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(More customer reviews)I had gotten to a point where my $100 pawn shop special wasn't going to cut it anymore. I needed to step up to a proper instrument, but I didn't need to go overboard. After some research I determined that I was looking for something in the $600 - $700 range. I actually intended to walk out with a Fender Stratocaster. I looked a quite a few in the range, and I looked at some Ibanez guitars, and I looked at some epiphones and gibsons.
Problem is, $700 pays for the logo and the brand name - and not much else. Most of the guitars in this range were set up and finished about as well as one might expect from a $300 guitar. Frets hanging over the edge, or not completely tapped in, buzz in the action, sloppy binding... Now, at this point you might be thinking I'm just nitpicking. However, if the frets and binding aren't clean, you can bet they cut some corners on the parts of the guitar that you can't see.
I was about to give up, when I saw the Godin. The top is beautifully figured, and I like the HSH setup, but what the heck is a Godin? I put it through the inspection, and the neck is straight, the finish is free of pits and dents, the frets are perfect, the binding is completely clean. It's got straplock buttons installed by default. It even comes with a QA tag, that shows each of the quality assurance tests it had to pass before it was put up for sale.
Big deal. So the guitar is cosmetically perfect, that doesn't mean it'll play.
Except that it does. It plays better than any guitar I've ever seen in this range. It plays better than any USED guitar I've seen in this price range. The sound is sweet and the neck is very playable, and even though the action is insanely low, there is no buzz. It's made in Canada.
See, Godin doesn't really have a name to bank on. So what you are paying for is all guitar.
The stock pickups were fine, but I wanted to customize my sound a bit, So I threw in a dimarzio fred in the bridge and a dimarzio fs-1 in the single coil position.
All in all, it's a pretty sweet guitar.
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