Product: Brownsville Studio 59
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted
02/11/2003
at
07:42am
by
Bill C.
Email: bill_coop<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
No Opinion
Just an update... read my other review
Sound
:
No Opinion
Just an update... read my other review
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
No Opinion
Just an update... read my other review
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
Just an update... read my other review
Customer Support
:
10
Took it back to Sam Ash. Got my money back. I worked on this thing for 2 solid days and couldn't get the kinks out of it. New pickups did make a BIG difference in the sound, but I pulled them back out to take the guitar back. The neck was warped so badly that no amount of truss rod adjustment could straighten it. I guess that shows that I can't do everything that I think I can.
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
Just an update... read my other review
Product: Brownsville Studio 59
Price Paid: US $169.00
Submitted
01/30/2003
at
11:07pm
by
Bill C.
Email: bill_coop<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
7
FWIW, the guitar is marketed under the Brownsville logo, but was made by Eagle (www.sweagle.com). It has a 24 fret rosewood fretboard with really nice abalone inlays, but the fretboard was horribly dry (a little lemon oil wil fix that). Beautifully "almost" bookmatched flame maple lamiated top with white bindings over a solid mahogany body. It is so light and balanced quite well. It looks great. 1 volume pot, 1 tone pot and a selector switch... all passive. The pickups are crap "zebra" humbuckers and the sound they produce can only be described as pathetic. The neck looks like mahogany, but the website says its maple, so it has to be stained with a mahogany stain. Body style reminds me of a Yamaha Pacifica. Tune-O-Matic bridge with stop tail piece. Non-locking tuners. Neck size is nothing unusual or dramatic. The ONLY reason I give this guitar any rating at all is for the looks. read more below.
Sound
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1
God, this thing sounds like a chainsaw grinding its way through solid steel. The setup is so poor that I'm going to have to take the damned thing apart and put it back together. While I'm there, I'll throw some decent Seymour Duncan's in it, replace the pots and the switch, cause they are totally crap. The neck is concave so I have some adjustments to do and the fricking bridge is set so high that I could walk under the thing.
Action, Fit, & Finish
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1
I actually believe they have trained a monkey to set up guitars at this factory. It totally sucks like a vacuum cleaner, but it isn't anything I can't fix. If you own a Brownsville/Eagle, do yourself a favor and set the thing up yourself, because I think the monkey went on a bender and was extremely drunk when he set mine up. The neck pickup is bent down towards the body, as if someone shoved it in real hard. The bridge pickup is straight and right on the money... I guess someone gave the monkey some coffee about then.
The finish is absolutely beautiful... It is a fantastic looking guitar, but that's all it is... good looking. God I hope I can fix this piece of crap... if not, back it goes.
Reliability/Durability
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1
Hahahahaha. I wouldn't rely on this guitar as a shovel, until I do some work on it. It needs a pickguard or I can see where I will "saw" through the finish beating on this thing. After I work on it, then I'm sure it will be great. Well... I hope so, or back to the store this turd will go!
Customer Support
:
10
I bought it a Sam Ash, and in my experience, they stand behind what they sell. No probs with them, as for Brownsville or Eagle... I can't say. Maybe the drunk monkey knows?
Really though... what can you expect for $169.00?
Overall Rating
:
1
God, I'm so old that I fart dust, and have been playing since 1972. I own a crapload of guitars and I've sold a ton of them too. I get tired of listing the damned things just for a fricking review of 1 guitar. Get over it and read everything above this.
