The first arrived defective and was also missing the tone knob, so I didn't feel comfortable with it and I had to return it. This is the second guitar I ordered from zZounds. This is a really nice looking guitar and it plays great now.,but. I can fix that so I am not concerned but I know it may to off others. This is my first baked maple guitar so I don’t know if it is still weathering. I can only point out one flaw, that was fret sprout through the entire fretboard. The pickups seems responsive to the pick attack. The neck heal carving makes all the high fret accessible. For what I can tell it works the same way. The bridge saddles looks similar to a graphtech string saver. The wood grain on mine is really nice and comes through the finish making it very pleasant to look at. The backed maple looks amazing and is very soft to the touch. The Baked Maple neck is smooth and fast, fairly slim but thicker than a wizard III. The guitar is designed to cover a lot of ground as it offer ten different tone possibilities. The Charvel DK24 2pt CM (Tri-Color Sun Burst) is a lot of bang for you money.
And at this price it should come with a bag. The stock no-load tone control works just fine to control the tone, but I don’t like the extra click when it’s dialed all the way up.
Also, I’ll eventually swap out the no-load tone control for a conventional one. Kinda takes the edge off of a solo when it’s fading out as it’s building up. The only issue I’m having with it is, because of where the volume knob is and my way of playing, I roll the volume down on accident quite a bit. The tremolo is different than a traditional Stratocaster style 2-point trem in that it’s way more sensitive and much tighter and way more stable. It’s almost effortless to access all of the frets. The fret edges were finished smooth right out of the box, but it badly needed a setup. The matte blue version of this guitar I received had a really janky and loose pickup selector switch, so I had it swapped out for the exact part used in the (*ahem* almost identical $3500!!!!) American version. Not much more I can add to what’s been said so far (hit or miss QA, super smooth neck, really nice finish, crazy number of sonically pleasing tones, premium components work great.) it really is an excellent guitar.
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