Daisy Rock Guitars Venus Stardust Series

Beautiful finish. The bridge is Tune-O-Matic with a different stop piece, probably even better than the standard tune o matic stop tail. Grover tuners, very stable quality tuners.
THIN NECK!!!! this neck is beautiful and i would prefer playing this over a $5000 plus gibson or fender! One volume control, one tone control with push pull coil tap and three way switch. Double cutaway look. SOLID MAHOGANY BODY!! beautiful

i play jazz and rock and punk. fits all of these genres as well as anything could. i am very pleased with it.

great setup from the factory.. as good as it could have been done from my local music store. i didnt have to change anything.. and no flaws.

looks good for now. have only owned for 1 year and it is still the same as when i bought it. finish looks good, strap buttons are great.

havent dealt with them. they look nice enough though

i have been playing for 22 years and this is one of the nicest guitars i have ever come across... especially a this price!!!!
if it were taken i would straight away be at the store getting a new one.
DAISY ROCK IS NOT JUST FOR GIRLS!!!!

I'm a longtime pro player, luthier and live guitar tech. I've built, owned and played all kinds of guitars, mostly fine-tuned shred machines. That being said, I'm very critical, and I can't emphasize enough how pleasantly surprised at these instruments I have been. Cheers to Tish the company president, and to partner company Schecter for doing something so bold, so successfully. On the one hand I commend them for sticking to their guns of guitars for girls, on the other hand I wish "men's" guitar companies made guitars that play this easily. Usually I find that Ibanez is the primary "player's" company, but for the money, Daisy Rock does a great job.

OK, all that aside, here is the scoop on the Flagship "Venus" double-cut from Daisy Rock.

It's Indonesian made, and I'm 95% positive it's made on the same line as the Schecters. I wish Schecter would make some manly-looking guitars from the Daisy Rock design, make them black or grey or red or whatever, toss in some Duncan Designed JB type pickups and the thing would shred. And SELL.

Laminated top would be an understatement. It's a beautiful clearcoated mahogany neck and body, but the top of the body is made out of pearloid pickguard type material, as is the matching headstock. The vintage ivory is a cool finish. Gender neutral enough to be a Daisy Rock you can gig at places other than a Day-Care center.

Some of the Daisies have Duncan Designed humbuckers, but the double cuts seem to come with Schecter noname house pickups. Don't get me wrong though, they sound pretty good. Some les paul qualities to them, maybe closer to a PAF Pro in voice. I still think I might pop them out for a JB and a 59, or a Distortion and a Jazz, but it will pain me to do so; they do sound nice. The Venus has a volume, a tone, and a coil tap in the tone knob for single coil moments.

The neck is a gloss-finished back, which I'm not a huge fan of for speed purposes, but it's fast enough, and the important part is the thinness, along with the 1 5/8" nut and slim profile. If you have giant hands and for some reason prefer the neck of a 57 Les Paul, this is not for you. The back profile of the neck is somewhere between an Ibanez Ultra neck and an Ibanez Wizard neck. It's definitely more Strat than Gibson. Oh, and can't forget the JEM-style Vine inlay on the fingerboard. Killer. Yes, the 1st fret is a flower. Big deal. Your beer was a plant once too, and your guitar was a tree. Once in a while nature is OK.

The bridge is Tune-O-Matic with a modified stop piece. I think it's actually better than the typical TOM bridge, because it doesn't have the piece that falls off and hits the floor when the strings are off.

The tuning machines are Grovers and thus seem to work very well.

The guitar is on a 24 3/4" scale like a Gibson. Normally I don't play Gibsons because they are an impediment to speed, but the one thing I could usually dig was the shorter scale. Makes bending and stretches easy sometimes. Gives a slinky feel. I wouldn't want all my guitars to be shorter scale, but it's a good change to have in your lineup.

All in all, for the money, I have to rate this guitar a 9 for features. I hardly, if ever, buy new guitars, but this one is so cool and plays so well for what it costs. I never play guitars without locking trem systems, scalloped fingerboards or hot rod pickups, but this guitar really said "buy me." Did I mention the entire body has an Abalone binding? Yowza.

I play rock, prog rock, metal, shred.... mostly the typical Ibanez shredder stuff. Petrucci, Gilbert, Vai, Satch, Rusty Cooley, MacAlpine, etc. Which is why it's so weird to see this thing in my guitar studio.

I have two live rigs. I always use my two cabinets, one is a Mesa Boogie Recto with Vintage 30's, the other cab is a custom Collins with Eminence V12s. I use one of two things for power, either a B-52 AT-100 Tri-Rectifier tube head, or else I use my rack, which consists of one boutique preamp or another, along with the usual array of TC Electronics, Sonic Maximizers, power amp etc.

Let's get to the sound of this thing. It's a bit like having a Gibson Doublecut with a coil tap. That's about the best way I can describe it. Although I suppose the pickups are a touch hotter than any stock Gibson. For a general purpose player, rock, blues, etc, I'd say you can buy this thing and leave the pickups in and never look back. It sounds great. The bridge hum seems to have characteristics of a JB or a PAF Pro. The neck is your typical warm neck, like a 59 or a Jazz. The Quality of sound is not quite what you'd have from one of the aforementioned aftermarkets, but it's in that range and is very much usable for live or maybe even recording. Clean, the thing sounds nice and warm and crisp. You get a touch of hum when you tap the coils and run in single mode, but that's to be expected.

These are set up in Cali at Daisy HQ. Mine said set up by "T C" on the plate. Could that mean Tish Ciravolo, the company Pres? If anyone has inside info on that, let me know. I'll call Tish and let her know she's "the bomb." This guitar played almost as well as one of my very best road tech setups I do myself. And setups are relative, no one in a factory would set up every guitar to the style of a speed shredder. For every day play, this thing was already set up great, and outplays every Fender, Gibson and PRS you would pull out of a box new.

As far as the fit and feel, no, it's not "perfect." I've played and owned perfect, and this isn't it. But for like $300, I'd assume it wouldn't be. But it's close. It's very close. The fingerboard is not perfect, nor is the neck setting, but I'd say it's equal or better than Gibsons off the wall, which are themselves seldom perfect.

The guitar is just nice and easy to play, which is what made me like Daisy Rocks. Again, Schecter, make a "guy" guitar play like one of these, change the appearance and you have a seller.

All in all it's actually very solid. The hardware is decent, the finish is of course reliable. I mean, the top is a pickguard. As far as the finish on the back and neck, well, I mean it's clearcoat on mahogany. If you care about finish but can't take care of a guitar, you shouldn't own one. Can't have it both ways.

As far as gigging without backup, it's rare to say, but I wouldn't be terrified of taking this guitar to a gig without backup. Usually I never ever would, but that's my guitars with floyd bridges and batteries and locking nuts and wrenches and all that jazz. Thankfully I don't generally have problems with those, but from a standpoint of logic in action, the more things that can go wrong = the more things that eventually will go wrong.

There isn't very much that can go wrong on this guitar. As long as you don't snap off the volume pot or break off a tuning machine or something, it's good for a show. Just keep extra strings handy, because your mileage with string breaks may vary.

No real experience with the company, but based on what I've heard, and ESPECIALLY based on the setup they do in the US before shipping to retail or to end user, I'd have to give a thumbs up here.

I think I went into enough detail. This is a great guitar, it plays well, it's reliable, it looks cool, and the price is right. If you're a girl, whether you're pro or a beginner, it's great for either. If you're a guy, this is one of the few Daisies that doesn't look like a Barbie Ferrari. Give it a try.

Okay, BIG disclaimer.... I am NOT a girl! I'm a 40 year old man! I've been playing for 28 years now, and bought this guitar a year ago for my wife. I won't repeat the description already done so well by Tamlyn, but this is a 2004 as well. I've owned about 40 different guitars over my life, and this is one of the sweetest guitars I've ever handled. It has a lot of features and is overall a very, very good value!

I've played this clean and I've played this dirty. I'm not sure if the sound impresses me so much, or if it's just so easy to play that I can get sounds out of it that were never intended! It's got good full tone, but with the pull-out pot and the variation of tones, I could use this for just about anything in general! It's not noisy at all. I've plugged it into a handful of practice amps that don't do it justice, but on a nice Fender half-stack it sounds as good as any big dollar vintage classic! I won't be modifying any of the electronics!

I had a slight issue with the setup, but after dealing with the factory, can say that this is one of the best actions I've ever played! In fact, I sold a vintage Fender Strat for a buddy of mine, and noticed that this guitar has much better action than the Strat did! The finish on this is beautiful, and yet very sturdy as well. I inspected this guitar very closely (gift for my wife) and found zero flaws in manufacture, only a slight bug in the setup, but see my explanation below for those details.

No live performer would ever use just one guitar without backup (well, if they're drug free anyway!), but if you had to use just one, this would get you through as well as anything else! It's very solid everywhere, and I actually tried to break anything I could before giving it to my wife as a gift!

When I first pulled this out of the box (new), I found some slight buzzing at the first and second frets. Micrometer (and my fingers and eyeballs) disclosed no flaws, just a slight adjustment to the truss-rod probably needed. Because this was brand spanking new, I didn't want to foul the setup and leave any tool marks that might void the warranty, so I returned it to the factory. They were fast and very responsive in their communications. I got back (free shipping of course) the best setup I've ever seen on any guitar. In fact, their work was so fast and so good, I was almost tempted to be a spineless fool and beg them to do other setups for me on the side, but that just didn't seem right so I didn't. Their customer support was fantastic, especially considering that the setup was probably the result of a few prospective customers before me being rather rough.

As I've mentioned in other reviews, I've been playing for 28 years, and have owned about as many guitars as I've had birthdays (40 now). This is one of the best guitars I've ever handled. I just wish they came in manlier colors and had a name that didn't sound so girly! With those two changes, I'd buy their guitars exclusively in the future!

Made in 2004. I am not sure but I think it was made in Indonesia.
24 1/2" scale mahogany set neck. Neck is thin and fast with vines and flowers inlay on 22 fret rosewood fingerboard. Solid mahogany bodyWith pearloid top. No pickguard (whole top ia a pickguard. Abolony and ivory colored binding on body. Ivory colored binding on headstock, no binding on neck. Two humbuckers(high output?)with chrome covers. One volume control, one tone control with push pull coil tap and three way switch.Cast Grover tuners. Double cutaway(deep cutaway on both top and bottom).

This is a surprisingly versatle guitar. The pickups are surpriseingly good. I generally switch humbuckers on any guitar that came with them to Gibson 57 classics on guitars that are in this price range. I will keep these. It is quiet. I run it trhrough a Gibson RVH Supergoldtone class A head with a 4 speaker cab(2 tens and 2 12s), A Peavy Delta Blues (all valve 1x15 speaker), a 66 bandmaster (retubed recapped with a new bassman transformer, 2X 12 JBL speakers) this amp is in mint condition and all valve, A Mesa Boogie Studio(22 watt class A). The guitar sounds greaton bot coil settings and through all amps. I only use pedals when a song was done with them except reverb with the bandmaster. I own 26 guitars currently and to campsre them all here would be too much, but to give you an Idea of some of the others I am comapering this to (both sound and quality of electronics) I have a LP Studio with 57 classics, A 57 Reissue Gretsch Duo Jet and Streamliner, A Rickenbacker 381V69 and 360/12, Gibson ES137, 2 strats one with Vintage noisless pups and one with fat 50's etc. This guitar compares favorably to the others, although it has its own uniqe sound (as do all of them). I really like the ergonomics, it is much more comfortable for a woman, although this guitar is perfectly balanced for men( this according to two other Berklee students)

Glue work was sloppy near neck. Setup was as good as my local luthier would have done! Intonation was right on.Woodgrain and finish on wood is fine.

This guitar is suitable for live playing. Hardware is solid with good plateing. Strap buttons will be replaced with schaller locks. It is really to early to know reliability but it seems solid, although the body is a little thinner than a Les Paul or Strat. I ussually bring at least 4 guitars to a gig, mostly for different tone, and I would never go to a gig without backup amps, guitars, mics etc. I also keep extra tubes in my case.

No need t contact them at this point.

I have been playing 30 years. I recently went back to school at Berklee College of Music. My major instrument is electric guitar, and my major is Production and sound engineering. As for gear I have a project studio with a digidesign 002 rack mount, Yamaha monitors, Sampson studio power amp power conditioner, 4 bass's, 27 guitars (acoustics 5, 22 electric) Yamaaha keyboard, Stradivarus (made in Italy) Violin, mandolin, drum set (Roland)and 5 roto toms and 5 church blocks,dedicated Mac laptop set up for music production with 2 external hard drives, PA Crown power amp and Behringer mixing board, several mics (mostly Shure SM 57s & 58's. several effects boxes and rackmounted, booms stands and alot of odds and ends.