in the FS6 pattern — reducing the brace mass enough to open up the top's vibration without sacrificing structural integrity. The result is an OM that responds immediately, sustains musically, and projects with more authority than the body size might suggest.
Great Fit For
- Experienced players ready to step into a professional all-solid instrument with premium electronics
- Fingerstyle players and singer-songwriters who demand tonal balance, articulation, and dynamic sensitivity from their guitar
- Performing musicians who need a pickup system that captures their acoustic tone accurately rather than approximating it
- Studio guitarists who want an acoustic-electric that records honestly whether mic'd or direct
- Folk, Americana, and roots players who have already identified the OM body as their preferred shape
- Players who have outgrown their Artist Series guitar and are ready for the tonal upgrade that all-solid construction delivers
- Anyone looking for a boutique-level playing experience at a price that leaves room in the budget for the rest of the rig
Sound, Feel, and Professional Use
Unplugged, the MF70ce has a voice that immediately communicates its quality. The all-solid construction allows the entire instrument to breathe and resonate together, producing a depth and complexity of tone that reveals itself gradually — the more you listen, the more you hear. The AAA spruce top is lively and responsive across a wide dynamic range, rewarding both the light fingerstyle touch and the more aggressive flatpicking approach with clarity and definition. The solid rosewood body adds sustain, dimension in the low end, and a crystalline quality in the upper register that makes open-position chords ring with satisfying complexity and single-note lines sustain with musical authority. The OM body provides genuine balance across all six strings — you do not hear the bass frequencies dominating or the trebles getting lost in the mix. Every string speaks with equal presence and clarity.
The 24 13/16" scale length sits slightly shorter than a standard long-scale acoustic, which makes the guitar feel slightly more relaxed under the fretting hand without noticeably altering the tension character of the strings. Plugged into the LR Baggs HiFi system, the guitar translates its acoustic voice with a transparency and accuracy that performing musicians will immediately appreciate. The dual bridge plate sensors capture the instrument's natural resonance rather than filtering it through a single contact point, which produces an amplified tone with better string-to-string balance, more dynamic range, and a more natural relationship between playing dynamics and output level. This is the kind of plugged-in experience that makes a guitarist comfortable handing off the XLR cable without asking for EQ adjustments first.
Specifications
Players who find their way to the MF70ce tend to stay there. It is the kind of guitar that answers questions you did not know you had about your playing — once you hear what all-solid construction and a genuinely transparent pickup system sounds like together, it is hard to go back to something that approximates the experience. The OM shape is already one of the most musically satisfying body shapes ever built, and Alvarez has executed it here with the kind of attention to detail that belongs on instruments costing significantly more.
If you want to talk through where the MF70ce fits in the Alvarez lineup, how it compares to the Artist Series models, or what the LR Baggs HiFi experience is like in a live or recording setting — we genuinely enjoy these conversations. Call or text us at 814-371-5666. This is one of our favorites.