Yamaha FG800 Dreadnought Review

Very pleased with the quality of this instrument!

After a completely unsatisfactory with a different, well-known brand of acoustic guitar (from a different source), I was reluctant to try another online purchase. I decided to give this instrument a try. The difference was incredible! I am a 50+ year guitar veteran so I realized that an entry level guitar may not be what I am accustomed to. (I purchased this for and adult granddaughter… read more who is learning guitar.) Long story short, I was extremely pleased with the quality of the FG800, especially after my recent experience with a different retailer. I would recommend this guitar to anyone interested in an affordable acoustic guitar with no reservations! I feel I can recommend Sweetwater with the same degree of confidence!

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Great Guitar! Better With Some Tweaks!

Great deal for a solid top and scalloped bracing. Some have a very good top. I feel they all need a setup and upgrades. I have owned a few and seem to keep donating or selling them. The one in the photos is the most recent. Tusq saddle, bone nut, pickguard, tuning machines abd brass pins.

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Five years and really can't complain.

The Yamaha FG800 and it's predecessor has been the best selling acoustic guitar on the planet for decades. Does the Taylor Academy 10 play and sound better overall? In my opinion, yes but you'll pay more than twice as much and the Taylor is very basic looking (if looks matter and they do to some extent. What I like about the Yamaha first is that it looks like a classic dreadnought.… read more It has the solid spruce top. And it's easy to play if learning, or as a practice, campfire, no worries guitar for whatever reason. If it breaks it's $. If it's stolen it's $. If you eventually want something better... great! But keep this one.I like simple guitars that get the job done. Inlays and all of that don't make a guitar sound or play better and just add to cost. I also like to tinker with guitars to make them my own. With this one, I removed the pick guard, sanded the entire body and neck, painted the top black, sprayed the whole guitar (minus the fretboard)with a matte clear finish. added a $ chinese bone nut, saddle with e ebony pins, lowered the action and now it's mine. I will keep thia guitar because I enjoy playing it and it was my first acoustic. I take it everywhere and let others play it, knock it over, spit on it, whatever. If something happens to it I'll get another one and do the same thing to that one...!

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FG800 is worth every penny!

Wow, buying my first guitar and for the price and quality am astounding at the sound. The fit and finish is is something to see and feel.

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Amazingly superb beginner instrument

Can't say enough about it, in my opinion it's the best line of acoustics under $1500, it was setup perfect out of the box, low E at 90 thousandths and high E at 70, not too low not too high, could go a little lower for finger picking but for all around playing it was excellently setup right out of the box, my $1600 Taylor 224ce-K DLX needed extensive bridge adjustment to play right,… read more so this was impressive. It sounds great for an affordable guitar, it doesn't match my Taylor 224 or K14ce Builders Edition for tone, but it isn't $5000.00 either, the tone is nice, has decent bottom end and mids the higher registers are a little harsh but nothing is offensive and it's ridiculously playable for the money, it's easily the best guitar in its price range. You can get better guitars at higher prices but the return for money starts to fade and you'd have to spend 10 times the price get something noticeably better. It's finished beautifully as well looks great, as good as Taylor or Martin at 10 this price, so appearance is great nothing wrong there... just can't find much to dislike about it. The walnut fretboard is a little soft, would be my only complaint, but you can't expect top shelf ebony for two hundred bucks. And it's easily overlooked for a beginner or a backup guitar for a professional...

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