Product: MAKO Super Strat
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted
04/11/2002
at
07:20pm
by
Anonymous
Features
:
10
Squared off Strat style body ( the bevels were like that of a Tele ) seaweed green ( dark green ) white pickguard with 2 covered humbuckers that were also white, hardtail bridge, chrome covered tuners, 22 fret maple board on a maple neck with a skunk stripe down the back. Didn't buy it, but tried to convince my dad to buy it until he came home with a BC Rich Warlock. I said fuck it to the Mako, but I put in some loitering at the guitar shop and played it alot. It was 19 years ago!.........PS It had one volume and one tone with a 3 way mini toggle bridge-series-neck.
Sound
:
10
To me back then, shit with strings in the shape of a guitar would have been good enough. From what I can remember it sounded good. I could play 5 songs all the way through at the time, Crazy Train, Round and Round, Were not Gonna Take it, Breakin The Law and Run to the Hills. They all sounded good. I plugged it into this monster of a combo made by Yamaha. The store guy let me hook up to it with a BOSS distortion pedal. I learned how to play Jump In The Fire and it could nail the Metallica tone of the Kill Em All album.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
The guitar guy set em up ASAP. He would always say " you can't sell a piece of shit unles it shines like gold ". You can sure gold plate a piece of pewter! It was cool to me and alot kids at school had one as their only guitar or as a second guitar. The brand new BC Rich stole my heart big time! I forgot all about the MAKO.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
It lasted about a year with me putting my grubby little hands all over it.
Customer Support
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No Opinion
Uhhhhhhhhh.........Who cares now, that was 19 years ago.
Overall Rating
:
10
At age 13, all my friends played guitar or bass. I wanted to be just like them and jump off the bridge too. I didn't even have a guitar and I could play better than they could. I did everything but steal an electric guitar. My dad believed in one thing, if you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get. By no means were we poor. My dad could have bought me a Gibson LP Custom for every holiday including the non federaly recognized ones. It wasn't until the day he heard me playing in a mall at this music shop that he took me seriously. One day after school, my dad walked in with a guitar case. It seemed some friend of his had a BC Rich Warlock he didn't. My dad handed it over and the next thing I knew I was going nuts. He threw in a 30 watt amp and the BOSS distortion pedal too. If it weren't for my hopes of trying to convince my dad to buy me that MAKO and for the fact I was able to almost every day after school go and play that MAKO, I wouldn't have this BC Rich Warlock today. SEE THE REVIEW OF THE WARLOCK.
