Product: Kingston Swinga
Price Paid: FREE
Submitted
03/18/2004
at
12:32pm
by
Anonymous
Features
:
3
Strat-ish type body, rosewood-ish type finger board with faux wood verneer and shittiy 2 color sunburst, poly finish. 1 middle position single coil passive pick-up, 1 Tone, 1 Volume controls. 18 frets Made somewhere in the early 60's in Taiwan. Yep.
Sound
:
2
How does this sound? Well...What does a cat in heat sound like? Kinda like that. I was bequethed the Swinga from an x-girlfriends father. Apparently he had played in a band with this thing, how I don't know. I will say that newer strings and fixing the tuners on it made it playable and tuneable but GAWD does it sound awful. To be fair I own a white Zion Classic Custom and a USA strat in which I routed and installed P-90's, so I suppose these are the instruments I'm use to hearing. I gave it to my brother so he could learn guitar and 2 months later it found it's way back into my apartment, the ingrate.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
4
When I got it the action on this things wasn't good, like about 1/2" above the fret board. I tried to straighten the neck on this but, hey! - no truss rod! and the tone controls do nothing! The hardware has stayed in tact w/o rust and the finish barely has a scratch which is something to be said, maybe it's due to the fact that no one can stand playing it for more than 2 minutes.
Reliability/Durability
:
3
Built sturdy, good for hitting things. Not too good for playing.
Customer Support
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No Opinion
Eh?
Overall Rating
:
4
Because it was free and because it makes you appreciate the things in life you have I give it a 4.
