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(More customer reviews)This guitar has an amazing sound and great features, regardless of its price! I would give it five stars, but the neck when I got it had horrible fretwork.The ends were rounded nicely, but the tops were not level, and I had to take it to a luthier to get it up to speed. Having said that, after $80 worth of work, it feels and sounds as good as any $600 - $700 guitar! Usually when I buy a guitar in this price range, the first thing I do is to ditch the stock pickups and tuners, and here I was pleasantly surprised.
The Pickups are, in a word, amazing. Buttery, rich and punchy with just the right hint of chime. I've previously owned a Gibson reissue Melody Maker with the stock dogear p-90. That was brighter and a bit harsher. A little more punk rock, if you will. This guitar is a more versatile animal, and almost certainly more of a crowd pleaser. They're wound a bit on the hot side, I'd guess the bridge is somewhere close to 11k, but with more complexity than some of the crazy output import stuff I've seen. They can pull off country twang, surf cleans, rockabilly clank, and classic rock with ease.
The tuners hold well, the finish is nice, the bridge is on the cheap side, but it has held adjustment. Electronics seem to be solid, with no more noise than one would expect from single coil pickups.
The neck is a bit of a mixed bag, however. The neck contour is the modern tele soft "C" profile. I usually go for a chunkier neck, but haven't found this one to be uncomfortable. It has 22 frets, with the fretboard extending over the body (unlike the usual tele 21). The drag was the fretwork. Uneven spots were all over the place, in an almost checkerboard pattern. Adjusting it out was fairly useless. Because the guitar was new, there was plenty of room to file, so I had it fixed instead of returning it. My luthier estimated that he filed anywhere between 30-40% of the material off of the highest frets!
Overall, I'm thrilled with this guitar, especially now that I've got the frets fixed. I'm seriously considering buying another to put a bigsby bar on. This is a pro guitar at a pawnshop price!
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