Aria Pro II CGX-ST-3 SL Series

I believe, from what I've read that,this guitar was made in the late 80's early 90's. 22 frets, maple fretboard and bolt on maple neck. body is lightweght wood, not sure what kind, I can't seem to find any specs for these guitars. Lightweight, strat style body with a funky eddie van halen looking paint job, 5 way pickup selecter with 1 volume and 1 tone knob. Strat style bridge and aria pro tuners. I love the one tone knob, I think it is very versatile. Oh and it has a humbucker in the bridge and single coils in the neck and middle.

I don't really have a way of defining my style. Considering the look and feel of this guitar and the year it was made (late eighties-early nineties), I believe it was made to compete with Jackson's and the like. I use a Laney AOR combo and a crate gx130c combo. Pickups are probably stock as is everything else and I think they sound great compared to the humbuckers in my bc rich ironbird. lots of different sounds with that tone knob and 5way selecter. i may or may not put in some higher end pickups but they are great for right now. not noisy with hum or feedback. i dont like the fact that this guitar doesnt have springs for the neck and middle pickup, instead, it just sits on this foam crap, but it is stable. bride overdrives very well and the pickups are very versatile all in all.

I had it set up by the man who i traded my tacoma and bc rich to for this guitar. Like i said before, this guitar has a killer paintjob that startrs out with a purple and then fades from pink to yellow to orange with crazy black stripes all over it. its the only paintjob ive seen these guitars with. intonation and action needed adusting only for personal tastes. A couple of frets were worn down and i plan on having this guitar refreted anyway.

Like i said, this guitar is probably about 15 years old, and it still smokes. I do believe the hardware is ok, a 4 or 5 on a scale of 10. I plan on replacing the tuners maybe, refretting and possibly new pickups. and i may get a floyd rose for it just because this guitar deserves a floyd rose. it is very dependable, tunig i a little unstable but the electronics are great, no shitty solders or anything like that.

never dealt with them and i soubt they make this guitar still

I got tired of my ironbird so i decided to trade it and a tacoma dm10 that is the most beautiful guitar ive ever played but i hated playing both of these so i got a guitar i liked to play. I will get another one of these so if anything happens to my first one, ill have a backup. i love the lightweight body and the fast maple neck, i love my axe! i pickup and play any guitar i can get my hands on and i still havent found anything that makes me feel like this guitar does. I do believe these were supposed to be beginer guitars but i love it and i love all the other aria pros ive played. i do like this one better thanthe new aria pro lespaul copy i played and it was an 800 dollar guitar! this guitar was meant for me and i highly recommend playing one if you have the chance.