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New White Flying "V" Electric Guitar Stunning Design |  | Brand: Sky Enterprise USA
Category: Musical Instruments
Buy New: $99.99
as of 9/8/2010 16:13 PDT details
Seller: BestChoiceproducts
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 10181
Shipping Weight (lbs): 20
UPC: 813373012903
EAN: 0813373012903
ASIN: B002JLFENQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Brand new in retail packaging | | • | Adjustable Truss Rod, Slim Taper Maple Neck | | • | Select Rosewood Fingerboard, | | • | 22 Frets, Color: White |
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Product Description
The guitar is a musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. It is most recognized in popular culture as the primary instrument in blues, country, flamenco, pop, and rock music. The guitar usually has six strings, but guitars with four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve strings also exist. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Do not purchase. February 28, 2010
Nnn (Louisiana)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Smashed-up corners. Completely ad-hoc box. Packaging is NOT "Retail" as advertised. Shipped in an ad-hoc diagonal "box" assembled from slices of cardboard taped into rough box-like shape. Both body corners and tip of headstock were smashed upon arrival. No padding inside besides sheer "envelope" bagging. No cardboard spacers or styrofoam holders or anything. No bubble wrap, not even little strips. Box pulling open at ends and sides.
Paint dust all over neck and hardware. Maybe that was the paint dust from the smashed corners.
Neck binding weak, splintering, coming off the sides of the neck near the neck pickup. Binding glue (paint?) smooged over onto freboard around 20th to 22nd frets.
Can't tell if fretboard is even really rosewood or not, given paint/glue mix that got on it. Could be wood-textured plastic as far as I can see.
Cracks in finish at several places where screws are placed. Stripped wood at one of the tremolo bridge edge poles. Some inlays punched a little too deep.
Neck is not slim-taped as advertised, it is straight all the way down. That's okay with me, the round fat neck is one of the few high points, but it's not what the text says.
Also, second knob, which I assumed was a tone knob, does nothing. First knob is volume, that one works, second knob, althought wired-in, does nothing, no tone changes, no vol changes, nothing. It is wired in electrically, though. Have no ideas why it's there.
Double-octave marker (the two dots) is placed on the 22nd fret instead of the 24th! Haven't seen that before.
Good points are: fat neck, Floyd tremolo, stable tuning once set, and very clear clean sound when plugged in. I would return this except I've never had a Floyd tremolo or sharkfin markers before, and this guitar's low price means it's a 99 dollar experiment at least in some tremolo playing-with.
The text that accompanies this item needs fixing (not retail boxed, not tapered neck, "High Quality Guitar" : false). And the company that ships it -- it looks like they at least tried, given the "custom" box shape -- but they need to get a real shipping method for something like this. If you're going to sell something funny-shaped, well fine, but at least man-up and ship it properly. Now I don't want to get some poor warehouse guy in trouble -- he was probably yelled at to get something ready and the diagonal made-up "box" was all they could manage at the time. But dang, if you're going to send something, send it right.
I can't believe the difference between this at $99 and, for example, some Silvertones at - (as I write this) - at $109. The Silvertones are four times the guitar for 10 percent more money. I don't know where the $99 went, maybe into Floyd licensing fees, I don't know, heck I thought the patents were expired. I have an $85 mail-order guitar (non-tremolo) from another location that has zero problems, and thus is much more guitar than this.
DON'T buy this, especially not for a beginner or young person - they'll be so disappointed they'll quit music.
MAYBE buy it if you're an experienced guitarist with 99 bucks to kill for a beater or joke display instrument, maybe purely for fun, or something to experiment/play with, maybe as a noise maker or somesuch. I'm gonna keep it just to whack around on and learn tremolo/bridge setup, and maybe for some howling, but that's it.
 Great Guitar for the Money! February 19, 2010
Jumbaliah (USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
First, I would say I ordered this guitar despite the SUSPECT one star review the other guy left for it. He left no detailed information about the guitar calling it only "garbage" and seemed more upset with the fact that this is a copy of the Randy Rhodes and not a licensed Gibson.
The guitar arrived today in a box that left me kind of worried. It didn't look like the box would withstand much abuse and I was a little worried about what condition the guitar might be in. I opened the box to find the guitar had basically been dropped into it with VERY LITTLE packing material. A small bit of bubble wrap at the bottom and a tiny bit at the top. The bottom of the guitar body was ok, but because they didn't tape the bubble wrap to the headstock, the headstock hit the top of the box and a small chip came off. Annoying, but for the price, it's not worth sending back until I inspect the rest of the guitar.
After a quick once over, everything looked ok. The white finish on the body was fine. No blemishes or imperfections. The body is probably plywood. What do you expect for the asking price? One thing to note, this guitar has 24 frets, not 22 as in the description. If you look at the picture, that guitar has 24 frets and that is the guitar you get when you place your order.
WARNING: This guitar is not playable out of the box. I needs a set up, bad. Fortunately, I am experienced enough to do that, but if you have no experience setting up a guitar with a Floyd Rose trem, either get it done professionally, or read a book on it.
Before I took any plastic off the guitar, I needed to put it through a set up to see if it was worth keeping. The trem was not level with the body, and the strings were way out of tune. Also, the action was way high out of the box. In order to get the string tension equal to the spring tension, I had to add a spring to the trem. Curiously, this guitar only came with 2 springs installed. I've never seen a Floyd Rose arrive with less than 3. No biggy. I have springs lying around, so I popped another in and set the trem level, and got the strings in tune. Then I lowered the action using my hand Stew Mac string action guage as a guide. Now the big test. I played up and down the neck to see if the guitar had any buzzing. NONE. WHEW. Checked the neck relief next, and it was fine out of the box. Having got it in tune, with the action set and the trem set, I plugged it into my amp (a Line 6 Spider III 75). Sounded GREAT. Actually pretty impressed with the stock pickups. They are high output and harmonics up and down the neck are pretty easy.
The hardware seems ok. Floyd Rose is your typical licensed model. The nut is at the correct height and is locking, and it does its job. The tuning keys are mediocre, but since this guitar has a locking nut, I don't really care about them. Volume and Tone knobs work well.
One thing that I'm not CRAZY about, but I'm just not used to it. The neck is kind of fat. The description says it's tapered but IDK. For the money, I will get used to it. I have 10 guitars right now and this one probably has the fattest neck of any of them. Might make it tough to play for those with small hands. I would consider myself to have medium sized hands. The neck has nice sharkfin inlays that look good. It also has a nice binding on the sides that has dots showing where the frets are (3, 5, 7, etc). However, the dots look like they did them with ink and then a couple of them got smudged. Looks a little ghetto, but again, no biggie for the money.
Bottom line, the asking price for this guitar is more than fair, and I am quite happy with my purchase and will be keeping this axe and adding it to my collection. The neck arrived straight, the fretwork is good (no sharp edges), no buzzing, nice hardware, nice pickups, nice tone/metal sound. But the caveats are that the guitar WILL need a professional setup if you don't know how to do it yourself. The guitar also comes with a junky cord, a strap, and 3 or 4 allen wrenches. I plan to change the strings to 10's (9s currently and feel too sloppy/loose), and the fretboard needs conditioning, but you need to do that with every guitar!
I'm giving this axe FOUR SOLID stars. I would have given FIVE STARS, but the loser that packed it caused the headstock to chip and I'm not happy about that. Hope you enjoyed my review.
This guitar is garbage. 1 star is 1 too many. December 14, 2009
A. Steele
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
This guitar is a piece of garbage.
It also is a ripoff of the trademarked designs of the Randy Rhoads guitars created under license by the Fender/Jackson-Charvel corporation. The design is owned by the Rhoads family & exclusively licensed to Jackson guitars.
Amazon should be ashamed to sell this trademark violating piece of trash on their website.
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