Product: Admira Clasico
Price Paid: #30 ish (GBP)
Submitted
07/01/2003
at
10:34am
by
Anonymous
Features
:
5
Made in 1995 or so in Spain according to the sticker on the inside; Fabricado en espagna. 18 frets and really classy looking machine heads (although they're probably just really cheap and tacky ones!).
To be honest, giving this guitar a review based on it's features is really difficult and pointless since it's your bog-standard classical guitar, but as far as I know it has a cedar top and mahogany sides and back.
Sound
:
4
The sound quality is fairly poor (a little too bassy for my liking)especially for a classical guitar which I believe should be quite trebly, but as far as bog standard guitars go it's not as bad as some I've played and you can get some quality tones out if you try hard enough.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
As far as I can remember, when I purchased this guitar it was in fairly good shape except for the odd scratch and dent in the finish. My only real complaint about the set-up was with the fret wire being slightly sharp on the edges, but for the price I paid I wasn't going to complain and it loked the bees-knees anyway
Reliability/Durability
:
5
This guitar will not last that long! As far as I was concerned when I bought it to have lessons, I was only going to play it for about 5 years at the most to get the basics of guitar playing and then upgrade to an electric, so it has held up fairly well (I was practising for about 2 years on it everyday), but considering that within about 7 years the neck has warped quite dramatically and that it is glued to the body, I think I will have to retire it soon
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
I've never ever tried to contact Admira and to be quite honest I don't give a monkey's about whether or not they have a website to contact them through.
I think the shop that I bought it from gave me a 2 year warranty or something, but I would've never used it and by now it's too late to.
Overall Rating
:
7
I've been playing guitar since the age of 8 and this was my first ever, so for it to last for 7+ years is in my opinion fairly good considering the flaws that I mentioned in the Action, Fit & Finish catagory.
My only major complaint though is that now that I don't play classical music, I would like to put straplocks on it as it is an incredibly versatile instrument, but as I have fond memories of it and don't want to damage it in any way I will never do so.
If my Admira guitar was lost or stolen I would be upset as it was my first, but I would not replace it with the same model (I would probably buy an alvarez as I've read some really good reviews on this website and because Zakk Wylde uses a 6 and 12 string model), but as long as I have it I will treasure the memories I have with it.