on May 17, 2022

I bought this because I like the look of the maple neck and wanted a guitar that I could play around with and learn how to work on a bit. Upon receiving it, I was surprised by how well it sounded, nice pickups and overall a good feel. It has its goods but also has some disappointments that I don't feel are very acceptable, especially since I bought my kids a $90 mitchell guitar that had much higher fabrication quality. The good things: -Nice look and paint job -Pickups sounds great -Easy ...

I bought this because I like the look of the maple neck and wanted a guitar that I could play around with and learn how to work on a bit. Upon receiving it, I was surprised by how well it sounded, nice pickups and overall a good feel. It has its goods but also has some disappointments that I don't feel are very acceptable, especially since I bought my kids a $90 mitchell guitar that had much higher fabrication quality. The good things: -Nice look and paint job -Pickups sounds great -Easy to work on -Intonation was set very well, but string height was very high -Packaging was very durable and guitar was very protected during shipping, far better than my Fender strat came to me. The bad things: -Frets were overall ok, but frets 1 and 2 on the treble side had some significant fret sprout or sharp edges. I tried to file down which helped, but also damaged the fretboard edge slightly which won't affect playing, just unfortunate. -One fret (roughly 7th position) seems as if the portion that goes into the neck in the groove was cut short, as there are pockets on both sides of the neck where the wire should be flush. Seems like a quality control issue or mistake that got through. Won't affect playing, just cosmetically doesn't look good -The guitar body is very light, and since the strap mount is on the back of the guitar and not in the end of the horn, it is very neck heavy. If you don't hold the neck up, it will sag down below the body by gravity alone. Better strap mount position or more weight in the body would be very helpful, not much fun to play standing up for this reason but nice sitting down. -The tremolo was 1/16" off the body, but the claw inside was fully screwed down so no way to "deck" the tremolo without adding springs. I added 2 more springs (now 5 total) and it "decked" just fine, just seems like it was mounted or designed without proper adjustment range. -The gig bag came damaged as the foam packaging seemed to have adhered to it. I can possibly clean it off, but Glarry did provide support and a small refund for this which was appreciated. Overall it's a neat little guitar, just wish the quality would have been a bit better, especially with the neck. Since I bought it as a project though, it's fulfilling my desire to get to do some adjustments and work on it. Not sure if the neck quality was a unique situation or something that everyone is experiencing?

on March 21, 2022

Not a bad practice guitar