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London City Hurricane II

Summary
Features 8.0 (3 responses)
Sound 9.0 (3 responses)
Action, Fit, & Finish 8.3 (3 responses)
Reliability/Durability 8.7 (3 responses)
Customer Support N/A (0 responses)
Overall Rating 9.7 (3 responses)
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Product: London City Hurricane II
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 10/30/2007 at 06:12pm by J

Features : 8
Made in China
great transparent finish on the body and flame maple top
Equiped with GROVER tuners and a rather thin but very nice neck

The pickups are excellent!Sometimes a bit too muddy but overall very well. You would not expect it from a China guitar but London City proves once again they can really deliver quality for the player who has a limited budget.

Sound : 10
As said before, the sound is very good.
Most of the Hurricanes have a great piece of wood and a set of good pickups.
The sound in the bridge pickup is quite bluesy but also a bit rough, excellent for a lot of styles.
The neck pickup is excellent for clean riffs and chords.

Action, Fit, & Finish : 7
The factory set-up was quite good, I only had to tune it a little bit.

No damage or badly mounted parts on the guitar.

It's finished fairly well for Chinese standards, always room for improvement but nothing bad can be said about the finishing.

Reliability/Durability : 8
This guitar is a rock.
I've unexpectedly had to perform on stage with this guitar and I have to say it didn't went out of tone once and it was quite relaxing to play it in front of an audience.

The hardware may need re-wiring after 10 years or so..(China :-))
But nothing to worry about.

Customer Support : No Opinion
I have heard their support is good, but personally I have never dealt with them.

Overall Rating : 10
I always say "You get what you pay for" but that's not the case here.
For its price this guitar is absolute top.
I'm not going to say it can compete with the 3000??? PRS guitars but for its money this is a great buy.


Product: London City Hurricane II
Price Paid: 620 (Euro)
Submitted 01/21/2006 at 06:35am by Freidrich

Features : 8
Was build in 2005, Korean version. Solid mahogany. 2 x HB with selector 2-way switch. Birds inlay. It's a real PRS clone.
Looks realy like a PRS but bit cheaper:)........much.

Sound : 9
Sounds very well. No noice at all.

Action, Fit, & Finish : 9
Great action. Smooth and very playable neck

Reliability/Durability : 9
Will keep this guitar for ever I think!

Customer Support : No Opinion
Never dealt with.

Overall Rating : 10
Playing for more then 20 years. If it were stolen......oeffffffff.
For sure I buy a other one!


Product: London City Hurricane II
Price Paid: 285 euro used
Submitted 12/04/2005 at 10:43am by Sweep-picker

Features : 8
I don't know where it's made i guess USA,
24 frets with wing-fighter inlay on fretboard.
Solid top
1 volume and 1 tone control + a 3-way switch.
H/H pickups don't know what kind of pickups it are
Mahogany body and a Mahogany neck.
It's got a string-thru body bridge
Grover tuners *witch are really decent tuners.. the guitar stays in tune really wel.* and it's a non locking guitar.
It has got a fine neck not to thick,

and that's about it i guess, not to much bot not to less.

Sound : 8
I think you can go to many different style's with this guitar,
I mainly play rock/blues with this guitar but i think i'll change the pickups with a little higher output pu's, for the more harder rock genre.
But about the stock-pickups.. they do a descent job, i'll give a opinion on the 3 ways of the switch.
Bridge - Nice cruncy sound if you put the gain a little more open on your amp in clean, Distortion sound a bit to muddy for my taste.
neck/bridge - nice bluesy sound great for Rythm parts.
Neck - Really nice for the clean riffs and some classic rock i guess.

So i give the guitar a 8 for the stockpickups.

Action, Fit, & Finish : 9
Well i don't really know becouse i bought it Second handed.
I had to change the string's *to 0.9 - 0.42 ernie ball*.
And i have to lower the action of the guitar.. it was a bit to high for my taste.
The pickups are in perfect position.. the don't come out to much.

i give this a 9,, i only had to change the strings and the action a bit,, further everything is Really great on this guitar.

Reliability/Durability : 9
This guitar wil definitly withstand live playing, and stays in tune for some songs becouse of the Grover tuners witch are really good.
the hardware is really descent.
The finish is really great, love it. don't think it will wear off really easily.
I think you can really depend on this guitar in live playing.. altough I would never play withouth backup, I think you don't really need it if this is your main guitar.

Customer Support : No Opinion
don't know

Overall Rating : 9
I've been playing for almost 4 years know..
I own a Cort x-6 and Ibanez 12-string and this guitar know,
If it would be stolen i would definitly buy this one again becouse for this price you just can't go wrong.
I love the finish of this guitar and the feel of the neck it's just great.. really solid and plays like a charm.


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