I play a lot of guitar, and play the occasional pub gig. I have a handful of guitars but inexcusably no strat. I really fancied that classic shape but didn’t want to spend too much then heard good things about these.
It arrived after a week (very reasonable considering how far it’s come!) and was well packaged in 2 boxes.
Out of the box after a quick tune up it played pretty well for a guitar of this price range. The neck was good and all the frets level and indeed crowned, no sharp fret edges either with a slightly rolled fingerboard.
The biggest downsides were tuning issues from the bridge (easy fix detailed below) and the nut slots not being quite deep enough.
So for the setup I used my nut files to lower the height to the first fret which made the open chords easier ring out a bit better.
The other was getting the trek to sit better, I slacked the springs off a bit as they were VERY tight and tightened down the two outer screws on the trem.
Last things I have done are lubricate the nut with a pencil and adjust action at the saddles and set intonation.
After this pretty standard setup the guitar is now beautiful to play. It’s my go-to and I can even do repeated dive bombs and the tuning barely budges.
The pickups have a bit of power in them for single coils so it’s a really versatile guitar that can even do hard rock tones.
Another point is the quality of the woodwork, the neck pocket is better than any strat I’ve seen! Everything is so neat and precise with this guitar, I would definitely recommend.
Bad point: trem atm is screw in and can be a bit wobbly, but it’s a minor point.
There were a few adjust
