And when I say that, it's an insult to yesterday's goffee grounds.
I occasionally do bar gigs, and I don't want to take my new Rigel to those kinds of places. So I also bought this solid body specifically for that purpose. It arrived yesterday.
This is the worst piece of junk I've ever seen. The frets are not parallel, and some of the upper frets are further apart than lower ones, the nut is about 3/16ths of an inch high, and the fretboard seems to be made out of balsa wood.
I expected this to be a low end instrument that needed a lot of tweaking before it could be made playable, but this goes beyond my worst expectations. This thing cannot even be called a real instrument. It falls into the catagory of a fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting people thinking they are buying something that can be used to make music.
I am appalled and angry that anybody would even make something like this. It is in the same league as the "batbox" psuedo-guitars of the 50s and 60s.
I still need a solid body electric for the bar gigs, so I'm going to get a new neck from Stewart-Macdonald and graft it in place, but I can't stress enough how shocked and bitterly disappointed I am at the quality of this piece of garbage.
The brand name is "Galveston." Be forwarned.
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