Your most disappointing guitar... (Page 1 of 2)

Dean Exotica. 100% junk. Looked real pretty( I  received tons of compliments on how pretty it looked) but the electronics seemed to be assembled and/or installed underwater. Worked for approximately 1 week then the problems began. Returned it 3 times then finally the music store felt my my frustation and gave me a full refund. Dean guitars need to put more emphasis on the inside of the guitars and less on the fancy paint jobs and glossy finishes, in my humble opinion.................

Ohhhh I had forgotten about Deans. I too had bad experiences with them. About 2 years ago I bought a Dean Traditon acoustic because of a deal ($100 figured it'd be an okay beater).  At least I thought it was a deal at the time... Got it home set it up changed strings and the tone was horrible. After a month the neck started twisting as well... I ended up using it as a learning tool for finishing and some other luthier work.   You'd think I'd learned my lesson on Dean acoustics from that, but about a year ago I was shopping for a cheap acoustic bass for campfire jamming and picked up a Dean Playmate bass... I had the same problem as Toney. The electronics where trash! The neck was no where near straight! It had humps here and there and buzzes everywhere else. Gave it to a friend, More like made him take it

I have a friend that has a Harmony. Compared to anything I've played it's like trying to play chords on a log.

I was in a Sam Ash years ago and saw a guitar on clearance for no lie...13 dollars. It was a Carlo Robelli... well worth the money for a guitar that cheap, but you know what it was. A piece of garbage. I still have it though.

I've had a few actually ... I wanted to try semi-hollows for the first time and played the Epiphone Dot and LOVED it ... so I figured the Ibanez semi-hollow series would sound just as good if not better ... it proved the opposite ... the tone was horrible and now matter what series I tried, I could not get a decent tone out of it ... I'm not sure if it was the pickups or what ... the second was a Takamine Acoustic ... at first I loved the sound but after I bought it (go figure) and I took it home I couldn't get a decent sound out of it ... oddly enough I had a crappy Yamaha that was $100 and it sounded a lot better than my $499 Takimine sounded

My sweet wife bought me a F-hole Harmony for $50 new back in the day. It was enough to get me started.
I was playing a gig with a mid - 70's Yamaha dreadnought when a bar customer walked up with his Martin D - 18 he was so proud of.
The Martin was heavy and had a "G" string the rang out louder than the other 5. He was hurt when I handed it back to him after two songs. He assumed I'd be thrilled to play it all night long.

For me the worst would have to be a Fender MIM 60's Reissue Strat in Lake Placid Blue. The neck and body were fine but the bridge was unable to be internotated even somewhere near acceptable.

After "working" with the store and Fender for 14 months, Fender took the guitar away to fix it. 6 months later the guitar was returned with the note I had written to the techs still slotted through the strings just as they had received it. I dont even think it was opened and there was no work done on it.

I was told a new neck and bridge had been put on the body, but questioned why the serial number was still the same on the neck and the scratch on the back of the bridge was in exactly the same spot as the old one. I was told the guitar was fine and advised that it was my playing style that made the internotation be so woeful.

Lucky for me the owner of the store played the guitar and noticed things just weren't right with the guitar and replaced it with a new Fender USA Deluxe model after he learned of the events surrounding my guitar. I would never buy a MIM Fender again.

The good news is my new guitar is 100%.

LMAO!!!
Tubatooter's story jogged a memory that I am almost ashamed to tell, but I've got to.

My first electric guitar (and believe me, I use the term loosely) was some no-name thing from Service Merchandise that my Dad bought me. I swear, it would make the First Act stuff look pro by comparison!

But I was really young, and I could play a couple songs (enough that it impressed the girls), so I thought I'd be cool and bring my axe to school in my very stylish ~vinyl~ gig bag.

I was doing OK until about halfway though the day when a couple older kids (that owned real guitars and were in a band) caught sight of me.

To their credit they didn't bash me directly, and we talked a while about playing and amps. But I could tell they were trying not to laugh. They left after a bit, and when they though they were out of earshot around the corner I heard them all bust out laughing and talking about what a cheesy piece of junk I had.

I could have crawled under a rock, and immediately took pains to hide my guitar that I was so proud of that morning.

I started saving up that day to buy a real guitar. I think that one died in a horrible carpentry accident, as I recall...

Hi everyone, this is my first post.

for me the worst gutar was also a cheap one, I guess you get what you pay for, It was an accustic, Brand was "Magnum"
It looked good, and I bought it wanting to take up guitar. But I knew nothing, was a real bad choice, apart from the terrible sound from the ply top, it was difficult to play, Strings always felt to hard and seemed to far away from the fret board made it very difficult to play,

I replaved it with another cheap range guitar, A Greg Bennett D5. I still playing the D5 I love it. Best $300.00 I ever spent, I have an Australian Made Maton that is better finished that the D5 but is by no means a better guitar in my opinion

Three years ago happened to get my hands on an Epiphone Casino.... poorly balanced, wouldn't sustain long enough for a pull-off, shallow sounding POS on a Stick!  Sent it back and replaced it with a Epi Dot neck through semi-hollow.... one of the nicest playing and sounding archtops I've had the pleasure of plucking.  With the possible exception of the 1943 Austrian built "F" hole acoustic I got a hold of this weekend.  Built by someone I've never heard of and can't pronounce, "ridden hard and put away wet" but sweet tone and tons of volume!  Needs restoration badly by someone with music in their soul and money to burn.  One of which I don't have .....

Take Care;
Doug

I talked my parents into buying a Synsonic (Spelling???) headless guitar. The thing would not stay in tune and the tremalo felt like it was made out of a match box car.
I ended up smashing it over a Radio Shack guitar amp (junk as wel) that was given to me.

Adopted a Fender Acoustic and was extremely disappointed with it, cant remember the model now but passd it on fairly rapidly.

Have had a Yamaha FG340 for 28 years and sounds sweeter by the day, never goes out of tune, and my latest pride and joy is a Gibson SJ200 TV.......what a pleasure to play