Davison Guitars Full Size Electric Guitar with 10-Watt Amp, Black - Right Handed Beginner Kit with Gig Bag and Accessories

Full Disclosure: I originally ordered this Davison "bundle" via Amazon, but unfortunately it was lost in transit (not Amazon's fault) and I was given a refund, promptly and with no questions asked. So, not long after that, I went ahead and ordered just the guitar (the white one with the dark board) directly from the Seller, via another popular website. It arrived promptly yesterday. My favorite thing about this guitar is its "way-lighter-than-average" weight-- so darn easy to pick up and play. And it looks beautiful. It has a single (bridge-position) humbucking pickup that sounds surprisingly hot and throaty. And the Tone control works quite effectively without creating a muffled mess. If you back it down by about one-third, it gives you a very respectable "neck-position" tone. So you're not always locked into a bridge-position vibe with this guitar. Upon receiving the guitar, I adjusted the action height and intonation at the bridge; tweaked (tightened) the truss rod so as to reduce the "relief" in the neck; refreshed the somewhat thirsty-looking fretboard with one of my Ernie Ball fretboard wipes; buffed up the frets with a super-fine steel wool pad; and put on a new set of strings (D'Addario 10's). The one thing that was a little problematic was the nut, which sat a little too tall in its slot and thus caused first-position action to be difficult, and first-position chords to fret sharp. So I very carefully pried the nut from its slot (snapping it in half in the process), grabbed another pre-slotted strat-style nut that I found amongst my miscellaneous guitar-related stuff, sanded it down to get the proper thickness and height, and then re-strung. I'm in the habit of doing this kind of work by simply "eyeballing" things, and I lucked out this time. The guitar now plays very comfortably and accurately, and now I have a gig-worthy instrument. I've been playing for 58 years, so I've developed a basic level of competence in making the above-mentioned tweaks and improvements to an electric guitar. But if you aren't comfortable tackling those tasks yourself, you can bet that the in-house tech guy at your local music store will be able to do it for you at a reasonable price.

Never received my amp with this package.Issue has been resolved with great satisfaction.Seller has been great to work with.

I'm just starting to learn to play guitar (bought this to play Rocksmith 2014 with), and I've played with it for over 40 hours now. It's very good value for the money, an excellent choice if you want to try learning guitar, but don't want to spend a lot of money. I haven't had trouble with buzzy frets, loose pegs, out-of-true neck, or noisy pickups like one might expect with a cheap guitar. I got the "blue" one, but it is not the royal blue in the picture. It's more of a cerulean, but the wood grain, which runs parallel to the neck, is visible. It's very pretty.I've been playing a lot of different songs with different tunings, and I haven't had a string break yet, but I did pick up an extra set just in case (along with a capo). I'm not sure what size the strings it comes with are, but I got a set of 9-46 and I think they are slightly thicker than the original ones (maybe 8-38?). I didn't find the pitch pipe terribly useful, and instead grabbed a tuner app for my phone. The kit came with 3x 0.58mm, 1x 0.71mm, and 1x 0.81mm picks. The cable and amp are just great. Turn the guitar up to 10 and the amp to about 0.7 and it's plenty loud for practicing without disturbing the neighbors. If the amp went to 11, I think it would be classified as a weapon of mass destruction. The guitar comes packaged in the gig bag, and that gig bag doesn't have any padding in it; it's just the heavy nylon with a pocket on the front. Good enough to get around, but don't count on it to keep the instrument from getting banged up. I've had no problems with the strap, which is easily adjustable.I have noticed a few things that make me give it only 4 stars, the main thing being that where the frets meet the edge of the neck, they are quite rough, like they were just clipped from a wire and not smoothed. I noticed the skin on the first bone of my fretting index finger getting a bit chewed up after playing for a while. I've taken to loosely wrapping a bit of silk tape around it while I play. Next, the finish starts to smell like super glue (guy at the guitar shop says it's urethane) after I've played for a few hours. Also, sometimes after playing for 2-3 hours, the pickups pick up pretty much anything without regard to volume, so just fretting lightly sounds just like hammering down on a string. I don't know what that is about since it's not reliably replicable.Overall, I would recommend this to someone looking for an inexpensive starter kit. I also got an inexpensive floor stand and the Rocksmith Real Tone Cable at the same time.