Crestline Strat Copy

Lefty natural finish s-copy
By the grain i think it's ash body
maple neck/fretboard
I put lace sensor, hotrail, and super-d pickups in it.

well for a while i thought the intonation was bad, it sat in my bedroom for a long time. but i picked it up a month ago, and it seems perfectly fine now. this guitar has a good sound. i am primarily an acoustic player, and to me the sound produced by all electric guitars is crap, no matter how much they charge you for it. what makes it are your pickups and amp. and effects.

the action is good. the guitar is tough enough that i changed guages a number of times without neck adjustments, and it seems to have bounced back. maybe that was bad of me, but its a cheap guitar anyhow.

i love the natural finish, and its a lefty. very hendrixy with the maple going on. hehe i don't think the folks at crestline, whoever they are, know what bookmatching is... but thats awesome... the body is three piece, the grain is all over the place.

the guitar seems durable and expendable, though crestline is elusive, so its not replaceable. anyway i gig with it whenever i need an electric sure. its very cool. the strap buttons suck i guess, i replaced the knobs, the jack plate sucks, but don't they all? i need to rewire the pickups its a mess in there these days. i can't depend on it exactly cause my wiring job sucks. i think i'll sand the finish off the neck too. i like em fast.

lol. anyone reading this knows as little as me. probably.

its my fave electric. i have a sg-copy and an esp 7 string as well as acoustics and other crap but this one sounds the best and plays most naturally as far as all the electrics i've owned.

i prefer it to a fender, and a prs. frankly all electrics are the same, aside from cosmetics. and i know how my crestline will behave.

Do not know who made it, when or where; no markings beside the old "Inspector 12" sticker. Like a Strat copy, 6 string electric solid body. 21 fret neck, dark wood fretboard, pearloid indicator dots,
cheap plastic nut, headstock is a real curvy shape design but straight (of course) on the tuner side (econo) with 2 string trees. Headstock painted black on top with nice gold lettering for "Crestline" logo.
One single coil black smooth-faced pick-up mounted real low on body;
1 volume, 1 tone, on chrome plate, reminescent of a Tele style, very Plain Jayne. Jack input munted on side of body, not the "football" shaped type; this fits the contour of the wood body. String-through mounting design. Bought it used on the ebay, cheap. cleaned up real nice.

Sounds great, especially for a low-buck unknown. Crispy clean, no buzzing frets, no funky weird mystery noises. Nice, I like. I play old rock and blues, am a 3 year student, so my demands and tstes are infantile compared to you "vets" out there. I play through an old Alamo embassy tube amp and it sounds just fine. I use a Zoom GFX-707 Processor for noisemaking, so there is no limit to the pollution I can create.

This is a cheapie used guitar. My sole complaint is that on one side of the neck, on the lower frets, the frets were not "trimmed" or dressed on on side; stick out a little (ouch!) I guess the 5:00 whistle blew and Fred Flintstone bolted out the door.

This is not something I will use to ride to stardom. I am depending on lottery tickets for that. I play for myself, practice practice practice. The dark red body paint is somewhat cheesy, like not many coats were applied. You get what you pay for!

Nothing to say here.

I've been learning guitar around 3 years. Electrics come and go through my hands like cheap cars and slutty girlfriends (when I was young and had a life). I buy them, fix them, sell them off. Keeps me off the streets and out of the bingo halls. I'm 40; at least I stopped collecting comic books. (Now my room is full of guitars). If this was to disappear tomorrow I would not go out of my way to replace it. But I would wonder whi it disappeared, which I think is odd. What I love about this guitar is the amazingly crispy clean sound on such a cheap (to me; what I paid) guitar. I don't want to compare it to other el cheapo guitars, because I feel all guitars should be judged based on thier own merits. Besides, I suck as a player. You hand this to thing to (fill in the name of your favorite guitarist here) and he/she will kick the guts out of the thing. Like my brother, a pro musician (keys) and guitar teacher as well, says: "It ain't the ax; it's the man standin' behind it!" Yeah, I come from a long line of geniuses, what can I say.