First Act PW580 Paul Westerberg Signature

Like what everyone says it's pretty bare bones. One pickup-one volume pot- one tone pot. Is this a good or bad thing? Depends. If you have more than one guitar and use individual guitars for their specific qualities this simplicity can be a plus. It's not versatile but it is good for what it delivers. It's a simple, direct guitar that works well for simple, direct music. Think Garage Rock- not Prog. Rock

This sucker has some bite in the treble, good mids, low end is a little undefined but this is a BAND instrument- the low end is good enough while recognizing that the Bass player exists for the real low end.

I had to do some set up work for this out of the box- the string were a bit high and the intonation was off but that's OK- I do this for all my guitars- Hey- if you spend a lot of money on guitars you should know how to fix them and a bit of elbow grease personalizes a guitar. I had to break out the steel wool on the frets but that's OK too. It holds it's tone, the finish is surprisingly good given the price and it's weight balance is great.

I haven't used it in a live setting yet (but I intend to)- it seems solid enough- it has already survived a drop or two. Haven't used it at a gig yet but I look forward to doing so. After 6 months the plaid on the pickguard has worn through where I plant my fingers but again- this is a guitar that is meant to age, a little wear gives it character

Didn't use 'em.

Bang for your buck? You are not going to do much better but that is if you have a style that suits this instrument, shredders look elsewhere, Jimmy Page acolytes will find this wanting. If you have a 3 or 4 piece that likes to keep it tight and nasty than this a good tool to have in your belt. It IS a Westerberg instrument- simple, direct and unpretentious.

Other reviewers have covered this, but it's a basic design with some nice features. It has a (VERY light) solid poplar body, fairly chunky maple neck w/ rosewood board with a pretty flat radius (I'd guess between 12"-15"), 25.5" scale, an ergonomic neck heel shape, binding, a string through body bridge with brass plate on the rear instead of ferrules, and a single alnico single coil (mine reads 5.3k ohms) wired to a pair of 500k Alpha mini pots in a shielded control cavity. Oh, and the plaid pickguard is neat, too! Quite an impressive feature set for the price range, I must say.

I bought this guitar with the intent of using it for slide, so I have it set up with .013-.056 strings and usually tune it to open D or G with the action cranked up at the saddles (amazingly, the neck stays straight even with these heavy strings on it after a minor truss rod tweak). It has the whole LP Junior/Esquire vibe to it by making your hands and the volume + tone circuit do the variation and it sounds great. With everything full on, it's super bright as you'd expect from a single coil wired to 500k pots, but the tone control when combined with natural amp overdrive really gives a nice fat tone and the volume allows you to clean things up nicely. The fact that it's an alnico single coil mounted in a metal humbucker casing gives it a bit of the Tele vibe since it has a metal baseplate beneath the magnet slugs, not to mention shielding (it's quiet for a single coil guitar). I haven't tested it at extreme volumes yet, but the pickup doesn't appear to be microphonic when ran through my cranked Fender Pro Junior, which is a good thing. Overall it has a nice and dynamic vintage-like sound/bite to it, but almost seems too bright at times (250k pots might remedy this... or just roll down the tone).

I honestly am quite amazed at how well built this guitar is for how little I paid. I took it completely apart when I brought it home down to every last screw practically. The neck pocket was cut cleanly and has no play/gap in it, the binding was very cleanly installed, the nut wasn't cut too bad at all, the frets are level and the neck is straight.

The only issues I found were that the frets need a polish as they have a rough texture to them, the fretboard needed to be oiled as it was super dry, the bridge pickup cavity was routed a little rough (not that it effects anything), and the bridge mounting screws seem to have had the their holes drilled a little too large as I checked their tightness and all five of them were stripped, but it's a string through body guitar so string tension clamps it down, anyway (must be very soft wood). Also, the brass back plate was shimmed with little pieces of cardboard to make it level with the surface of the guitar, but I removed them so it would have direct contact with the wood. It also is a bit neck heavy when played standing up, but using a grippy suede leather strap helps quite a bit.

For a guitar in this price range, though, it really is a nice piece of work and the issues I mentioned except for the fret polishing don't have much effect on how it plays. The fact that it has a string through body bridge alone is a huge advantage over most in this price range and it has a brass plate on the back to boot.

It's a solid design that should hold up to lots of use. The neck is maple with a scarf jointed headstock unlike Gibson's notoriously easy to break one piece necks, so breakage is less of a concern (I'm a Fender guy, can't you tell?). Even if it did break, the whole guitar costs less than a replacement neck and an undrilled Tele or Strat neck would actually work in this neck pocket probably (it's a 25.5" scale). The tuners, although currently are perfectly functional, probably only have a few years in them with my choice of .013-.056 strings, but we'll see what kind of mileage they can get. I also immediately replaced the output jack with a better one as the original was a sketchy looking plastic stereo jack, but those only cost $1.50 for a US made Switchcraft; I consider it to be a cheap and essential preventative precaution. It's a simple solid body guitar that anyone with a soldering iron and a screw driver can fix, and generic hardware should be easy to drop in if needed.

I bought it directly from the First Act Studio in Boston where I live and they say there's a 14 day grace period where you can return it if needed. They seem to be willing to help out with any concerns/issues, though, and they have their own repair shop there. I do my own repair work so it's not of any concern to me, especially for such an inexpensive instrument.

I've been playing for 14 years now and have owned lots of different gear and I can honestly say for the measly price of $68 BRAND NEW I've never seen such a piece of work (they usually are $80, but they had an in store 15% sale). Is it as a good as my Taylor acoustic? Of course not, but it's a hell of a lot of instrument seeing how it cost less than a guitar CASE! It's an excellent slide guitar and it continues my tradition of not paying more than $80 for a slide guitar (I usually hunt for cheap guitars with twisted/bowed necks that still have potential to sound good, so in that respect this guitar is almost too nice since it actually can be played normally!).

If you want a good, bright sounding guitar for rootsy rock or blues (or whatever you fancy) that you won't cry about dinging up, this is a good contender.

It's a bare bones guitar, it aint great and it aint bad, I bought it because I am a huge Mats and Westerberg fan. I was suprised the finish was as good as it was for 150 bucks, nice neck, cool pick guard and decent paint job.

It has a super clean sound which means you can have a lot of fun with a processor or a modeler. The pick up volume is a little weak but again this only cost $150

Did a little de-burring of the frets (took about 2 minutes) and messed with the truss rod a bit and it was ready to go.

Haven't used it out and probably won't pickup output is too weak meaning I'd have to mess with pedal settings and amp volume on stage, I mainly use Gibsons when I play and there is too big of a difference in the sound (I saw some one in another review of this guitar ripping on Gibson and Fender, very common comment from people who are too cheap to fork out money for a decent instrument you can p/u a decent used Gibson for about $500 and new on for about $600 (faded V). Haven't given it much of a beating because I bought it more a collectors item.

liked the dvd, never dealt with them

I won't get rid of it and will probably pull it out once in a while, it is what it is a decent low priced guitar that has more sentimental value to those who bought it than playing value. I'm not ripping on it I like it. but try to compare it to higher end guitars it doesn't hold up.

Single coil single pup see other reviews for details

Reminds me of those mid-60s Teisco gold foil models - the ones without the adjustable pole pieces, except not as microphonic, of course. Running it though a Roland Micro Cube on the Rectifier setting with tone and distortion full tilt - I'm using 8s and playing slide and it really has a fantastic sound - bright, but a tad mellow - no real bottom end, though, which is fine with me. The pup is kinda noisy but in a good way - it looks like it's got a light coat of sheilding paint in the control cavity. Anyhoo, I like the sound.

I adjusted the action and truss rod for slide and had to apply the steel wool to the frets, since they were a tad rough. The neck is a 2-piece, which is fine with me - I had a Univox like this once and it was quite solid and stayed in tune well. The tuners are adequate and hold the tuning rather well. The binding on the neck is a nice touch - the neck is kind of like an old Tiesco, too.

Built like a tank! Very nice to look at, too.

Don't know and don't care.

Real steal for the price of about $160 at Amazon. I was looking for a nice single coil for slide and this is it!

I play in two bands. I hate describing what we play, but one is surf/rockabilly/garage, and the other is cow-punk garage swamp-a-billy.
See below for further info on my opinions.
Thankyaverymuch

I'm following up on my first review of this guitar.
I've had it for a while. I have the first production model of this guitar (by sheer luck) as confirmed via email with First Act in Boston.
It's really great for the money I paid, even though you can already get them for half of that. The binding is nice, the weight and feel is OK, the strings through body adds a lot to the sound, I think.
My only complaint is that its not versatile enough for what I need for a gig. After playing it tonight at home, testing out a new pedal, I realized why I like the sound so much. I NAILS d. boon's (Minutemen) sound. Unfortunately for me, it would be tought for me to gig with it, but it has plenty of positive points, especially for the price.

First off, let me say that I got this guitar for $80 (plus shipping) thru the Toys R Us website, so obviously I am judging it based on the bang-per-buck. Black finish, super-thick plaid pickguard; seriously, this has to be the thickest pickguard on the planet. A very smooth, unfinished, skinny neck. One single coil pickup, one volume & one tone knob, hardtail bridge with thru-body strings. A few of the frets are a little rough or whatever, but otherwise I have found absolutely no flaws on this thing.

Being a single-coil, this baby is pretty noisy, but it's a pure rock machine, so it's not like I'm going to try and do clean jazzy stuff on it. I play through a Tech 21 Trademark 60 and I can get a really nice overdriven sound, all the way to full-on crunch. The clean sound is dirty, but works well for, oh, I don't know, playing Replacement covers, etc. I will admit that the tone knob is fairly lame - instead of a smooth transition from bright to thick, it sort of switches at the halfway point. You still get some variability and control, but not as much as I'd like. I've only tried recording with it once, via the Trademark's SansAmp direct-out feature. It was really noisy, so I don't know if this will be used much as a recording axe.

The neck is fast and it holds a tune fine. It comes with really, really light strings, so I will probably haul it over to Subway Guitars in Berkeley for a pro setup and have them put 10's or 11's on it, but I have to say the factory setup was really, really nice.

Again, for $80 the thing seems incredibly well built. Even for it's actual street value of about $150 it's solid. The hardware seems serviceable, so I don't think I'll need to replace any of it anytime soon. I would definitely not use it on a gig without a backup, but I mainly got it as a tonal alternative (I usually play gits with humbuckers) and because I'm a big 'Mats fan.

I've been playing for 23, 24 years. I have a Fender '72 Tele Deluxe reissue, an Ibanez JetKing 1, an Ibanez AEF acoustic/electric, the aforementioned Tech 21 amp, random effects, etc. This was one of those guitars I just couldn't pass up. I mean, $80 for an axe endorsed by one of my heros? Come on! The fact that I find myself playing it almost every day is totally a bonus. I would definitely get another one if this was stolen, although I'd probably be double-pissed since I doubt the Toys R Us $80 deal will still be around...Since a "10" in this category is described as a "fantastic value," that's what this puppy gets.

Features are fine, but unremarkable - it's a no frills guitar (one pickup, one tone, one volume, dot markers, etc.). The body is small and the style is comfortable for standing or sitting - very well balanced. The neck is unfinished, but seemingly slick. Overall, it is an attractive package for the asking price.

The sound is remarkably good. The one single coil pickup delivers a thinner/jangley sound. Running clean, the tone is almost a blend between a Strat in mid position and a Rickenbacker. The guitar performs with a little overdrive or full out distortion too. It's a fun guitar to play and a nice option to other guitars in my collection (w/humbuckers, P-90s or mini-humbuckers).

My PW580 came out of the box set up pretty well. It may need adjustment in the future. It tuned up nicely and held. I'm impressed with the axe. It was actually my 2nd PW580 . . . the first I purchased had a neck so badly warped that no matter what attempts I made I couldn't get sound on the first two frets. I returned it to the store and exchanged it for the last one on the shelf. I'm glad I stuck with the gamble - very happy with #2.

I haven't played this guitar live, but would. It appears to be pretty durable.

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I've been playing for 25 years and own a lot of guitars/basses (1964 Harmony Jazz Acoustic, 1968 Fender Telecaster, 1977 Rickenbacker 4001, 1980 Yamaha SBG1000, 1983 Gibson Sonex 180-Deluxe, 1987 Fender Precision, 1992 Gibson Les Paul Standard, 2004 Gibson Firebird V, and a 2007 Eastwood Stormbird). The PW580 will not replace any of my guitars but will sit nicely alongside some of my "better" models. My 4-year-old is learning and this will be the perfect axe for him to strum on . . . light body, smaller neck, etc.

This is a great guitar. I've got more "high dollar" axes at home (Gibsons and a very classic Telecaster), but besides the potential investment factor of owning the main stream collectible, I think this guitar is better from a feature stand point. It has the super slick non-laquer maple neck, it has the angled headstock, the string through body bridge (both of which provide loads of sustain) and it has the bound body and fret board. The body is light alder (solid)with a good tone balance. The funky looking single coil pickup is plenty good enough. The rose wood fret board keeps the tone warm. They threw in some other things that make it great for beginners like a "how to tune" booklet etc etc and some stuff you don't normally see offered(hex wrenches for the bridge and the truss rod). Some complain there is only one pickup so I give the features a 9. I doesn't bother me that much. Some wish it had a set neck, I don't really care either way.

its a well balanced sound and is fairly polished. Of course, expect having to do some set up work. Adjusting the bridge to get rid of buzzing strings was fairly easy and self-satisfying work. It has a couple of frets with rough edges that I need to take care of. Sonically, it's not as dark as a Les Paul, not as thin as a Strat, no Tele twang. I'm thinking it sounds more like a P-90 equipped Les Paul Special. Very even tonally up and down the neck. However, the strings on it were total crap (super ultra lights) and were tough to tune. So expect to restring it with some medium lights at least to get the most even tone out of it. In general, I'd describe it as a clean rocker with some nice bluesy options given a creamy amp. It's basically a blank slate you can build a good tone from. I can't stress enough the massive amount of sustain this gets via the angled headstock and string-through body.

finish is good, except for a few rough frets. Considering this is a straight out of the box guitar with out the usual professional set up, a few rough fret edges are to be expected. The action is nice and low once you tweak the bridge some. I didn't see any cosmetic flaws.

It's basically a tank. You can gig hard with it. You can give it to a 10 year old and not have him break it. The chrome seems fairly deep and shouldn't start flaking off anytime soon. Since its a simple machine, I don't see things going wrong. Stap buttons, tuners, etc are all on there solid.

Okay, I haven't had problems so I don't know how they would handle any issues. I will say this, I ordered the guitar direct from First Act at around midnight on a Wednesday night. Even though I shipped it via ground, they got it to Houston by Friday. Not sure how they pulled that off but I was pretty darn excited. So, I'm giving them a 10

I've been playing for 19 years as mostly a hobbyists with some streaks of gigging back in college. I'm also a huge 'Mats and Westerberg fan. At the time, I was looking at getting a Epiphone DOT Studio just for kicks, but decided, what the hell, if I'm getting a cheap guitar, why not support an artist I love? This thing really surpassed my expectations. I wish when I kid I'd bought a guitar like this instead of the junker I had from the pawn shop. When you look at the crap Fender, Gibson, Ibanez and all the off brands try to sell young guitarists... its really a shame. This guitar is only $179 and plays like a $400 guitar. It's a real notch above. Like I said earlier in this note, I think it's just as good as '64 Fender Telecaster and my Gibson Jumbo Acoustic as far as quality of the build and quality of tone.

Finished in jet black. Nice wide neck, a bit diffrent than my Teisco. It's got a great string-thru set up that really gives it some excellent sustain. 22 frets and all of them were well dressed. Only one pickup though but it rocks hard, excellent punk tone.

The sound rocked! It's got that wonderful old school punk sound that just warms the heart. It's great for blues as well. I run it through a Fender Frontman and a Roland and it rocks out on both amps.

The action right out of the box was perfect! There was no problem what so ever. Nothing was out of place and it plays like a dream.

The hardware seems to be very nice. I liked the finish, there were no flaws at all. This guitar will and does stand up to gigging, I use it at every gig I play. With this guitar I know I don't need a backup.

Haven't had to deal with them yet.

I've been playing for five years and I love this guitar. I mainly play a Stratocaster but after I got this guitar I stopped playing my Strat all together and now this is my main axe. If this was stolen I would run out and get one in a heartbeat.

Full binding around the body and neck. One pickup, One volume, one tone knob. Solid tuners and hardware.

I love the sound of this guitar. It sounds mean through my fuzz face and my little Gibson tube amp. I seriously can't get over how good this single coil pickup sounds for this price. My Fuzz face gets farty with other guitars, but this one sounds perfect through it.

There were some rough frets, and until Walmart hires a guitar technician to set them up you'll have to do that yourself. MY MAIN COMPLAINT WITH THIS GUITAR IS THE IMBALANCE OF THE NECK. You have to hold the neck up the whole time or it will dive bomb. The hardware is great, and the finish is great, I hate the neck on it. I will only use this guitar at home sitting down. The body was made for a different pickup (humbucker?) and they had to route out the body a bit to fit the single coil in, and when they did that they didn't seal or finish the wood in the route. The bridge is a little too far forward and to set the intonation properly on the low E and G string I had to move the saddles really far back which put them right on top of the screws that hold the bridge on and throws the pitch of the saddle up making it impossible to lower the saddle.

The wood that the body is made out of is really light and the screw holes will strip out easily. I would use it live if I had to. Great finish though, and the neck seams really solid.

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Been playing 15 years, mostly use a Jazzmaster or a Telecaster. If it were stolen I would probably get a Squire or an Epi. I really like the pickup in this but pickups are replaceable, I hate the body on it cause it's too light, favorite feature is the cost and looks of it.
I really wanted this to be a great guitar, as much as I like Paul Westerberg and as cool as it is that he would choose to do a signature model that is affordable, but I just can't recommend this guitar.

I saw this thing one day in Wal-Mart and noticed that it had Paul westerberg's seal of approval. Being a fan of Westerberg, (and the Replacements) I bought it.

The finish is nice and thick, the binding looks cool and gives it a LP-vibe. The red/white, plaid pickguard gives it character, and is unique for a guitar in this price-range.

The body shape is unique, and the lower cutaway lets you reach the upper frets with ease.

The neck is raw, un-oiled, maple. The neck isn't too thin or thick, and is relatively fast; It feels great. I've always liked raw, unpainted/un-oiled necks.

The plating on the fixed bridge looks sloppy. The tuners probably won't last but, for now, they do their job.

The pick-up is a contoured, humbucker-sized, single coil. The way the chrome "cover" is placed on the pickup gives it a Gretsch Filtertronic look.

The guitar came packaged with extra E and B strings, a 15 foot cable, an instructional DVD, a 12 month subscription to Rolling Stone magazine, and a 15 year warranty. No case.

This guitar was made for the punk and garage rock player.

Plugging into a Randall 150-watt head and a Fender 4x12-cabinet loaded with Celestions, I tried out the clean tones first. Cranking both the volume and tone knobs up to ten produced a country/blues like tone with enough twang to suit the country player. Cranking back to about half on the tone gave me a more jazz-like tone.

Next, I added an Ibanez SM-7 Smash Box distortion pedal to the mix. This guitar wails. Anyone looking for a decent, cheap, punk/garage rock guitar would love this thing. Cranking the gain up on the amp allowed me to pull off some pinch harmonics, although I wouldn't recommend this to a full-fledged metal player.

This guitar produces sounds good enough for country, blues, rockabilly, grunge, punk, and garage rock.

Overall, great versatility for a one-pickup guitar, let alone a single coil. I expected less and got more.

Straight out of the box, the action was ok. The strings put on at the factory SUCKED, so I put on some Ernie Ball Regular Slinkys. (10-46)

The pickup was sitting fairly low, but didn't really need adjusting. The position suited me just fine.

The saddles needed to be adjusted slightly, no big deal.

The only flaw I find with this guitar is that if you jump around with it, and pull back on the neck slightly while playing, you'll get a, sort of, tremolo-esque sound. I'm sure that, with a trus rod adjustment, that could be fixed.

The frets could also use some polishing. They are also, sort of, sharp on the ends.

With the proper set-up, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to use this live. I'd definitely get some better tuners before doing some gigging with it.

The finish is thick, and flawless. You could probably drop it and it wouldn't even scratch, or ding it.

It came with a 15 year warranty. I hope I never have to use it. First Act really seem to take pride in their stuff, which is something I like to see.

I love the unique, against-the-norm, look of this guitar. Not only is the shape unique, but the plaid pickguard gives it a "badass, look at me" vibe. The raw neck is another thing that I like. The string thru bridge is nice.

I would compare this to a Les Paul Junior or a Telecaster. The only thing I wish this guitar had is a set neck, which would make it 100 times better.

This uitar is a bargain at this price. I'd recommend it for someone looking for a solid punk/garage rock axe but, don't let it fool you, if can pull off some sweet bluesy/rockabilly tones.

Surprisingly heavy painted body with plaid pickguard. Weird body style almost like a LP JR vibe to it. Cheapo bridge with some pretty crappy plating, but still solid working. Cheap tuners. Fat neck like a 50's tele, very nice and unusual for a beginner instrument. It comes with a bunch of stuff, a DVD on how to play guitar, a cord, some replacement strings. 1 pickup, tone and volume control. It has a Alnico single coil pickup.

OK, I'm a huge replacement's fan and bought this for fun, the box is so cool, I almost did not open it, but I'm not quite that much of a collector geek-boy. Rated low, because it's just a single pickup guitar.

It has a very interesting sound, like a tele, but a bit fatter than the bridge tele pup but not as boomy as the neck tele pup. Nice and clear, it sounds great through my little peavy classic 10 with some gain. Very nice with little noise. It sounds as good as guitars costing much, much more, maybe better.

It was set up fine, and given that this is meant for beginners, the guitar was perfect for a starter unit. I took off the extra light strings and put on some 10-46 and the thing is awesome. I also polished the frets a bit and the fret wire is trimmed a bit over the edges of the neck, but it plays very nicely. The nut is a bit sloppy. The string retention plate is a nice, somewhat unique design which works well. Overall, it is put together better than a Epiphone LP and a Squire strat I own, and some Indonesian LP Jr's I almost bought a few weeks ago. Nice job for the money.

Seems solid. The hardware is pretty cheap, I'd bet the tuners won't last, the rest seems solid. The finish is pretty thick and the strap buttons are very good. I don't think I can depend on any guitar without a backup.....I've stepped on too many cords and broken things!

It's got a warranty, I hope to never deal with it.

I've been playing a long time, like 30 years. I have strats, LP, teles, and a few other things around, I play a rivera amp and the above mentioned peavey. I really think these guitars a good deals. I may even buy another one!

It's a stripped down rock 'n' roll machine. I'm pleasantly surprised with the feel/vibe. My only complaint is that another pickup would have been nice.

"Vintage-voiced alnico magnet single coil pickup" according to First Act.
I would have to agree. Fairly low output and funky. Kinda Tele, but more like the middle position on a tele than the lead position. (I know, it's just one pickup, but I'm trying to make some sonic references).
Doesn't sound so great when you turn down the volume knob, but the tone knob can come in very handy. It's a very bright pickup, but if you roll the tone down a bit, it's more barky (is that a word?)

Overall, not bad. I immediately changed the strings, and raised the action a bit. Just my taste. I put on DR 10-46. The strings that came with the guitar are lighter. Not sure what gauge. Intonation not bad, I tweaked it a bit after raising the changing the action and strings. I'm not a guitar tech, but I'm comfortable making minor tweaks. The edges of the frets are just a little bit sharp. I almost expected this for the price range. I'll play it for a couple of weeks before I decide if it's something that needs to be addressed by a pro. I was surprised how cool the binding looked. The picture I saw online did not do it justice. The knobs are closer together than the pic. Looks much nicer in person.
Here's what I found interesting. It's a string through body setup.
That's cool.
There's a brass (I think it's brass) plate on the back. You can see wood through the little holes. When I was changing strings, I noticed that the holes in the wood were not necessarily big enough. A couple of strings got caught up when I tried to put them in. I used a Xacto knife to spin the hole open enough to get the string in. the "brass" plate is beveled on the inside of the holes. I've never seen this before. It makes sense.
I'm sure once I've changed the strings a few times, there will be no issue with that.

I think it's just fine. I never play a gig without a backup. But you probably could with this if you needed to. I messed around with changing tunings. No problems.

no clue. bought it online. so far, so good.

I'm going to answer Harmony-Central's questions, and then add my own opinion.
* How long have you been playing? Too long. 24 years. What other gear do you own? Fender 52 tele reissue (97), Gretsch 6120 (2000), Gibson SG (early 70's) Ibanez Talman with Bigsby, Fender Roland Strat (mex), Danelectro baritone Hodad, Epiphone Junior, a couple of crappy acoustics, a lap steel, banjo. '66 Fender Deluxe Reverb, '66 Super Reverb, 1978 Marshall Combo, various crap.
* Is there something you wish you had asked before buying this guitar? No
* If it were stolen or lost, would you buy it again or get something else? Buy it again.
* What do you love about it? It's got way more character (sonic-ly, than I expected) What do you hate? Nothing. What is your favorite feature? Pickup. It's unique. still can't put my finger on it.
* Did you compare it to other guitars? No. Which ones? Why did you choose this one? the 'mats
* Anything you wish it had? stupid question. always... I'm an American...cynical, materialistic, the list goes on.....
* Anything else you'd like to share?
I bought this guitar directly from First Act. The serial on the plate is 5806A00001.
Is this the first production guitar of this model?????? I'm very very curious.
Here's why I bought this guitar. I've been hankerin' for a new guitar, but havin' a bunch of kids and a big fat mortgage... So, in lieu of a Gibson Les Paul TV model, this is something to have fun with.

For the price, it's great.
I'm going to bring it out for my next few gigs.
I'll check back in a month or so, and give an update.