I bought this as a backup guitar in case I broke a string during a performance. I've been using Jackson guitars for over 30 years but never bought an inexpensive one before. I had to make a minor tweak to the truss rod, then adjust the string heights and intonation - you have to do this on any guitar. The stock pickups are not very good, but I change them on any guitar I buy as I have a particular pickup combination that I really like. This thing plays as good as any of my expensive Jackson guitars and sounds the same now that it has the same pickups. The Amarinth fretboard feels much nicer than expected and, to me, feels like something between Ebony and Rosewood. It may end up being my main guitar. If you want a great guitar and don't mind putting in your own pickups, this is the guitar to get.

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I bought this guitar as a way of being able to produce and nice heavy/metal sound that would be in contrast to my other guitar, a Fender Player II Strat.

On a limited budget I was going to install a new pickup on the Fender's bridge. However last week while saving up for the guitar tech to install the new pickup (Seymour Duncan Black Winter) I came across this little beauty.

I was skeptical at first, but after doing some research combined with the desire to keep the Fender stock, I decided to give this guitar a chance. At this price I wasn't expecting much glory pickup wise, but I was wrong...

I actually like the tone and the feeling of this guitar over my much more expensive LTD Eclipse which I sold off months ago. I enjoy playing this guitar as is, right out of the box. I still do think that any top shelf pickup of your choice would improve your sound even more. Different strokes for different folks, but the stock pickups are clear, creamy with distortion and also not fizzy at all.

On the other hand the action was a little high, but it was still playable. Also, this guitar came with no buzzing frets, was packed securely very well, and it stays in tune. Overall a great buy and I would recommend this guitar to anyone.

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Just a beginner that wanted a compound radius Jackson dinky. Guitar arrived in great condition and was packaged for maximum protection. Tuned it right up and began practicing. I can see this being my main guitar for a while before I want to try something else.

I wanted to get a shredder guitar that was a hard tail and found this one I couldn't be happier play's and sounds great the pickups sound great clean or high gain awesome guitar,
And thanks to Ben Porter my sales rep for being awesome !!!

I got this about 9 or ten months ago and it has held up well. I use this with a revv g4 pedal and orange 35w amp and it jas a great metal sound.

The construction of the frets leave some to be desired, I have to really focus or I can easily go out of pitch unlike my Chapman. For the price though, it is not a big deal. Just a future project.

This guitar simply cannot be beat for the money! I've been playing for 20 years and had all the brands at one time or another. This guitar feels very high end! True Jem at the price! Sweetwater customer service is the best around! You have a customer for life.