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Quality check should be improved
Well, in theory and on specs it looks great but…
First of all the guitar arrived with a really bad setup. The action was practically unplayable, even a cheap acoustic guitar would have had lower action. Intonation was nowhere near decent. The neck humbucker was installed very sloppy and tilted in a way so that the side closer to the neck is quite higher than the other side and the pickups were not even slightly balanced, the neck pickup was a lot louder than the other two.
I decided to take it to a professional for a setup and a few other things came up. Some fretwork had to be done (I ordered one more guitar at the same time, a Harley Benton ST-200, that is more than three times cheaper than the Fusion but it had a better fretwork, and the Fusion is promoted as pro series, go figure). Apart from having to level the neck pickup it turned out that it’s impossible to lift the bridge pickup so both humbuckers had to be tweaked. And according to the guy that did my setup the humbuckers were not installed properly at all and even after some work on it still the neck pickup stays a bit tilted. OK, lack of any setup can be kind of accepted but if you have to repair a sloppy job during manufacturing on a brand new guitar, that’s not quite OK.
On top of all that, there are small imperfections with the paint on the headstock and two small chips in the finish on the bottom part of the fretboard. Things like chips on the finish are unacceptable even for a much cheaper guitar.
I guess if you are a YouTuber or some professional reviewer you’d get quite a nice instrument but if you’re just a regular customer based on my experience, it’s not like that, or in best case scenario it’s hit or miss.
First of all the guitar arrived with a really bad setup. The action was practically unplayable, even a cheap acoustic guitar would have had lower action. Intonation was nowhere near decent. The neck humbucker was installed very sloppy and tilted in a way so that the side closer to the neck is quite higher than the other side and the pickups were not even slightly balanced, the neck pickup was a lot louder than the other two.
I decided to take it to a professional for a setup and a few other things came up. Some fretwork had to be done (I ordered one more guitar at the same time, a Harley Benton ST-200, that is more than three times cheaper than the Fusion but it had a better fretwork, and the Fusion is promoted as pro series, go figure). Apart from having to level the neck pickup it turned out that it’s impossible to lift the bridge pickup so both humbuckers had to be tweaked. And according to the guy that did my setup the humbuckers were not installed properly at all and even after some work on it still the neck pickup stays a bit tilted. OK, lack of any setup can be kind of accepted but if you have to repair a sloppy job during manufacturing on a brand new guitar, that’s not quite OK.
On top of all that, there are small imperfections with the paint on the headstock and two small chips in the finish on the bottom part of the fretboard. Things like chips on the finish are unacceptable even for a much cheaper guitar.
I guess if you are a YouTuber or some professional reviewer you’d get quite a nice instrument but if you’re just a regular customer based on my experience, it’s not like that, or in best case scenario it’s hit or miss.
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Don't buy unless you have the skills or money to fix it
Straight away I could tell it wasn't set up correctly as 2 strings were extremely low and buzzing, one of them partly because the nut was cut too aggressively and also because the saddle height was too low. I also noted the strings did not need stretching and so I guess they had already been stretched in by someone else. Fretboard was very dry and I could literally file my fingernails down on the rough frets, 2 had sharp edges. After snapping the high E while adjusting I decided to put new strings on and so I polished the frets, oiled the fretboard and filed the sharp fret ends, I also found 3 high frets which needed levelling, fortunately 2 of them only needed tapping. The only other issue was one of the allen keys rounded at both ends while trying to undo one of the saddles, at first I thought it was the hex bolt that had rounded but later found that my own allen keys still worked fine.
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