My Gibson and Epiphone have been back in the closet full time after I got this Fusion-T.
Play-ability is unbeatable, Fret wires are perfectly rounded, the fret board is smooth like butter. You can keep it that way by restringing every 1-2 months, Lemon-Oil the fret board, and apply string Lube every few days, to prevent rusted strings from eating into the fret-board and fret-wires, especially if there's a lot of bending in your playing style.
With the locking tuners, Tuning is shockingly stable, and rarely needs a re-tune between restrings.
Pickups sound good with Clean and Crunchy amps, and I think they're just okay with super-high gains, but they're no EMGs when it comes to heavier stuff.
Maybe the two pickups were slightly imbalanced on arrival, but that can easily be adjusted with the pickup height, and fine tuning each pole on each pickup. The setup was really good out of the box, but by making minor adjustments to pickup and poles (just by ear, you don't need need to take it to the guy!) , it sounds perfect.
I don't think I personally will ever consider replacing the pickups.
The one downside, as with almost every Left-hand guitar out there (including expensive Gibsons) is that the pots aren't "left-handed", which makes it not so useful for volume control as a musical effect.
HB does a great job, I will surely get more of their guitars in the future, and it is impossible for me to justify buying any other electric guitar brand from now on.
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