Baton Rouge V2-T8 sun

I use this as a travel instrument or instrument when I need to check some tones fast, also to perform in concerts and cafes.
High quality wood, smooth and pleasing to touch. Strings are soft and easy to play. I don't even feel the double strings. I fell in love immediately. Beautiful and full sound. The picking comes easy and strumming sounds soft but accurate. This instrument could easily replace standart 6-string accoustic guitar because of it's full sound.
I've been playing this for a year now and I still haven't got a feeling that I should change the strings. Except the one low non-nylon G string looks little rusted but sounds perfectly fine.

Also I have installed a pickup. It cost me 15 EUR. I was worried that it will do some damage to the instrument but it took it really well. This helps to perform live much easier. At some stages the signal is little poor and it should be turn on the highest level where it could nearly peek but again in other stages the signal is totally fine. When plugged in ukulele seems to have more highs but it can be turn off very easily.
In all it's totally worth paying! There haven't been a day where I regret it.

I was afraid to buy because of the higher tension I was afraid it would break itself apart over time. Well, we shall see. While I prefer the Baritone ukulele's deeper rich tone, I find this Tenor size with all the sympathetic double string tones just magical sounding. It really is like a mandolin in the form of an easier to play ukulele. The action is good, tuners are ok, the harmonics are as close as possible, the work is tidy and clean, the look is just acceptable if unremarkable, however the SOUND is incredible. I would not play every kind of ukulele music on this instrument (It begs for bluegrass, or gypsy style jazz) but for what it is, and the wide pallet of sound, sustain and projection it produces, I would say at this low price if you like the ukulele you must own an 8 string uke. If I had to venture a guess and was not looking but just hearing it, I would honestly think the cost at the very least 250 - 300 euro. at less than half that cost, just get one.

I play ukulele as a hobby, and during the early days of the pandemic, I woke up in the middle of the night and stepped on the neck of my previous ukulele. I immediately started to shop around comparing models, looking for a suitable uke to replace it. I’d never even heard of an 8-string ukulele but the more I looked around, the more I kept coming back to this little baton rogue model. It arrived in a timely manner, neatly packaged from its overseas journey. It took a while to tune, as I half-expected, and the tuning knobs were a bit of a chore to turn at first. But soon it was holding its tune quite well, and the knobs have gotten easier to adjust. I love the sound of it, has a big sound and great sustain. I’ve had it going on three years now, I play it regularly and it’s definitely exceeded my expectations.