Interesting new $58.89 with free shipping cheap strat type guitar

The seller got back with on the materials.
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Copied from their reply:
Face Material: Basswood
Back Material: Basswood
Side Panel Material: Basswood
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
 
eSGEe said:
Thats low end cork there RVA----- I buy twist off cap
BOONES FARM !!!! MAD 20/20 !!!!! WOOHOOO
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I do ice cold root beer on the rocks myself. I like to go big with A&W root beer when I can. If not, skid row wally world diet root beer will do the trick ;)
 
nuttin wrong with basswood......its friggin wood......probably 1 solid piece of basswood instead of 5 pieces of mahogany and sawdust glued together ...........sorry was that derogatory?
 
eSGEe said:
nuttin wrong with basswood......its friggin wood......probably 1 solid piece of basswood instead of 5 pieces of mahogany and sawdust glued together ...........sorry was that derogatory?
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I dislike the whole multiple pieces of low grade wood glued together and then sprayed/covered with more glue and then covered with veneer. I know I'll get pummeled, but you might as well have a guitar made from high grade plywood. I'd rather have simple wood than glued on fancy veneer. Now, an actual piece of nice fancy wood is a whole different story of course :D
 
Plywood has worked for Danelectro ...........they get good $$$ for them "junk" guitars.......

FYI--- the strat I pictured earlier----- I just sold for a very nice profit to a local fella......with a guitar stand ...so---er there is that potential as well......RESALE VALUE!!!!!........................because people just DONT BELIEVE the 48.00 guitar on ebay is functional or playable----but ya charge em over 100.00 for it and suddenly it sounds SOOOOOOOO much better..........human beings are funny creatures......
 
I bought two of the cheapo guitars this thread started on.
Figured if I bought two it'd be a good test: both good, one good - one bad, or both bad.
I'm am going to say both were bad because neither could just be set up, etc to be played.

Here's what I got.

Both body's look nice, they are real light, and appear to be solid wood (not plywood or veneer covered).
I haven't really checked the bodies for proper placement of routes, etc, yet - not sure if I'd be comfortable calling them good at the moment.
And, the reason I haven't checked the bodies yet are neck issues and communicating with the seller...

Both necks are at least messed up with one possibly usable and the other better off just stripping and trashing (nice round kind of baseball bat style necks though).
The nut on one is TOO far forward for the scale length. The other is off too, but not as bad.
Setting the intonation on the one neck wasn't happening as the saddles have to be move so far forward several of them are hitting the 6 screws that the trem pivots on before intonating.
The other, just barely set up with the same issue of having to be moved way too far forward.
And, on top of this the strings on both necks have an extreme sideways angle from the nut to the tuners.
Can't due much about that short of plugging all the tuner holes and re-drilling them further up the headstock.
So, both necks should probably be stripped for parts and the wood used for plugs and what not.

If your looking for something to play and not stinker around with you'd be far better off with an sx furrian or hawk or affinity tele.

Unfortunately I didn't think of taking any picks when they first came in, etc, and they are now in pieces.
I'm not real forum geared/savy yet - lol.

If anyone is interested I may post some pics, but I have to assume most people at this forum know what strat bodies, loaded pick guards, and necks look like ;)

In my opinion this was essentially a bust, would not recommend the guitars at all, and I'll be lucky if I can get my money back out of them.

If I come across any necks I 'might' try setting up one, but at the moment it's like throw more money/time at it or walk away type thing...

I'll probably just list them as project guitars on the local craigslist, take what I can get, and run away - lol...
 
^ good review; interesting read.

You can probably pick up a new Cort strat for $150, and that's a really good strat.
 
Thanks for the update Sir.
Sucks that it was a bust...but you took one for the team. Now, we all know what to expect. I came close to pulling the trigger.
At least it wasn't a huge investment. Good overall review too.
 
If someone is looking for an actual player guitar I don't recommend these at all. I was hoping to do a bit of work on them, maybe some fret/nut work at most, and sell 'em for a few more bucks than I bought 'em for, but that's not happening with these.
 
So, I traded one set of the tuners that were on one of the bad necks for a Bad Monkey that needed a little TLC - put that in another thread. And I also traded the two loaded bodies for this:
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Here is what I found on it:

Brand name: ALVAREZ
Product: electric guitars
Series name: ALVAREZ REGULATOR SERIES
Made In: Korea

Manufacture of the Alvarez AE 100 (Regulator) ended in 1993.
The AE 100 was a strat-style electric with HSS EMG Select pickups.
Also available with Modulus graphite neck as the Regulator Deluxe Graphite.

Controls -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tone controls: 2 tone controls
Volume controls: 1 volume control
Pickup selector controls: 5-way selector switch

Electronics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pickups brand and model: EMG pickup(s)
Pickups configuration: 2 single coil pickups and 1 humbucker pickup

General ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Finish colors: black finish, blue finish, red finish
Finish effects: transparent finish
Number of strings: 6 strings

Body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Body material: alder body
Body shape features: double cutaway
Pickguard material: black pickguard

Hardware -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bridge: tremolo bridge
Hardware color: chrome hardware

Fretboard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fingerboard material: maple fingerboard
Fingerboard position markers: dot fingerboard position markers

Neck ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Neck joint: bolt on neck
Neck material: maple neck
Number of frets: 22 fret
Tuner layout: six-in-a-row tuners

Still got another set of tuners and the two cheap gig bags that came with it to sell/trade ;)
I gave the two straps that came with it to a local pastor that does music stuff with kids...
If I was thinking about it I'd a probably given him the cases too.
He has a bunch of cheaper instruments he's bought for kids to cut there teeth on...
 
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