Dean CE Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Resonator Guitar Natural

Great tone plugged in and unplugged. Needed some setup. I filed down the bridge and put a set of 11s on it. The action is low enough to be comfortable and high enough for slide. Definitely not disappointed with this guitar.

Loving it! The pick up is very weak, but acoustically it's quite loud. In bioth cases the sound is unique in a wonderfully rootsy way. I've found I get the best tone if I place my hand on the bridge. I just gave it a set of new flatwound strings and found the bridge interesting as it floats on top of the biscuit. The only way I could tell to adjust the intonation is by moving the bridge/biscuit around after the strings are placed. A bit clunky, but I think it will get better once the new strings break in. I've played one gig with it an will do another tonight.

This is a pretty cool acoustic-electric resonator guitar. It's well made, sounds and looks good, and is a very good value for money. I watched several online reviews of this guitar and I liked its sound and looks. Glad I bought it. #sweepstakes

I've been playing resonators for over 45 years and I've had everything from 50's Nationals, Dobros etc. The CE (same as the Rouge brand guitar only better) sounds good but not great, worthy of a resonator upgrade to a Beard maybe. I would describe the sound as a bit midrange but flat wound strings would help that a lot. It plays great right out of the box but remember it's a biscuit guitar so they never tune as accurate as a standard guitar. So why is this such a great value? An $800 Gretchen or Fender of the same style will sound better but nowhere close to $400 better and they lack some great features of the CE. It comes with much needed Grover tuners and NO slotted head, notorious for breaking, a pickup that sounds pretty good, surprisingly good workmanship (I'm being really hard on my review), a removable bridge cover which is a huge plus for bridge adjustments and the best feature is the neck configuration. Resonators always join the neck at the 12 fret which is a real PIA when hitting high notes for affect. Add to that a cutaway and you'll never have to flip your hand over the neck again to reach high notes. It also plays much better than any old resonator (tend to have necks that feel like Stella's and none of the rattle hassles with those old paper thin resonators. Buy it!!

Super easy to play, great tone, would highly recommend.

My old resonator is really old, so I decided to get a new one. I would have loved a Beard resonator…but WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. So I settled with the Dean and it's fine.