Product: Lace Music Products Mooneyes Huntington
Price Paid: USD 99.00
Submitted
07/28/2006
at
04:41pm
by
Ironhead
Features
:
8
A 21 fret guitar with no fancy bells and whistles and the double humbucker pick-ups sound great.
That's all I'll ever need.
Sound
:
9
This guitar sounds great. All three settings leave a distinctive tone and all of them sound great imo.
The guitar pick-ups are not noisy at all and give you a nice variety of tones. It has a great raunchy rock tone but maybe a bit shy of metal. Of course alot of that has to do with what kind of amp your using.
I play clean, rock, punk, and even metal with this guitar.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
The guitar was set up good right out of the box. The action is set fairly low with no buzzing at all.
My only gripe is that the tuners could be better but for the price I can't complain.
Reliability/Durability
:
8
I've played live with this as my main guitar numerous times and will probably continue to do so unless it ever breaks down on me.
I've never had a problem with it other than breaking a string, and of course that isn't the guitars fault.
I'm not real gentle on my guitars and it has still held up without a problem.
Customer Support
:
9
Great. I bought this off the lace dealer on ebay. They forgot to send the Fender gig bag that it was supposed to come with. One sent out e-mail and they shipped the bag, no questions asked.
Overall Rating
:
9
I've been playing for about 20 years and have played expensive guitars as well as cheap ones. Honestly, I love this guitar more than my other five guitars and it gets played the most.
I would buy it again in a heartbeat.
The only thing I could wish for that was better is the tuners.
I don't even use the tremolo on it so I can't rate that feature.
Sure, there's better guitars out there but this guitar sounds great and you'll never lose sleep over the hundred bucks you spent if it ever gets stolen, banged up, or breaks down.
Plus it sounds and plays great.
Product: Lace Music Products Mooneyes Huntington
Price Paid: US $89.00
Submitted
09/03/2005
at
09:00am
by
IdaCrue
Features
:
8
A 2004 or 2005 Model Strat type poplar body guitar. Made in China. It has a vintage trem, 21 frets, and no name cheap tuners. It came with some allen wrenches and a cable. It has 2 Powered by Lace humbucker pickups that are advertised as being made in the USA. The headstock is a 3 X 3 design rather than the usual 6 Inline design of strat type guitars. The Moon Eyes graphics on the body and headstock are what attracted me to this guitar. All in all a nice set of features.
Sound
:
5
The Powered by Lace pickups are really nice and give a great tone. There is an annoying rattle in the guitar when the D string is played open. I have been chasing this problem for a few weeks now. I like the sound of the pickups and when it is played amplified the rattle can't be heard through the amp.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
1
This guitar is a total piece of crap. Where to start????? The tuners are cheap and have a bunch of backlash, the neck pocket has a rather large gap around it with chipped paint, the screws that hold the pickguard and trem cover were overtighted and it came with several of them stripped. As stated before there is a rattle that is just annoying. When I removed the standard Strat type ashtray output jack I found that whoever put it in had made a mistake with the holes, so there are two screw holes in the body on the top, and the bottom screw hole is 1/4 of the way into the body route. Fret ends are ragged and sharp. This guitar is a poster child for lousy workmanship...I gave it a 1 because there was nothing lower on the scale provided.
Reliability/Durability
:
1
The hardware is cheap, the wood is so light it strips when the screws are tightened. I replaced the strap buttons with Dunlop locking straps locks. I would not trust this guitar to play live at all. It is basically a nice looking wall hanger.
Customer Support
:
3
I purchased this guitar from Warpdrive Music online. I Emailed them about the neck pocket problem several times before I finally got an answer. They offered $20.00 if I would keep the guitar, or I could send it back. I took the $20 and now, after finding all the other problems, I wish I would have sent it back. I had to wait a couple weeks for the refund to showup on my paypal account. It took a few Emails to the company to remind them of their offer to give me the $20.00 refund. I haven't had to deal with Lace, but if they are putting out a guitar of this low quality, I have to suspect that they really don't care too much.
Overall Rating
:
1
This guitar is a total piece of garbage. DO NOT BUY THIS GUITAR. If someone stole it, I would look them up and thank them. The guitar looks really nice, but it's build quality is horrible. I am just glad I didn't pay full price for the guitar. For the $89.00 I spent, I got a nice looking wall hanger with some nice USA pickups. I think I will part out the guitar and maybe get some of my money back. It is not even worth the space it takes up on the wall.