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4.5
Overall it seems this brand’s guitar bodies and/or necks seem to be a little bit of a lottery: some are great, others not so much. Overall, my example I would give it zero if I could.The control cavity is NOT milled/routed enough to allow an even LONG SHAFT pot through, don’t even have a single thread of bite.The only way you can put the neck in place that will allow you to mount a neck pickup is going to render the guitar unplayable without MAJOR reconstructive efforts (I.e. plugging the bridge holes and drill new ones) as the only way to mount a neck pickup is going to put my particular body lottery at a 25 inch scale, not 24.75, making intonation efforts impossible.The neck joint (neck is from the same company) is way too large in EVERY dimension. It was too wide and required sanding to fit in. It’s too tall, putting the fretboard almost 3/4 of an inch ABOVE the body. The joint pocket cutout in the body itself is too long making the intonation efforts ridiculous for anybody who shoves it all the way in.As other reviews have said EVERY SINGLE HOLE in the body was too small and either needed reamed or drilled to a larger size to fit anything (bridge and stop bar lugs, pots, definitely the output jack hole).For the amount of effort required to make this a WORKABLE piece of wood, you might as well go to a local lumber yard and buy a solid chunk of board and do it all LITERALLY yourself, because EVERYTHING is going to need adjusted, redone, or touched up for it to be usable and $90 of lumbar is pretty much the same as $80 for a shoddy guitar body.You want my opinion? If you’re planning to buy this to build a true-to-you guitar: DON’T!! Just buy something cheap like a SG Special from Epiphone and MODIFY it. It’s certainly going to be easier for anyone who doesn’t have access to hundreds of dollars of tools and take significantly less time.More than likely just going to use this as a template to cut a new body from a piece of lumbar.
