Product: Walden Guitars T550
Price Paid: USD 199
Submitted
03/19/2009
at
04:14am
by
paolo
Email: woptime<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
9
The guitar is satin finished with a solid spruce top, nice metal sealed tuners, good looks, 7/8 size, beautiful gigbag. There is a little bit of goodies like extra bridge, tool for adjusting the neck.. and guess what? a planet waves humidifier!!!!! For anything else you can check their site
Sound
:
9
The guitar sounds exeptionally balanced and has a nice little bass going for the size it has. I've played it very little so far so the wood has to settle a bit, but overall the guitar plays like a dream for it's price and size. I have a baby taylor which I can compare it with (can't obviously compare it to a regular size guitar because the sound projection and bass would make the comparison biased) and it plays much, much better. Time will tell which surprises this guitar holds, but so far I'm blown away.. after many ears of reading reviews here on harmony this instrument made me write my first review!!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Pefectly set up and finished, no sharp edges ect.. The shocking thing is the value.. 199 euros for a sound and build quality like this is almost impossible (until now!!!) The guitar got shipped to me from germany (I'm Italian) I think using UPS. When I opened the box the guitar was perfectly in tune and I still can't believe it!!!
Reliability/Durability
:
9
Looks strong and sturdy. Would't worry on this side of things
Customer Support
:
10
I wrote a mail to show my appreciation and got an answer suuuper fast!! They seem like guys who care about what they do
Overall Rating
:
10
I guess all these new companies know how to communicate with their producers because the quality is absolutely outstanding. I own a taylor 314 and a baby taylor and this is right up with the competition if not better. I mean 199 euros.. it's absolutely nothign for what you get.
It sounds good, it looks good, it has nice gigbag and accessories.. it's cheap.. what else could you ask for.. Oh and the size is absolutely perfect for travelling, that was my main thing because studying a lot with smaller sized guitars (ie the baby taylor) would make the jump back to regular sized guitars a bit stressful (I have to travel for work and am forced to bring a small guit with me)
