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Abrams Double Cutaway

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Features 7.0 (1 response)
Sound 7.0 (1 response)
Action, Fit, & Finish 5.0 (1 response)
Reliability/Durability 9.0 (1 response)
Customer Support 9.0 (1 response)
Overall Rating 8.0 (1 response)
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Product: Abrams Double Cutaway
Price Paid: US $275
Submitted 10/06/2003 at 12:29pm by Anonymous

Features : 7
This guitar is a Indoor Storm direct brand (Abrams) guitar. It is made in Korea. It very similar to a PRS Dragon Standard-Same Mahogany Body shape, 22 frets maple-(different from PRS mohagany neck) set neck. Two humbuckers. The neck is fast and thin. It has a veneer maple top, so the body sound is pure mahogany, different from a true maple top guitar. Standard Tuneomatic bridge. Came with a free leather gig bag.
The guitar is light, weighing 7lbs even with my heavy dimarzios and coil taps that changed to.
The body is made up of 4 pieces of mohagany. The body is also only as thick as a Dragon standard, which is almost as thin as a Gibson SG. The quality of the wood is top notch however. They said so, I can see it in the grain patterns (Very tight compared to any other mohagany guitars I have, and I can hear it (See below)

Sound : 7
When I got this guitar I almost sent it back, because It looked so thin and the body was made of 4 pieces! But I plugged it in played and changed my mind. It has a beautifully warm, big and sweet sound. I could tell immediately that the wood in this guitar was VERY good. THe pickups are loud but lack any character. They are typical Korean made-a little muddy down low and not a lot of high highs. It sounds very big but won't give you the thickness of a les paul. It is fat but very responsive due to the thin body and maple neck. This is a very high performance guitar.

I never leave anything alone so, recognizing this guitars potential I put a Super 2 Dimarzio pickup in the neck and a Dimarzio evolution in the bridge. Both are tight and bright, big and agressive. They are a perfect compliment to eachother and the guitar. Maybe the best change a person can make is to put some GHS Boomer 11 strings on it like I did. I have a semi-hollowbody and a prs-type hollowbody and this guitar sounds louder than both of them unplugged! That is how much resonance this guitar has. I can just hammer the boomer strings and the sound WILL NOT fall apart, the guitar just vibrates like nothing I've ever felt before. Increadible. And plugged in this guitar can handle any gain. My favorite sound is with the two pickups coil tapped while running it into a marshall JCM with the gain almost maxed out. The sound is tight and huge. You have never heard a distortion so big and pure before. I'm not kidding.

I love guitars that sound huge and listen to many bands that feel the same. The only thing I've ever heard that sounds this good is third eye blind's God of wine, where they recorded the guitars in Steven Spielbergs private music hall. And I'm just playing in my apartment!

The rating is for the stock guitar. After the mods it is a 10!

Action, Fit, & Finish : 5
Um this is where the guitar sucks. From a distance this guitar is really cool looking with the quilted maple cherry burst finish. But up closer you can see that the cherry color is somewhat uneven around the edges. And if you inspect it you can see imperfections all over the place. But I do like looking at the back of the guitar at the tight grained deep red mahogany. It is stunning. The setup was typical Korean-not great. Set it up yourself to get it the way you like it. The frets are relatively level. The only tonal problem with this guitar is that there are a few dead spots on the fretboard. Anoying for solos up the neck. As far as playability the thin neck is super easy to get around on. Its my lightest guitar by 2lbs. But the fret edges protrude. You can't cut yourself on them, but it makes the neck feel scratchy, so you will want to try to file it

Reliability/Durability : 9
The way this thing handles heavy handed strumming it is tuff. If you did manage to wear this guitar out who cares? $275? get another one!

Customer Support : 9
Its an actual one of a kind guitar store so they have good customer service.

Overall Rating : 8
With the mods this has become a world class guitar from a tonal standpoint. Playability would make a pro cry, but I say what doesn't kill you makes you better. I don't mind. I am very satisfied with this guitar.

Oh, the tuners suck. I bought some gotohs, problem solved.

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