Solid Spruce Top, Real-World Workhorse
The Fender CD-140SCE is one of those rare affordable acoustic electrics that feels like a real instrument, not a compromise. Solid spruce on top, rosewood on the back and sides, and a legit Fishman system give you a guitar that can cover home practice, writing sessions, and real gigs without breaking a sweat.
If you have been fighting a cheap starter acoustic, this is the step up that finally gives you volume, clarity, and tuning stability you can trust. It is the kind of guitar that makes you want to leave the case open so you keep picking it up all day.
Dreadnought Cutaway With Spruce And Rosewood Voice
The single cutaway dreadnought body gives you that classic big acoustic punch with easier access to the upper frets. Strum it hard and the solid spruce top opens up with clear, focused projection that will hold its own in a mix or around a campfire.
Laminated rosewood back and sides add a warm low end and sweet top end chime so chords bloom and fingerstyle lines stay articulate. Gloss finish and quartersawn scalloped X bracing let the top move and breathe, so the guitar feels alive under your right hand instead of stiff and choked.
Easy To Play Neck That Keeps You Practicing
Fender’s easy to play neck shape is exactly what it sounds like. It is slim without feeling flimsy, with rolled fretboard edges that feel like a neck you have already owned for years.
The 12 inch radius rosewood fingerboard and vintage frets make chords comfortable and single note runs smooth and controlled. A dual action truss rod and 1 ply black neck binding round things out so the whole neck feels dialed in, not like an afterthought.
Fishman Presys Plus For Confident Live Tone
When you are ready to plug in, the Fishman Presys Plus system has you covered. The side mounted preamp gives you volume, three band EQ, and a phase control so you can fight feedback and shape your sound for any room.
The built in tuner is the unsung hero here. Hit the tuner, mute your signal, and get perfectly in tune on a dark stage without reaching for a pedal. Real talk, once you have onboard tuning like this, it is hard to go back.
Smart Details That Punch Above The Price
Graph Tech NuBone at the nut keeps things intonating clean and helps the guitar ring with more sustain than the usual mystery plastic. The rosewood bridge and white bridge pins with black dots keep the look classic while doing their job night after night.
A tortoiseshell pickguard and CD series pearloid rosette give it a bit of visual class without getting flashy. Fender Dura Tone coated 80/20 bronze strings come stock so it feels and sounds broken in instead of brash and stiff out of the box.
Hardshell Case And Moore Guitars Setup
Most guitars at this price show up in a cardboard box or flimsy gig bag. This CD-140SCE ships in a proper hardshell case, so you are stage and travel ready from day one.
This exact guitar, serial number Oi18014903, is in our Evansville, Indiana shop right now. It has been inspected three times and dialed in with our Player Perfect setup so it plays clean up and down the neck. Pictures are of the actual guitar, and if you tell us your preferred string gauge and action at checkout, we will fine tune it before it leaves the shop.
Questions about this guitar? Call (888) 794-8482 and talk to Rob or Cory – real players, real conversation, no scripts.
