Cruise Strat Copy

I got this guitar for X-mas last year from my dad. It has 21 frets, 5 knotch switch, volume knob, 2 tone knobs. it's a decent beginners guitar

sound is okay. it rattles easily a lot depending on what you're doing. i use ernie ball heavy's on it.
came with a yamaha amp. guitar sounds great, with a distortion box.

the set up is nice, and it's quite comfortable to play. it's a decent strat

so far it's lasted me over a year of playing abuse. i still prefer my grandfather's 70's fender strat.

i'm not a real good guitar player, i play more rythym than full blown riffs and all. like i said before, it's a good beginners guitar

This is a Cruise "created for VMI" strat copy, Made In Korea (as it seys on the back of the head stock) it's a 22 fret maple neck (yep real maple) and it has a MDF body, which sounds nice and that is quiet surprising.
The original hardware in this guitar was "BAD", really very bad. Very cheap tuners and very crappy electronics. Pick ups were not that bad, but sounded thin and had no edge whatsoever.

The sound was not bad, but not good either. Keeping the guitar in tune was a disater. I decided to get new tuners (Gotoh) because this guitar played really good because of the maple arm. I also swapped the electronics with those of a MIM Fender Stratocaster, which made a huge differerance. Now I got a rich full Fender strat like sound. Unfortunately I couldn't get the Fender five way switch in so I'm still stuck with the original switch. (but some routing will take care of that in the future) The trem is a nasty piece of work, I hope to replace this with a MIM Fender piece soon (when I can find one 2nd hand)

I got this guitar from a 2nd hand used equipment store. It was the cheapest guitar they had, it had two strings on it and the tailpiece looked as if it made a nosedive and nerver recovered. I checked if it worked and it did, so I took it with me.
Since the guitar looked decent and not worn I got to work with my toolbox and reanimated the guitar. To my surprise it sounded neat and useable. But when I changed the Electronics, pups and tuners the thing got so much better. I recently shimmed the neck (using a 0.60 Dunlop pick) and it plays very nice now. It sounds like a Fender and looks like crap, but I like it. But the tailpiece will have to go!

I used it as a back up for a gig and it performed well, bettter then my Jazzmaster did that night! As long as I don't have the tail piece/trem replaced I won't use it live. It serves it purpose as a study guitar (for both playing and repairs)

Don't honestly know if these are still made. I hope not...

I heve been playing for 12 years now and I got this guitar as stated by a previous reviever as a project and to learn some instrument repair skills. The fact that it became a nice playing guitar is a big plus. If it were stolen, I would try to get another project, perhaps a better quality starting point. The Maple neck on the guitar is it biggest plus and the fact that it is easy to work on.
I'm sure when I have the trem replaced by a better working item I can hold this guitar against most Fender strats (MIM and Highway series) without a problem and still at a fraction of their cost!
The only sad thing is the ugly headstock....

yeah i bought this thing from my friend back in high school for 12 dollars becasue nobody would give him anything for a trade in. it came with a shorted-out patch cable and a stolen fender gig bag. cruise guitars are made in indonesia or korea or whatever other indigent country can pay kids 13 cents an hour to make 'em. so the thing is, they vary GREATLY in quality. mine is pretty decent. as far as fake strats go, the body is surprisingly smooth and comfortable (none of those sharp edges digging into your ribcage). the pickups are crap, i'll give it that, but mine's pretty solid otherwise. when i got it, it had a ton of buzzing frets but i recklessly hammered them out.

well i suck at guitar so this guitar easily takes the blame. im into a lot of great music but i play mostly punk and hardcore stuff so who cares. i'd smash the frigger onstage if i could afford a new one. it was wired really poorly when i got it, did some tinkering and it sounds pretty good now. its got something against crate amps though, it sounds really pretty on a marshall or a line 6 or even a peavey but it will hum like a friggin beehive if you plug it into a crate. havent figured out why and i have tried four or five similar amps.

everything about cruise guitars is wrong from the get-go. so if you buy one, dont whine about it. i've warned you so now you have no excuse. a cruise is a great guitar for anyone who wants to learn about how guitars look on the inside and how to fix common problems. i would compare it to one of those chloroformed frogs in science class. just about everything wrong with a cheap guitar is wrong with it when you buy it, but can be fixed to the point that it will play like a decent guitar.

i've played it live a few times, i would reccomend this guitar for punk rock and tell you to wear a cup if youre playing anything where you're supposed to be cool. its sturdy, nothing on it has broken (save that horrible cracked neck which was hardly the guitar's fault. some idiot dropped it) i would not characterize this guitar as "dependable" in that it is only as dependable as you make it, and i cant speak for people's guitar fixing skills. as far as body goes, its a friggin brick house. its taken a lot of abuse and it'll take a lot more. i would suggest to watch out for those korean plywood models though.

well i cant really say, because i bought it used and even if i could track down the manufacturer, i cant afford international phone calls.

i have been playing for five years now, and this guitar has served me well. the cruise is a great fixer-upper and i love it. its amazingly comfortable and tough as nails. im gonna put some decent fender pickups in it. this guitar has amazed me as being incredibly reliable and simultaneously crappy enough that i dont feel burdened with the responsibility of caring for it. bands have sometimes offered to let me borrow nicer guitars at shows but i stand by my cruise. i give it a ten - "fantastic value" because for 12 bucks this guitar is just that.

Yep and indo knock off for a strat... it's got better features for a garden ornament than an actual musical instument. Well my guitar features several VANS stickers as well as DC and Billabong and a price tag which i stuck onto the neck. The cruise logo has been scratched off and it now has a "Titot's guitar" label applied onto it using a label maker. It features a scratchplate plastered in shiny, reflective stickers of fish and anything that shines. I've carved cartoons onto the body and stuff like that.... Oh that brings me onto the actual features.. 3 absolutely shite pickups, a halfway decent neck and a bridge that breaks your strings every two weeks. Kool first guitar nevertheless.

Hehehe.... Anyone that owns this guitar should know that this guitar has got the best sound better than any PRS, or EMG equipped axe. Decent for playing absolutely nothing... well pop punk if anything... or if u can get anything audible from the fuzz and distortion and feedback.

WELL MADE GUITAR!!!... after i got my chisel and pyrograph to it. Action is floppy and finish cannot be any better than any PRS!! Beat that!! Actually the shittest guitar on earth.

It's always there for backup on gigs when my IBANEZ fails but i wouldn't count on it!! Lasted me 7 years tho so i can't complain. was a good guitar back in the day

Well i only had to deal with myself so it's absolutely the best.

BUY IT

1998, 21 frets vol,2 tones, 5 way selector

flippin geat for a thrash a bit shite clean tho i like it better than proper squiers...

it WAS set up well but went out the pickups r adjusted right but they buzz a lot as has been said....
poor fitting saddle a bit of fret buzz too...

i use it all the time coz its all ive got hahaha
probly fall apart with extensive gigging definately need a back up and its a bit of a string breaker....not bad for an amateur...

who are they? are they out there? all service done by myself(!)

ok for beginners i like mine but more experienced ppl will most probably hate it..best for a good old thrash about...

An Indonesian strat rip off, my first guitar and I still use it. Got it, cardboard case, and amp for $125. Not too bad of a price.

Sounds like BLAHHHHHHH It hums when plugged up and sounds wimpy

Action was horrible, 2nd, 8th, and 15th frets buzz, I even raised the bridge, then dropped it. The fretboard looked like the woodgrain was wallpaper.

As much as i hate the guitar, it has withstood all the punishment I have dished out to it. I am saving up for an Ibanez AF75 hollow body so this guitar will just sit around looking good I guess. I would never take this guitar to play a gig. NO WAY

Never had to use customer support, the guitar's not worth it

I've been playing for a lil over a year and this is a good learner guitar cuz it's so junky. If this was stolen, I would not miss it one bit. What i do like about it is that it looks like a strat, thats about it. I wanna get a real strat soon, Les Paul, Marshall stack, and some other goodies.

Every teen guitarist has to have one. That crappy first guitar that enevitibly gets covered in stickers and just sits in the corner and looks "cool".

Some kid's girl left this over at his house about a year ago and he needed lunch money so I picked it up for the price of $9.00. This thing sounds like ass next to anything else I own but it is nice to play with in your chair watching tv. It doesnt feel all that bad.

Ohh man, dont plug this in

Looks nice. Shiny blue.

Feels heavy enough to be solid. Havent looked at the electronics yet

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ehh, for nine bucks it's not a bad guitar at all. The neck has to be worth at least that much.

I have no idea what year it is...I bought it used about 7-8 years ago, I dont remember. It has 1 humbucker pickup, 1 vol. knob, and 1 tone knob. The neck is bolted on to the body. Im not sure of the material of the neck, but the body is particle-board. It has a strat-style bridge with a whammy-bar. It came with a semi-hard leather, shaped case.

Considering what i paid for it, it doesnt sound all that bad. I think it will sound better with a better amp though. The amp I got with it is REAL cheap. I think the frets might be spaced incorrectly. When I tune it using the 5th fret method, and then play a power chord or something, it just doesnt sound right.

The finish is actually pretty good. It is glossy black, and very durable.

The partilce-board body is cheap. The strap button can be pulled out of the body (the screw it stipped). The tone knob is loose. At one point I even had to take the back off of the guitar and re-solder one of the wires. Other that that, I havent had and structural problems or anything. Hell...it has lasted me several years, but I dont paly anywhere but in my basement.

never dealt with them

I've had the guitar for 7-8 yrs, but I only started practicing daily about a month ago. Well, a month of daily use is all it took for me to realize that this guitar was a P.O.S. If it were stolen or lost i would go buy a decent guitar. But considering that I paid so little for it, it was a good "springboard" guitar, that was just cool to have around and got me interested in playing. One thing i might try with it, is try refinishing it myself, just for fun, then maybe hang it on my wall when I get a real guitar.

I Don't know what year it is but it was made in Korea
It has 22 fret, a 5 Way selector switch , Volume Tone & Fender EQ Tone switch (added by me). It has two active Seymour duncan pickups and a Seymour duncan Duckbucker at the bridge (Also added by me).
The neck is maple with a rose wood covering and I'm not sure what the Body is, I think it might be ash. the body has been re-sprayed from Black to a metallic Purple. The body is in the Strat style. The brige was originally a fender style Whamy Bar but is modified to a fixed bridge (so I could fit in all the active electronics)

As you can tell it has almost no original parts( but There you go)

I think it suits my style well as it has a very good blues sound (Sort of a Stevie Ray Vaughn richness) But if you crank it up it is capable of some extreme sounds.
I use it throught a LANEY Stack with a BOSS EQ ,Chorus and a DOD Pre Amp.
On a clean tone, using the first two pickups it has a very rich blues sound where as you can also crank up the distortion and use the bridge pickup for a Heavy Rock Sound with lots of balls

Originaly it came with 12 gauge strings and played like a cardboard box but after much tweeking it plays brilliantly. I never saw the original pick ups as it was second hand and came with standard Fender Pickups Which where OK but a bit flat and boring.
The only flaw in the guitar was the wiring as it had alot of earth loops in it.

This guitar has served its purpose on many occasions and plays better than any Fender at a quarter of the price. With all of the work I've done on it I'm sure it will last me a life time.

I have been playing for five years and have had this guitar for two and a half years I also own a strat a Godin A6 and A westfield Five string bass and I use a LANEY (Don't know anything else about it as all the numbers have been worn off) And a Park Practice Amp.
If this guitar was stolen I would be gutted and brobably become a buddist Monk. I just Love this guitar FULL STOP!

This guitar is pretty good looking. I like the shape of it a lot. It has rosewood neck and it's red. Looks exactly like the real strat.

It sounds good when it's not pluged in or if it's pluged in to an amp with a lot of gain. I borrowed my dad's amp and it sounded horrilbe. But now I have a marshell amp which works very well with it. Plus, my dad's amp was a very old one. My guitar doesn't have the best sound, but it's good enough for me.

The pickups were ajusted very well, but after awhile the fisrt pickup didn't work. And the top of the pickup broke off.The tuners are a little loose but, I had this thing for four years now. But mostly, it's pretty well ajusted.

This guitar will defintly stand live playing. It doesn't matter about the guitar for live playing. It matters about the person.The strap keeps on breaking off the buttons.

I had to bring this thing to guitar shops and have them fix this thing a lot of times. I don't even think there was a warranty on this thing.

I've been playing for four and a half years. I wish i've would of boughten a better guitar. But overall, I like this guitar.