Open Box Recording King RDS-11-FE3-TBR Series 11 Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric with Fishman Sonitone Pickup Level 1 Brown Burst

I bought this guitar a few months ago as a reward to myself for making pretty good progress in learning to play. I am teaching myself some old time music, in the bluegrass style and the requisite fiddle tunes that go along with old style bluegrass. I started with a Yamaha FG-830, a good quality beginners guitar and I wanted to upgrade to an all solid wood guitar. O.K., it was G.A.S. but I definitely earned that upgrade. I live on a Social Security check income, so the $1,000+ guitars were out of the question, even the used ones. I read a lot of reviews and decided to take a "caveat emptor" chance on this one. Wow! That's about all that I can say about this guitar. As we say here down SouthI done good! I like everything about it. I love the satin finish and the tobacco brown burst colour, but most of all I love the sound. It is different from my Yamaha. It is more mellow and rounder and more balanced in volume from bass to treble than my rosewood laminate Yamaha. It stays in tune very well. Only temperature changes require retuning. It is considerably lighter in weight than my Yamaha. I'm not 100 percent sure what that signifies, but it is noticeable. The intonation is spot on all the way down the fretboard, even if I rarely venture past the 8th or 9th fret. The only change that I made to it was that I changed out the bridge pins for some made of Tusq, and it made no difference at least to my ears. All in all, I'm happy as a clam with this purchase.