IVY6 String Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Right, Tobacco Sunburst (IPF-300 TSB)

Just wow! What an absolutely phenomenal guitar for the price. I actually wasn't planning on buying a guitar when I purchased this. I found it on sale for $167. I was looking for a hollow-body guitar but was just window shopping. I was planning on spending A LOT MORE MONEY. When I saw the reviews for this and the price, I decided to take a chance. Man, I am not disappointed.I'm going to start off like so many other reviews and say, it needs a little set up work out of the box. It played OK out of the box, especially for the price, but it needed some tweaking. If this is your first guitar, do yourself a favor and get it set up properly!If you know how to do your own setup work, don't hesitate, this guitar is awesome. If you don't do your own setup work you can always learn on Youtube. Otherwise, spend an extra $50 to $75 and get it set up at your local guitar store. Once this thing is set up properly you won't believe how nice this thing plays.The first thing I adjusted was the truss rod. The neck was loose, and I've read several reviews stating the same. Once I got the neck adjusted it was like a completely different guitar.Once the neck was straightened out, I replaced the factory strings with some Fender 250s. The factory strings are OK and sound great. The Fender strings changed the sound up a bit and gave me a little better action too.I haven't made many bridge adjustments yet, but I'm also planning on doing some bridge tweaking and lowering the action a bit. The action is a little high for my tastes out of the box. I didn't make many adjustments because I was playing slide/bottleneck guitar with it when I first got it. Now that I have it in standard tuning and playing more fingerpicking and traditional playing, I'm going to lower the action a bit.I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH! Once you make a couple of adjustments to this guitar, you'd never know you paid under $200 for the thing. It just plays great. It just has the look, feel, and sound of a much more expensive guitar.None of the parts really feel cheap. Pickups have decent sound. I'm just playing through a $40 sawtooth practice amp. The tuning pegs rotate smoothly. THE GUITAR STAYS IN TUNE.I love the ivy neck inlays. I can't believe how beautiful the guitar looks. My friends can't believe I bought it for $167. It plays and sounds like a guitar which would be much more expensive.I'd honestly be shocked if you could find a better guitar in this price range. Now I can take the money I saved on this and buy a nice resonator guitar. If IYV made resonators, I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one.The fit and finish is OK. The paint looks great but there probably will be blemishes. I found a run by the sound hole, but nothing major or super noticeable. I'll take a couple imperfections in the paint considering how well this thing plays and sounds.I really love this guitar for the price. I don't think you can find anything better in the under $300 range.

I'm here re-writing my initial review. One that spoke well of this guitar. This new one is going well beyond that. It, simply put, has become my absolute favorite guitar. Superseding classic, high-end, Gibsons, Fenders and a whole lot more.I've been playing the later for more than 60 years. Successfully as a teen musician in the 1960 (one classic record, and more recently an LP and CD).My taste is pure electric guitar tone, not wildly overdriven, super distorted, stuff. This guitar gives me that to perfection. It has a lovely neck, easily accessible everywhere. Its body has just the right amount of resonance. Fit and feel are fine. But its its perfect body weight/balance/size that makes it #1 among other guitars I won with all the previous qualities.Yes, it took some set-up. (Most every guitar does.) And its one-piece bridge/stoopbar requires, as such always do, that the strings be loosened each time an adjustment is made. A PITA. But in the end oh, so worth the effort!I play it sitting. I play it standing. I play it plugged in and not plugged in. It always feel and sounds great.Tuners are okay. The hold a tune quite well. Feel less than spectaular. Good enough, though, so I've seen no reason to replace them.All the other hards work flalessly And dang! Is it pretty!I read other eviews here that praise the guitar alowg with "yes, but..."s Me? I just praise it.Own 4 IYVs. Each is a winner. But ths one goes beyond. Way beyond.

Don't think you can buy this as a Christmas present and expect a beginner to be able to play it out of the box, but it is a great budget guitar if you get it a little early and put a few extra bucks in it. If you can't do the work, having a professional setup before gifting it is a must. Entry entry-level "name brand" guitar you can possibly order is coming from Asia and will it have crossed multiple climates before it gets to you. Those hot/cold/damp/dry cycles jack the necks in particular, so it throws everything out of tune. The local shop will adjust everything, tidy it up and make it sound nice for $50-60 US.No significant finish flaws (bubbles, scratches) on any flat surface, just very tiny stain overspray on the tail end of the binding next to each horn. The neck was bone dry but oiled up nicely. The vines and leaves inlay looks spectacular, there was no putty around the edges like others have commented. The F-holes are reasonably cleaned up for this price. They were trying to copy the look of the much more expensive PRS SE Custom 22 semi-hollow. It's 85% cheaper, and it sounds 85% cheaper, but they nailed 85% of the look. That's still value.Out of the box it needed truss rod adjustment BADLY, and that adjuster screw was so stiff I thought I was going to break something. The knobs and switch are good enough, the pickups will be fine for someone that is just starting to make noise. The wraparound bridge is cool, it looks identical to a Wilkinson wraparound aside from no branding, it works ok. The tuners and nut are lowest quality elements of this guitar. They will work in the short-term, but you will be retuning it multiple times over the course of an afternoon. They are the first things I'd replace.From the packaging, I don't think this was a returned product, but some poor kid probably got canned for taking so long on that fretboard. They weren't polished along the length but the ends don't have one sharp edge anywhere to be found. It feels perfect.All in all I think it has tons of potential. I'm adding locking tuners, a Graphtech nut and straplocks, so even with the pro setup I'm still only into this project for just $320 US (which is still $280 less than the nearest name-brand semi-hollow sold right now on Amazon.) (If this is for your kid, and they like being unique, nobody will have one of these.) Even the techs at the guitar store commented on how pretty this is, and none of them would believe what I paid so I actually had to show them the Amazon order on my phone. Changing out parts are an important part of learning electric guitar. Way back when, the local guitar store dudes showed me how much just one change can alter the tone for the better, and I was really stoked when I made each improvement on my own.If Amazon has them, go for it!