!: Buying Rogue RA-100D Dreadnought Guitar, Black

Friday, August 27, 2010

Buying Rogue RA-100D Dreadnought Guitar, Black

Over All Rating Reviews :

This is a very beautiful guitar - if you buy the right strings for it. I purchased this guitar for much less at musician's friend, but for the price, you can not beat the sound of this guitar. The truss rod will eventually need adjusting, but I've been playing it for well over two years and it hasn't needed a tune up until now. The screws in the top just finally came loose, but that's an easy fix with a screwdriver. The fingerboard and frets are far more flawless than that of other guitars I've used for the same price. I just recently purchased a Jasmine S35 Takamine acoustic and this guitar has a much fuller sound than that one (unless you put classical guitar strings on them, that makes the Jasmine sound oddly amazing). If you can't find a guitar laying around somewhere for free that simply needs strings and you're looking to start out with a guitar, this would be a good one to start out. The neck thickness isn't the best to start out with (starting out with a thicker neck is better in my opinion because the thicker the neck, the easier it will be to play guitars with thinner necks). I suggest replacing the strings with Elixir Lights and tightening anything that loosened when shipping. Worse comes to worse, the most you'll have to do to it is adjust the truss rod if the action is too high or low(fret buzz - ugh) but take it in to get a professional to do it because "cheaper" guitars can be touchy. Of all the guitars I own - of all different price ranges - this is my go-to guitar. It's brilliant, and cheap enough that you don't have to be too afraid of playing too hard on it so buy it! You won't be disappointed.