Samick D-5

Mine is a dreadnaught, with a cutaway.
Rosewood fretboard, Spruce top, Mahogany sides.
Beautiful guitar.
The built-in tuner is a great feature, but I've used more acurate tuners before. Also, after tuning it perfectly (by the tuner) I sometimes will have to sharpen or flatten a string a bit - with no response from the tuner. I can hear the difference, however, most people can not.
I have an exeptionally fine-tuned ear, and the differenece I can detect would escape mose people.
The ease of use of the built in tuner is very good.

Mine is a D5-CE with a cutaway. This is a loud guitar, with a nice sound to it.

The Strings were HUGE! Way too thick for my preferance. I replaced them after the 1st week, with lighter guage strings. Much better.
The action is too hight for my preferance. I will be sanding down the bridge.
This is a beautiful guitar.

Good solid finish on this. It got knocked over, onto a brick floor - not a mark.
I think it's a good, dependable guitar.

No experience with customer support.

I've been playing 30 years. I like this guitar a lot, although the action is a bit high for me. I play jazz, funk, blues, rock, R & B - many styles.
I play hundreds and hundreds of different chords, all up and down the neck. Many highly unusual chords, too . . .
The action is a bit high for sliding chords, especially after the 7th fret or so.
I feel sanding the bridge to bring it down 1/32" will help me a lot.

The featurs of this guitar i won't complain about. It's good if you just want a normal acoustic guitar.

The sound is amazing. Very nice tone and sound projection.

The action is perfect and the finish is beautiful.

I've had this guitar for 2 years. The neck twisted and the high E string goes out of tune a you ascend the fretboard. The company makes a good guitar, but it's definatley not reliable. I played this acoustic about 3 hours a day for 2 years, which may have been the case.

I'm going to contact the company about this guitar to see if I can get a refund.

Since I've had this guitar for only two years, the guitar shouldn't be worthless after such a short time. I definately recommend this guitar for bigginers, who are planning on getting a better guitar after a year or two, but for those guitar teachers out there who play thier guitar 3 hours a day... get something expensive.

Dreadnought body, grover tuners (really nice, stay in tune perfectly), hardwood, would like a cutaway body (doesn't have one)

Sound is great in comparison to other #160 steel-strings. Nice bass, overall nice tones.

Lovely finish - looks fantastic, flawless, action not too bad, perhaps a little too high,

Had it for at least half a year, seems very solidly put together, I sometimes bang the top to make a beat and it doesn't complain at all.

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Been playing four years, acoustic and electric, I'm now fitting a pickup so maybe I should have opted for the #210 electro-acoustic with a cutaway. I would buy this again, for the price it is fantastic! Aimed at a much higher market than price indicates, made by the biggest manufacturer of stringed instruments worldwide, I compared this to other guitars (Yamaha etc.) and I only this one filled my criteria.

- Bought new in Canada 2002, made in Indonesia
- 20 Frets
- Solid spruce top
- Mohogany sides and back
- Rosewood fingerboard
- Grover tuners
- Glossy finish
- Looks really nice, glossy, sharp colours

Highs are clear, bass is decent but lacks warmth. Too noisy for my liking, buzzes at times when played hard and not perfectly (unforgiving). Chords come alive when stummed hard. Great on pentatonic leads.

Beautifully finished, guitar looks awesome. Way too much action. Crappy factory strings. Cheap looking pegs though...

Solid wood / construction and grover tuners mean this guitar should last a while. Strap button will need to be replaced (cheap plastic).

Not used

Been playing for 5 years, this guitar is a good deal for the money, although you'll have to tweak it to make it great. The guitar's looks are amazing, unfortunately the play is just O.K... you're probably better off buying a good used one at that price though.