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Originally Posted by boris bubbanov
Well, you know, when I first receive something I want it to be everything I'd hoped for. I'm liable to be willing to overlook some things at first, but over time, the truth will out. Focusing on some things more than others, etc.
C'mon, we've all had that honeymoon thing with new acquisitions, and we're under pressure to get feedback into the hands of our brothers here.
It takes guts to admit ya messed up and gave a guitar an undeserved rating. and maybe the critique now is on the heavy side; I have swings like that. And I have days when no guitar is quite right. And other days when basically any guitar is fine as it is.
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Sure, but the OP never said anything about his initial "glowing" review... he just said "this guitar sucks" and left it at that. He never mentioned all the changes he made to the guitar. Never mentioned that he changed all the things that he was complaining about in this thread. He had made those changes BEFORE and the guitar was GREAT. Now AFTER he made those changes, the guitar is "BAD"? I'm just not following how it can be great with the changes he made and suddenly terrible with the changes.
It seems like
he would have known about the intonation issues in early April, when he changed the saddles. He said in this thread
"The bridge was set way too close to the nut so you cannot intonate the guitar. The low E and G strings were so bad that the guitar played out of tune everywhere. Because of the style of the bridge no Fender replacement bridge will work and who cares if it has string through body if the bridge sucks and won't intonate. The tuners will not hold tune even with just mild bending so replacing the tuners is a must. It has these tiny 500k pots, what where they thinking, with single coil pickups the pots should be 250k no matter what size they are. The pickups are uh junk, they sound thin with no depth." He never mentioned that he changed that stuff well over a month ago and LOVED the guitar then. (obviously there were no intonation issues then)
"I also replaced the Saddles with some GraphTech's Tusq's........Not a lot invested and quite a nice sounding and playing guitar. These Guitars are a real deal."
Listen, I understand the "honeymoon period". I've been there...we all have. But in no way did the OP "admit he messed up" as you said...so no "guts" there. He never mentioned the glowing review for early April. He never mentioned that he had made all these changes to the guitar. He just gave a poor review of a guitar without actually addressing that he had owned and "personalized" the guitar.
It really isn't a big deal...but people should be aware of the whole story, instead of just reading a crappy review.