Jack_TriPpEr
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It delivered safely late this afternoon.
It's gonna be a no-go for me. First, the weight. One of the Youtube video reviewers described the weight as "around 6.5 or 7lbs" and another said the weight was "not too lite and not too heavy." This particular one weighs in at 8.6lbs. That's much more than I was expecting/hoping for. The person responding to inquires at seller AIO's eEbay account described the weight of this model to me as around 8 lbs. And seller AIO had 4 in stock at the time I ordered. That seller rep responded ok when I asked them to pick me the lightest one of the 4 in stock. If the seller rep really did that for me, then that suggests that on average this model runs well over 8lbs. But since that is in conflict with the aforementioned descriptions, I'm thinking that my request to be given the lightest one just was not performed.
But even still, the weight isn't the ultimate dealbreaker. Because for the relatively low cost of this guitar, i was already open to the idea of replacing some hardware (tuners and converting the trem to a hardtail) to reduce weight if I found the guitar too heavy, but the feel of the neck is what killed it for me. Feels too thick for my tastes. I felt uncomfortable stretches when doing single note runs on the low E and A strings further up the neck. Actually, the neck felt very similar to the neck on the Dean Icon Series Flame Maple Doublecut that I posted about here a couple years back. Same issues, which made that guitar also not a keeper.
Actually, the body of this guitar felt very similar to the doublecut Cort M600 I tried last year. II's like this guitar is s combo of the Cort M600's body and the Dean Icon Series' neck.
I should add that the quality was excellent. No rough fret edges, no glue marks where the neck meets the body. AIO did offer three choices of how high they would set the action as part of their setup before they shipped it out. On paper their highest action option seemed too low, but since i had to pick one, i chose that one. And today when i tried out the guitar, that action setting turned out to be so low that the tone of the two pickups was clipping through my amp's distortion channel. The pickups themselves were already set low, so it definitely wasn't a case of the pickup height needing to come down. It was the action setup.
I don't regret incurring a return shipping cost and the time required to repack this and ship it back. It's a rare occurence that I have to try a guitar that potentially meets all these body style, finish, weight and neck shape specs that I would want in a guitar.
By the way, i was pleasantly suprised to find the color of the finish in person was more yellowish and lacking the red hue that was coming through in the seller's pics. See attached.
It's gonna be a no-go for me. First, the weight. One of the Youtube video reviewers described the weight as "around 6.5 or 7lbs" and another said the weight was "not too lite and not too heavy." This particular one weighs in at 8.6lbs. That's much more than I was expecting/hoping for. The person responding to inquires at seller AIO's eEbay account described the weight of this model to me as around 8 lbs. And seller AIO had 4 in stock at the time I ordered. That seller rep responded ok when I asked them to pick me the lightest one of the 4 in stock. If the seller rep really did that for me, then that suggests that on average this model runs well over 8lbs. But since that is in conflict with the aforementioned descriptions, I'm thinking that my request to be given the lightest one just was not performed.
But even still, the weight isn't the ultimate dealbreaker. Because for the relatively low cost of this guitar, i was already open to the idea of replacing some hardware (tuners and converting the trem to a hardtail) to reduce weight if I found the guitar too heavy, but the feel of the neck is what killed it for me. Feels too thick for my tastes. I felt uncomfortable stretches when doing single note runs on the low E and A strings further up the neck. Actually, the neck felt very similar to the neck on the Dean Icon Series Flame Maple Doublecut that I posted about here a couple years back. Same issues, which made that guitar also not a keeper.
Actually, the body of this guitar felt very similar to the doublecut Cort M600 I tried last year. II's like this guitar is s combo of the Cort M600's body and the Dean Icon Series' neck.
I should add that the quality was excellent. No rough fret edges, no glue marks where the neck meets the body. AIO did offer three choices of how high they would set the action as part of their setup before they shipped it out. On paper their highest action option seemed too low, but since i had to pick one, i chose that one. And today when i tried out the guitar, that action setting turned out to be so low that the tone of the two pickups was clipping through my amp's distortion channel. The pickups themselves were already set low, so it definitely wasn't a case of the pickup height needing to come down. It was the action setup.
I don't regret incurring a return shipping cost and the time required to repack this and ship it back. It's a rare occurence that I have to try a guitar that potentially meets all these body style, finish, weight and neck shape specs that I would want in a guitar.
By the way, i was pleasantly suprised to find the color of the finish in person was more yellowish and lacking the red hue that was coming through in the seller's pics. See attached.
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