Startone CG 851 1/8

Good for feeling a guitar in the hands, needs better setup

Good for having a small guitar to play, just ok for a kid, a better setup could do great benefit to playability.

More a toy than an instrument

Ok for small children. But if you child really wants to play an instrument, this won't do.

A bit more than a toy...

It's okay for the price, but keep your expectations low.

I do not recommend

Very poor quality. It is an useless purchase since almost impossible to tune in.

Good first guitar

I bought this for a five year old. It's still slightly big for him but not by much. It's not the best guitar I've played (and it's too small for an adult anyway) but it's perfectly adequate as a first guitar for a child.

Great for its price

Only con is I noticed it gets a little out of tune, dont know if because new strings

Baby guitar for my young son

I bought it because my 2 years old son like to come on my guitar.

When i saw this little guitar, he directly understand it was for him and began to handle it.

He was first playing some drums on it but he began to strum the strings as he saw me playing.

As an instrument, the sound of this guitar is poor and it doesn't stay in tune after (only) 2 chords.

But to be honnest, i didn't buy for it's sound quality but i have buy as father for an smile on my son's face.

And when i play some guitar, he want's to play with me with his one.

Conclusion:

- As an musician, this guitar is more a toy than an instrument

- As a father, it's 5/5 stars

Works just fine

Got this for my children to practice and play and it works just fine.

Nearly a toy

The quality is not so good. I mean the 1 fret buzzes so much. Probably needs a good frret leveling. I bought it for my son who is 4. Anyway for a toy is good enough.

Three Okays make a Good

Bought this for my 1yo for Xmas after he showed great interest in his 3yo brother's 1/4 version of this instrument.

There is practically no difference in size between this (1/8) and the 1/4. I've decal'd the boys names on the fingerboards of the guitars (which have no dots on them FTR) to help tell at a glance which is which, such is their similarity.

This functions perfectly as a first guitar. It's cheap enough that I don't care if it gets absolutely smashed or drawn on or whatever else a toddler could do to a guitar.

It's also good enough to serve as a real instrument. I took a while to get this into (A tuning) tune. It felt if I tuned it straight up something would break. But now that he's had it a while it keeps okay tune and sounds fine.

The action is pretty high, so much so that fretting a note bends the pitch. But it doesn't need to be a virtuoso instrument at this stage. The good thing is that when he's old enough to learn properly I will likely shave the bridge down and set it up better.

A pretty good result for about thirty bucks.