First Act Single Cutaway Electric Guitar with V-Stack Preamp Review

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(More customer reviews)I've had this guitar for about a year and I love it.Plays better than many guitar that cost twice as much.I paid $130 for mine.First Act website is selling it for $149 at the time of this review.Great action, D shape neck.Built in distortion sounds very good.You can get a lot of sounds out of this guitar w/ the V-Stack built-in.Great guitar for a beginner or anyone on a budget.I would have no reservations about gigging with this guitar.

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This Frist Act VE591 Electric Guitar is a hot instrument with state-of-the-art sound.This custom-designed single cutaway Electric Guitar is expertly engineered to play directly through a stereo system, desktop recording console, mixing board, computer, headphones, or rock it old school through a Guitar Amplifier.This Guitar features a body shape designed in the First Act Studio For Artists custom shop.It is made of basswood for warm, meaty, resonant tone, and also has a well-balanced single cutaway with excellent high fret access.The Guitar has a maple, satin finished C-shaped neck with rosewood fingerboard.This provides a warm tone, solid feel, and great mid-range.The headstock is tilted with chrome die cast tuning machines.The Guitar also features First Act designed bridge, tailpiece, and string retainer for awesome sustain and distinct string tones and has a beautiful meatllic platinum color with black body binding.The volume and tone controls are designed for distinct tone tweaks, and the Guitar features two Alnico 5 magnet vintage-style chrome bikini-clad humbucking pickups with crisp clean sound and warm distortion.This great Electric Guitar has a built-in pre-amp designed with our proprietary V-Stack analog modeling technology for organic, responsive, warm tone. No matter what you play through, it has awesome vintage tube amp tone.The Clean/Distortion switch goes from crystal clean to dirty rock distortion in an instant, and the Tone Shift is ideal for selecting alternate tone voicings for a broad range of sounds.This Guitar also includes a padded gig bag and 1/4" to 1/8" adapter, allowing you to plug into all devices.This wonderful Electric Guitar makes a great gift!

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AXL Badwater Eldorado Electric Guitar, Brown Review

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(More customer reviews)i was not sure about this guitar considering that i had never heard of AXL and it was so inexpensive.

a little back story about me, i've been playing guitar on and off since i was 13, so, about 15 years now. i moved to oregon from southern california about 5 years ago and didn't bring any guitar equipment with me, save for an acoustic guitar. i have some extra time on my hands now and a few extra bucks, so i went on a hunt for a nice guitar that wouldn't break the bank. i found that in the AXL eldorado badwater series.

i watched a bunch of videos on youtube featuring this and other AXL guitars and was impressed (even though i know that you can make a crappy guitar sound decent through a kickass amp). i was hard-pressed to find an actual customer review for this guitar, they were mostly written by guitar magazines, most likely being paid for a good review. i consulted a guitar geek friend and we decided that it could be a good buy!

so, this guitar has good action for me and a smallish build, which i like because i'm a girl and, generally, we're smaller than guys- whom most things are built for. it plays very nicely, i was pretty impressed. i may be biased though because i got used to the thickness of an acoustic guitar neck over all these years and the neck on any electric would probably feel nice. i played ibanez talmans in california and i think this one is slightly more heavy and has a slightly thicker neck, if that gives anyone a frame of reference.

the only things that i have to complain about are the placement of the top strap button and that there is a crack in the headstock. the placement of the strap button causes it to want to shift downward on the left, so i have to hold it up. i read the same complaint somewhere else as well. i think i could drill a new hole for it and fill the old one. should be fine. as for the crack, i'm not sure if it is due to the aging process that they put the guitar through to get the demolished finish (which is beautiful) OR if it's a legit crack that i should look into repairing. i think i'll err on the side of repair.

the downfall of this review is that i do not have a guitar amp or pod or anything currently so, i haven't hear this baby plugged in yet. i figured that there may be people interested in buying this guitar that would if only they could find more info, so i'm hoping to contribute to the base of info. i will update this review when my amp is delivered from california (a groove tubes soul-o 75).

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With a distressed body and antiqued hardware, Badwater Series guitars look and feel of ancient artifacts. These shocking guitars are equipped with EMG-designed pickups for hard rocking tones and clean delivery. Even the headstock and backplate have vintage distressing. No area was spared from the destruction. Badwater guitars have a one-of-a-kind style and excellent playability.The brown finish model has the look of a museum-quality guitar stored away for decades.The Badwater Series has received Guitar World's December 2007 Gold Award for Overall Value.

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AXL Do-It-Yourself Electric Guitar Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)I just put this thing together nd have this to say about it:

A very good learning experience. You can really appreciate how your guitar works. The quality was uneven.

The body is very good, being real wood. The neck is OK but the frets were sharp and uneven. I will have to learn to do a fret job. If left as is, the guitar would be unplayable.

The nut was way too high and made the action way too high. I just found out that I can't do it myself, unless I buy a special nut file that costs about $100 for the kit.

The bridge pickup didn't work well. Its output was MUCH lower than the others. The external wiring seems OK, so it must be a bad part.

The screw holes weren't that straight and I had to plug and redrill two of the neck attachment holes.

The tuners certainly aren't Gotohs, but they seem to work although they do bind a bit.

All in all great for a learning experience. You might want to upgrade the neck, but the body seems that it could be used formany years worth of upgrades since it is real wood. Nowadays, cheap guitars are made of cardboard or plywood.

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All of the parts necessary to assemble a 3-pickup, tremolo-bridge 6-string electric guitar. Detailed instructions are provided.

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Saga ST-10 S Style Electric Guitar Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought the Tele version from Saga. The G- and B-string tuner holes in the headstock were drilled too close together, making it impossible to fit the G tuner to the headstock and making it impossible to tune the G string accurately. Also, one wire was too short, so I had to supply my own. The distributor wouldn't correct the problem, told me to contact Saga. Saga never responded. The guitar is useless (wasting not only the money for the purchase but the cost of the paint, hours invested, etc). You don't want this product!

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Saga S-style electric guitar kit has a basswood body,shaped and routed neck, fretted rosewood fingerboard and adjustable truss rod steel and heavy nickel plated hardware and the electronic parts are mounted on the pick guard so soldering is required. This Electric Guitar Kit makes it simple if you enjoy expressing yourself through the process of making music, you are sure to love the chance to express yourself by making your own custom guitar

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Saga TC-10 T Style Electric Guitar Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)The beauty of Leo F's original electric guitar design is that anyone could assemble it's components into a finished electric guitar using hand tools, and basic mechanical skills. That makes kits based on his designs a great idea.

The more time you want to spend learning how to adjust and set up your guitar, the better playing instrument you'll be rewarded with.

I've been playing electric guitar for 30 years, and I did not find anything actually defective in this kit. The pickgaurd was slightly malformed, but it does not affect the playability in the slightest. The pickgaurd and tuners were a little cheap, and I chose to replace them, but they were certainly playable.

The rest of the components were of very high quality, as good or better than anything coming from Fender's Mexico plant. The body has an extra tummy contour on the back, similar to an "S" style guitar, and the bridge is a top loader, instead of Leo's string-thru design.

One area that will require a little more than basic skill and hand tools is shaping the peghead. If you choose to skip this labor intensive, not-for-the-squeamish step, you will be playing your new guitar with a comically large paddle shaped peghead :D

Considering the value for the money, the fun and learning of do-it-yourself, and the quality of the parts, I really wanted to give 5 stars... but the cheap tuners and deformed pickgaurd made it 4 stars.

I never contacted the vendor or Saga for a replacement pickgaurd, so I have no idea what their responsemight have been. I had already chosen to upgrade the pickgaurd in a different color.

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If you enjoy expressing yourself through the process of making music, you are sure to love the chance to express yourself by making your own custom guitar. By using the easy to follow instructions provided and a few simple tools, the Saga TC-10 Electric Guitar Kit makes it simple. Because all of the most difficult procedures have already been done for you, all that's left to do is to choose the color or design, assemble the parts, and you are well on your way to the creation of a masterpiece.


Roll your own with this complete custom guitar kit.
Kit includes everything to build your own guitar, right down to strings.Click to enlarge.

Kit includes all parts and instructions to build a complete, playable guitar
All hardware is heavily nickel plated Electronics are complete and ready for installation--no soldering required
All holes are pre-drilled
Complete with strings and electric cord
Available in right-handed versions only

Neck
Blank peghead shape with tuning machine holes. Solid select maple neck. Fretted rosewood fingerboard. Adjustable truss rod.
Hardware
Steel, heavily nickel-plated hardware.
Body
All-solid select basswood body. All shaping and routing complete. Maximum tone and sustain.
Pickguard Assembly
Electronic parts are mounted on the pickguard. No soldering is required.
Tuning Machines
14:1 ratio geared machines for precise tuning.
Bridge
Fully adjustable for precise intonation and adjustment.
Other
Wood is sealed for protection against humidity. Complete with strings and electric cord. Assembly and finishing instruction manual; simple and easy!
About Saga Kits
Saga offers a variety of kit models that will easily accommodate today's most popular music styles, and challenge any musician who is looking to be a little different than all the rest. Our electric guitar and bass kits come in five of the most popular body shapes and pick-up configurations found on the market today, giving the owner a chance to make his or her own signature model. For those who are into more traditional music, Saga has brought back its original banjo kit in both openback and resonator versions.
What's in the Box
TC-10 Electric Guitar Kit, Truss Rod Wrench, Instrument Cable, Strings, Assembly and Finishing Manual

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