Ibanez Silver Cadet Z Acoustic

good action, the tuners are wearing out, every once in a while i have to take them apart and piss around with them. didnt come with a pickgaurd so i put one on myself, looks sharp.

it suits my style well, becuase i basically only play chords, but get a buzz or rattle sometimes but not too often.

there doesnt appear to be any manufacturing problems.

i can definetly depend on this guitar. ive banged it off anything you could imagine and there still doesnt seem to be any severe damage to it.

i like this guitar, it might not be the prettiest, but its like a new pair of underwear, at first its constrictive but eventually it becomes a part of you.

Beginner's Dreadnought with all the classic features of this type of instrument. Low quality tuners and simple dot inlays. Only one strap button. The Headstock says Silver Cadet, then a big "Z". A decal in the soundhole says "Silver Cadet by Ibanez, Made in Korea".
Multi-layer top and X-bracing, silky, not shiney finish. fine neck with a strong V-shape.
After all you get what you pay for, and it is a mediocre student guitar. The dealer had a special offer running and threw in a strap, a gig bag and 10 picks, so the price was quite OK.

Compared to my Fender F65, it is flat and lacks both bottom and trebbles, but it sounds quite well for chords. You don't get a lot of finesse out of it, but then ... who delivers for that price? It is OK for fingerpicking, but doesn't really pronounce all the notes similar (did I get my point over?). If compared to a solid top instrument, it sounds like you have killed the bass and trebble, if played alone, the sound, especially on chords, ain't all that bad. I would rate her a lot above average, but then you have to see that there are some real classy instruments out there.

It came with a very poor, high action and some frets above the 7th were buzzing. I changed to Martin bronze light strings and sanded about half a millimeter off the saddle. Then readjusting the neck, and now it plays right for the last 5 years.

The bracing is done quite well, and there are no visible glue drops inside, so the people assembling this axe have done it right.

The nck is only 3 piece and so you can see the joints and imagine the problems with a setup like this.

The fingerboard is bleaching out very fast, the tuners have let go a bit (some of them feel like you have to turn them for 60 degrees until they start winding the string) and the scratchplate fell off one day (I like the look better now!).

But as said before, the body is well made, the paint / finish is OK and apart from the horrible setup, there is no real quality problem. The axe even stays in tune when transported. Nothing very good, but nothing serious to complain about.

No idea

I am playing for 28 years now and I bought that guitar 6 years ago when I was on holiday, it was raining for half a week, I was sick of watching TV, wanted to play guitar and was on a pretty tight budget. I was looking for a cheap instrument that I would also keep when coming home. After playing a lot of trash in the music store, I finally found this one, which seemed to be a good compromise between quality and price (less than 140 USD!).

I don't play the Silver Cadet a lot recently, but whenever friends come by and we want to jam acoustic, the friends take it and so far nobody really complained. The sound is far from superb, but at least it plays without severe problems, doesn't buzz and has a pretty low action. A lot of bang for the buck, ain't it?