Best Choice Products 39in Full Size Beginner Electric Guitar Starter Kit w/Case, Strap, 10W Amp, Strings, Pick, Tremolo Bar - Hollywood Blue

The box was received damaged and cut already as the tape was wrapped around the broken part of the box. The tuner and volume buttons on the guitar were received broken and in pieces, the only thing that was left was the screw of it. Should have looked at the 1 star reviews first.

I have now had this package for about three weeks, so I'll write a review about it. This is my first electric guitar. I have played an acoustic for years, and wanted to try out an electric. Overall, it's a great deal. For the price, you can't hope to achieve perfection, and you aren't getting perfection, but you are getting something that is eminently "good enough." This is basically a generic version of a Fender Squier Bullet Strat with Tremolo HSS, which if you buy that costs $130 just for the guitar. I have been playing a lot on this and overall I am happy with it. It sounds great through the various effects pedals I bought. The amp has some nice crunch if you crank it up. I am not a longtime electric guitar player, but the overdrive on the amp sounds pretty good to me. Now the issues: 1) the AMP makes noise when it's on, even if you're not playing. I'm not sure if that's normal, but it is a noticeable amount of "fuzzing;" 2) there is fret buzz on the 6th string about midway down -- I'm probably going to need to take the guitar in to have the neck adjusted -- but it is not bad enough that I have bothered to do this yet; 3) the bag is barely big enough to fit the guitar, and you sort of have to work to fit the zipper over the top prong of the body; and 4) it does come untuned, likely because the tuners are not of terrific quality, so if you haven't played for a day or two you are going to want to check your tuning again; also all the strings don't come untuned at the same rate. I tune by ear using the first string usually, and I went about a week at one point without tuning against a machine. Then I tried to play along with a song on Spotify that I know and I quickly realized I had tuned the whole thing down about half a step (at least) from standard tuning. This is not some sort of Gibson that is going to hold its tuning "forever." To me this is not a big deal, because how freaking hard is it to just go to one of the zillion guitar tuner websites and get it back in tune in about a minute. Summary: overall, for the price this is a great product. It looks like a Fender Stratocaster, you get an amp, a bag, a strap, and a guitar for a hundred bucks. You can't beat that. Just understand that a beginner guitar player you give this to, if he/she really gets into guitar, is probably going to asking for an Epiphone Les Paul or for a Fender Squier Telecaster within a few months. If so, that's a good thing. It means this guitar did its job. This is the PERFECT guitar to give as a gift to someone who may or may not end up playing electric guitar as a real serious hobby, and who is trying it out (including if you are "giving" it to yourself, as I was). It looks good, it sounds good, and you won't feel like an idiot if you buy it. If one day you become the next Eric Clapton, I don't expect you'll be taking it out on tour, but that's not the point of this product.

great sounding amp and guitar but strings are not great quality high e string keeps breaking

I was really amazed !! Actually neither me or my daughter expected that guitar would be that good !! I bought this for my daughter and we are really happy. The package arrived within 4 working days ..... that’s fast, isn’t it !!

I picked up this guitar deal to satisfy my "mid-life crisis" desire to learn to play the guitar. I agree with what many have already said here in that it's a good starting package. The guitar itself seems well built and mechanically solid. The color is slightly different from the picture, but very beautiful. (The picture certainly does not do it justice.) Mine has a slight green tinge to the blue. As someone has said earlier, the "Sky" logo on the guitar and amp have been replaced with "BC". It appears BestChoiceproducts is now branding them as their own. Amazingly, this has no effect at all on the sound quality it produces. :-) The unit comes in a very well-packaged box which is wrapped in a standard Amazon shipping box. The outer box had a hole in it large enough to put my small finger through when it arrived, but the inner protective packaging was hardly scratched. Well protected for shipping! When I unboxed it, there was some remnants of protective coating on the pick guard portion. Looks like they tried to remove it prior to shipping and did an incomplete job. About 5 minutes with a blunt pair of tweezers to pull the plastic from under the strings was all that was needed. The strap is basic but appears to work fine. I'm 6'1", and used the adjustment on it to have it sit comfortably on my shoulder. I don't think I would want to use this for hours on end as it isn't quite that comfortable. However, if I ever get to the point where that becomes an issue, I'll go splurge on something of higher quality. However, the included one is stable and I have no concern over the guitar dropping or the adjustment sliding while using it. I was really amazed at the size of the included amp. For those of you old enough to remember the days before ebooks, it's about the size of a large Oxford Dictionary or a couple of encyclopedia volumes back-to-back. When I put it next to my 14" Lenovo laptop, it easily fits inside the footprint of the computer. It's only about 3" thick, which makes it a great practice amp. I can take it to any room in the house easily so as to not disturb others while practicing. Yes, the overdrive on it is basic, but you would never use this for any sort of performance anyway. Also, when you are learning, the overdrive just seems to make it harder to hear if you have the chords right. So in summary, great amp for a beginner like myself. As mentioned, the guitar itself seems quite solid. The mechanical tuners hold their positions reasonably well. (Or so I have been told by those more experienced than I.) Now if they were only self-tuning! The pickups have a clean sound which makes it easier to hear your bad fingerings while learning. I'm no expert, but the strings may be something worth upgrading. I've noticed the low E string seems to have a large amount of fluctuation in tone depending on the strength of how hard you strum it. My digital tuner shows it going almost half a note sharp or flat depending upon the strength of the strum. None of the other strings seem to have this issue. Given that strings are cheap, it's probably worth switching them out to see if there is any difference. I haven't tried the included replacements yet to see if they are any better. Having said that, I can tune it to whatever my current strum strength is so that I can continue to practice with the string in reasonable tune. The included gig case is very minimal. It's essentially a dust cover. There's no protection at all for your guitar while inside. I'm only practicing out of my home, so I am not overly concerned. At least the large font, all caps "GUITAR" printed on the back will prevent you from accidentally using it for your Stradivarius violin. Otherwise, I think this is the one area I would buy a replacement for if I had a need to carry the instrument out of my home. Overall, very satisfied with this purchase as a beginning guitar player. I would recommend it to others.