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great guitar, with "minor" cons
Almost a perfect guitar for the price. Good sound, absolutely beautiful neck.
Cons
- the setup was suboptimal when it arrives; but it's fairly easy to do it yourself with the Babicz bridge and adjustment wheel.
- the output socket feels clunky and I sometimes has to push hard to insert the audio jack, and it easily get loose. Although there is no visible defect when I took the lid off and examine the components (btw the wiring looks very clean). Perhaps it's some production tolerance issue with the socket.
I don't have much problem with these for its price. And these are easy to fix.
However the BIGGEST ISSUE is with the reversed headstock and the staggering tuning machines:
with a reversed headstock, the tuning peg for the low E string is at the far end. And it has the shortest tuner pole (forgive my poor terminology but you know what I mean). Part of the hole where you insert the string is UNDER the holding nut, and the remaining space is so narrow that installing a .46 low E string (Daddario EXL110) is impossible, despite that the guitar ships with 10-46 strings. I have to use a power tool to file down the nut so that I can install the string ... Hey Thomann, the factory should have reported the issue to you, haven't they? I think it's rather a design issue than quality issue, or perhaps this only happens in this batch. If you are buying the EMG version with a reversed headstock, be aware of the issue. And hopefully Thomann fix it in the next batch :)
On the other hand, the guitar is so good that I must keep it, and went ahead to do the mod myself, knowingly it may void the warranty XD.
Cons
- the setup was suboptimal when it arrives; but it's fairly easy to do it yourself with the Babicz bridge and adjustment wheel.
- the output socket feels clunky and I sometimes has to push hard to insert the audio jack, and it easily get loose. Although there is no visible defect when I took the lid off and examine the components (btw the wiring looks very clean). Perhaps it's some production tolerance issue with the socket.
I don't have much problem with these for its price. And these are easy to fix.
However the BIGGEST ISSUE is with the reversed headstock and the staggering tuning machines:
with a reversed headstock, the tuning peg for the low E string is at the far end. And it has the shortest tuner pole (forgive my poor terminology but you know what I mean). Part of the hole where you insert the string is UNDER the holding nut, and the remaining space is so narrow that installing a .46 low E string (Daddario EXL110) is impossible, despite that the guitar ships with 10-46 strings. I have to use a power tool to file down the nut so that I can install the string ... Hey Thomann, the factory should have reported the issue to you, haven't they? I think it's rather a design issue than quality issue, or perhaps this only happens in this batch. If you are buying the EMG version with a reversed headstock, be aware of the issue. And hopefully Thomann fix it in the next batch :)
On the other hand, the guitar is so good that I must keep it, and went ahead to do the mod myself, knowingly it may void the warranty XD.
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