Product: Encore Les Paul Junior
Price Paid: #65 (sterling) used
Submitted
06/14/2003
at
03:31pm
by
robert
Email: ryokorulesok at hotmail<dot>com
Features
:
1
swapped a peavey i had covered in stickers for it and #20. caught my eye because i'd never seen something like it before. 1 humbucker that i changed, 1 vol, 1 tone. looked like it was made from wood pulp or something like that. neck had seen better days. painted black to look ebony, but had been worn from playing. thin maple neck i think. turners where usuless, and the bridge kept falling off when you changed the strings. only nice thing was it was light and red!
Sound
:
3
not bad for the punk stuff, and with the slightly better pickup in it, not bad for a bit of metal. nirvana stuff was perfect on it, until you hit on the distortion pedel, and listened to the feedback. i have a 23ft lead from the pedel, which is about 3ft away from the amp, and even when i stretched the cable to the fullest..STILL FEEDBACK!!!. still, better than a squire strat!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
1
action: ok
PICKUP: could have blindfolded my 10 y.o sister, gave her some tin foil, glue and a few nails and she could have made a better pickup than the one it came with!!!
BRIDGE: wrap-around one that kept falling off without the strings
FLAWS: too many to even start!!! fret buzz, turners made from plastic!!!(yea damm plastic cogs and all!!!) worn paint on the board, and the best of all...no position markers on the top egde of the neck!! i had to paint them on with my sisters green nail varnish
Reliability/Durability
:
3
used it before and at the start of my live days. stood up to a few partys and a 2 pubs before i stopped using it. i doubt if it would still be here now if i hadn't given it to my dad to mess about on. finish was...well it was bad! there where no strap buttons when i got it, so i used 2 screws with ring pulls stuck to the end as strap buttons. could never depend on it.
Customer Support
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2
never delt with them...don't think they would be any good. and besides...i could have fixed the problems myself in the time it took them to stop laughing at wot i had got
Overall Rating
:
1
i had been playing for about a year when i got this, and even to me it was bad!!! i wish i had never laid eyes on the sucker..caused me more grief then i ever wanted to know about. my girlfiend at the time was easier to keep and look after than this thing!!
one piece of advice to anyone who see's another one of these things...buy it and burn it! rid the world of these blocks of wood with strings!!! THEY ARN'T EVEN GOOD ENOUGH TO BE CALLED GUITARS!!!
