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Incredible deal! At $219, with the $40 off coupon, this guitar outplays some of my much more expensive LTD, Jackson, and Dean guitars. I really like the shape of this V and the reverse headstock looks killer. The reverse silverburst paint looks great and the paint lines are clean around the binding and headstock and the rosewood fretboard is very dark and well polished. It does indeed have a bone nut, they just painted it black, you can see the white of the bone coming through at the corners and the nut slots on my copy are cut perfect. The frets do appear to be stainless steel, comparing them to my nickel fretted guitars, and are nicely polished and level with no buzzing or dead notes. I recommend changing the strings immediately, as the ones that come on the guitar(9-42) are not very good and will leave black on your fingers, I put Dunlop heavy cores on mine(10-48) and they are much better for this 24.75 scale length. The stock pickups sound ok, but I relaced the bridge one with a Seymour Duncan Nazgul, much better with crushing tone, I plan on putting a Sentient in the neck position. The bridge and tailpiece are of decent quality and the tuners are actually really good, so no upgrade needed. The guitar is light, at about 6lbs even, and it balances pretty well with no neck dive. As others have noted, the jack is on the inside of the lower fin, I play standing up so it doesn't bother me, but it could be uncomfortable sitting down without a 90 degree cable. I will also add, that I didn't have the grounding issues or microphonic pickups on my copy, the wiring was good. These guitars are great for beginners that want to learn guitar without breaking the bank, or experienced players that may want to upgrade the pickups and still come out way ahead budget wise. I thought I would add a review for the Cerberus CB-3, since I got it right after I wrote the review for the silver one. To start off, it looks amazing, the pictures I took don't do it justice! The red they used for the fade is a deep candy apple red metallic and looks exactly like the promo picks, in hand. The CB-3 differs from the original Cerberus in the following ways: it comes with a genuine Floyd Rose Special with locking nut, it has 24 frets, the neck is a 25.5" scale length, and it weighs a bit more at closer to 7 lbs. The neck appears to be similar thickness and shape to the hardtail version and the bridge pickup sounds a bit better than the one that came with the silver version. Both guitars needed to have a slight truss rod adjustment, as the necks had too little relief, easily fixed by loosening the truss rod a half turn. The CB-3 came set up with .10-.46 strings and played very well once the truss rod was adjusted. The action was set at 1.75mm on the bass side and 1.5mm on the treble from the factory. They decided to mount the Floyd slightly above the body instead of recessing it into the cavity, because of this the neck has a slight angle to the body as compared alot of other guitars with Floyds where the neck is parallel to the top of the body. Mounting the Floyd in this way doesn't seem to affect playability, but I thought I would mention it. The Floyd stays in tune once the strings and the tension springs are broken in. On the back the CB-3 has the same control cavity as the silver one and the plate for the Floyd is not recessed into the body, but it does have slots the plate for adjusting the spring tension. Overall, this is another great release from Westcreek. The CB-3 looks and plays like a much more expensive guitar and feels solid, a really awesome value. I ebonized the fretboard with stain and I got a Floyd Rose hardware upgrade kit with the red anodized stainless steel screws, locks, and retainers. I plan on upgrading the pickups later to Seymour Duncan, though the stock ones don't sound bad.

Incredible deal! At $219, with the $40 off coupon, this guitar outplays some of my much more expensive LTD, Jackson, and Dean guitars. I really like the shape of this V and the reverse headstock looks killer. The reverse silverburst paint looks great and the paint lines are clean around the binding and headstock and the rosewood fretboard is very dark and well polished. It does indeed have a bone nut, they just painted it black, you can see the white of the bone coming through at the corners and the nut slots on my copy are cut perfect. The frets do appear to be stainless steel, comparing them to my nickel fretted guitars, and are nicely polished and level with no buzzing or dead notes. I recommend changing the strings immediately, as the ones that come on the guitar(9-42) are not very good and will leave black on your fingers, I put Dunlop heavy cores on mine(10-48) and they are much better for this 24.75 scale length. The stock pickups sound ok, but I relaced the bridge one with a Seymour Duncan Nazgul, much better with crushing tone, I plan on putting a Sentient in the neck position. The bridge and tailpiece are of decent quality and the tuners are actually really good, so no upgrade needed. The guitar is light, at about 6lbs even, and it balances pretty well with no neck dive. As others have noted, the jack is on the inside of the lower fin, I play standing up so it doesn't bother me, but it could be uncomfortable sitting down without a 90 degree cable. I will also add, that I didn't have the grounding issues or microphonic pickups on my copy, the wiring was good. These guitars are great for beginners that want to learn guitar without breaking the bank, or experienced players that may want to upgrade the pickups and still come out way ahead budget wise. I thought I would add a review for the Cerberus CB-3, since I got it right after I wrote the review for the silver one. To start off, it looks amazing, the pictures I took don't do it justice! The red they used for the fade is a deep candy apple red metallic and looks exactly like the promo picks, in hand. The CB-3 differs from the original Cerberus in the following ways: it comes with a genuine Floyd Rose Special with locking nut, it has 24 frets, the neck is a 25.5" scale length, and it weighs a bit more at closer to 7 lbs. The neck appears to be similar thickness and shape to the hardtail version and the bridge pickup sounds a bit better than the one that came with the silver version. Both guitars needed to have a slight truss rod adjustment, as the necks had too little relief, easily fixed by loosening the truss rod a half turn. The CB-3 came set up with .10-.46 strings and played very well once the truss rod was adjusted. The action was set at 1.75mm on the bass side and 1.5mm on the treble from the factory. They decided to mount the Floyd slightly above the body instead of recessing it into the cavity, because of this the neck has a slight angle to the body as compared alot of other guitars with Floyds where the neck is parallel to the top of the body. Mounting the Floyd in this way doesn't seem to affect playability, but I thought I would mention it. The Floyd stays in tune once the strings and the tension springs are broken in. On the back the CB-3 has the same control cavity as the silver one and the plate for the Floyd is not recessed into the body, but it does have slots the plate for adjusting the spring tension. Overall, this is another great release from Westcreek. The CB-3 looks and plays like a much more expensive guitar and feels solid, a really awesome value. I ebonized the fretboard with stain and I got a Floyd Rose hardware upgrade kit with the red anodized stainless steel screws, locks, and retainers. I plan on upgrading the pickups later to Seymour Duncan, though the stock ones don't sound bad.

Incredible deal! At $219, with the $40 off coupon, this guitar outplays some of my much more expensive LTD, Jackson, and Dean guitars. I really like the shape of this V and the reverse headstock looks killer. The reverse silverburst paint looks great and the paint lines are clean around the binding and headstock and the rosewood fretboard is very dark and well polished. It does indeed have a bone nut, they just painted it black, you can see the white of the bone coming through at the corners and the nut slots on my copy are cut perfect. The frets do appear to be stainless steel, comparing them to my nickel fretted guitars, and are nicely polished and level with no buzzing or dead notes. I recommend changing the strings immediately, as the ones that come on the guitar(9-42) are not very good and will leave black on your fingers, I put Dunlop heavy cores on mine(10-48) and they are much better for this 24.75 scale length. The stock pickups sound ok, but I relaced the bridge one with a Seymour Duncan Nazgul, much better with crushing tone, I plan on putting a Sentient in the neck position. The bridge and tailpiece are of decent quality and the tuners are actually really good, so no upgrade needed. The guitar is light, at about 6lbs even, and it balances pretty well with no neck dive. As others have noted, the jack is on the inside of the lower fin, I play standing up so it doesn't bother me, but it could be uncomfortable sitting down without a 90 degree cable. I will also add, that I didn't have the grounding issues or microphonic pickups on my copy, the wiring was good. These guitars are great for beginners that want to learn guitar without breaking the bank, or experienced players that may want to upgrade the pickups and still come out way ahead budget wise. I thought I would add a review for the Cerberus CB-3, since I got it right after I wrote the review for the silver one. To start off, it looks amazing, the pictures I took don't do it justice! The red they used for the fade is a deep candy apple red metallic and looks exactly like the promo picks, in hand. The CB-3 differs from the original Cerberus in the following ways: it comes with a genuine Floyd Rose Special with locking nut, it has 24 frets, the neck is a 25.5" scale length, and it weighs a bit more at closer to 7 lbs. The neck appears to be similar thickness and shape to the hardtail version and the bridge pickup sounds a bit better than the one that came with the silver version. Both guitars needed to have a slight truss rod adjustment, as the necks had too little relief, easily fixed by loosening the truss rod a half turn. The CB-3 came set up with .10-.46 strings and played very well once the truss rod was adjusted. The action was set at 1.75mm on the bass side and 1.5mm on the treble from the factory. They decided to mount the Floyd slightly above the body instead of recessing it into the cavity, because of this the neck has a slight angle to the body as compared alot of other guitars with Floyds where the neck is parallel to the top of the body. Mounting the Floyd in this way doesn't seem to affect playability, but I thought I would mention it. The Floyd stays in tune once the strings and the tension springs are broken in. On the back the CB-3 has the same control cavity as the silver one and the plate for the Floyd is not recessed into the body, but it does have slots the plate for adjusting the spring tension. Overall, this is another great release from Westcreek. The CB-3 looks and plays like a much more expensive guitar and feels solid, a really awesome value. I ebonized the fretboard with stain and I got a Floyd Rose hardware upgrade kit with the red anodized stainless steel screws, locks, and retainers. I plan on upgrading the pickups later to Seymour Duncan, though the stock ones don't sound bad.

Incredible deal! At $219, with the $40 off coupon, this guitar outplays some of my much more expensive LTD, Jackson, and Dean guitars. I really like the shape of this V and the reverse headstock looks killer. The reverse silverburst paint looks great and the paint lines are clean around the binding and headstock and the rosewood fretboard is very dark and well polished. It does indeed have a bone nut, they just painted it black, you can see the white of the bone coming through at the corners and the nut slots on my copy are cut perfect. The frets do appear to be stainless steel, comparing them to my nickel fretted guitars, and are nicely polished and level with no buzzing or dead notes. I recommend changing the strings immediately, as the ones that come on the guitar(9-42) are not very good and will leave black on your fingers, I put Dunlop heavy cores on mine(10-48) and they are much better for this 24.75 scale length. The stock pickups sound ok, but I relaced the bridge one with a Seymour Duncan Nazgul, much better with crushing tone, I plan on putting a Sentient in the neck position. The bridge and tailpiece are of decent quality and the tuners are actually really good, so no upgrade needed. The guitar is light, at about 6lbs even, and it balances pretty well with no neck dive. As others have noted, the jack is on the inside of the lower fin, I play standing up so it doesn't bother me, but it could be uncomfortable sitting down without a 90 degree cable. I will also add, that I didn't have the grounding issues or microphonic pickups on my copy, the wiring was good. These guitars are great for beginners that want to learn guitar without breaking the bank, or experienced players that may want to upgrade the pickups and still come out way ahead budget wise. I thought I would add a review for the Cerberus CB-3, since I got it right after I wrote the review for the silver one. To start off, it looks amazing, the pictures I took don't do it justice! The red they used for the fade is a deep candy apple red metallic and looks exactly like the promo picks, in hand. The CB-3 differs from the original Cerberus in the following ways: it comes with a genuine Floyd Rose Special with locking nut, it has 24 frets, the neck is a 25.5" scale length, and it weighs a bit more at closer to 7 lbs. The neck appears to be similar thickness and shape to the hardtail version and the bridge pickup sounds a bit better than the one that came with the silver version. Both guitars needed to have a slight truss rod adjustment, as the necks had too little relief, easily fixed by loosening the truss rod a half turn. The CB-3 came set up with .10-.46 strings and played very well once the truss rod was adjusted. The action was set at 1.75mm on the bass side and 1.5mm on the treble from the factory. They decided to mount the Floyd slightly above the body instead of recessing it into the cavity, because of this the neck has a slight angle to the body as compared alot of other guitars with Floyds where the neck is parallel to the top of the body. Mounting the Floyd in this way doesn't seem to affect playability, but I thought I would mention it. The Floyd stays in tune once the strings and the tension springs are broken in. On the back the CB-3 has the same control cavity as the silver one and the plate for the Floyd is not recessed into the body, but it does have slots the plate for adjusting the spring tension. Overall, this is another great release from Westcreek. The CB-3 looks and plays like a much more expensive guitar and feels solid, a really awesome value. I ebonized the fretboard with stain and I got a Floyd Rose hardware upgrade kit with the red anodized stainless steel screws, locks, and retainers. I plan on upgrading the pickups later to Seymour Duncan, though the stock ones don't sound bad.

As an owner of several other "cheap" guitars (e.g., Xaviere, Glarry, Firefly) I took a chance on the WestCreek Revenge (red), fully expecting it to require a complete set-up and to have some minor fit & finish issues, maybe even require some downstream mods/upgrades to get it to punch above its weight.So I was very pleasantly surprised when the Revenge arrived this afternoon in (nearly) flawless condition, was playable right out of the box, and sounded absolutely fantastic.Appearance - positives:+ The red is deeper and more nuanced than the Amazon photos; in some lighting it is very vibrant and in other lighting it is almost maroon. Really comes alive, especially with the flame top.+ The sides, back, and neck are not black as they appear on screen, but more of a deep burgundy. A nice surprise!+ The stain, lacquer and binding are flawless all-around. The flame top is subtle but adds plenty of color depth.+ The glued neck joint is perfectly blended with the body as if the entire thing were carved out of one solid block of wood.+ The stainless frets are already polished with smooth, rounded ends - just as described. Extremely comfortable without any filing needed.+ The mother-of-pearl fret marker inlays are vibrant with plenty of 3-dimensional depth.+ The fretboard itself appears to be high quality wood; the coloration is consistent and there is no wood filler.+ The headstock logo appears to be mother-of-pearl inlay. Higher-end than what I expected; based on the Amazon photos I thought it would be a white decal. So another nice surprise.Appearance - negatives:- The highest fret marker inlay is *ever* so slightly crooked. You can only see it because the strings make vertical reference lines; most would probably not even notice. Im picky about such things but even I can live with it.- The humbucker pickups in the Amazon photos have chrome covers. The one I received came with uncovered black pickups. Which Im actually happy about because I wouldve preferred that look anyway. But it's in the negative list because it's still an assembly discrepancy; if someone is ordering this guitar hoping for the chrome pickups that are pictured, they would likely be disappointed.- All 3 of the control knobs are marked "volume" when in fact there should be 2 volume (top and middle) and 1 marked "tone" (bottom). The knob functions properly as a tone knob so the pots are correct; it's just the wrong tophat. I submitted a customer service request this afternoon to the seller to either send me a replacement tophat OR send me a partial refund that would cover buying new tophats myself. Again, it works right, so not a big deal.Functional - positives:+ As mentioned above, the guitar required minimal setup. I watched a YouTube review (apparently from a prior run of Revenge models in late '22) which said the nut needed cut way down, the truss rod needed big adjustments, the bridge was too high, and the intonation was way off. Well in my case, at least, none of that turned out to be a problem. The nut is cut perfectly; strings are low with no buzz. Neck relief is right where I like it (flat with no relief), and bridge height was also perfect. Just needs *slight* intonation adjustments on 2 strings. Honestly, I've never bought or worked on a guitar that was this close to being dialed in right out of the box.+ Pots seem to ramp up as they should. Saw a prior Amazon reviewer who had bad luck with a volume knob jumping straight up to full volume but this wasnt an issue for me.+ The factory tuners are tight and don't seem to have a lot of slop in the mechanism. We'll see how well they hold tune but so far, so good.+ This guitar sounds amazing! The sound of these (black, uncovered) pickups matches the appearance of this guitar, i.e., full-bodied & aggressive. Crisp & vintage clean tones, monster crunch at high gain, with sustain for *days.*EDIT: Another + The pickup specs aren't listed, however, according to my multimeter they measure just shy of 10k at the neck and slightly below 14k at the bridge. So they're fairly hot and provide plenty of crunch, as you might want/expect with this style of guitar.Functional - negatives:- The strings suck. But factory strings always do, so I'm not sure this really counts as a minus. Just replace them with your favorite strings at your earliest opportunity.- The fretboard looks pretty dried out, so it's in bad need of oil at the first string change. But that's pretty much standard operating procedure unless you have a maple fretboard.- The high-E tuner knob is really hard to turn. So much that I was worried about breaking it when I initially tuned up the guitar. It seemed to loosen up a tiny bit after that, but still pretty stiff. Not a big deal, but might be a reason to upgrade the tuners at a later date.Overall, I am extremely pleased with this guitar. Especially at a sub-$250 price point! I realize that other user experiences seem to be mixed, so quality control may still be luck of the draw. But I'm pleasantly surprised and impressed with the one I received. Even if it had come needing a setup it would be a steal. This guitar looks and sounds as good - and perhaps better - than other "Explorer" and "Snakebite" type guitars costing >10x as much that I've played around with. If you're in the market for this style of guitar - and maybe tired of waiting for other more popular "cheap" guitar brands to release their next batch (as I did) - the Revenge is an excellent value.EDIT: I contacted WestCreek via Amazon customer service link about the volume/tone knob and they issued me a $10 credit within 12 hrs. Enough to cover the cost of a set of 4 identical replacement tophats, which I can easily change out myself.Bumping my review from 4 stars to 5, as this was really the only negative above that bothered me.

As an owner of several other "cheap" guitars (e.g., Xaviere, Glarry, Firefly) I took a chance on the WestCreek Revenge (red), fully expecting it to require a complete set-up and to have some minor fit & finish issues, maybe even require some downstream mods/upgrades to get it to punch above its weight.So I was very pleasantly surprised when the Revenge arrived this afternoon in (nearly) flawless condition, was playable right out of the box, and sounded absolutely fantastic.Appearance - positives:+ The red is deeper and more nuanced than the Amazon photos; in some lighting it is very vibrant and in other lighting it is almost maroon. Really comes alive, especially with the flame top.+ The sides, back, and neck are not black as they appear on screen, but more of a deep burgundy. A nice surprise!+ The stain, lacquer and binding are flawless all-around. The flame top is subtle but adds plenty of color depth.+ The glued neck joint is perfectly blended with the body as if the entire thing were carved out of one solid block of wood.+ The stainless frets are already polished with smooth, rounded ends - just as described. Extremely comfortable without any filing needed.+ The mother-of-pearl fret marker inlays are vibrant with plenty of 3-dimensional depth.+ The fretboard itself appears to be high quality wood; the coloration is consistent and there is no wood filler.+ The headstock logo appears to be mother-of-pearl inlay. Higher-end than what I expected; based on the Amazon photos I thought it would be a white decal. So another nice surprise.Appearance - negatives:- The highest fret marker inlay is *ever* so slightly crooked. You can only see it because the strings make vertical reference lines; most would probably not even notice. Im picky about such things but even I can live with it.- The humbucker pickups in the Amazon photos have chrome covers. The one I received came with uncovered black pickups. Which Im actually happy about because I wouldve preferred that look anyway. But it's in the negative list because it's still an assembly discrepancy; if someone is ordering this guitar hoping for the chrome pickups that are pictured, they would likely be disappointed.- All 3 of the control knobs are marked "volume" when in fact there should be 2 volume (top and middle) and 1 marked "tone" (bottom). The knob functions properly as a tone knob so the pots are correct; it's just the wrong tophat. I submitted a customer service request this afternoon to the seller to either send me a replacement tophat OR send me a partial refund that would cover buying new tophats myself. Again, it works right, so not a big deal.Functional - positives:+ As mentioned above, the guitar required minimal setup. I watched a YouTube review (apparently from a prior run of Revenge models in late '22) which said the nut needed cut way down, the truss rod needed big adjustments, the bridge was too high, and the intonation was way off. Well in my case, at least, none of that turned out to be a problem. The nut is cut perfectly; strings are low with no buzz. Neck relief is right where I like it (flat with no relief), and bridge height was also perfect. Just needs *slight* intonation adjustments on 2 strings. Honestly, I've never bought or worked on a guitar that was this close to being dialed in right out of the box.+ Pots seem to ramp up as they should. Saw a prior Amazon reviewer who had bad luck with a volume knob jumping straight up to full volume but this wasnt an issue for me.+ The factory tuners are tight and don't seem to have a lot of slop in the mechanism. We'll see how well they hold tune but so far, so good.+ This guitar sounds amazing! The sound of these (black, uncovered) pickups matches the appearance of this guitar, i.e., full-bodied & aggressive. Crisp & vintage clean tones, monster crunch at high gain, with sustain for *days.*EDIT: Another + The pickup specs aren't listed, however, according to my multimeter they measure just shy of 10k at the neck and slightly below 14k at the bridge. So they're fairly hot and provide plenty of crunch, as you might want/expect with this style of guitar.Functional - negatives:- The strings suck. But factory strings always do, so I'm not sure this really counts as a minus. Just replace them with your favorite strings at your earliest opportunity.- The fretboard looks pretty dried out, so it's in bad need of oil at the first string change. But that's pretty much standard operating procedure unless you have a maple fretboard.- The high-E tuner knob is really hard to turn. So much that I was worried about breaking it when I initially tuned up the guitar. It seemed to loosen up a tiny bit after that, but still pretty stiff. Not a big deal, but might be a reason to upgrade the tuners at a later date.Overall, I am extremely pleased with this guitar. Especially at a sub-$250 price point! I realize that other user experiences seem to be mixed, so quality control may still be luck of the draw. But I'm pleasantly surprised and impressed with the one I received. Even if it had come needing a setup it would be a steal. This guitar looks and sounds as good - and perhaps better - than other "Explorer" and "Snakebite" type guitars costing >10x as much that I've played around with. If you're in the market for this style of guitar - and maybe tired of waiting for other more popular "cheap" guitar brands to release their next batch (as I did) - the Revenge is an excellent value.EDIT: I contacted WestCreek via Amazon customer service link about the volume/tone knob and they issued me a $10 credit within 12 hrs. Enough to cover the cost of a set of 4 identical replacement tophats, which I can easily change out myself.Bumping my review from 4 stars to 5, as this was really the only negative above that bothered me.

Ive played guitar for around 15 years and my son (11yr old) has gained an interest in playing. I wanted to find him a decent guitar at an affordable price. I found this guitar and read the reviews on it and thought this might be worth it. I admit I was still skeptical at first because Ive never played a Donner guitar but when we received the package it was packed very well and nothing was missing. My son opened it up with a smile on his face. I tuned it up for him it was only about of half step out of tune to begin with. I plugged into the amp that came with it and played a little on each pick up selection on both clean and overdrive settings. Honestly, in my opinion, this is a well built guitar. It has a very nice tone good weight to it, the tuners are great. The amp is excellent for a beginner guitarist and sound better than I thought it would. Overall, if youre looking to buy a beginner guitar I would definitely recommend this bundle to anyone! (adult or child) if I had to pick something to complain about the fretboard was a little dry. Other than that, I will say dont be afraid to pull the trigger on buying this bundle!

Ive played guitar for around 15 years and my son (11yr old) has gained an interest in playing. I wanted to find him a decent guitar at an affordable price. I found this guitar and read the reviews on it and thought this might be worth it. I admit I was still skeptical at first because Ive never played a Donner guitar but when we received the package it was packed very well and nothing was missing. My son opened it up with a smile on his face. I tuned it up for him it was only about of half step out of tune to begin with. I plugged into the amp that came with it and played a little on each pick up selection on both clean and overdrive settings. Honestly, in my opinion, this is a well built guitar. It has a very nice tone good weight to it, the tuners are great. The amp is excellent for a beginner guitarist and sound better than I thought it would. Overall, if youre looking to buy a beginner guitar I would definitely recommend this bundle to anyone! (adult or child) if I had to pick something to complain about the fretboard was a little dry. Other than that, I will say dont be afraid to pull the trigger on buying this bundle!

First off, I cant say Im an expert on guitars in any way. Ive had an acoustic stilling my my closet for over a decade and when the pandemic hit I bought a second had squire strat. Im perpetually a beginner just try to put a few chords together. Although, I do like learning about guitars and I have even taken apart and fixed a junk guitar.Anyway, I just I wanted a guitar with a full width fret board (unlike my squire) and in particular I wanted a PRS style guitar both, I figured, would motivate me to practice more. I saw other IYV guitars on Amazon for bargain prices do I started digging into the reviews and found particularly positive reviews on the IP-350, so when they became available I bought one. I have to say I am REALLY glad I did.My guitar came a day early which I wasnt expecting because it happen to be Easter Sunday. (Amazon, I hope you pay your drivers extra for working holidays!) it was packaged in only a simple guitar box and protective wrapping so I could understand how one of these could be damaged in shipping. Mine, however, was undamaged. The guitar came without a gig bag; the only accessory was the Allen key for the truss rod.Unpacking it, I found the guitar to have good craftsmanship. The maple flame top is beautiful. At first I thought it was substantial in thickness (at least a 1/4), but removing the pickups allowed me to see it is a 1/16-1/8 veneer. The top seam is just barely crooked, being centered at the bridge and angling up towards the low-E by the neck pick-up. The binding, which nicely imitates a 1/4 maple top is nearly flawless with just a couple of spots of the top black finish on the binding. The body finish was almost perfect with only the most minor chip by the upper horn.The neck is relatively flat (350 mm/ 13.7 in radius) and has 24 frets. I think the fret work is okay, but its not as good as the squires I have. There was one sharp fret around 22 that I filed down. The fret ends have significant tooling marks and are inconsistent in visual quality. The top of the frets are gritty. The fret markers and logo inlays seem to be natural material (shell or abalone) and the nut is bone!! There was a drop of top coat on my headstock logo.The tuners are unbranded but seem to work fine. They feel better than the ones I have on my squires. The 3-way switch feels solid as do the volume and tone pots which have to scratchiness. I opened the back cover and pulled off the humbuckers to look at the electronics. The back cavity reveals Korean made Samsung dime-sized pots. The wiring is a thicker gauge than what I have seen on other budget guitars and the soldering looks good. The back cavity is shielded with cheesy-looking foil tape but is otherwise not conductive. The humbucker cavities, on the other hand do have a black conductive paint or liner. The humbuckers themselves are branded Destiny CNC Wound.My guitar weighed 7 lbs - 14 oz, which seems light for a mahogany body guitar. The body is 2 thick, or perhaps a bit over 2 thick at its thickest but dont feel thicker than my 1.5 squires thanks to a belly cut and the arched top. The guitar is really well balanced. The neck does want to dive or pop up in my hands, a least.The guitar came nearly perfectly set-up out of the box. Action is low and intonation is perfect. I just had to fuss with the E string tuner. I did change my strings from the stock 10ga to 9ga after just a day as a matter of personal preference. The setup only really required a minor adjustment at that point. However, I did find out that the string-through ferrules werent set in very tight and could fall out fairly easy. My understanding is this could be fixed with a drop or two of a semi-permanent glue, but I left mine alone. While I had the strings off I oiled the fret board and cleaned up my fret ends.I dont play well enough to comment on the tones but to me the guitar sounds full or heavy. Unfortunately, the pick ups are microphonic. I have read this can be reduced by removing the metal covers, but I have not tried that.Overall I think this guitar gets high marks for the overall look, bone nut, natural inlays, mahogany body and maple top. The tuners and electronics are at least okay, if not very good, for a budget guitar. The fret work and pick-ups and ferrules are okay and just might be what you expect from a budget guitar.Put that all together, in my very NON-expert opinion, this guitar is still an very good buy at less than $160. Just looking at the basic features and craftsmanship (mahogany body, maple top, natural fret markers and logo inlays, bone nut) you could easily pay 2 times what IYV is selling these for. If you are looking for an inexpensive PRS-style guitar, my advice is when this becomes available, dont think about it, just buy it. You will be happy you did.

First off, I cant say Im an expert on guitars in any way. Ive had an acoustic stilling my my closet for over a decade and when the pandemic hit I bought a second had squire strat. Im perpetually a beginner just try to put a few chords together. Although, I do like learning about guitars and I have even taken apart and fixed a junk guitar.Anyway, I just I wanted a guitar with a full width fret board (unlike my squire) and in particular I wanted a PRS style guitar both, I figured, would motivate me to practice more. I saw other IYV guitars on Amazon for bargain prices do I started digging into the reviews and found particularly positive reviews on the IP-350, so when they became available I bought one. I have to say I am REALLY glad I did.My guitar came a day early which I wasnt expecting because it happen to be Easter Sunday. (Amazon, I hope you pay your drivers extra for working holidays!) it was packaged in only a simple guitar box and protective wrapping so I could understand how one of these could be damaged in shipping. Mine, however, was undamaged. The guitar came without a gig bag; the only accessory was the Allen key for the truss rod.Unpacking it, I found the guitar to have good craftsmanship. The maple flame top is beautiful. At first I thought it was substantial in thickness (at least a 1/4), but removing the pickups allowed me to see it is a 1/16-1/8 veneer. The top seam is just barely crooked, being centered at the bridge and angling up towards the low-E by the neck pick-up. The binding, which nicely imitates a 1/4 maple top is nearly flawless with just a couple of spots of the top black finish on the binding. The body finish was almost perfect with only the most minor chip by the upper horn.The neck is relatively flat (350 mm/ 13.7 in radius) and has 24 frets. I think the fret work is okay, but its not as good as the squires I have. There was one sharp fret around 22 that I filed down. The fret ends have significant tooling marks and are inconsistent in visual quality. The top of the frets are gritty. The fret markers and logo inlays seem to be natural material (shell or abalone) and the nut is bone!! There was a drop of top coat on my headstock logo.The tuners are unbranded but seem to work fine. They feel better than the ones I have on my squires. The 3-way switch feels solid as do the volume and tone pots which have to scratchiness. I opened the back cover and pulled off the humbuckers to look at the electronics. The back cavity reveals Korean made Samsung dime-sized pots. The wiring is a thicker gauge than what I have seen on other budget guitars and the soldering looks good. The back cavity is shielded with cheesy-looking foil tape but is otherwise not conductive. The humbucker cavities, on the other hand do have a black conductive paint or liner. The humbuckers themselves are branded Destiny CNC Wound.My guitar weighed 7 lbs - 14 oz, which seems light for a mahogany body guitar. The body is 2 thick, or perhaps a bit over 2 thick at its thickest but dont feel thicker than my 1.5 squires thanks to a belly cut and the arched top. The guitar is really well balanced. The neck does want to dive or pop up in my hands, a least.The guitar came nearly perfectly set-up out of the box. Action is low and intonation is perfect. I just had to fuss with the E string tuner. I did change my strings from the stock 10ga to 9ga after just a day as a matter of personal preference. The setup only really required a minor adjustment at that point. However, I did find out that the string-through ferrules werent set in very tight and could fall out fairly easy. My understanding is this could be fixed with a drop or two of a semi-permanent glue, but I left mine alone. While I had the strings off I oiled the fret board and cleaned up my fret ends.I dont play well enough to comment on the tones but to me the guitar sounds full or heavy. Unfortunately, the pick ups are microphonic. I have read this can be reduced by removing the metal covers, but I have not tried that.Overall I think this guitar gets high marks for the overall look, bone nut, natural inlays, mahogany body and maple top. The tuners and electronics are at least okay, if not very good, for a budget guitar. The fret work and pick-ups and ferrules are okay and just might be what you expect from a budget guitar.Put that all together, in my very NON-expert opinion, this guitar is still an very good buy at less than $160. Just looking at the basic features and craftsmanship (mahogany body, maple top, natural fret markers and logo inlays, bone nut) you could easily pay 2 times what IYV is selling these for. If you are looking for an inexpensive PRS-style guitar, my advice is when this becomes available, dont think about it, just buy it. You will be happy you did.

The look of the guitar is really cool and interesting. The fretboard feels a little different than the more expensive gio and RG guitars but it is playable. I was actually very amazed by the sound of the guitar! I expected it to be pretty decent not amazing. I plugged it into my pedalboard that has 150 different sounds and effects. I put it on my distortion channel and it sounded awesome! I recommend it for people starting out and wanting to get into playing metal. Or anyone who wants a nice looking guitar on a budget. My only thing with the guitar is the strings that came on it. It had what felt to be 8 to 38 gauge strings on it but thats just a personal preference thing the strings would be fine for a beginner. I put thicker gauge strings on it and had to adjust the action a little bit. I recommend it.

The look of the guitar is really cool and interesting. The fretboard feels a little different than the more expensive gio and RG guitars but it is playable. I was actually very amazed by the sound of the guitar! I expected it to be pretty decent not amazing. I plugged it into my pedalboard that has 150 different sounds and effects. I put it on my distortion channel and it sounded awesome! I recommend it for people starting out and wanting to get into playing metal. Or anyone who wants a nice looking guitar on a budget. My only thing with the guitar is the strings that came on it. It had what felt to be 8 to 38 gauge strings on it but thats just a personal preference thing the strings would be fine for a beginner. I put thicker gauge strings on it and had to adjust the action a little bit. I recommend it.

I am absolutely thrilled with my Donner Electric Guitar, model DST-152! As a beginner guitar player, I couldn't have asked for a better instrument to kick-start my musical journey. The sleek and stylish design initially caught my eye, and upon playing it, I was blown away by its impressive sound quality. The rich, resonant tones it produces are a delight to the ears and have motivated me to practice for hours on end. The smooth fret board and comfortable neck make it easy for me to navigate through chords and scales, enhancing my learning experience.Whether I'm strumming along to my favorite songs or experimenting with new techniques, the DST-152's versatility has exceeded my expectations. It's truly a fantastic guitar that has quickly become an integral part of my musical expression.In addition to the guitar itself, I also invested in a collection of 13 Donner pedals to create a dynamic pedal board setup for my gigs. This combination has taken my performances to the next level, allowing me to explore an array of captivating sounds and effects.Each Donner pedal enhances the character of my playing, from the subtle nuances to the bold crescendos. I'm able to effortlessly switch between different tones, giving my performances a professional edge that leaves a lasting impression on the audience. With the Donner Electric Guitar and my diverse pedal board, I'm not only equipped for success as a beginner, but I'm also confidently stepping into the world of live music with a setup that's as unique and innovative as my musical aspirations.The only CON is the machine heads or tuner clicks when I am tuning my strings. The strings stay in tune but the machine heads appear to have an internal issue which I cannot fix.Suggested upgrades:*Upgraded Tuning Machines:Consider brands like Schaller, Hipshot, or Grover for high-quality locking tuners.*Pickup Upgrades:Brands like Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio, and EMG offer a wide range of pickups to suit different playing styles.*Custom Pickguard and Hardware:Brands like Pickguardian, WD Custom Pickguards, and Warmoth offer custom pickguard options.For hardware, options from Allparts, Gotoh, and Fender can be considered.*Nut Replacement:TUSQ and Graphtech are reputable brands for replacement nuts.*Effects Loop and Pedalboard Expansion:Brands like Boss, TC Electronic, Donner and Strymon provide high-quality effects pedals for an expanded pedalboard setup.Remember to research and choose the options that best match your preferences and playing style. These suggestions can help you further enhance your Donner Electric Guitar's performance and make it even more tailored to your needs. Some of these upgrades can be done yourself if you are confident in doing that otherwise seek out a professional guitar technician (luthier) for the setup. Or you can watch a bunch of YouTube videos.Otherwise for the money spent this is a great price point for a beginner guitarist.Thank you Donner!

I am absolutely thrilled with my Donner Electric Guitar, model DST-152! As a beginner guitar player, I couldn't have asked for a better instrument to kick-start my musical journey. The sleek and stylish design initially caught my eye, and upon playing it, I was blown away by its impressive sound quality. The rich, resonant tones it produces are a delight to the ears and have motivated me to practice for hours on end. The smooth fret board and comfortable neck make it easy for me to navigate through chords and scales, enhancing my learning experience.Whether I'm strumming along to my favorite songs or experimenting with new techniques, the DST-152's versatility has exceeded my expectations. It's truly a fantastic guitar that has quickly become an integral part of my musical expression.In addition to the guitar itself, I also invested in a collection of 13 Donner pedals to create a dynamic pedal board setup for my gigs. This combination has taken my performances to the next level, allowing me to explore an array of captivating sounds and effects.Each Donner pedal enhances the character of my playing, from the subtle nuances to the bold crescendos. I'm able to effortlessly switch between different tones, giving my performances a professional edge that leaves a lasting impression on the audience. With the Donner Electric Guitar and my diverse pedal board, I'm not only equipped for success as a beginner, but I'm also confidently stepping into the world of live music with a setup that's as unique and innovative as my musical aspirations.The only CON is the machine heads or tuner clicks when I am tuning my strings. The strings stay in tune but the machine heads appear to have an internal issue which I cannot fix.Suggested upgrades:*Upgraded Tuning Machines:Consider brands like Schaller, Hipshot, or Grover for high-quality locking tuners.*Pickup Upgrades:Brands like Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio, and EMG offer a wide range of pickups to suit different playing styles.*Custom Pickguard and Hardware:Brands like Pickguardian, WD Custom Pickguards, and Warmoth offer custom pickguard options.For hardware, options from Allparts, Gotoh, and Fender can be considered.*Nut Replacement:TUSQ and Graphtech are reputable brands for replacement nuts.*Effects Loop and Pedalboard Expansion:Brands like Boss, TC Electronic, Donner and Strymon provide high-quality effects pedals for an expanded pedalboard setup.Remember to research and choose the options that best match your preferences and playing style. These suggestions can help you further enhance your Donner Electric Guitar's performance and make it even more tailored to your needs. Some of these upgrades can be done yourself if you are confident in doing that otherwise seek out a professional guitar technician (luthier) for the setup. Or you can watch a bunch of YouTube videos.Otherwise for the money spent this is a great price point for a beginner guitarist.Thank you Donner!

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