Shop4Omni Steel String Camping Travel Guitar with Bag (Blue)

I bought the black lacquer version. Like another reviewer said, it was pretty okay on the finish. Frankly I'm amazed that this guitar can be produced, varnished, assembled, shipped and sold with a gig bag and an extra set of strings for even three times the price. Nothing about this guitar screams high quality. That's obviously not the point. Consider this a fully assembled guitar kit. Up to you to polish frets, file the nut and the bridge, set the intonation, and replace the strings with something that will stay in tune. Took me about an hour sitting in front of the TV petting on it.It now will hold a tune at least through a few songs. I quickly discovered that it plays better with a capo. I usually keep my guitars tuned a half step down and adjust with a capo anyway, so this works. It's easier to play on the shorter scale. It also has a better sound.To sum it up, this guitar is shipped as nothing more than a toy. It can be modified easily to be a real player and a great beat around guitar. It is lightweight, a gig bag holds it plus some strings and picks. I'm taking mine to Cuba with me.Update: After 2 weeks traveling around Cuba, I really love this little guy. Jam sessions ensued as well as beach side impromptu concerts. Having a guitar is a great icebreaker with locals and other musicians. It fell to the ground ( in the gig bag) from maybe a meter and not a mark to be found.After more than a year and numerous trips. The guitar still holds up. I had it in a canoe and it was completely submerged in water. I pulled it out, set it in the sun to dry, and it sounds possibly better than before.

Broke within a month. Neck snapped

If you want a cheap travel guitar for camping or such, this could be your buddy. But you will need to take a few minutes to fix it up right. First, the reviews are correct...the fretboard marks are goofy. But this is not a problem. the neck is made of some white plastic or has a white layer underneath the black. So get a tiny screwdriver and scratch out the black paint to make white circles where they should go both on top of the fretboard and on the side if you use those cheat marks like I do. 5th, 7th, 12th. Easy! Now get a black sharpie and darken out the wrong ones. Almost done! The bridge is too tall and the strings are horrible. For the bridge You need to whack that unit down to around 5/16th - 3/8ths of an inch or so OR just go to your local big box hardware store and buy a small chunk of red oak (maple better if you can find it) molding that looks like a triangle or can give you an edge for strings. Its a floating bridge so just cut your molding to 4" long and cut small grooves for the strings with a tiny file or a pen knife...just enough to hold the string spacing that you can copy from the bridge they give you. Now put on some lights or extra lights. Tune. Move your new floating bridge so your 12th fret is half way between the nut and bridge. slide it back, forth, or at an angle so your harmonic on the 12th fret is the same, or close to it, when fretted. Voila! You are done. Sounds more complex than it really is.

The neck of the guitar has separated from the body. I plan to return

This is pretty crappy guitar, but it really meets my needs: It's cheap, portable, doesn't sound too bad (once you do a little work), and I'm not afraid to leave it in my car on a hot day because it's so cheap.I travel a lot for work and I really want to have a guitar on hand in the evenings, but I don't want to ruin my good guitars because of the environmental conditions of being left in the trunk of my car. For this price it's worth the risk.I only had to file the nut grooves a little deeper and adjust the bridge location to get this to play acceptably (for a beater).The neck is thick and uneven here and there. The fretboard is flatter than Texas. You really can't position it quite comfortably, and can't play without the strap. It does smell like spray paint, but that faded considerably from when I unboxed it, and isn't a problem after a day or two. I do like the blue color. I was able to mark the correct bridge location with a blue sharpie just well enough to find but not be obvious.I really love this little piece of junk! What good is a nice guitar sitting at home when you are on the road?

I like the sound, but I learned music on a hornI'm told one has to tune a guitar everytime on plays it, but I didn't believe it till now.This is not an expensive guitar...However this is great value for the costIt comes prestrung with extra strings and a dustcover.However, there was nothing else in the box, not even a packing slip.Also, it is not a concert guitar.I checked the frets and I can tune the guitar, I learned how to do that. But the intervals on the fret-board are a little off, and I'm not sure if I need to tune my tuner or what. But then I realized this is not a concert guitar, but something a bear might pick his teeth with if one plays... poorly...

I got this little guitar a few days ago and have been really impressed with it. The only opportunity I have noticed with the design is the strings are a little high off the fret board and cannot be adjusted. The sounds is not what you are going to get out of a $200 fender but it does sound pretty good. I purchased this for taking along on motorcycle trips and playing around a fire, it shall do the trick nicely.

I like that it's portable. However it does not play correctly in the bottom 6 frets.