Tacoma C1C Chief

Mahogany top and back, Fishman electronics w/more suff than you'll ever need. Finish is natural with no polish. Single cutaway w/soundhole in upper left corner. Bought w/case. Made in USA!!

I play mostly fingerstyle, origionals and covers from Duran Duran to YES & Genesis. The sound is amazingly loud for a guitar of this type. VERY balanced up the neck.(capo on seventh fret and play "Here comes the sun"!!!) Sound tends to be more sharp than warm and can really cut through in a band. I noticed that the type of pick used on this thing really makes a differance. A Dunlop stubby rounds out the attack for a warmer sound and a fender thick produces VERY sharp attack...a feature I haven't noticed on other acoustics. It came with Elixer strings and I like em for their smooth feel. I imagine that standard wound bronze would make it even brighter...YOWWW!!! I bought this for playing out and it works great. If your looking for the quiet-at-home sound of a Breedlove, this guitar isn't going to make it. But as a workhorse it's great. By the way, this guitar's VERY light!! Excellent for all-night gigs!

The action was a bit high from the factory but I'm not partial to the Martin school. A little bit a shaving did the trick. The contruction is perfect...not a flaw to be found. Tacoma's own tuners are first rate. The neck is on the wider side which is what I like...very comfortable. The frets are on the high side which makes it difficult to slide but you have to give up somthing for the focused tone.

Even with it's light weight this thing should last...very well constructed. The "unfinished" surface won't scratch like a polished one, but it does take a little getting used to! I'm replacing my 12 string w/this guitar for gig work. It's the only acoustic I carry.

Haven't had a problem.

I've been playing on and off for 20+ years. I own a plethora of Electrics but this is my only giging acoustic. I would probably buy another if it were stolen. It doesn't look like anything else and that's a strong point for me. It does what I ask...what else do you want?

This guitar is great... I wanted to get a solid top Takamine or Taylor but couldn't afford the prices. I heard some things about Tacoma and was very interested. The nice thing about these guitars is that are made here in the U.S.A... Washington to be specific. Also, it has a Solid Western Cedar Top, Solid Mahogany Back and Sides, and it sounds better than any of the more expensive brands out there for far less.

This guitar sounds great. It has a rich full sound and doesn't hum or rattle like the Fender acoustic I used to have did. I have only been playing for about 5 or 6 months so I don't really have my own style yet, but I play a variety of stuff and this guitar suits pretty much anything.

I bought the guitar used this past January. I guess someone had got it as a Christmas Present and played it two or three times. Everything was great when I bought it. It has stayed in tune very well... In the 4 months I've had it I had to tune it maybe three times. The action is great and the finish isn't glossy just the natural look of the wood which I like.

I really only play at home but I haven't had any problems and I don't see why anyone would. It is a quality guitar that will definitely endure as long as you take care of it.

I haven't had to deal with them yet

Befor this guitar my first Acoustic Guitar was a Fender, and I was very disappointed in it. The Tacoma is much better as far as quality, components and value go. I also like the design of the guitar. I think that the off-set asymetrical sound hole is very unique. I would definitely buy one again if I needed to.

1998 USA made - 22 fret rosewood fingerboard - Solid western cedar top, solid mahogany back, mahogany sides. It has some electronics, but I'm so acoustic I don't know what they do. I don't even have an amp. Here's their description: Fixed active preamp with Volume, Notch, Low, High, Contour, Brilliance, Frequency, and a phase switch paired with a Fishman piezo-electric film pickup. I give the guitar an nine because I love the natural finish, the mahogany sound and smell, and the cutaway access to the higher frets. If I knew what the electronics were I might give it a ten.

I play classical (Bach), fingerpicking blues (Clapton - unplugged of course), and a little sixties rock (Beattles and such). I also pretend to play Floyd and the like when no one else is around to laugh. I really like the sound of this guitar. It can sound very full in the bass range, which is good for some of the melodic base lines that Bach puts together, and still has a bright upper range for the blues solo type stuff. On the whole, the guitar leans more toward bright and loud rather than earthy and muffled, however, which makes some of the blues stuff harder.

I haven't changed a thing. It fits me well. The action is just right - low enough to be extremely playable, but it doesn't buzz on me when I hit a chord hard. Like I said, I love the natural finish. The wood used for the top and bottom looks great. The best compliment that I can give it is that I can play things well now that I couldn't play at all before I bought it. Part of that is learning, but a lot of it is the guitar's action.

This guitar seems very solidly made. I'm careful with it because I could scar the wood pretty easily - natural finish you know - but I think I would have to knock it against a pretty solid wall a couple times before anything important would break. I'm not even close to good enough to play a gig (though that doesn't stop some), so I won't hazard a guess as to it's playability in concert. In all, this seems like a really solid instrument.

I haven't dealt with the company. It's supposed to have a lifetime warranty for defects, but having failed to discover any, I don't know what their response would be.

I've been playing seriously for all of three years. Obviously, I'm still a beginner and I haven't played other guitars extensively. My previous guitar was an Ibanez steel string acoustic made from plywood worth maybe, oh, $200 bucks. This guitar is obviously better. In shopping for this guitar over the course of a month I also played several Gibson, Washburn, and Fender models. Obviously, I liked this one better. I was trying to buy a guitar that would suit me for the next 10 to 20 years, and I think I made the right choice. I'd buy it again.