🎤 Strum Your Way to Stardom!
The RockJam Acoustic Guitar Superkit is the ultimate starter package for aspiring musicians, featuring a full-size acoustic guitar, essential accessories, and online lessons. With its premium build quality and user-friendly design, this kit ensures a rich playing experience and easy transport, making it perfect for beginners.
C**L
Buen servicio
Muy buen producto, buen servicio de entrega
J**E
Excelente
Perfecto
K**M
Plucking cheap guitar
Bought this as a knockaround guitar because the price was right (I paid ~$30 on sale), not expecting much.Positives:It didn't come out of the box broken, and came packed in its box inside a larger Amazon box with some wadded kraft paper padding. That common complaint seems to have been addressed by fulfillment.Feels better than expected. It's built like a proper guitar (has internal bracing and kerf strip) and just comes off like a cheap guitar rather than a toy or decorative guitar. It's made from actual plywood not MDF or cardboard. Machine heads are a bit sloppy but functional, and after the initial break in tune ups it holds tune.Included clip on tuner is not anywhere as nice as a Snark, but it's functional if you don't have anything else.Finish isn't terrible, from a few feet away it looks fine, but up close it's obviously a cheap guitar with the expected crustiness. Blue sunburst is actually pretty well done and doesn't appear to be a wood-effect sticker. Top material is 3/32" plywood of some sort.Sounds quite a bit better than expected, it's got a decent volume and resonance, doesn't sound tinny or dull like a tourist shop Uke does.Bridge is firmly attached and didn't crunch, crack, or fly off on tune up.Comes with some spare strings which is nice, and the preinstalled ones did survive a few tune ups while doing the bridge adjustment before I snapped the high E. The included picks are 0.50mm which is pretty appropriate for acoustic strumming, and feel like a bargain bin version of the Tortex picks I like.Negatives:Action was sky high, and the neck seems to have quite a bit of up-bow so it goes from a totally playable 3/32" at the low frets to around 1/4" past the 12th fret. Out of the box you can play open/cowboy chords no problem, but anything past the 7th fret or so it's pretty bad. There's not much that can be done about the bow without getting into a neck reset, but the saddle was also super high so I was able to get it more playable in the upper registers by sanding off around 1/8" of the bottom of it with my belt sander. If you want to mess around with luthiery this is a good piece to start on if you can get it on sale; I may attempt a neck reset at some point.EDIT 11/06/22: I noticed today that it has an adjustable truss rod! It had no tension on it which explains the neck bow. With the saddle adjustment I already did and now some truss tensioning I've gotten the action down to a pretty reasonable "medium-low" and nicely playable level from low to high. This doesn't change my overall verdict since it didn't come out of the box set up but I did bump the star rating up from 3 to 4 since this means you can at least set it up (or take it to a shop for a setup) without having to do anything costly and invasive like a neck reset.It needed to be cleaned out of the box, there was still some buffing compound left over in nooks and crannies.Strap and bag it comes with is the same sort of thin material you get on those cheap mini backpacks that companies hand out tradeshow swag in, but it does work. Bag has no padding, it's more like a dust cover and won't protect the guitar from any sort of impact.Conclusion:If you want a cheap guitar to practice luthiery on, let the kids pluck on to keep them away from your nice guitars, smash on someone's head like El Kabong, or leave in the van or RV for playing 3 chord cowboy songs around the camp fire, it's a decent value for the $30 I paid. You probably can't get anything better for the same price at a pawn shop/thrift shop or off craigslist unless you luck out. If you're serious about learning guitar or buying for a dedicated child that you know will stick with it, I'd recommend getting something more in the $150-$200 range that will likely come out of the box in a much more playable condition. I would have been a lot less happy with it if I paid the normal price of $90 because of the neck/action/saddle issues mine had, at that price point you might as well spend a bit more and get a Squier or Yamaha that's almost certainly have better setup/geometry from the factory.
A**A
Good for the money you pay
I have bough this guitar because of the price and because it was supposed to be my very first guitar ever. I had no idea of strings, frets, chord etc . Just decided for myself that i want to self-learn to play it .My only teachers were youtube and some online courses . At first i was very excited. And heard about the fingertip pain and sore hand and stuff. But i did not expect to that painful.It it turned out to be the hight action on this guitar, and really really cheap and hard strings.I have ordered 2 other more expensive guitars to feel a difference, and returned them both. Instead i bought a guitar set up kit for like $25 and set up this guitar that now it plays and sounds like a $1000 top branded instrument.I have went above the returnable period for this rockjam and am so happy i did.A $50 guitar with a $25 kit made my learning so much joyful. Heck, i can easily take a bar chord on any fret.So my advise is to get this guitar if you are only begging, but you need to set it up. Otherwise it will make you think bad about playing one at all.And definitely get some light or extra light strings. I got mine, lowered the action, oiled the fret board, polished the frets and enjoyed the instrument ever since.And be sure that all the people that are saying that it sounds great are right. I had an Ibanez and a Taylorand since cheap piece of music is better.Good luck and play the guitars!!!
A**L
Great guitar for under 60$
I bought this expecting a toy but this guitar is easily comparable to a 2 or 3 hundred dollar model. I am not a pro but I have played many mid and low cost guitars and it is for sure a decent buy.
S**Y
Severe Disappointment 😔
I didn't have high expectations for a guitar at this price point, but this was a huge disappointment.I bought the guitar to have a knock around instrument that would allow me to keep it at a vacation home and not to have to check one of my nicer instruments every time we traveled there.The guitar arrived in not only unplayable condition (the neck was not adjusted correctly, so the strings literally laid against the fingerboard when the strings were tuned to pitch) but had the potential to cause physical harm (the edges of all the frets had been roughly cut off, were razor sharp and protruded from both sides of the fretboard) - if you slide your hand up and down the neck, you would cut yourself badly.I'm a professional musician who spent years working in music stores, so, with a couple hours of work, I was able to adjust the truss rod and tweak the neck into its proper setting before buying a set of needle files and dressing the fret ends until the guitar was no longer a hazard.I feel terrible for some kid who saved his money to buy their first guitar, or a parent on a budget who bought it for a Christmas present and got ... this.The actual build of the body and neck are OK and the 'kit' with its gig bag, strap, tuner, etc., - though pretty cheapo - is a cool idea for a beginner.It's just so sad that the final adjustments mentioned negatively offset any positives.Until QC addresses these issues, I highly recommend avoiding this guitar kit and spending a little more for something you can actually play when it arrives.
C**P
Good quality but...
Sturdy build, good sound, but please do yourself a favor and spend the money you saved on some nice strings and a better tuner. The ones they send you with the order are very bad.
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