Jackson JS32 King V AH Gloss Black

UPDATE
So I had this guitar upgraded with all Gotoh hardware, MEC electronics and such. The neck and body are good. It actually has the lowest action I ever could get from a stock guitar apart from a custom shop Esp I had years ago. I sold this King V in order to get a USA neck for a stratocaster project I was building. However I'd grown so attached to it after the upgrades that I regretted selling it. So instead of buying the strat neck I've bought another King V and more parts. This one even has a nicer feeling neck finish. This one I'll go all out with the hard case, EMGs, and Gotoh hardware. I swear if Jackson would sell these for 8-900 euro with the Gotoh hardware stock they would be an amazing working guitar.

I wanted a pointy guitar with a FR and didn't want to spend much. I've seen a lot of really positive reviews on YouTube and people raving about how great the necks are on the JS series now.

I'm used to playing Esp and Ibanez guitars from Korea and Japan. You can definitely feel that this is a much cheaper guitar. The parts are a lower quality and everything is just not as well polished. However, it's a functional guitar and with some work on the setup and intonation it can play very well regardless of the lower quality feeling. I've swapped the tremolo with a Gotoh 1996 and that's been a massive improvement in sound and tremolo function. Replacing the nut with a Schaller also helped a lot. The tuners are next to be replaced as the stock Chinese tuners are such a pain to use and do not hold tuning very well. The pickups sound nice if you back them down away from the strings a bit.

The neck is strange to me. I was expecting it to be thinner after all the reviews calling it a speed neck and thin shredding profile. This one is thicker and wider feeling. It definitely forces me to keep my thumb on the back of the neck now instead of thumb over like I usually play.

Overall I'm happy with it. It's not garbage but it's nothing fancy either. It's a decent platform for modification.