#JAPANESE TWO STRING GUITAR FULL#

My bridge pickup squeals with moderate gain dialed in on my Blackstar HT Club 40 MKII amp. The collar still needs to be tightened down after every song, but the socket itself no longer wobbles in the base plate when you pull or push the bar. I had spare parts, so I replaced the arm socket with and arm with Floyd Rose branded one I had lying around. Sadly, I've played enough entry-level guitars to know that this is a fact of life. There was too much play in the tremolo arm, despite the inner hex screw and arm collar being fully tightened. I've been an Ibanez RG devotee for 23 years, but thanks to the JS32DKA, I'll give Jackson guitars serious consideration when I'm in the market for a gigging gutiar. The neck joint and heel is less clunky than the Charvel's when it comes to reaching frets 19-24 although playing the upper frets is better on the JS32DKA, I still prefer the All-Access Neck Joint on late model Ibanez RGs. The neck and fretboard rivals guitars costing three times as much, like the Charvel Pro-Mod DK24 HH FR I had.

It's my first guitar with a poplar body, and tonally it seems similar to basswood but slightly brigher this combination of woods and pickups makes the guitar nice for mid-heavy soloing without sounding brittle. I needed a practice guitar with the same scale length and double-locking tremolo, and after three days, it's doing great. I bought this guitar to serve as a backup while my main guitar, an Ibanez Premium RG1070FM, is gone several weeks for warranty repair. it's a fun guitar to play, looks and sounds good as well. Is it perfect? No, but it doesn't need to be, just needs to be good and it is.

#JAPANESE TWO STRING GUITAR FULL#

Main thing to keep in mind on this is playability and setup are very good for a guitar in its price point even at full price, maybe even twice the price. Not sure what else to say, but if you are on the fence about getting one of these, either for yourself or a young, aspiring rocker, just pull the trigger, I don't think you'll be disappointed. The kind of music I like is 70s rock, 80s and 90s metal, I don't play clean much – always some grit coming outta the amp! I got this on sale, so it was well below $100. Playability is quite good, intonation is spot on, even the pickups are ok, though I did change them out on mine, along with putting some shielding paint in the pickup and control cavities and swapping out the potentiometers (none of this was necessary, but you know how us guitarists can be!). I am quite fond of short scale guitars, and I rate this one quite high on the list of must haves! Frets are adequately dress, it is quite light, finish (walnut satin) is excellent. I'm just rather disappointed that the only problem with the entire transaction is a very simple issue that could be avoided w/ a couple tweaks of the CNC machines spitting these out by the 100's… Jonathan Last time I checked it was around $20 or so to have a guitar set up by a Luthier- so it still works out to be a decent buy if you bought it & paid to have it set up.

Even with the additional work that's necessary it's still a rather nice guitar & definitely cheaper than a project guitar. I'm somewhat excited to see how well this guitar will play after I disassemble the neck, drill the body holes 1/16' larger, file the frets, & reassemble w/ some higher quality strings.

There is a relatively large gap between the neck & body- large enough to see daylight! The gap is likely due to common machine assembly w/ poor quality control. It seems to stay in tune fairly well which is rather surprising as the neck is NOT properly bolted to the guitar body. The ends of the fret wire are extremely sharp there's no way that I'd let a child attempt to play this without first filing down/ dressing the frets to avoid gouging your hands. I paid a little extra for expedited shipping & it arrived less than 48hrs after I ordered it! Everything was great until I tuned up the guitar & found that the claims that 'every guitar receives a stateside set up' are entirely false. I purchased this as a Christmas gift for my son. I was very impressed with the body contours, pickup arrangement, sealed tuners, & string through body. It has nice features that aren't usually found on cheaper guitars. For the most part this a pretty nice beginner's guitar.

Japanese two string guitar