Rogue Dreadnought Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

by Rogue

Product Features

• Genuine spruce top
• Die-cast tuning machines
• It has a Nato neck
• Bound rosewood fretboard
• Martin strings

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002F7IJE
• Item model number: SO-069-RADEQ-C
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,449 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

You can't beat the features you get for such a low price: genuine spruce top, die-cast tuning machines, nato neck, bound rosewood fretboard, and Martin strings. Also has a Fishman Classic 4 pickup/preamp system so you can plug in and play loud. You won't believe it when you hear it. It sounds fantastic. Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We love this guitar!, September 27, 2007

By 

Kendra - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rogue Dreadnought Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

I have bought several instruments from Musician's Friend and several Rogue instruments, as well. All of these Rogue instruments are of excellent quality. We have an acoustic dreadnought, a 12 string dreadnought, and this concert size acoustic electric.

For those of you looking for a beginning instrument or a second instrument, definitely look at Rogues. We are so impressed with everything we've received from both Musician's Friend, and its "house brand", Rogue.

When my son wanted to learn guitar, we were going to just give him one of my husband's, but it was really too big. So, we decided to get him this concert size cutaway guitar. We looked at a lot of instruments and decided to go with the Rogue. Rogue instruments do not have a wide varying price range. The highest priced instrument doesn't go over a couple of hundred dollars. So, when you spend only $100 on something, they aren't cutting a lot of corners from their highest-end models. Conversely, if you buy a starter Gibson package or some other well-respected company's starter pack, they cut a lot of corners from their highest-end guitars/stringed instruments. If a company makes a guitar that retails over a few thousand dollars, or even if the average selling price is $500, they are going to cut a lot of corners to make a guitar (or mandolin) priced at under $100.

So, this specific guitar came with Martin Strings. Yes, they make great instruments, but only decent strings. Still, these sounded fine. The action on this specific guitar was pretty low. We would have preferred LOWER, but it isn't too high. The pickup/preamp system works great! I read on Musician's Friend's website that some people have had difficulty with this, but not here. The finish, beautiful. Everything about this guitar screams, "I'm a $400 guitar". The sound-- most importantly-- is pretty rich for a cutaway concert size guitar with a pickup installed. I think it sounds great. My husband does, too, although he doesn't think it's quite as rich as a dreadnought. I don't hear too much of a difference.

With the Rogue instruments, this just isn't an issue. Want a twelve string? Only a bit over a hundred and sounds great! Want a mandolin? Nothing is stopping you at under $50. And, you really won't be disappointed, either. Even if you have to lower the action or pay for a professional setup, you still come way out ahead.

We have very expensive instruments in our house and we have these Rogues. The Rogues feel and sound as if they are $400 instruments. No comparison to the $100 famous brand starter guitars I looked at. This one will last for years.

5.0 out of 5 stars If it's like the regular acoustic..., January 11, 2011

By 

C. Lenoir (Tooele, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rogue Dreadnought Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

For my first guitar, I bought the regular, acoustic version of this product, so that's what I'm really reviewing, and I'm assuming this is basically the same quality, with a preamp.

Guitar choice is a personal thing, so if you don't like the sound of this guitar, you should try a different one...

with that said, the construction of the guitar is pretty cheap. It feels flimsy, and very light...the tuners on mine felt loose, the nut broke (but I did use medium gauge strings, and I purposely put some in the wrong spots, for alternate tunings). It's not high quality construction, folks. It makes a nice, cheap, beginner guitar.

...with THAT said: I later bought a $600 Breedlove (actually, I caught it on sale for half price b/c of a blemish)...much better construction quality, solid wood, it's a beautiful guitar...and I've been playing it for years, and I still miss the sound of my Rogue.
This could be because of the way I play guitar. Different styles sound better on certain guitars, and I use my fingers (no picks), and I do a lot of sliding, scratching the strings, hard strokes... the Rogue guitar has thick bass, the highs are muted, and the overall sound is a bit muddy/raw...and I love it.

I went to the Guitar Center, and went through the acoustic guitars, and spent hours playing almost everything in the store. I only found three guitars that fit me/my playing: a Laguna (which is another low priced brand, with this one being around $200), and two high-ends: a Gibson J-45, and the cedar topped Taylor GS (both priced over 2k, and were a great blend of low mud and top shimmer).

The extra benefit of loving this guitar...is that you don't have to worry as much about taking great care of it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good beginner's guitar, December 21, 2010

By 

Sai He (Easthampton) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rogue Dreadnought Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

This was the first guitar I ever owned, and since then, I have upgraded to a $1000 all-solid cedar/mahogany Alvarez, but I still like to play my Rogue from time to time. This is my review of "the little engine that could."

Features:
All-laminate Spruce, Nato guitar with nato neck and rosewood fingerboard/bridge. Plastic bridge pins, saddle, nut. Die-cast tuners, Fishman Classic 4 preamp.
Honestly, the best part about this guitar would be the Fishman. The quality of a Fishman is second to none, and seeing one in a $100 guitar is incredible! The Fishman makes this guitar sound better plugged in than unamplified.

Sound:
The sound is decent, especially for an inexpensive guitar. With a set of new strings, the Rogue sounds like a million bucks. However, after a few hours, it really has the "rubber-band" sound going for it, due to its subpar construction. But come on, what can you expect from a hundred-dollar guitar? This is not a good fingerstyle guitar, try the little brother of this guitar, the Rogue A/E 000-sized version, for that.

Playability:
High action, this is a good strummer's guitar, but it may be too high for some people. Poor fret-job, a bit difficult to play up high on the neck, which is very slow, due to the heavy poly finish. The tuners are surprisingly good for such a cheap guitar.

Setup/Finish:
What you'd expect from a made-in-China guitar, glue showing, unfiled frets, poorly-slotted (heightwise) nut, thick and uneven polyurethane finish on the whole body. That being said, with a little bit of work, this is a very playable guitar.

So in conclusion, this would be a great guitar for somebody who's not really into learning, but would love to jam with it around a campfire, or just nonchalantly here and there. For somebody who is looking to get good at guitar, I recommend you save up some more $$$ (only around $50-100) and opt for a solid-topped guitar, which will bring much more satisfaction to your ears.