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Hi there and thanks for your comment. Glad you like the strings. They really work for some kinds of music. All the best, Rob

HI, sorry to have been a while replying. The guitar takes a 3.7 volt battery. You can get rechargeable ones. I have several rated at 2700 mW hrs. Seems good. Seem to last a long time. Hope this helps. All the best, Rob

It's a 3.7 Volt battery: rechargeable and has a capacity of ~2700 mW hrs. Hope this helps. All the best, Rob

Hi nice to hear from you. Not quite sure what you were asking? I bought it new but it did need some work on the nut to improve the intonation around the first few frets. but it's quite usual that a new guitar will need a bit of a set up and we all have different expectations and different types of music we paly. All the best, Rob

@@robrobson7101 I was mostly wondering what visual signs of damage I could look for a on a guitar. Sorry for being unclear😅 All the best!

Good to hear from you and glad regular steel strings work for you. I'm sure they do sound good too. All the best, Rob

@@robrobson7101 I had to though make some adjustments on the saddle for the steel treble strings. Otherwise the intonation was very bad.

Hi and thanks for the comment. Sorry not to have replied earlier. Hope you find someone to bring you the strings. I have had one comment for a guy who put regular "steel trebles" on his guitar and finds they sound great. Maybe worth a try but I still think for an all solid classical guitar I wouldn't care to try that. All the best Rob

Thanks for your kind words. I'm really pleased with the guitar...just wish I could paly it better...practice, practice, practice.... All the best, Rob

HI and nice to hear from you. OK I understand your caution but don't be afraid to take the neck off but just make sure you have a really good adjustable clamp to align and then fix down the neck before replacing the screws. You never know you might find a little shim in the neck slot as I did. Anyway, this was Leo Fenders great idea to design a "parts" guitar. Good luck and all the best, Rob

HI Linda, It's a model 3103 serial No 594. It has a solid top and laminate back and sides. When these guitars were made the only strings available were all steel. The typical bronze type strings hadn't been developed back then. Martin reintroduced all steel strings for acoustic guitars not so long ago. They're called Monel strings after the alloy they're made from. Once I pout a set on this old guitar it came alive again and the strings last and last so don't oxidise/corrode. I record with this guitar because it has such a distinctive sound. It's bright

@@robrobson7101 Thanks so much for taking the time to help me out.. Lots of detail and info. Happy playing :-)

Hi, thanks for your kind words. I'll keep trying ! Rob

Hi Stephen, nice you hear from you. It might sound like a long shot but as you probably need near exact replacements you might contact Yamaha directly including the serial number. They might be able to tell you about the fret wire type (jumbo, medium etc)and material. You can google for fret wire suppliers luthier suppliers out there there are quite a few out there. If you get their address you could send them one of the worn frets to get a good match. Anyway, good luck and sounds like you must have played this guitar a lot! Hope this helps: All the best, Rob

Hi Alan. Good that you could do your own adjustments to make the guitar play as you want. And you're right most if not all guitars need a good set up when you get them especially mail order. If bought from a dealer they should set them up before selling them especially the high end instruments. My guitar hada really bad 6th string what had been overstretched I think. It would never tune properly when all the other strings were fine. IT was corrected by replacing the string with a new one! Thanks for your comment and all the best. Rob

HI there. Sorry to have been slow to reply to you. It doesn't sound like a regular steel string acoustic guitar. It has a low volume and is quite lacking in the resonance and higher frequencies you might want. However, it does produce enough to practice with and it's not unpleasant. It was made to be amplified much like any hollow bodied "jazz guitar". I'm sure it was designed to be a low budget version of a Taylor T5 kind of thing. You may have seen that I replaced the supplied lipstick pickup with a stratocaster style humbucker. This made the guitar come alive. Now it's a really good instrument with a really good range of tones. I play it a lot. Hope this helps even if belatedly. All the best, Rob

Hi there. Sorry to have ben a long time in replying. OK, so these strings are made like regular steel strings. They have the regular little brass collars the string is wound around. So they can simply be pushed through the back of the holes in the bridge and over the saddle. No problem and easier than attaching regular classical strings in fact. Hope this helps. All the best, Rob

These strings are designed to be used on a classical guitar...

Hi Rob, so I finally bought the jumbo version. But as soon as I used the built-in effects, there was a cracking sound which I can only blame a faulty speaker. Having reached out to gear4music, they suggested I try a new guitar cable... seems like they don't understand what the problem is.. even after I have sent them the video! Still waiting for a resolution. Did you have to return the guitar to them?

Hi again. Sorry the Hartwood guitar is giving you trouble. They should be tested by G4M before sending out. I sent mine back when the internal amp fell off the back. I received a replacement fairly swiftly. I suggest you do the same and hope you get a good one. By the way, mine is still fine. I play it a lot especially at gigs. Good luck but it does take the edge off getting a new instrument. All the best, Rob

Hi, and thanks for your comments. I’m really sorry that you’ve had a lot of trouble with this guitar. Firstly. on the question of the strings. My guitar had regular string anchors (little brass rings) attached to the tailpiece). However they wouldn’t pull through the holes in the tailpiece. The tailpiece is held on by screws at the bottom where the strap pin attaches. So I removed the tailpiece. Then I drilled out each hole with a wider bit so now the anchors will pull through. Then I replaced the tailpiece and now it will be easy to replace strings without removing the tailpiece. On the useless electronics then that’s really bad. I’ve built quite a few tone and volume circuits and they’re quite simple things. I’m wondering what would prevent both volume and tone controls from working. If it were me, I’d email Musoo or Batking and I’m sure they will reply. I had a few email exchanges with them before I bought mine. And again if it were me, I’d just take out the electronics and check out the circuitry. The F-holes are big enough to make this quite easy. I suspect there is just one cold joint or a misplaced junction. I could probably work it out anyway by looking at the standard “Gibson” circuits. I’m really sorry you’ve had this problem. But do contact Musoo/Batking. Mention my video which Batking is now using on their website and say Rob’s Strings & Things has replied to you. Very poor quality control. I will make an updated video that mentions the string tailpiece problem. Good luck..and do get back to them. My guitar is still perfect now the tailpiece is improved. All the best Rob

@@robrobson7101 Thanks Rob. What I found was that all the string-ends were connected under the tailpiece by a length of thick copper wire that was FIRMLY glued at each end to the underside of the tailpiece, so it couldn't be removed and the strings could not be slid off it. I've never seen anything like that before. It was totally impractical . . .unless it was a fudge by the person who built the guitar because of some sort of problem they had and the quality control didn't spot it? Mark you, they didn't spot the useless electrics either. That copper connecting wire certainly didn't look like a professional idea. Like you, I removed the tailpiece and found a so-called grounding wire which was mean to touch the copper wire that linked the strings. It looks very amateurish and I doubt the two wires ever actually connected. As you don't mention anything like that in your reply, I'm guessing you didn't find the same system. Thanks again for your response.

Thanks again. I just can’t understand what they were doing. No, I found what I expected to find. Certainly no wire to anchor the strings to. I am a bit “flabbergasted”. Did you by any chance take a picture of the tail pace with the wire? As to the wiring, I did find an earth wire wound round the strap pin. However, as I’m sure you know, that’s not going to influence the bad electronics. Do you have a multimeter?

I suggest you complain to Musoo/Batking by emailing Susan on musooguitars@163.com. I’ve had several email exchanges with her. Not sure what might come of it but it’s worth a try.

Hi, thanks for the question. Yes, it stays in tune. I think the construction is really good. The only issue I had with it when I bought it was the nut. I had to cut the string guides to improve the intonation at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd frets. A nice guitar and quite small compared to some 12stringers! All the best, Rob

Hi Mike, nice to hear from you and thanks for the question. No, not tried these strings and generally haven’t played John Pearce strings. I looked up TI’s but couldn’t find them on a few online string sellers here in the uk. Do they have another name? Do you play them and what are they like? Rob

Hi again Gert. The Nashville Steel guitar is not really a good acoustic guitar. Yes, you can noodle around with it but it doesn’t sound great. You can think of it more as a hollow body electric guitar which I think is its forte. As I’ve pointed out it really needs the humbucker in place of the lipstick pickup but Thomann didn’t take up the idea. Does that help? Rob

Thx Rob

Hi Geert, nice to hear from you. .The external body depth is 5cm all around the edges.The guitar has a flat back but with a slightly arched top. The internal depth at the sound holes is about 3.6cm but this may vary as I made a humbucker assembly to replace the lipstick pickup for a guy in France. But it didn't fit. Ive had mine for a while. With the humbucker in its a really nice guitar with a really good action. Really good value for money. All the best, Rob

So pleased to hear from you and to know you really like the guitar. You should let Gear4Music know that the internal amp is coming off. Mine’s still on so far but it could go any time Just this week, a guitarist friend of mine played the guitar and told me he went straight to the G4M web site. Not sure he bought one yet. One amusing thing he noticed was the “broken string” or the wavy stem of the vine on the finger board. You can expect similar comments “how can you play it with a broken string”. Funny! All the best Rob