Redwood TL-Mini Electric Guitar with Cutaway Body and Maple Fingerboard - Natural

I’m a long time guitarist, with a few instruments of my own, including a USA telecaster that I’ve had since 1993. I bought this as a gift for my son, who wants to learn. All I’ve done so far is take it out of the box, tune it and make sure it’s playable - I’ll add to this review once I’ve put it through an amp.Generally I’m very impressed. Things have moved on since I was buying cheap instruments, and this is a very playable little thing. Action (distance from string to fretboard) is playable out of the box, and the strings themselves aren’t too bad, although I’d still recommend changing them fairly quickly. You can tune it to a normal EADGBE tuning and the strings aren’t too slack. It might be better up a semitone though. Machine heads are decent enough - one is a little notchy, but nothing terrible. The nut seems well cut and the bridge is set up ok. I reckon there’s room to set it up a bit better, which I’ll do when I get the time.In summary (so far) then, this is a good little travel/starter guitar. Can highly recommend.

Maybe it needs a professional setup, but out of the box this is unplayable. Tune it up properly (EADGBE) and it plays OK on open strings but then fret a chord and it's out of tune. By the time you get down to the 12th fret it's miles out. Very disappointed.