Esteban Burswood Acoustic

2005 or 06

low quality picks, but it's not expected

body, wood, well not the best quality, but for $46 bucks,, hell, i had low expectations, i figured my 5 year old nephew could play with it and i would have no fear of breaking something expensive.

tuners, seem jus fine to me, it stayed in tune for a few hours of fooling around with it.

bag, seems ok to drag round a cheep guitar, so can't complane too much,, i mean as they say, ya get what you pay for...

sound seem fine for a $46. guitar... i mean if i would have paid 200 or 300 for it, well, i would return it.

it's not rich/full, it's a $30 to $46 dollar guitar,, it's a toy, that is fun to play with for the price, i have spent more on gas for a short trip late, so i figure it's worth that at least...

it was set up as a cheep guitar should be. for fun.

it was glued together cheep, it was poorly set up, but hey it's a toy.

hum, live playing, im not sure, i don't play live, im no expert by far, and well, im just not sure.

not sure

made in 2005 very nice BEGINNERS guitar, made in China very well constructed

Well when I first got the guitar I changed the strings, because I did not like the strings with it, I put a set of Martin Eric Clapton's Choice Medium Bronze 80/20 on it and now she purrs like a kitten.

Action is great, Very easy to Play

Very nice guitar, the gig bag though was another story, it offers no protection, so I spent a little money and bought a noce Ritter gig bag. The video was no help ether, manly because it was VHS and all i have is a DVD. but with the private lessons I'm taking, and the Guitar for Dummies book, I am learning allot.

Have not needed Customer support

Very nice Beginner Guitar, had it a month, and playing songs I never thought I could play.

Well I dont own a burswood but the Feature on 1 of my reletives seems okay

there is nothing wrong with the sound maybe its ur tuning skills that suck

well I only played for a max of 1 hour but the only flaw I found was the whammy bar it always bends thats it

Im a Bigginer and I plan to get on getting my reletive's burswood but as I get better im goin to get something better and no I wod not use it during a gig

no

its pretty good as a bigginer guitar

Husband bought it for me this past Christmas direct from Esteban's website. Not sure if this is the exact model as the guitar didn't have anything included with it to say what it is. But it's an acoustic electric Esteban, that much I know. Tuners are chrome-plated plastic. Don't know if it's a solid top or not, looks like it but who knows. Included a hard case, strap, cable, practice amp, allen key (for adjusting the bridge, I guess), picks, chord chart, 2 instructional DVDs and a DVD of an Esteban concert.

Sounds okay, definitely not in the league of a $2,000 Gibson but for the price, sounds just fine. I think the sound from the amp sucks, but from what I hear the practice amps that come with any guitar package, including those from Fender and Ibanez, suck also.

I'm a born again guitarist (played as a teenager a LONG time ago) and wanted to get back into it. I had previously played a classical acoustic with nylon strings so the transition to a steel string was a vast difference. I don't think this is a beginner guitar for anyone but men with large hands. It's not very easy to play, especially not for women or children with smaller hands. Sounds good when I get my fingers on the frets properly and exert about 100 lbs of pressure. Action seems high. I have a heck of a time getting my fingers to reach the frets on some chords and sometimes feel like I'm spraining them in the attempt. I don't remember having that problem starting out as a 13 year old girl on the classical guitar I had. I did not notice any flaws whatsoever on this guitar, the finish is flawless and it's a very pretty instrument.

Seems pretty durable to me. I've been playing it for 3 months and so far nothing has broken.

Haven't dealt with them and didn't check the warranty.

Before my husband bought me this, he called a good friend of ours who is a professional musician. This friend had purchased an Esteban for himself and recommended it to my husband for me. I would never have bought it if it had been my decision. The problem is, my husband asked a very experienced male guitarist on his opinion for a good beginner guitar for a female. He probably should have called a guitar shop or gone on the internet and asked about a good beginner guitar for girls. I have gotten to the point where I've just accepted the fact that this guitar is just too big for me and after some research I purchased a Daisy Rock electric semi-hollowbody. I'm due to get it in a couple of days and I'm hoping that the guitar will be exactly as they claim, sized for the smaller hands of a female guitar player. If I had a daughter or younger son I most certainly would not buy this guitar for them, but if my husband or a male friend wanted to start on the guitar, I definitely don't think this guitar is a bad deal at all, considering what you get. Mine looks good, sounds good, good deal overall.

classic dreadnought, it is what it is. I actually only paid 20 bucks on ebay for it, a gig bag and extra strings. Thank God I only paid 20 bucks after reading reviews. It is not a rip off if you can get it for under 40 dollars with the shipping included. I see that people paid 200+ dollars, why? If you know what quality is and you've played for most of your life, I don't feel sorry for you for getting taken. You brag about what you own and how long you've played, if anyone should know better you should.

Great for my 20 bucks, I do kinda feel sorry for beginners who pay a lot for it and didn't know the difference or what they were getting into. Won't play gigs with it, but for just messing around the house, and not being too overprotective when the little kids get a hold of it, it's good.

Terrible for the price. great for my money

I wouldn't be too upset if the kids were playing with this instead of the taylor or fender. Reliable for around the house.

20 bucks, I spend more on gas to gigs. Don't need support. Don't feel sorry for me.

slightly used, but like new for 20 dollars is a great buy any day of the week. Cheaper than some child guitar toys. Good for a "toy" or mess around guitar. Wouldn't recomend for serious players. But then you didn't need my opinion, you have a thousand others on this page telling you the same thing.

2005
Where was it made?
Features? This is a ten. It came with a HARD SHELL CASE! I couldn?t believe it, a hard shell case. Now that was different. A guitar with a hard shell case? I just wanted to leave a good review after reading all of these bad ones. This guitar is the best guitar! It comes with a hard-shell case. My other guitars didn?t. I could have guitars like Martin, Taylor, Guild, Honda, or Ford, but I don?t. This baby even came with the DVDs, a chord book AND a hard shell case.

The sound quality is awesome. Have you ever hear the sound of a tree falling in a forest?

Reliability/Durability? I would give this a ten.
like the other player have testified, this guitar is extremely durable with a double E.
I don?t have anything to compare it to. Maybe a car?
If I got on a bus with fourteen other people and left the station at seven. How long would it take to build this guitar?

Durability? This guitar is like a tank...a big old hairy turtle of a tank. I could surf on this thing. If I had this the day my foot was bitten off by that shark, I believe I could have gotten it back with no strings attached.
Just ROCK SOLID!

I don?t know if I?ll live long enough to use the 'coustomer support' button that came with this guitar. I can?t play it because of that eel. After it removed the skin on my back my hands I knew I would never play the guitar again. This guitar will last for ever in that HARD SHELL CASE

This guitar is the best guitar! It comes with a hard-shell case. My other guitars didn?t. I could have guitars like Martin, Taylor, Guild, Honda, or Ford, but I don?t. This baby even came with the DVDs, a chord book AND a hard shell case. Soon I?ll be jamming with other satisfied customers like Cornholio to ALL the Korn tunes?.maybe some Lep-lin?
A fantastic value. A lot of guitar for.....well, not a lot of money.

Features? Some beautifull rain forest somewhere in indonesia was cleared (in part) to make this piece of crap. This was not the good wood either, I think it was made out of roots and leaves (the small percentage of it that is actually wood). The neck is bent, the frets have sharp burs and stick out. I once dropped a dinner fork in a garbage disposal and it looked better than these frets. The finish rubs off on my hands whenever I play it; It looks alot like that orange tan in a bottle, and appears as if was applied with a bat. It also has a peutrid oder emminating from it. It smells like a skunk humped an onion in it. What a rip off, what a piece of crap. F#&* YOU ESTABAN!!!!

You can play it with a pick, a file, or my favorite, a hammer. It makes absolutely no difference in the sound. The only place I can see playing it that would make it bearable is on the runway of a busy airport.(at least then I would not be able to hear it)If you were to shoved a bobcat in a rusty old piano, it would sound just like this guitar.

If I took an axe to a pine log, blinfolded, and tried to carve a guitar, it would have a better fit than this thing. And if when i was done, I pissed on it, it would have a better finish. Who ever made this thing must have been having a seizure that day.

The only thing I can depend on is the garbage man picking it up on thursday, and I can only hope he takes it. I fully expect to see it thursday afternoon next to the garbage can with a note taped to it(I am sorry, but due to the sheer volume, we are no longer able to take Estaban guitars)

Upon calling HSN I found out it had an unconditional warranty, under no condition is anything on the guitar warrantied. When I asked to speak to customer service, I was directed to a call center in India. When I began to complain, the man told me I was lucky to own a guitar. I told him he's lucky he's on the other side of the world, because; if he was'nt, I would kill him.

It sould have come with a lighter, so you can burn it immediatly after opening the box. It should also have come with some hand cleaner, to get the finish off your skin after playing it. The only other thing it should have come with is a rebate check for the entire purchase price. I have no other guitars to compare it to, But if I were to leve a nice classical out in the rain and sun for a few years, it would still sound better than this albtross.

Hmmmm......well......er......uh........nope, you've stumped me.

It sounds like what it is. A toy.

Horrible quality. I didn't own it long enough for the bridge to break, but the first time I tuned it the string broke.

This guitar didn't withstand 1 minute of playing.

Support was great. I called them, returned the "guitar", and got a refund. No problems at all.

I've been playing 23 years. I've owned 23 years worth of stuff, and played as many gigs as one would expect in that time. I mentioned to my wife that I'd like a nice acoustic, and she was trying to be nice and surprise me with one from HSN. I pasted a silly grin on my face and played it for a few minutes. She (a non-guitarist) looked closely at the guitar and said, "It's a piece of crap, isn't it?". Then a string broke. It's a piece of crap.

Features? It's an asscoustic guitar, but I'll try: Ratwood for body and neck, plastic everything else. Other stuff is included (just read the other reviews) but it's all of low quality.

"What kind of sounds can the guitar make? How much variety?" STRUM STRUM STRUM STRUM because it's an asscoustic. Even the expensive brands are just STRUM STRUM STRUM but far better quality.
It can make other sounds too. BANG SMASH BREAK BOOM and KABONG!

To quote "Get Serious, Folks", "My geeky cousin who literally wears a pocket protector and Coke-bottle glasses has more action on a Friday night than this POS."
Then his guitar has low action. Well mine did too, in fact mine had action so low the strings buzzed left and right.
Nothing fit together on this guitar. The bridge fell off, and the neck and fingerboard fell apart. The frets are razor-sharp.
Finish rubs off easily. A four-year-old could do better...WAIT A MINUTE four-year-olds are making this deathtrap

Everything fell apart on this deathtrap.

HSN is too busy with women calling them raving about jewelry that they couldn't let an aspiring musician thru to return a sub-standard asscoustic guitar that fell apart. Stupid women.

I bought this since those boneheads suggest that I begin on an asscoustic. I already had an electric (Squier Bullet Special) and this seemed like a good deal at the time. Now I know never to buy anything from a TV shopping channel.

Just got my Estaban guitar. And frankly, I only paid $235 for the deal and as such I expect to get a $235 deal out of this. All you folks pissing and moaning about having all these expensive guitars and have played for years that require that I "do the math" need to stop lying to us and yourselves. If you really had expensive guitars and all those years of playing under your belt, what the hell are you paying this amount of money for?! All I can say is I'm throwing the bullshit flag on the play because I don't believe all these supposed accomplished players are actually telling even the remotest thread of truth.

Know what? I was able to get mine to tune just like Esteban's did in the DVD. *Shock* Should I sit and bitch because I apparently have a musical ear and can get mine to tune?

My guitar looks and feels fine. My problem is that my fingers are a little too short but guess what...when I went to my local guitar shop and tried out a few, my fingers were too short for those expensive ones too! My guitar looks and feels just as it should for the price I paid. If I wasn't a beginner, I would never have bought this instrument. Seems that should be another hint to anyone reading these posts...all these "accomplished" musicians spending the same amount as a beginner? yeah...I believe your posts ... sure I do....

I believe this will withstand live playing...what other kind of playing is there? I believe that I can depend on it as a beginners guitar. Would I use it on a gig? Hell no! I'm not planning gigs...I wanted to play for myself and myself only therefore, I am satisfied with my purchase.

I actually had to call customer support because they didn't include the chord chart. They were happy to send one out to me. Maybe you all called with attitudes?

How long have I been playing? 1 day...you do the math! If it were lost or stolen, I'd get it again because IT'S A GOOD BEGINNER'S GUITAR!

I think that people need to take these negative posts with a grain of salt. Think about it...if the poster claims to have all these other really expensive instruments and/or years, YEARS of musical ability that require the reader to do the math, then think about what you're reading. If the poster really has all these other expensive instruments and experience...WHY DID THEY PURCHASE A CHEAP DEAL WITH ALL THE FRILLS? Oh, wait, they expected more for their money and wanted something for nothing. They wanted the $5000 classical guitar that Esteban used in the infomercial or in the DVD...right? Yeah, that's what I thought. Grow up!