Hey there Waz, John and Colin,Originally Posted by wazkelly
She is amazing. Seriously a great guitar for that price. In the interim between order and delivery I had hands on with a Squier Telecaster hum bucker x 2 model....cant remember its name. I have to say that the Artist Guitars one was $500-00 including a nice hard case cheaper and you would not know that in the feel.
Yes it is a very heavy guitar...but I play sitting and that is not an issue for me.
I have a Real Parts order that arrives tomorrow, Monday 16 October, chrome strap locks....a must really...the strap buttons are crap with a guitar this heavy....some fret rubbers to clean up the frets....bit dirty....and two nice chrome dome styled metal knobs for the pots.
The tones out of the pickups is amazing...either split or in humbucker mode.
I find that splitting has limited effect on the volume.....amazing...most coil splits drop the output considerably. The tonal differences neck, both, bridge in hum bucker or split are amazing.
I may venture to buying a set of these pickups to drop in an old kit I have here that could do with a liven up.
On my Yamaha THR II 10 wireless amp in crunch model with a little over halfway on the Echo/Reverb knob, 3 band eq set to 12, the gain to about 1 o'clock, master volume to about 3 o'clock and the overall amp volume at 12 o'clock, the sound is amazing. I back the guitar volume off a little and select both pickups and blatt away with some dances up and down the various locations of pentatonic minor scales......completely amazing.
The strings have a few dark spots on them....so the trip from china has not been kind. I will drop a new set on.....may try both a 10 set and an 8 set...and see if there is any difference.
Overall, not as finished and setup as the ones we build....but it is built to a price. I will take the strings off, give the neck and the fretboard some love, clean up the frets and shine them to a mirror. The body is sealed really well in a nice gloss polyurethane and it will respond well to a few coats of wax.
The tuners are locking, the nut is in fact bone, the bridge functions quite well, and the string through nature of the construction gives great sustain.
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