I bought this guitar about three months ago. I have already changed the strigns to much thinner ones. but have yett o find naqyhting wrong with it. On the the neck the binding goes froma cream to a white because the neck wasnt finished properly on mine but overall the finish is beautiful. I have the Dark red burst one originally i wanted the old violin sunburst but they didnt have it in store. THe dark red burst is actually a very beautiful color and the picture doesnt truly do it justice. Plugged into an acuostic amp at the store this baby soudned harmonicly beautiful. I suggest you dont plug it in to a normal amp as it doesnt sound as beautiful it will still project he sound accurately and make it sound good, but its not the same thing. THe onboard tuner is a really nice ouch this is mty second guitar my first being a no name electric. So tuning has always been a pain for me. With this baby theres no wired to plug in or to unplug between songs. Etc. I personally find the guitar to have a nice sound. It isnt as deep and its nto incredibly twangy. it ahsa nice mid sound. It is incredibly thin making it a really nice jump for people liek me who usually play an electric. Its thin doesn' thurt your arms at all. I don't wuite understand the lack of pickgaurd and the black oval like hole as opposed to a round on and why it has a thick black albalone black ring on it i will never understand. I get many compliments from the playing and aesthetics of this guitar. I would definately reccomend it to any player who doesnt have money to spare and wants a good deal for there money. If your not a big fan on the oval whole then i reccomend you look at he ibanez acuostic electric atrounsd the same price range but i dont liek how the headstock looks on that one. but htats another review for another time. :D

Nice sounding guitar, better than I'd expect from this price range. The frets however need to be filed, the second fret was too low and cauzed buzzing. After fixing that and changing strings, the guitar was buzzing from inside. All the braces inside were not glued properly, too 5 hours of work to get this working, but now I love it. I tried to take it back but all 12 APX500's in stock were just as bad and as it was a birthday present from my wife I decided to have it fixed.

I've had my APX for about nine months - jam every Friday nite, best compliment ever -- one of the guys thought I had a Martin (by the sound). I highly recommend the Acoustic AG15 amp, these two were meant for each other - great guitar sleek black finish. I wish there was a pick guard made for the oblong hole -- I had to make one - that's being picky - huh - nothing but good about his instrument.

I wasn't looking for anything in particular when I came across this guitar. I noticed it's sleek, black finish and decided to give it a try. I fell in love immediately with the APX500. I had to have it. The sound was incredible, the style and finish was beautiful and the quality was great. I would highly reccommend this guitar to anyone looking for an affordable, and playable acoustic/electric guitar.

i was looking for a good guitar, i did a lot of searching ..and read too many reviews from different brands and models ....i couldn't belive when i was reading all this reviews about this model. so i decided to go for it .. i record and produce music and when im in a session and use my guitar to record some tracks some of the guitarist that brings their martin co.or ibanez and ephiphone give me a lot of compliments for this guitar .... that speaks for itself on how great this guitar is ...i just couldnt believe when i first got it, the (violin sun burst) color got me right away ...im really glad with the price and the sound of it its a clean crisp sound ideal for my mix ... i just love it