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Great value
I got this item yesterday, and spent a couple of hours "fettling" it. It looks really good and I could only find one blemish, on the side of the headstock, but you have to be less than 30cms away to be able to notice. Whilst quite playable straight from the box, I adjusted the tremolo springs and the tremolo arm locking screw, located on the block, by pushing the arm down to make it accessible. This was a little fiddly, but the system works well now. If you jam something like a couple of beer mats between the tremolo and the top of the guitar, it makes the job so much easier. I lowered the string height as well as the intonation at the bridge. The fretboard benefitted from some lemon oil, too. The "action" is fine, but I'll do some work on lowering the nut slots, which are just a little high. Once this is done, I'll change the strings. The ones on it on delivery are really very dull, and so I can't do a review at this stage on the sound. I think that they are .009's, and I use .010's usually. All of these jobs are quite usual on a new guitar, especially a budget item, so don't be put off by this. In my view, this guitar is excellent value for money.
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A fantastic guitar.
pros:
1. its a bang for your buck
2. the material quality is actually good
3. its a versatile guitar cause its has the split coil
4. To me the finish is very beautiful
cons (at least for me)
5. the bridge is very nice~. It stays in tune like a champ
6. the stock strings where good for a guitar at this price
As for cons:
1.Seeing other reviewers, it sometimes comes with some minor errors.
For example, the 1st fret of my guitar was fairly low than the other frets. that means i can't play the 1st notes without having major buzzes.
Also, the tone pot was not very usable as it wasnt very consistent when i turn it (like at 1 to 9 its the same and at 9 to 10 has a very drastic tonal change)
2. Personally i like satin finish necks as it doesn't stick to my hand.
3. its fairly heavy for me but i guess they couldn't make it any lighter.
4. the truss rod cover was a little bit flimsy in my opinion
But all in all, its a very usable guitar!
1. its a bang for your buck
2. the material quality is actually good
3. its a versatile guitar cause its has the split coil
4. To me the finish is very beautiful
cons (at least for me)
5. the bridge is very nice~. It stays in tune like a champ
6. the stock strings where good for a guitar at this price
As for cons:
1.Seeing other reviewers, it sometimes comes with some minor errors.
For example, the 1st fret of my guitar was fairly low than the other frets. that means i can't play the 1st notes without having major buzzes.
Also, the tone pot was not very usable as it wasnt very consistent when i turn it (like at 1 to 9 its the same and at 9 to 10 has a very drastic tonal change)
2. Personally i like satin finish necks as it doesn't stick to my hand.
3. its fairly heavy for me but i guess they couldn't make it any lighter.
4. the truss rod cover was a little bit flimsy in my opinion
But all in all, its a very usable guitar!
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Goes beyond "good for the money"
Let's get the negatives out of the way first. When this arrived, it was virtually unplayable. Now I understand, it's a leftie, so whoever's doing the setups probably can't give it a play to see how it feels, but I mean the strings were lying flat on the fret board, the neck was bowed and the trem was set hard against the body so it took an almighty force to even move it.
The paint job on the front of the guitar was fine, but there were flecks of "dirt" under the finish on the back. It felt like a real "Friday afternoon" job.
If this was my first experience buying a guitar, I'd have been totally gutted.
However, in less than an hour I had the neck sorted, action and intonation set up nicely, and the trem (whilst I still keep it flat) is set perfectly for a little downwards warble.
And once that was done, wow! The guitar sounds brilliant, plays great and stays in tune. And it looks great. The finish isn't perfect, the binding is a little uneven, but from more than 6 feet away no one's going to notice that, and frankly these minor blemishes are more than made up for by the quality of the instrument.
Oh, and one last thing. When it arrived the top of the headstock had poked through the packaging, denting the wood and removing about an inch of finish and paint right on the top "point". That's certainly not Thomann's fault, but they were awesome at getting it resolved. I didn?t want to return the guitar as I live in the Canary Islands and it took two weeks to arrive, so they offered me a discount on the price which I can put towards the repair. Customer service was excellent, friendly and swift.
As for my star ratings above, I've marked "quality" as 3 stars, but this is to reflect the small imperfections (even building a guitar to a price I think they should be able to spray it somewhere where there isn't crap floating about that gets under the finish). However, in terms of playability and reliability, it scores a 5.
The paint job on the front of the guitar was fine, but there were flecks of "dirt" under the finish on the back. It felt like a real "Friday afternoon" job.
If this was my first experience buying a guitar, I'd have been totally gutted.
However, in less than an hour I had the neck sorted, action and intonation set up nicely, and the trem (whilst I still keep it flat) is set perfectly for a little downwards warble.
And once that was done, wow! The guitar sounds brilliant, plays great and stays in tune. And it looks great. The finish isn't perfect, the binding is a little uneven, but from more than 6 feet away no one's going to notice that, and frankly these minor blemishes are more than made up for by the quality of the instrument.
Oh, and one last thing. When it arrived the top of the headstock had poked through the packaging, denting the wood and removing about an inch of finish and paint right on the top "point". That's certainly not Thomann's fault, but they were awesome at getting it resolved. I didn?t want to return the guitar as I live in the Canary Islands and it took two weeks to arrive, so they offered me a discount on the price which I can put towards the repair. Customer service was excellent, friendly and swift.
As for my star ratings above, I've marked "quality" as 3 stars, but this is to reflect the small imperfections (even building a guitar to a price I think they should be able to spray it somewhere where there isn't crap floating about that gets under the finish). However, in terms of playability and reliability, it scores a 5.
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