Originally Posted by: clayfeld

Hi, Faith- thanks for the welcome. It's hard to distinguish a folk acoustic from a "regular" acoustic for me; I think it's probably a difference in soundboard bracing to produce better finger picking tone, but here's a link to the Yamaha folk guitar site with LOTS of discussion!

https://themusicresource.com/yamaha-fg800-vs-fg830/#Yamaha_FG800-2

Clay

Thanks, Clay, will check it out. I assumed folk acoustic meant a 10 or 12 string, but if there's such a thing as a six string folk guitar, that's probably what I should be playing, what with my ongoing musical love affair with JD...