Zehailiu
Well-Known Member
Got this from aliexpress, talked to the Luther for a few months before finally getting it.
Didn't have time to play with it until about a year later. It's still new to me. ^^
Specs:
American swamp ash body, burl top
Roasted maple neck with bubinga stripes
Richlite fretboard
25.5 - 27 inch scale
Luminous dot inlays
Jumbo SS frets with hand rounded fret ends
2 passive humbuckers(guy said these are BKP copies made by a local shop, not sure which model, i only know they're hot and use alnico magnets)
After about 2 months of playing, my impressions are:
It's build quite nicely. Solid, everything fits tight. The finish is flawless and a pleasure to look at.
The neck is thin and flat. The cutaway never gets in the way.
The fretboard is lovely, smooth, dark and uniform with nice ebonyesque grains.
Fret ends are well rounded and don't irritate my fretting hand at all.
The setup was not perfect, understandable given it was shipped from China.
A friend and I spent an afternoon setting it up and now it plays amazingly. No buzzes anywhere, low enough action for my liking.
Sustain is pretty good across the board.
The pickups are great. They are super high output when turned up. I asked for a single push pull volume pot with coil split and it cleans up gorgeously. Sounds quite sweet through a free Dumble sim i got online.
Those are the pros.
The cons:
The tuners are not easy to adjust. I have to use a pick to turn them at tension.
A grounding wire fell out possibly during shipping, not sure how or when but the guitar isn't properly grounded. I have to solder a wire myself. Not ideal but an easy fix.
The bridge is a bit of a pain to do intonation adjustment on. I don't think it's unique to this brand? You have to take off the string, loosen the screw holding the bridge piece, move it, tighten it, put on the string, tune it, test the intonation, then do the whole thing again if it's still off. Silver lining is once you do this, it should be good forever(or until you decide to switch string gauge).
I wanted a multiscale 8 with decent pickups that can do both the chugs and nice cleans out of the box, and under $1k, and this was the only option I could find. I talked to 1 or 2 other people on fb who bought from this store as well as asking th luthier all kinds of questions about how he builds them, how he packs them, the materials and parts, how much experience he has, etc before buying. It was admittedly a little bit of a gamble given aliexpress is known for cheap stuff, but I'm very pleasantly surprised.
Have a good one!
Didn't have time to play with it until about a year later. It's still new to me. ^^
Specs:
American swamp ash body, burl top
Roasted maple neck with bubinga stripes
Richlite fretboard
25.5 - 27 inch scale
Luminous dot inlays
Jumbo SS frets with hand rounded fret ends
2 passive humbuckers(guy said these are BKP copies made by a local shop, not sure which model, i only know they're hot and use alnico magnets)
After about 2 months of playing, my impressions are:
It's build quite nicely. Solid, everything fits tight. The finish is flawless and a pleasure to look at.
The neck is thin and flat. The cutaway never gets in the way.
The fretboard is lovely, smooth, dark and uniform with nice ebonyesque grains.
Fret ends are well rounded and don't irritate my fretting hand at all.
The setup was not perfect, understandable given it was shipped from China.
A friend and I spent an afternoon setting it up and now it plays amazingly. No buzzes anywhere, low enough action for my liking.
Sustain is pretty good across the board.
The pickups are great. They are super high output when turned up. I asked for a single push pull volume pot with coil split and it cleans up gorgeously. Sounds quite sweet through a free Dumble sim i got online.
Those are the pros.
The cons:
The tuners are not easy to adjust. I have to use a pick to turn them at tension.
A grounding wire fell out possibly during shipping, not sure how or when but the guitar isn't properly grounded. I have to solder a wire myself. Not ideal but an easy fix.
The bridge is a bit of a pain to do intonation adjustment on. I don't think it's unique to this brand? You have to take off the string, loosen the screw holding the bridge piece, move it, tighten it, put on the string, tune it, test the intonation, then do the whole thing again if it's still off. Silver lining is once you do this, it should be good forever(or until you decide to switch string gauge).
I wanted a multiscale 8 with decent pickups that can do both the chugs and nice cleans out of the box, and under $1k, and this was the only option I could find. I talked to 1 or 2 other people on fb who bought from this store as well as asking th luthier all kinds of questions about how he builds them, how he packs them, the materials and parts, how much experience he has, etc before buying. It was admittedly a little bit of a gamble given aliexpress is known for cheap stuff, but I'm very pleasantly surprised.
Have a good one!
