Product: Electra 2236 Flying Wedge
Price Paid: US $200 used
Submitted
03/24/2006
at
01:59pm
by
chadd
Features
:
7
From what I can tell, this is an early 80's copy of the Flying V. The body is Mahogany with a cherry finishe. It has 2 humbuckers(with clear plastic tops) and sports 2 Volume/2 Tone controls and a 3 way selector. Bolt on mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard and original electra tuning keys. Save for the goofy-looking pickups, it's a nice-looking guitar and it plays nice for what it is. I had it professionally set up a few years back and the certified Gibson tech wanted to know if I was intertested in selling it, so that says something.
Sound
:
5
I own a Gibson SG Angus Young edition and a 70's Ibanez Les Paul copy, and based on these two guitars, the electra pickups are just lousy. Thin and weak sounding sums it up.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
I feel that this guitar was put together really well. Good neck, nice fretting job, and the finish, now over 20 years old, is still nice looking. The factory tuning keys don't slip and that's somehting.
Reliability/Durability
:
8
I've played it live and it lived :) It's dependable as any other Japanese guitar, which is to say that i'll be excited when the day comes that I can pass this down to one of my kids as a "first guitar".
Customer Support
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No Opinion
N/A
Overall Rating
:
8
I've been playing since the early 90's. I have a small collection of amps and guitars that I play regularly. I keep this guitar and a small amp at my in-laws house(out of state) so that when we go to visit for a week or so, I have a guitar to play open mikes with.
I've had this guitar for about 10 years and wouldn't part with it because it doesn't have much value and I don't need the money anyway. I do wish it had better pickups.
If someone stole it, I'd cry into a pillow, drink a Miller High Life, then another Miller High Life, then get on with my life hoping that the lout who stole it gets hit by a clown car and dies.
Now that's justic.
Rock on!
