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Great guitar but...
PROs
Great sound, good looks, stable tuning, great frets and neck/fretboard, easy access to high notes, lightweight, balances well, good quality pots with treble bleed circuit, great playability*.
CONs
No shielding paint, no split-coil functionality, nut only 41.3.mm wide (standard is 42-43mm) so that playing chords around the first few frets is difficult, tremolo arm wobbles around, the washer/nut on the output jack had fallen off and was found in the packaging, not set-up with high action and tremolo adjusted in such a way that it was pulled all the way back touching the guitar body and *the neck is not very wide so that the E1 string often slips off of the fretboard.
SOUND
The reason I bought the guitar was because I wanted to re-create a particular guitar sound I had in the 1980s. To my astonishment, I can indeed re-create that sound fairly accurately - but better. This is due to the basswood body, pickups and hardware. A limitation is the lack of split-coil functionality. I was going to modify this guitar by installing a push-pull pot. Unfortunately, these pickups cannot be split as they only have one hot wire.
Great sound, good looks, stable tuning, great frets and neck/fretboard, easy access to high notes, lightweight, balances well, good quality pots with treble bleed circuit, great playability*.
CONs
No shielding paint, no split-coil functionality, nut only 41.3.mm wide (standard is 42-43mm) so that playing chords around the first few frets is difficult, tremolo arm wobbles around, the washer/nut on the output jack had fallen off and was found in the packaging, not set-up with high action and tremolo adjusted in such a way that it was pulled all the way back touching the guitar body and *the neck is not very wide so that the E1 string often slips off of the fretboard.
SOUND
The reason I bought the guitar was because I wanted to re-create a particular guitar sound I had in the 1980s. To my astonishment, I can indeed re-create that sound fairly accurately - but better. This is due to the basswood body, pickups and hardware. A limitation is the lack of split-coil functionality. I was going to modify this guitar by installing a push-pull pot. Unfortunately, these pickups cannot be split as they only have one hot wire.
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