One more! Delivery time ok, packaging ok. The guitar? It's really great. Also on sale, wow what a deal! Alder body like the Fender. And... one-piece maple neck with varnish. It rocks! Beautiful nuanced colors. Variable string spacing in the tremolo block. EZ blocker tuners with 2 different heights 2 + 4 identical and vintage Wilkinson tremolo. Detail, tremolo arm tension adjustment via a screw in the tremolo block! Wilkinson pickups sound very good from bass to treble with clear nuances depending on the selected positions. It's really a good Strat. Now on the factory assembly side... the received unit was not top notch in terms of setup. Harmonics ok. But, tuner bushings not fully inserted into the headstock. The pickguard protective film stuck under the neck... the tremolo (in floating mode, that is) but very raised on the treble strings side and not parallel to the body and... strings mounted traditionally instead of using the double EZ locker passages.. So, complete disassembly of the beast. Neck to remove the protective film (small curvature adjustment in the process), tuners for complete insertion and full tremolo adjustment with string change (Ernie Ball 10-46, sounds better) in EZ blocker mode. Well, the factory team must not have been ON that day ;) That said, once again, really a great guitar that sounds amazing like a Strat and rocks with its neck. Good catch :)
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Posted on 04 Feb 2017
By Michel S.