Synsonics Unknown Acoustic

I own a 1992 bright red model, that I got from sears at christmas time. It cost 200 dollars, and came with a case, a strap, and a pick. I think if it had a different name on the headstock, and case that people would love it even more than they do already. Mine is red all over, and shines like new. AS it grows older it gets more mellow sounding.Big Fat Dreadnought style. Nothing real fancy but a great looking guitar.

This guitar suits my personal style to a T. IT is great to play slide on, or even more bluesy tunes on . I fingerpick and it is loud enough to play without an amp. The lows are dark anough to play the bass lines with ,while the highs are bright and ringing.

The guitar was set up just right from the factory.Everything fits and plays just fine.

I have been hard on this guitar and it still looks new. nuff' said.

I own other guitars and I think that it is one of the good ones.

This guitar appeared underneath the Christmas Tree about eight years ago, and I was even really good that year! Why Santa would inflict this laminated lump of coal upon any good little boy is unbeknownst to me. The best thing I can say about this guitar is that it is flammable. All I know about the make is that it was, at one point, a tree of some kind (probably knocked over by a slight breeze if the construction is any indication). The strings are terrible. Putting better strings on it does something very interesting. I put some Takamine Medium Phosphur Bronzes for acoustic and discovered how utterly and truly painful this weapon is. Every aspect of this guitar hurts. The tuners fly out of tune like dyslexic helicopters, in any direction at all. The neck is too big and fat and round to be played by human hands. The tuners are very cheap, and the pegs just fall right off, unless the overwhelming action holds the entire piece together like some strange, post-modern suspension bridge. Is there a category below 1?

If you like an acoustic guitar that sounds as if a bright, tinny, buzzing distortian is always in effect, then this is the guitar for you. This sound is so bright, and so loud, and so painful, that only my neighbors can truly appreciate how bad this guitar truly is. Of course, they don't have to stand right next to it, and feel their ears melting in pain at the Escher-esque grotesqueness of this sound. I feel like the Demons are leaping out of this guitar everytime I play it. I assure you, with all my heart, as a fan of aggresive music, that in this scenario the sound is only appropriate to get yourself evicted. Play this guitar to the ex-girlfriend who will never leave you alone. Play this guitar to enrage your neighbor's dogs. Play this guitar to convince potential thieves that not only do you have nothing worth stealing, but you also have a painfully - PAINFULLY - loud alarm system. I'm using really basic strings, a Fender .60 pick, and my fingers. The guitar sounds like a note from inside of a very old, stained, and smelly garbage can.

This guitar was designed to keep children from ever playing guitar. Probably some upper-middle class religious zealots who don't want their kiddies getting influenced by that "dangerous element" of rock music convinced a catalog or department store to design a guitar for the lower classes that would encourage every young, budding, Dimebag and Slash to put down that electric axe and pick up that gardening hoe. The action is so bad that I only finger on this guitar to increase my hand-strength for one of my other hobbies, rock climbing. As mentioned, the tuners love meandering. The neck is way to thick and round for any human to play. On the whole, though, the flaws are surprisingly few. Yes, it is designed to inflict pain upon the player. Yet, after this fact is taken into consideration, the flimsy design is the only drawback to what otherwise is a very solid guitar. The frets are in tune top to bottom (amazingly) for at least the first three or four notes. The body and bridge are good enough to give this satanic summoning tool a very... VERY... VVEERRYY!!! loud sound. That brittle nastiness really sounds as if it were amplified, badly and loudly. Do not play this guitar in a small room. (...Any room for that matter. Ick.) I'll give it a 2 for holding up in my dangerous closet, and for scaring away stray cats. I hate cats.

Um. If you worry about the ability of this guitar to last, you have some issues. This is the guitar that thanks you when it is destroyed on stage and tossed into the crowd. This is the guitar that might sound better if I lit fire to it, and bashed a stage-rushing speed freak who is freaking out over the sound produced.
The construction is pretty sturdy, for such flimsy wood. My closet is brutal, and the guitar's in one piece (thanks to tight action). I can always depend on it, too. I can depend it to scare away everything with ears within about 500 yards. I want to take it to a national park and play it near some Mockingbirds. That way, it will be legal to kill Mockingbirds.
I don't think I'd ever use this in a gig. Ever. What would I use as a back up for it? I could pull my shoe strings between two heavy rocks, and that would still sound better.
Dude, this guitar is really terrible. I mean. Man.
I'd turn it into a lamp if the wood wasn't so cheapo-flimsy. Maybe I can sell it to Bennigans and they'll mount on their wall of bric-a-brac. They might give me one dollar for it. I'd consider it a real steal.

Synsonics? Who?

Oh, I just got the name!

"Sin" "Sonic"

Yes, that just about covers it.

I've only been playing guitar for a year, but I have a strong background in music, right underneath the professional level. My main instrument was Tuba for a long time (almost made it, but couldn't afford one. My own fault, really, for picking that instrument). I've played many saxophones, percussion, Bugles, and lots of piano. I've played many styles of music. I know the difference between good and bad. Pain is a part of some styles of music, yes. But not like this one, folks. If you see one of these Synsonic acoustic guitars lying around, do the world a favor and shove your boot through it.