Keiper Guitars 103 BK (W-Lock)

Neck - transparent finish, quite thin (good!) and looks very very good! Body is glossy black, its easily scratching.
Body is warlock of course, could be more comfortable and aggressive.
Its got too fat ass... ;)
Shape really could be better, but U can play the guitar like normal guitar or like flying-v and thats good.
Nameless tuners, very good for that price.
Theyre abit too small for me and its hard to tune, but guitar remains tuned for long.
Its got 2 humbuckers and the switch allows you to select only neck huymbucker, only bridge humbucker, both humbuckers.
Also a tremolo and 3 knobs: neck humb. volume, bridge humb. volume and overall tone.
First i thought that 2 volume knobs are bad etc, but they are very practical. Im glad its got 2 volume knobs ;)
Overall tone... sucks. Generally you can cut high freq. or not cut them.

I play heavy metal and speed metal on it. It suits well - neck humbucker has a bright style, bridge one has more bass. For 'scream' i use neck, for heavy riffs bridge. To play 'normal' music i use both and i get everything, and signal is very strong, full.
I use it heavily distorted/overdrived.
Anyway, on E on 24 fret i dont get exact e, i get e-14% and that -14% is about every string (checked with AP Guitar Tuner). Certainly, thats nothing.
It isnt noisy, i lowered the strings a lot and theres no posibbility to them touch humbuckers. no way.

I get guitar used so nothing abou firm settings.
Pickups arent high, theyre low.
Frets are poorly filed on the right side of neck, but it isnt a problem, just could be better.
I play a lot of speed metal and its good for.

I think id like to play live on it.
On practice gigs it works great.
Hardware seems to be good and solid, will live a long.
Finish is a bit too soft, its easy to scratch it with a heavy pick.
Due to its devil shape, its got a drubbings on corners.
I got a special, hand made bag for it, i wouldnt use any other...
I think its a good guitar and i can play on it, but wouldnt use it on a gig without backup - it takes too long to change a string on it.

I know nothing about customer support, i didnt need them.
Anyway, theres no english version of

Ive been playing on it for half year. I play on everything custom.
I bought it with broken neck (repaired).
Id buy it again, but only for similiar price if it were stolen or sth else.
I love its shape, but it could be better and more aggressive. There also could be no markers. I love its wieght, its much lighter than my flying-v...
I hate the cream finish on the edges. Also i hate the look of neck pickup. Bridge could be also black.
For this price i could get anything better.

My younger brother (who is a total beginner) owned this guitar for a half year, but I had the choice to play it as well. Alder body, As far as I know, it was made in China, we bought it used, as far as I know there aren't any white Keiper Warlocks, so maybe it was painted white. The neck pickup was replaced for an i-dont-know-the-brand pickup by the previous owner. The trem bar for the vintage style trem was missing, so we bought one.

Its a real metal guitar. It was used with a Behringer V-AMP2 effect and a Roland Cube 30 amp, and it sounded good, even with a small rig like that. The neck was like a dream, played very well. Sound was fair for its price, but can't be compared to an Ibanez or any more expensive brands. The bridge pickup was the original, had a really biter, bright tone. The neck pickup was sh*t.

The trem made the guitar get out of tune completly, but if u didn't use the trem, it was solid. The tuners were very good, way lot better than compared to a Variax 600's. However, you could only hear the frets buzzing when playing it - and you cant adjust the pickups to a lower position.

I think this guitar is a real solid one, if u dont use the trem, it could last long. However, I won't take it for a gig, as I think it's sound is only good for a beginner, playing it in a room.

Never heard about the company, found the website only a few days ago.

This guitar was used for a half year. My bro sold it, and bought an LTD F-100, which is a lot better (and a lot more expensive, though). However, I think this guitar can be a very good choice for beginners, instead of some cheaper brands, (like Vorson, or Stagg, etc.) but only as a metal guitar. Totally fair for its price. And looks really cool! :)

Keiper 103 BK (W-Lock) (looks like a BC Rich Warlock)
http://www.keiper-instruments.com/pix/gitarren/103-bk/103-bk.htm

The guitar was made in China. Probably in 2005.
Features:
- Bold-on neck
- 24 frets, palisander fretboard
- 2 humbuckers: A 'normal' nameless humbucker by the neck, a nameless distortion humbucker near the bridge. A three-way switches. 2 Volumes knobs and 1 tone knob.
- Alder Body; Mahogany neck
- Body has a black finish, with a white/creme binding.
- The neck has a transparant finish. The head is also black
- Standard tremolo
- Nameless tuners
The guitar came with enough tools to fully adjust it. And with 3m cable.

The looks of this guitar are AMAZING! The neck looks really nice. The body has a good finish.

The sound is fair. When i started playing on this guitar i ran it through a cheap amp. The sound was poor, bad that was also because of the amp.
Now i run it through a fine Marshall (VS265) and it sounds good. Not as good as gibson or jackson would sound. But good the ammount of money i paid for the guitar. The sound is very full. I (most of the time) use the guitar with alot of distortion.

But i dont really like the tone of the bridge humbucker. They say it is a 'metal' humbucker, but the tone is very light. It isnt bad though.
The neck humbucker has alot heavier sound, but is also not suited for metal because of the tone.
The humbucker are both a bit noisy, not in an annoying way. The bridge a bit more than the neck. (but that is also because i have the gain of my amp set to max)
I didnt manage to get a good Artificial harmonic out of the guitar. Only on the cheap amp, but i am still wondering if that was because of the amp or the guitar.

Now this is my only point of complain.
They sell this guitar as a real metal guitar, but the action was actually quite high when i bought it. And the neck is verry round for a metal guitar. I lowered the strings, but soon came my second problem. The strings were touching my humbuckers. But when i tried to lower my humbuckers i couldnt.
I took the humbuckers out and saw that they didnt have any space to go lower. I had to file out an hole (the hole where the wires for the humbuckers came out) and carve a small gutter for the wires so i could lower the humbuckers a little bit. (took me a whole evening of filing)
I think THAT is really bad. If i look at a dean, the action is verry low, but the humbuckers are sticking out alot. But on my guitar the humbuckers are almost inside and yet the action isnt really low. Still not as low as i want anyway.

The Finish is very thick. No complains there.

Also something, but not a real problem (for me). The tremolo. The tremolo makes a lot of noise when i press it. Like the screws are being pulled out of the wood. Afther i had used the tremolo the strings were completely out of tune. I hadnt changed anything to my guitar, when i tried the tremolo. So either it was poorly made or the springs were bad (or set up bad). I havent used the tremolo ever since. Not that i care. My style of music doesnt need any tremolo.

The rest of the guitar would last. It seems strong. Im having a little bit of fretwear now, not sure if i can call it fretwear yet, or just
'lightly scratched frets'. But than again, this guitar has had a lot of hours.
The strapbuttons are solid, but in a bit of an odd place. Thats why the strap might fall off some times when make wrong moves (yet, i've only dropped the guitar once). I think i can depend on it. It has been dragged around in a gigbag, never had problems.

it should have 1 year warranty, but i didnt get a proof/garanty thing...

If it were stolen or lost, i would buy something else. But that is because i really want a Gibson V.
I bought this guitar because of how it looked. I hadnt even touched it before i bought it.

Quite good guitar if you're starting. But i wouldnt advice to buy a warlock model if you are starter. I would go for a Keiper LP or strat model.
Yep. This guitar is worth a seven.