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Decent specs, questionable build
Actual guitar is nice, specs are great. The paint job on the body was good enough (couple of rough spots but nothing crazy), knobs and switch feel good and solid and the push pull work nicely. Roasted maple neck is lovely, though slightly narrower than I'm used to but that's fine.
Sounds better than I thought it would, and loves you squeal with pinches and plays nicely clean. I've had dimarzios sound a lot worse.
The fretboard and setup is where it lets itself down. The board was disgusting, had black fingers from 2 minutes of playing. High e broke almost immediately at the locking machine head, replaced and same again, so clearly the locking bit is too sharp so I've left that string not locked. The action was crazy high, so lowered and instant crazy buzz, several neck adjustments needed and had to settle for slightly higher than I'd like action to prevent buzz which is a shame (I know there's other things I can do, but with it being new, just wanted to stick to bridge and neck for now).
Fretboard took hours of cleaning, and it still feels a bit sticky, but at least I'm not getting black fingers, I'm hoping the stickiness still fade with more playing, and without the need to sand it, but it's definitely the element that really lets it down. There's really no need to dye it and no excuse not to clean off the polishing compound.
Sounds better than I thought it would, and loves you squeal with pinches and plays nicely clean. I've had dimarzios sound a lot worse.
The fretboard and setup is where it lets itself down. The board was disgusting, had black fingers from 2 minutes of playing. High e broke almost immediately at the locking machine head, replaced and same again, so clearly the locking bit is too sharp so I've left that string not locked. The action was crazy high, so lowered and instant crazy buzz, several neck adjustments needed and had to settle for slightly higher than I'd like action to prevent buzz which is a shame (I know there's other things I can do, but with it being new, just wanted to stick to bridge and neck for now).
Fretboard took hours of cleaning, and it still feels a bit sticky, but at least I'm not getting black fingers, I'm hoping the stickiness still fade with more playing, and without the need to sand it, but it's definitely the element that really lets it down. There's really no need to dye it and no excuse not to clean off the polishing compound.
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