The new CV 60s Jazzmaster?

I bought myself one for Christmas after seeing Avi Bortnick play one on YouTube. Generally speaking, I like it, but obviously, you get what you pay for.

The components are cheap, of course, and the frets were in pretty bad shape It took quite a bit of elbow grease to get them to a point where my index finger didn't take a beating while sliding up and down the neck. Even after dressing the frets, I found myself reaching for other, higher quality guitars because of playability and comfort. So a few weeks ago, I raised the bridge, reset the intonation, and tuned it to open E. Now I use it exclusively for slide playing.

I'm no expert by any means, but I like the sound of the pickups, and I've even found the dark switch to be functional, and not just an unuseable relic of a bygone era.

So I guess that my takeaway is that it's a lot of guitar for the price, but it's nowhere near the quality of, say, Fender's player series. I'm glad I've got it, but I would say that, having purchased it new, it was worth the money, and not the deal of a lifetime.

 

Nice score.