Quality of Legator guitars?

[Dayn]

This is the one they are talking about, which imo, clashes pretty hard. I love burl tops, I love PME, but they have to be the highlight. They don't look good in wood salad if you ask me.

What do you mean, it's delicious. I haven't put my glasses on yet, but I like these two guitars here:

 

[Robslalaina]

So, are these still hit or miss in 2023? Curious about the MIK and MIJ 8 string Ghosts. The MIJ is priced somewhere between a Boden Standard and a Metal, has SS frets but the X inlay is hideous. The MIK is about a thousand bucks cheaper but no SS frets, and has two truss rods I'm not sure I want to bother with

 

[X784]

So, are these still hit or miss in 2023? Curious about the MIK and MIJ 8 string Ghosts. The MIJ is priced somewhere between a Boden Standard and a Metal, has SS frets but the X inlay is hideous. The MIK is about a thousand bucks cheaper but no SS frets, and has two truss rods I'm not sure I want to bother with

I have a Ghost 7 string (whichever one was $750 brand new) and it’s perfectly fine. I got it a year or 2 ago. I don’t know if they’re still hit or miss. Personally I wouldn’t get one that’s over 1k unless I was completely sure there’d be no issues. You could go Agile for a multiscale headless 8 and you choice be good. Probably will pay less too

 

[riverrat13]

If not too much trouble could someone please measure the nut and bridge spacing on the 8 string?

I'm considering one due to the neck setup advantage with dual truss rods.

 

[nightsprinter]

I ordered a Ghost 7 string. I didn't go for the crazy one with the palemoon ebony fingerboard and all that fancy shit because it wasn't worth the $1200 upcharge. I just wanted a couch guitar that won't be the price of a strandberg. Will report back next week when it arrives.

 

[gunch]

Did Legator cool off their aggressive online marketing? Yeah. Did they clean their act up? I don't have any 1st hand experience so I couldn't say.

 

[nightsprinter]

Yeah we'll see how fast I list it on Reverb basically

 

[Warmart]

The 2023 Ghost G6FX MIK I picked up 2 weeks ago is perfect.

Also wanted to be sure I was restringing the right way, so I called the support line today, ten minutes prior to opening, on a Monday. They picked up on the 1st ring and the dude was awesome, very helpful.

 

[phillybhatesme]

I'll add that my Ghost G8FP is exactly what I'd expect from ~1100 dollar guitar.

 

[nightsprinter]

I was stuck between iris fade, smoke, and cali cobalt and went with the predictable and popular iris fade.

 

[gunch]

On the other hand good enough for this fucking freak, good enough for anyone

 

[phillybhatesme]

I was stuck between iris fade, smoke, and cali cobalt and went with the predictable and popular iris fade.

I keep Legators on my reverb feed for some silly reason and will likely end up with a Cali Cobalt something one day lol.

 

[nightsprinter]

I keep Legators on my reverb feed for some silly reason and will likely end up with a Cali Cobalt something one day lol.

See that 8er up there now the guy has listed for $825 or $850?

I have it on good authority he would accept $750 for that. Not the nicest top or anything, but seems like a good value. I almost bought it.

 

[phillybhatesme]

See that 8er up there now the guy has listed for $825 or $850?

I have it on good authority he would accept $750 for that. Not the nicest top or anything, but seems like a good value. I almost bought it.

Lol, I just bought two 8 strings and idk how to play either of them. I don't need another

 

[nightsprinter]

So before I even get into the general quality of the GF7P I received, someone seemed to get a little animated during assembly and put two huge cuts/dings in the back of this (presumably while installing the bridge?). I don't actually care about it much as it can't be seen from the front, but I've emailed Legator to ask whether this falls into their QC tolerance or if I'd be eligible for a B stock discount. Gotta shoot your shot, ya know?

p.s. i can already tell the frets might need a little spot leveling and there's what I'd say a small to mid amount of fret sprout going on. (Not a big deal).

 

[nightsprinter]

Passive hive bridge humbucker sounds tremendous in this. It handles gain in that way that makes pinch harmonics dumb easy to ring out.