Fender PM-TE Standard Travel Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

Bought it for my younger, pre-teen, grandkids and put on EB 8's. If you want a stunning experience try 8's on a short scale guitar. You can put it in the stand and it will play itself! ;) I mostly finger pick and it's effortless. Finger span issues, bending and fretting, even without calluses are no problem with this guitar. The guitar's construction is immaculate. It has a solid spruce top and solid mahogany back and sides. The comfortable neck is solid mahogany with no scarf at the headstock. The headstock overlay appears to be rosewood and the entire neck and headstock are surrounded by triple binding. The top, sound hole and back stripe have very nicely done checkerboard purfling. The finish on the body is called "open pore". Basically it's more natural without the glossy finish we've come to expect. I understand that some people will be put off by that but it seems to add to the richness and organic nature of its sound. It certainly shouldn't be a deal breaker when you get all the quality and value that is built into this guitar. Although I managed to catch this while on sale, I would expect to pay in the $1,000 range for the materials and construction of this guitar. It comes in an extremely good hard case that rivals those on my top-of-the-line Taylor and Cordoba. They promote this as a travel guitar but I think it's much too nice to travel with. Although it should hold up very well to travel, I just wouldn't be comfortable taking chances with this very fine instrument.

I've owned, at various times, an early 60"s Fender Jaguar, a low end Epiphone Les Paul, an Alvarez parlor guitar and a Fender ThinLine acoustic electric, liked each one to varying degrees. This Fender PM-TE beats them all for playability, pretty sound (once I changed the strings for d'Add Silk and Steel), and good looks. Although it was described as blemished, it took a very careful search to find one very small blemish. It was even pretty well set up, intonation perfect on 4 strings and very nearly perfect on the other two. A lot of folks would have been happy with the string height, but I like the strings quite low, A little sanding on the bottom of the saddle easily took care of that. My best, and longest owned (more than 50 years), guitar is a 1949 Gibson L4-C. I've never yet played a guitar I would rather have than my old Gibson, but this Fender makes for a nice change of sound and has almost as good an action as the G. For the price I paid, I still can't quite believe it's this good.

I'm 66 years old with arthritis, bone on bone in bad and medial left hand thumb joint. The 23.5 inch scale and 1.69 inch nut width, small body and 4 inch body was of prime importance. Solid wood top, back and sides, superb fret dressing, open pore satin finish gives a very good acoustic sound. The Fishman electronics work flawlessly for confidence using this in a performance venue. This is my second Fender Paramount purchase. The first being a PM-2 SB Deluxe 12 fret. Both of these guitars are equally as good as my Martin's D-1C and 00-16DBM Women and Music, just smaller. This was purchased at a significant discount, being a level 3 Scratch and Dent. The only flaw was a missing case latch. It was a great bargain. I only adjust the neck to my playing style, as it was set at a concave curve, making string height not to my preference. Straightening via the body accessible truss rod brought the neck to a near straight position and string height to my playing style.

I've been playing guitar for 40 + years, and have owned many nice ones. Martin D35, Martin 000-15, Gibson Gospel. This one stands up to all of those, especially at this price. Nice quality all solid, great sustain and tone, comfortable and plays easy!

Great guitar. I use the D'Addario two way humidification system and keep the guitar in it's case when I'm not playing. I know people have complained about the guitar not staying in tune, but I play about an hour a day and take a two hour class once a week and have had zero issues with the guitar staying in tune. I haven't had to make any adjustments in over a week. It's a good looking guitar and plays well. It is surviving the New England winter well and has made many trips in and out of Boston on the train.

I just picked on up in Sept 2018. When I received it it had a very thin sound. Once I stuck a humidifier in it, the guitar came to life. I just love this guitar. I find myself picking it up to play more than any other in my collection.