Fender Redondo Player - Sunburst Review

Redondo Fail

I purchased this guitar and was excited to get it because I like the looks of it, but once I received it, the treble knob was very hard to turn counterclockwise from center position. Frets up and down the neck came sharp against the fingers and fingerboard was dry. Low and behold, I had to work the fret buzz out as well. Truss rod adjustment and new strings along with some fretboard… read more oil fixed that beside the sharp edges. I still did not like the treble knob not working correctly so I sent it into Fender for replacement. The second one, well, the preamp was fine, but the neck, frets, fretboard and string buzz became the same issue but worse. I could not get the fret buzz out by adjusting the truss rod as the first Redondo even with humidity control for about a week. The fret buzz would just switch from one area to another on the neck. From there I gave up on the Redondo all together and asked Fender to replace it with their CD140SCE only because I had this guitar before and had no issues and it was the same price as the Redondo. And my previous CD140SCE was the older version. I hope when I get it, I hope I will not have these same issues. Not sure what Fender is doing these days when guitars leave the warehouse. They need better quality assurance and better climatized warehouses I presume. Nobody like getting a new guitar only to have so many issues. If you buy this guitar, I hope you have better experience than I did. Cheers!

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Everything is perfect but

Everything is amazing on this guitar. But the neck has a twist to it so the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd string all hit the 15th fret once you get to the 7th so, it's unplayable 7th fret+ and even at the 7th there's an absurd amount of fret buzz. Upset, its a beautiful guitar and sounds great, but only sounds great where you can actually play it.

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Pleased so far

Just purchased this locally at a slightly higher price. Acoustic tone is strong, balanced and evenly projected. Haven't plugged her in yet so I can't comment on the electric response. The stock strings are heavier than my preference, but nice to break in the tonal resonance. I'll change them to 10-47s in a few weeks. Overall pleased with her so far.

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Pretty Nice Guitar.

Don't think you can trust the on board fishman tuner. Haven't had this guitar for 48hours and i wanted to see what this was all about. Next thing i know.. It snapped.. Snark tuners are the way to go.

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