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Why, HB, why?
Usually one of the best companies in quality-to-price ratio, but this is a stinker.
Got it for its looks - 2 humbuckers on a matte black Jaguar with a string through body. Sleek and elegant, no tremollo, no million switches. Metal Jaguar.
Got the dryest fingerboard with fret sprout causing sharp and dead frets. The guitar sports the noisiest pickups ever. Action at the 12th fret is 4 mm. If I try to intonate the guitar, lowering the action reveals more dead frets.
Don't buy this. I'm literally offended by this guitar.
I own a Fusion III Tele and am in awe of how much 3x price difference makes and it's not the most expencive guitar ever.
I repeat - stay away from this. It's unacceptable.
Edit: straightening the neck revealed that the nut is cut too shallow, so the 2nd string buzzes on the 1st fret while retainig the high action from the 3rd onwards.
Sanded the down side of the bridge to solve the grounding issue and it didn't go away, which is logical because the bridge is doused in a non-conductive paint so it's either figuring out where to sand to make a continuous scratch that all parts touch the bare metal at one point or another or buying a new bridge... which I opted for, alongside a new set of tuners because lubricating the ones that came on the guitar solved little issues + they're covered in the same paint the bridge is.
To summarize - I have to replace the bridge, the tuners and the nut on top of pickups/electronics that were planned even before buying the instrument... and will have to bring the guitar to a luthier to solve the action issues (shimming) and the horrid fretwork.
Down goes the rate again. This thing should've never gone past the QC.
Got it for its looks - 2 humbuckers on a matte black Jaguar with a string through body. Sleek and elegant, no tremollo, no million switches. Metal Jaguar.
Got the dryest fingerboard with fret sprout causing sharp and dead frets. The guitar sports the noisiest pickups ever. Action at the 12th fret is 4 mm. If I try to intonate the guitar, lowering the action reveals more dead frets.
Don't buy this. I'm literally offended by this guitar.
I own a Fusion III Tele and am in awe of how much 3x price difference makes and it's not the most expencive guitar ever.
I repeat - stay away from this. It's unacceptable.
Edit: straightening the neck revealed that the nut is cut too shallow, so the 2nd string buzzes on the 1st fret while retainig the high action from the 3rd onwards.
Sanded the down side of the bridge to solve the grounding issue and it didn't go away, which is logical because the bridge is doused in a non-conductive paint so it's either figuring out where to sand to make a continuous scratch that all parts touch the bare metal at one point or another or buying a new bridge... which I opted for, alongside a new set of tuners because lubricating the ones that came on the guitar solved little issues + they're covered in the same paint the bridge is.
To summarize - I have to replace the bridge, the tuners and the nut on top of pickups/electronics that were planned even before buying the instrument... and will have to bring the guitar to a luthier to solve the action issues (shimming) and the horrid fretwork.
Down goes the rate again. This thing should've never gone past the QC.
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