Recording King Classic Series I OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar (Mahogany) Review

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(More customer reviews)Just a quick review...I received this guitar as a Christmas gift. I really can't say enough nice things about it. Solid spruce top and a nut and saddle made out of real bone. I am not sure how, given the low price, that they can make any money on this thing. I am really enjoying playing this guitar. One thing I noticed right out of the box is the fact that the set up on the guitar was excellent (the string height to the fret board, the feel of the neck all felt great.) Someone is paying attention to those little things. As it is an OOO-sized guitar it will not have the heavy bass response that a dreadnought sized guitar provides but the mid-ranges just jump out of this guitar! I am just amazed at what you get for the price. I can only imagine what the higher priced recording king models sound like - they have to be really nice (maybe for next Christmas!).

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A great introduction to a pre-war style acoustic guitar, the Classic Series I has fine craftsmanship and a natural acoustic tone. This guitar features a solid spruce top, mahogany or rosewood back and sides, fully scalloped forward-x bracing and a mahogany neck.A new standard in sound and value, the RD-06 and RD-07 illustrate the skill of the Recording King luthiers. We've crafted a solid-top guitar with a sound so amazing it rivals that of guitars three times as expensive. Assembled with the perfect combination of sonic excellence, careful craftsmanship and attention to detail, we've produced a guitar that sounds like a million bucks, but costs far less.

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Recording King Classic Series II OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar (Mahogany) Review

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(More customer reviews)Excellent Price! It just needed a basic set up like most guitars, consisting of lowering saddle a bit and some nut filing. That made the action perfect and custom to my liking. Before this I had tried and tested guitars in the $1000 - $$1500 range. If you are hard pressed for cash, this is the answer!

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The Classic Series II acoustic guitar is arguably the most incredible value you can find in an all-solid guitar. Featuring a solid Engelmann spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides, and a one-piece mahogany neck, each handcrafted guitar has a loud, expressive acoustic tone and excellent playability.These guitars feature fully scalloped forward-x bracing for strength and resonance in lower registers and more clarity in the highs. Series II models have a Recording King "crown" M.O.P. headstock inlay and abalone snowflake position markers.The 30's-style features on this guitar include the traditional diamond volute, a vintage-style beveled pickguard and classic butterbean tuners. With pristine workmanship and premium features, this is the perfect all-solid guitar inspired by the American tradition.

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Recording King Classic Series I OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar, Rosewood Back & Sides Review

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(More customer reviews)I really like the neck on this guitar. I am learning blues guitar and Ragtime finger picking. I wanted the 1¾ inch nut and the ooo body. I need the nice wide string spacing because my left hand is a little messed up from an industrial accident. I also play bottleneck slide.
My Recording King came double boxed and arrived in great shape. I got mine at Christmas and the delivery was right on time as promised. The Model is RO-17 and it has no pickguard. These are things I needed to know but the product description didn't tell me. The strings were crap. They looked old and turned my fingers black. That was no biggie. I always change out to light gauge strings anyway. However, when I put the new ones on, the tuners for the two bottom strings stripped out. They are not high quality. I am now going to put some Grover Sta-Tites on it. That's about $50 that I didn't want to spend, but I like this Guitar too much to send it back. I got mine for $192.00 so with the new tuners it cost me about what they sell for now. I'll add to this review when I get the new tuners.


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A great introduction to a pre-war style acoustic guitar, the Classic Series I has fine craftsmanship and a natural acoustic tone. This guitar features a solid Engelmann spruce top, rosewood back and sides, fully scalloped forward-x bracing and a mahogany neck.Series I models have a Recording King "damask" pattern M.O.P. headstock inlay and abalone snowflake position markers.The traditioanl features on this guitar include a vintage-style beveled pickguard and classic butterbean tuners. Available in a variety of body shapes and finishes, this guitar has the look and sound of a true classic.

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Recording King Classic Series OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar with Herringbone (Mahogany) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a 000 "Martin style," solid wood acoustic guitar. The 000 body here looks like an OM - a feature of early guitars in this style was a longer scale (and was called an OM) - 25 inches plus, the short scale came later (24.9 and less) and was done with the intention of making the guitar easier to play due to the lack of choice when it came to string gauges (heavy or medium or nothing). This guitar is well constructed: hand carved neck, with an 1 3/4 inch nut width, bone nut and saddle, ebony fretboard and bridge, a real rosewood veneer over the peghead, and matched mahogany back and sides and a matched sitka spruce top...all very clean, it appears to be AA in wood grade and finished in an aged light gloss finish. The neck feels more like a modified V than a "C" profile. Body and neck joint feature grained ivoroid binding and a peek inside reveals scalloped bracing. The top presents with herringbone and a well done torch inlay on the peghead. This is a well designed, and well made guitar. The tone is very traditional - you get the presence and warm mid range of mahogany. This particular guitar has a bit more bass than I was expecting, but I find that to be a bonus. Otherwise, it is very balanced. To other consumers, I find this guitar to be a significant value...the quality of wood, inlays and workmanship come together to make a great guitar - perfect for fingerstyle blues, traditional country and ragtime. I doubt that this level of quality will be this affordable for much longer. If you cannot afford a Martin in this style, you will not be underserved by this guitar. It is highly recommended.

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This model has herringbone top purfling. This pattern provides great aesthetic appeal for traditional players. Made with all-solid woods and featuring the most authentic pre-war-style features, this classic guitar is perfect for all styles of playing.The Classic Series with herringbone has a solid Sitka spruce top, solid rosewood or solid mahogany back and sides, fully scalloped forward-x bracing, a one-piece mahogany neck, a vintage-style beveled pickguard, an ebony fretboard and vintage-style slot-through bridge.This guitar has the redesigned 'torch" abalone/M.O.P. headstock inlay and abalone snowflake position markers.

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Recording King Century Studio Series 12th Fret OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar (Rosewood) Review

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(More customer reviews)For whatever reason Amazon has this priced lower than the ROS-627 model. This ROS-647 model is identical to the 627 model except for some extra "bling" in the form of hand inlaid abalone. Normally the 647 is $200 or so more than the 627. Thus amazon has an awesome price on this guitar. Unless you don't want a flashy guitar, it's a no brainer to get this over the ROS-627.
The first guitar I was sent had a crack in the back. I couldn't tell if this was a crack in the wood or the lacquer. Either way, I sent it back. Unfortunately amazon made me pay the postage, but I expect to be re-imbursed. Rather than wait for a replacement I requested a refund and ordered a second guitar. The second one was perfect, though it did need a little humidification as the frets were a bit sharp. I recommend picking up an oasis case insert (I don't trust the ones that go in the guitar) for the winter months.
The guitar is beautiful, so beautiful in fact that I'm planning on getting a wall-hanger for it to use when the humidity gets better. It also sounds great too! I'm pretty much a novice to the guitar, but I have played the violin for many years (I got a guitar recently as my infant son seem to really like guitar music/singing) so I know a little bit about how wood should sound and it sounds great. I think this is a fine guitar for all levels of players, but is an especially good deal for an amateur guitarist like me. Honestly, I don't see myself ever needing another guitar in this style as this one should last me forever. However, god forbid something should happen to it (my infant son knocks it over, etc.), it's nice to know it isn't a $3,000 guitar. In fact I don't think I could really enjoy a Martin (or alternately a Huss and Dalton, as I really like those) the way I'd like as I'd be so scared of damaging it. One thing to note is that getting a case for it is a little difficult. A standard OOO sized case will not fit this guitar. In fact I was unable to find a case that worked for sale on Amazon. However, I did find a "guardian" brand 12-fret OOO case on another site.

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Recording King Century Studio guitars illustrate the relentless pursuit of classic tone. No element has been overlooked in assembling one of the best sounding 12th fret guitars available.Each guitar is built with lighter bracing for more resonance, and the ebony pyramid bridge helps enable greater vibration from the hand-selected tops.The Nitrocellulose lacquer finish is dried for 8 weeks in order to insure that the lacquer is properly bonded to the wood. Both the gloss and matte finishes allow the guitars to sing powerfully and clearly.Recording King has built the ultimate in small-body guitars for the discerning player who is looking for supreme sound quality and excellence in construction.

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Silver Creek T-160 Acoustic Guitar, Natural Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been playing a few years. Two years back I invested in a Martin EC00028, it is beautiful as you would expect for guitar priced over £2K. Having got used to the slightly wider fretboard on the Martin (1 & 3/4 inches as opposed to your standard 1 & 11/16" at the nut), I was looking for a similar sized cheaper guitar that I would be comfortable knocking around with on the beach or at parties etc.. My choices of guitars with this same fretboard dimentions was limited to say the least. In fact, there was only one other that fit the bill and pleased me asthetically (the name escapes me now).
So, about a year ago I called the only stockist of this make, which happened to be in the U.S, to order one. At the time it was priced at only $199.00, so I was happy to take the risk of not playing before I purchased (which can obviously be dodgey at the best of times). To cut a very long and irritating story short, the U.S shop refused to courier the guitar to the U.K. and the manufacturer was not able to supply direct from China. I had to first send the item from the shop in the U.S to a friend in Canada (which involved paying additional tax) and then from there to me in the U.K. By the time I had finished I had paid around £150 to get a $199 guitar to the U.K. What an idiot right? - Wrong!
Without doubt it has been my favourite guitar ever. I wouldn't swap it for my martin, but only because of the £'s involved. The build quality on mine is excellent and the woods used (solid top, back and sides!)are really quite outstanding for the price. The tones honestly match that of the martin. I tweeked mine a little, some decent strings and lowering the action a fraction and just loved it.
If you are looking for a guitar in this price range and like a slightly wider fretboard, buy this one, I've not come across anything at this cost to beat it. Genuinely a great bit of kit.

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The Silver Creek T-160 Mahogany Auditorium Acoustic Guitar features a solid spruce top and solid mahogany back & sides. The traditional auditorium body size and wider fingerboard make it ideal for finger-style playing. Silver Creek guitars feature the same quality materials and construction found on many high-end guitars but without a high-end price.

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Recording King Classic Series OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar with Herringbone (Rosewood) Review

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(More customer reviews)This gorgeous acoustic arrived in perfect shape from Amazon, with a factory set-up that was incredibly accurate. Action, neck relief, neck angle, playability, everything was so perfect.
The Recording King RO 127 is a (very well made ) copy of a vintage OM 28 Martin Herringbone,
with all solid woods, 3/4 neck width, and V neck shape. Top is spruce, back and sides rosewood.
They are made in China under supervision and design of Johnson guitar co., USA.
The tone of the guitar is superb: very loud, full of overtones, great low end and ringing trebles.
I couldn't be happier. If you are looking for a beautiful Martin but cannot afford the price, this is the guitar you should look for !

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This model has herringbone top purfling. This pattern provides great aesthetic appeal for traditional players. Made with all-solid woods and featuring the most authentic pre-war-style features, this classic guitar is perfect for all styles of playing.The Classic Series with herringbone has a solid Sitka spruce top, solid rosewood or solid mahogany back and sides, fully scalloped forward-x bracing, a one-piece mahogany neck, a vintage-style beveled pickguard, an ebony fretboard and vintage-style slot-through bridge.This guitar has the redesigned 'torch" abalone/M.O.P. headstock inlay and abalone snowflake position markers.

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Recording King Classic Series I OOO-Style Acoustic Guitar (Mahogany) Review

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(More customer reviews)Every now and then something comes along that surprises you and makes you smile. This guitar will do that. I'm a 51 year old guitar player and I've played in dance bands since the mid 70's. I like the saying "One can never have too many guitars". I have about a dozen or so and about half of them are big name 2500+ models. I wanted a 000 size to leave out so I could pick it up anytime inspiration strikes. Finding a decent guitar for not alot of money is tough, then trying to find it online without hearing it is a real task. I searched all over and finally clicked on this one.
It arrived double boxed in great shape. I took it out and tuned it up and it sounded great. Mine came with a hang tag stating it was strung with D'Addario strings which are my favorite. The tuners are nice and smooth, after the strings settled in it is holding tune very well. I was impressed that this model cam with a bone nut and saddle. This is very important for a good tone. Most lesser expensive models come with plastic, Yuck! This guitar also has a slightly wider neck, perfect for larger hands, like mine, finger picking and strumming. Its not so wide that it feels like a 2x4 in your hand though. My nephew played it, he has small hands and he loved it. The volume is suprising, I would not have thought that a smaller guitar would produce this much volume. It has decent bass for a 000 size, mid range and highs sound beautiful. The finish is beautiful, dark Mahogany back and sides and a natural solid spruce top. A solid top is very important for good tone. The neck is nice and smooth. Some of the dark color on the fret board is comming off on my finger tips after a playing session but it washes right off. The setup on mine is great. I'm picky on setup. I like low action and usually have to have a new guitar set up. I don't plan on changing anything on this one. I does not have any dots or markers on the fretboard. It has position markers on the neck. If you like to watch the fretboard to know where you are this may take a little getting used to, but after a little playtime you won't need the fretboard markers anymore. No pickgard, if it matters to you, I think it looks better without one.
In conclusion: Great sounding, small bodied, easy playing, excellent choice for a parlor guitar, starter guitar, travel, campfire singing. In the 100-500 dollar range I would rank this guitar near the top of the list.

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A great introduction to a pre-war style acoustic guitar, the Classic Series I has fine craftsmanship and a natural acoustic tone. This guitar features a solid Engelmann spruce top, mahogany or rosewood back and sides, fully scalloped forward-x bracing and a mahogany neck. Series I models have a Recording King "damask" pattern M.O.P. headstock inlay and abalone snowflake position markers. The traditioanl features on this guitar include a vintage-style beveled pickguard and classic butterbean tuners. Available in a variety of body shapes and finishes, this guitar has the look and sound of a true classic.

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