Customer Reviews

First Act DiscoveryFG125 Thin Profile Acoustic Guitar

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

I purchased this for my 9 year old son for Christmas. Luckily, I took it out and inspected it while he wasn't home. I took it to my piano and was going to tune it when I noticed that tuning it made the neck start coming away from the main part. After twisting the middle string 2x it broke. First Act includes extra strings for the two thinnest strings but not for the middle. I am very disappointed and will be sending it back. I'm just glad I looked at it before Christmas morning.

I stumed the 2 high strings broke. I restrung it and the middle string snaped. The Pick guard feel of when I opened it. I noticed that the frets are stickers. I started to inspect it and when I licked my fingers the cheap paint came off. I was so mas. I took a bucket of water and poured it on it. All the paint came off. I relized it was cut by a saw. When you tryed to tune it it just bent the neck, the neck is made out of ply wood. It was so dinged up when I bought it. I do have other guitars, I bought this for a travel one. When the neck bends it makes all the other stings untned. DONT BUY THIS!!! Half of my plastic tuners fell off. The bottom part that holds the strings is half off. I only have half of my sticker frets. The neck is glued to the guitar. I had glue all over the bottom of the neck. The thing that hols the strap fell off. Most of these things happened when it came out of the box. I finaly decided after my inspection and the out of the box condition, and the things that would happen with normal play that it should be destroyed. First I took a bucket of water and poured it on it. All the paint came off. Literaly all off it. All that was left was the crpy ply wood. It was mad out of so so so cheap plywood. Do you know when you get plywood that is so tine you can pok you finger on it and it makes a dent. When I poked another light time it whent thru. I used it for the roof on my fort, cause that is all it is worth. After a rain storm it started to get messed up. The plywood is made of like what happens when water goes on sheetrock. The rest of it i burnt, which lit in a fireplace the instant it went in. The only fun part was the destructive part. Don't buy it. You can get the same size for around 40 dollars at amazon. Parents it is good for little kids because they can and will pound on it and it will break. Well i think it was worth 20 bucks, it was so fun to destroy it. Do not get it.

I thought that maybe we had a bad experience with this because our kids are only ages 3 and 4 when they got it. It sounds like other reviewers who got it for much older children had equally poor durability issues with this guitar. The screws which held our tuning forks rather quickly stripped and the whole functionality of tuning the guitar was shot because the tuning bases were no longer secure. We also had a string break with what seemed not extraordinary tension. My kids did love playing with this guitar despite being clueless to how it actually worked. It was dropped and stepped on frequently and did not lose it's integrity to be played. The tuning fork screws are miniscule and will not hold long. That, will quickly render the guitar playless. I would definitely recommend chosing another guitar over this one. You get what you pay for!

We bought this guitar for my 10 year old son as a guitar to start him on. It was nothing but frustration for all of us. It is very poorly made, never tunes properly, and is all around junk. He is constantly irritated at the fact that even if he plays the chord correctly, it still sounds wrong. After questioning a nearby music store about this particular guitar the manager told me that they get at least 5 or 6 a month in for repairs that end up costing the same as the guitar did.

Reasons for the ratings: This would have been so much more fun if it wasn't such bad quality. Sure a guitar has incredible educational value, just not this brand. It's like getting a lego set with warped bricks. Durable? I think I have already stated my case.

You could consider this for a 3 year old to go crazy on, but it would be cheaper and more educational if you sat down with the tot and made a guitar out of a kleenex box and rubber bands.

Not to denigrate others' complaints, but I did feel the need to write my very first Amazon review for this product, to balance out the picture a little. My husband is a guitarist (I play only a little), and we got this guitar for our 3-year-old. It has held its tuning very well and is quite durable. Our little one is quite violent, and she has not succeeded in damaging the guitar, strings, etc. in any way. If you have the good luck we've had with it, you'll feel as we do that this guitar is an incredible value.

I am knowledgeable about guitars so I was reluctant to buy this thing to begin with, knowing that you usually get what you pay for. But I gave it a shot anyway.

This guitar is made to be BOUGHT not PLAYED.

The intonation is so bad that it cannot be tuned, especially the low E string.

The problem is the height of the zero fret.

It looks nice, but no child can learn to play on this guitar. Save up and get one that can be tuned.

We purchased this guitar for my nephew, who is 16 months old. He loves strumming our full-size guitar, and he was delighted when he saw a guitar more his size. Although the intonation and so forth aren't great on this guitar, it is ideal for a young child who is more likely to use it as a hammer (or use a hammer on it) than use it as a fine instrument. Compared to other guitars in its price range--with perhaps the exception of Dean's 1/2-size guitar--this guitar really shines. Most other guitars under 30 bucks are little more than pressboard. If you want a top quality small guitar though, shell out $100 to $500 and buy yourself a Mini Martin or any other big-name small guitar: Yamaha, Takamine, Taylor (a great one).

As far as a strap, the one recommended on this site should work. The side with the hole (and no cord) attaches to the button on the bottom of the guitar. The side with the cord wraps around the neck, above the nut.

Just get a real one. It's a waist to get a student guitar. Trust me just spend $20.00 more on a real one, or better yet just don't buy a guitar. That may be the fad this decade but kids like me are going to need that money to go to collage or buy a car later on. Save your money kids, save your money!!!!

We got two of these guitars for our boys, just turning 4 and 6. They're really too young to start learning guitar, but they enjoy playing with them and haven't destroyed them yet. I did replace one high string (it was included and easy to do).

I personally had been thinking about buying a full-size adult guitar for myself and have been playing these guitars a lot for a week now. They're really quite playable.

I give this a high rating as a toy, and I'm not sure what all to look for in a guitar, but the tuning holds reasonably well. The sound is okay. What more do you want for $29.99?

My mom bought me this horrible guitar.The furnish is bad becauseit
always falls.The strings almost broke.And the sound is awful.It says
that it's great for kids.They are wrong!!!It is the most horrible
guitar I have ever played!