This guitar is what you pay for. If you want a good guitar that your child can really use, then obviously you should probably pony up the $100+ for such a guitar. This is exactly what it says, a toy. Our six year old daughter likes to play it, but she knows it doesn't sound like a guitar should sound. I'm not confident she can treat a real guitar properly, or if she really wants, or is able, to learn yet, so this fit the bill. The construction of the toy is about what you would expect, all plastic. Only the strings and hardware are anything but plastic. The fit and finish is decent, though the face part of the guitar with the fake woodgrain does have a couple very small nicks in the finish on the edge. The six strings are actually three strings that are looped at the bottom. The knobs on the side are fake, and there are knobs on the back that actually tighten. They don't all stay tight, but you can tighten the screw that holds the knob to keep it from loosening. My biggest complaint with this thing is the sound. Because there are actually only three strings, and they appear to all be the same size string, the sound isn't much like a real guitar. You don't have the progressing pitch change with each string. Now maybe you can tighten the strings to varying degrees to get them more in line like a real guitar, but I was afraid of tightening the strings too much and breaking them.