Product: Kent SG Copy
Price Paid: US $100 used
Submitted
04/28/2006
at
12:11pm
by
MG
Email: hc803<at>aol dot com
Features
:
7
Bolt neck SG copy, thin but cool garage-y sounding. Put a good pickup on the bridge and you're good to go!
Two switches a la an SG to 2 humbuckers. 4 knob volume/tone config.
Crummy tuners, but they stay in tune. Body is made of wood, that's about all I can tell you on that.
Sound
:
7
Like I said, if you want some "sweet" tone, go waste your money on a PRS or some crap like that. If you want "vintage" tone like the Animals, Troggs, Zombies, etc. this is your kind of area. I like to run mine into a Big Muff Pi. Nice and fuzzy! Plenty of bottom end but not death metal sounding. Only problem I have with it is the bridge makes the high E string a little off over the bridge pickup, so it's a little weak sounding. But I don't really care.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
These were cheap Jap guitars from the 60's, so they didn't worry too much about setup. It plays fine, the strings aren't 100 miles off the fretboard or anything.
Reliability/Durability
:
6
I've never used it live, but I doubt I'd be comfortable with it staying in tune for more than 2 or 3 songs. If you like to tune, by all means this is the right guitar. I'm not saying you hit a chord and it immediately goes out of tune... I'm sure if I didn't beat the hell out of it I'd have no problems, but that would require me to stop playing comfortably in my opinion, so that ain't happenin buddy!
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
No dice! Go to a shop!
Overall Rating
:
8
This is my "tag along" guitar. I toted it to Atlanta, then down to Jacksonville when I started school so I'd have something to rock on. My least nice guitar, but nevertheless a fave.
Found out via an eBay auction that there are also the SAME guitars but with "Pace" on the headstock instead, so that's kinda cool.
Wish I had a case for it... that's all. Maybe new tuners?
