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Cracked and chipped
The guitar plays very well and it sounds great. There are cracks where the head meets the neck and a chip at the tuners.
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Reasonable value
I bought this as my first guitar, and while it has its disappointing shortcomings, overall its a good value guitar.
Pros:
- Surprisingly stable tuning, despite cheap tuning machines
- Great play-ability at medium action heights
- Smooth fret edges
Cons:
- Plastic nut "grabs" strings during tuning, causing "clink" sound
- Tuning machines have horrible dead spots
- General dead spots/unevenness in all adjustment screws, including bridge height and intonation adjustment screws.
- "Rise-in-tongue" above the 15th fret, causing strings to fret-out at low action heights
- Very thick poly finish, sticky on neck
- Fairly muddy humbuckers on 10-46 strings, but can be avoided with brighter amp/dialed down low-end.
Despite the negatives, I'm mostly happy with the guitar. I wish they'd had the SC-550 in stock when I'd ordered however. I feel like a lot of the cost-savings are the root of a lot of these problems I've had.
Pros:
- Surprisingly stable tuning, despite cheap tuning machines
- Great play-ability at medium action heights
- Smooth fret edges
Cons:
- Plastic nut "grabs" strings during tuning, causing "clink" sound
- Tuning machines have horrible dead spots
- General dead spots/unevenness in all adjustment screws, including bridge height and intonation adjustment screws.
- "Rise-in-tongue" above the 15th fret, causing strings to fret-out at low action heights
- Very thick poly finish, sticky on neck
- Fairly muddy humbuckers on 10-46 strings, but can be avoided with brighter amp/dialed down low-end.
Despite the negatives, I'm mostly happy with the guitar. I wish they'd had the SC-550 in stock when I'd ordered however. I feel like a lot of the cost-savings are the root of a lot of these problems I've had.
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Nice look, poor quality
The guitar looks really awesome, but it came with the toggle switch broken. Thomann sent me a spare one and I replaced it. As another reviewer wrote, the knobs are incredibily fragile. I also wanted to tighten one and the knob broke when trying to remove it. I dont bother returning this, this is becoming my experimental guitar for practising changing adjustments, since I never even touched the electronics before on my other guitars.
Still, if you want to start cheap and this is your only guitar, I would hesitate. Maybe I was unlucky (and Thomann offered to send a replacement), but cheap is cheap, and there are better quality guitars for marginally higher prices.
Still, the looks are great. Put a big G on the head and it looks like "it". Maybe good for decoration ;))
Still, if you want to start cheap and this is your only guitar, I would hesitate. Maybe I was unlucky (and Thomann offered to send a replacement), but cheap is cheap, and there are better quality guitars for marginally higher prices.
Still, the looks are great. Put a big G on the head and it looks like "it". Maybe good for decoration ;))
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Overall Happy But Needs Attention
Guitar came with no damage in shipment to the USA, however the fret job was poor Frets were unpolished and were high in 12 spots. Don't hammer in the frets use a fret installer next time. The fret board was dirty, had two dented frets. (Stop using Nickel Frets), couple inlay edges were not filled in properly with glue or inlays not properly cut not very noticeable. Guitar input jack was cheap had to replace with Switchcraft. Ok this is a cheap guitar, if you're a serious player and like modding or fixing guitars to make them better this is the guitar for you.
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