Well boys, I recieved this guitar 2 days ago and I am returning it. I am extremely dissapointed...
Problems:
-I adjusted the truss rod due to excessive fret buzz on f# string and neck bow with the supplied allen wrench and the hole STRIPPED OUT. Unacceptable. I am not alone with this, another dude on SS.org had same issue:
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/extended-range-guitars/150335-agile-truss-rod-s-sadness.html
-The strings between the nut and tuners vibrate alot if you play and then stop. This can be fixed with tieing something around headstock (like a sock) or putting a piece of foam in between headstock and strings, but come on...
-Knobs and 3 way switch feel cheap.
Things I just do not like:
-The front is solid white but the back is this translucent white and you can see the different wood grain and stripes all the way down the guitar.
-Guitar just does not feel solid to me. This is my opinion but I briefly played and ESP LTD 8 for half the price and it just felt like a more solid guitar.
The saddest part is, I really was ready to work around all of the qwerks but the stripped truss rod put me over the edge. This guitar is just not up to the quality that I expected out of an $850 guitar. Another major bummer is there is no other 8 string on the market as of yet that has all of my wants: white neck thru body, emgs or SD blackouts, reverse headstock, no fretboard markers, and 27 or 28 inch scale. I hope this will help with your decision to buy one of these knock off brand guitars.
Problems:
-I adjusted the truss rod due to excessive fret buzz on f# string and neck bow with the supplied allen wrench and the hole STRIPPED OUT. Unacceptable. I am not alone with this, another dude on SS.org had same issue:
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/extended-range-guitars/150335-agile-truss-rod-s-sadness.html
-The strings between the nut and tuners vibrate alot if you play and then stop. This can be fixed with tieing something around headstock (like a sock) or putting a piece of foam in between headstock and strings, but come on...
-Knobs and 3 way switch feel cheap.
Things I just do not like:
-The front is solid white but the back is this translucent white and you can see the different wood grain and stripes all the way down the guitar.
-Guitar just does not feel solid to me. This is my opinion but I briefly played and ESP LTD 8 for half the price and it just felt like a more solid guitar.
The saddest part is, I really was ready to work around all of the qwerks but the stripped truss rod put me over the edge. This guitar is just not up to the quality that I expected out of an $850 guitar. Another major bummer is there is no other 8 string on the market as of yet that has all of my wants: white neck thru body, emgs or SD blackouts, reverse headstock, no fretboard markers, and 27 or 28 inch scale. I hope this will help with your decision to buy one of these knock off brand guitars.