Larry Carlton L7 BK

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Electric Guitar

  • Body: Mahogany
  • Top: Maple
  • Set-in neck: Mahogany
  • Fretboard: Ebony
  • Trapeze fretboard inlays
  • Neck profile: C
  • Ivory binding
  • Scale length: 627 mm
  • Fretboard radius: 305 mm
  • Nut width: 43 mm
  • Bone nut
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Pickups: 2 Alnico 5 humbuckers with gold coloured cover
  • 2 x Volume and 2 x tone controls
  • 3-Way switch
  • Ivory pickguard
  • TOM-style bridge with aluminium stop tail piece
  • Sire premium locking machine heads
  • Gold coloured hardware
  • Colour: Black
Available since August 2021
Item number 513016
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Black
Body Mahogany
Top Maple
Neck Mahogany
Fretboard Ebony
Frets 22
Scale 627 mm
Pickups HH
Tremolo None
Incl. Case No
Incl. Gigbag No
$499
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Nicely specked guitar, but they forgot to polish the frets...
wristblade 22.09.2021
The guitar is light, around 3.4-3.2 kg. It is very playable, in fact neck comfort and playability are excellent. Neck playability is very important for a set-neck guitar imho, since you can't change it... The matte finished neck is something I enjoyed. The headstock is gorgeous.

It sound bright unplugged and plugged, unlike a LP. If you want LP sound, look elsewhere.

The controls cavity is shielded along with the cavity cover, and the pots look fine quality, made in Koreea, and larger than alpha pots.

The intonation is spot-on except G string where it's a hair off.

Neck relief and action are reasonable. Not super low action but fine for my taste. It's OK imho.

The bad: They did not polish the frets... They did polish the fret ends, which is very nice, but not the frets themselves. This is embarrassing for this price range. Steel wool solves it but I would rather spend my time differently. It feels awkward to bend strings. The nut exterior corners are roughly rounded with a file. But the nut is made of bone, probably not slotted and initially just a bar that needed filing.
The most sensitive finish area is where the neck joins the upper body of the guitar, in general. It is not perfect, I have seen worse.

Tone controls behave a bit odd, as they brighten up the tone too fast, but this is a known issue reported by all players. Probably the tone cap value is too low, but I couldn't find it printed on the capacitor.

There are some dark spots on the neck binding... looking as if it is fretboard wood splinters, but I did not manage to remove them by simply rubbing them off.

The fretboard was dry, but some lemon and almond oil fixed it.
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Michael Willere 18.12.2021
Started by purchasing the S7 from Sire. And based on the build quality of that one, I hurried up and snagged up the rest of the versions. I was not disappointed!
For all of them: they should cost 2-3 times their current price.
Get one before they are gone.
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Überraschung
Thomas110 30.08.2021
Hab in letzter Zeit immer mal wieder was zu den Sire Gitarren gelesen oder in Youtube angesehen. Als ich jetzt gesehen hab, dass es die L7 auch in schwarz gibt, hab ich gleich zugeschlagen.

Die Gitarre kam, großes Lob an Thomann, am Tag nach der Bestellung an. Wie immer bestens verpackt.

Die Sire ist bestens verarbeitet, top eingestellt, super Bundierung (hab lediglich die Bünde nachpoliert), keinerlei Macken, tolle Optik, ordentliche Locking tuner und überraschend gute Pickups (die wollte ich eigentlich sofort tauschen). Alle Schrauben sitzen, nichts wackelt, solider Toggle switch, sehr aufgeräumtes Elektronikfach, die Potis funktionieren einwandfrei. Da gibt's rein gar nichts zu meckern. Zudem ist sie relativ leicht (unter 4 kg) und hängt sehr ausgewogen am Gurt.
Der matt lackierte Hals (mittlere Dicke) spielt sich super bis in die höchsten Lagen.
Einziger kleiner Kritikpunkt. Der Gurtpin ist zu nah am Hals. Mit security Locks wird's hier sehr eng!

Insgesamt ein super Instrument für's Geld. In der Preisklasse gibt's wahrscheinlich nix besseres. Für Anfänger sowieso, aber auch für Fortgeschrittene, eine Gitarre die Spaß macht. Mal sehen, ob ich die Tonabnehmer noch tausche ....
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une bonne guitare au juste prix
Marcopelando 23.01.2023
j'ai commandé cette guitare convaincu par divers essais découverts sur Youtube... habitué de Fender et des finitions plutôt très correctes, je découvre au déballage une guitare sans gros défauts mais dans un état très moyen de finition et de préparation (touche palissandre tachée, peinture du manche peu soignée, accastillage très sale, cordes à changer ) gros nettoyage en perspective, démontage des plaques d'accès au potentiomètres (résidus de perçage à nettoyer là aussi) le pire étant sous la petit plaque d'accès au réglage du threshold garni par une accumulation de vernis et de résidus collés... ouf la clé allen passe et le réglage peut se faire...bonjour la finition!!!! ça en dit long sur la fabrication et le service contrôle qualité...heureusement la peinture de la caisse ne souffre d'aucun reproche (Ouf!)

C'est donc très méfiant qu'une fois la guitare enfin réglée avec des cordes neuves que j'ai pu tester sa jouabilité et le son
et ce fut une .. très bonne surprise :
jouabilité très facile grâce à un manche super ergonomique (mieux que ma Les Paul Spécial) le son est très bon sur les 3 panels du sélecteur , très bon équilibre des micros, aucun bruit parasite...

bilan elle vaut bien son prix mais pas plus car il y a des progrès à faire sur la finition, je suppose qu'en changeant les micros, on peut encore lui permettre d'approcher les meilleures
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