Memphis Strat Copy With a Humbucker

Memphis Strat Copy, only markings besides on headstock is a small "102D" decal on the chrome plate located on back of body holding the neck on.

2 Humbuckers, 3 way switch located top of body near neck. Also a switch for neck pick-up to switch from double to single coil located IFO 2 Volume and 2 Tone Controls.

Solid laminated body, I believe upper and lower sections may be ash with a dark walnut stain, center section strips of maple same width as neck. Actually that was what atracted me to the guitar.

Fat neck with rosewood fretboard/22 scale.

Tuners are cheap but hold tune extremely well.

Cheap strat style bridge with no tremelo bar.

One interesting feature is the nut at the end of the fretboard, it is solid brass, never seen one before and I'm not sure if it was original or aftermarket.

Sounds awesome, can get full rich almost LP sound right through to a bright strat.

As I bought this off EBay I can only testify to the way I have it set up (it was pretty rough when purchased).

The action is awesome.

Finish isn't too bad, some minor factory flaws.

I've had yhis for 2 years now and I have used it live for slide with no problems at all.

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I've been playing for 30 years.

Gear: a 50th Anniv. Strat, an older LP, an early 70's Epi 355 hollow body, 2 LP copies and 3 Strat copies plus 4 acoustics.

If lost I would definately pick up another if I could.

Hey for a $60 Guitar it is well worth it....

Don't know year of manufacture, or where it was made, but it is old. Silver finish, s/s/h, with a toggle switch that makes the humbucker a single coil. The neck pup is slanted like the bridge pup on a strat. 5 way selector switch, volumn, & tone knobs. Body is plywood, rosewood fretboard, probably maple neck, bolt on type. Stock tuners, stock bridge (very flimsly) stock pups.

It suits my stlye, (a little bit of everything which equals a lot of nothing) I have 3 amps a Peavy, a Fender, and a Crate. Don't know names or style of amps. Altho none have tubes. The single coils buzz a little bit when in single mode. but not that bad, normal. The neck has a little bow in it but I can fix that. The finish is banged up a little, no big deal. I really like this guitar. For a plywood body, it sound OK. It has a very unique sound to me. Kinda bright, not a lot of middles and lows. It seems kinda thin but nicely airy thin. I would not use this as my main ax, but for a little bit of something different for a special effect, it might come in handy. the coil split on the humbk, is interesting. I would not waste any money on this guitar, upgrading anything, not worth it. Plus, it has it's own unique sound and that would be lost if I did that. So I will leave it as it is and put it on a stand in the studio and when that time comes for that unique sound for a unique song comes along, I'll reach over and grab it.

Neck has a bow. (I already said that) Set up? Pickups adjusted?
I bought it from Goodwill!!! It was a mess. I adjusted everything that was adjustable on this and now it plays good. Oh, yeah, the 5way selector loses contack and cuts out now & then. So I will replace that someday.

Would not use this guitar at a gig. If this is the only guitar I had I would, but it's not. This whole guitar seems flimsly to me, but that doesn't mean it is a non-guitar. It has its uses.

Does this company exist anymore????

Been playing long time. I would say when this ax was new, it would have been a good beginners guitar. But it is not a professional every day use guitar. These days you can buy better than this for very small cash if you are looking for a beginners guitar. Not $27, but a little more.

I was 11 years old when my mom bought this guitar for me, so that was in 1988, and i'm pretty sure that is about when it was made take a year or two. I am almost sure that this is a korean or Japanese made guitar. It had a standard mexican strat set up with two volume controls and a five way selector switch. Pretty standard, but decent pick-ups with one double and two singles. The finish was beautiful pearl white which covered the body and neck as well contrasting the black pick-ups. This was a typical strat bodied guitar with a rose wood freetboard, and was rather well made for the level of quality that memphis is known for. It had a tremelo but it wasn't a floyd rose nor was it a fender standard, and a locking nut that kept the guitar in tune pretty well. It had 22 jumbo frets and was an over all beuatifull guitar for a beganer like I was.

This guitar had an agressive sound to it with a lot of over drive tones to it. It was great for me because the only music I was intrested in learning at the time was Metalica. At the time I was using a fender frontman amp with no pre amps or pedals and it sounded pretty good for me. At 11 years old this was by far the best guitar for me to learn on because of its asthedic value. When I was 13 I bought a Kramer Focas 2000 to replace it, but I ended up returning to the Memphis because it sounded and played much better. Even though it doesn't compare to my guitars I have now; Fernandez sus, Ibenez RG and XL, and American Custom Strat, For the time I had the guitar it worked great for me.

From factory I had no problems, and at 11yrs old I wouldn't have known the difference anyway. The hardware when I bought this guitar was flawless but after 4 years of heavy use it became slightly tarnished. I think this would be an awsome guitar if you take care not to slam it around or treat it like tolet paper.

I have no Idea if this guitar would work well in a show, but it was a great instrument to learn on. One thing that I liked most about this guitar when I was a kid was how good it looked. This guitar stood up to a lot of abuse over the years and I still have it lay'n around here some place. the only thing I would worry about with this guitar is that if it is misstreated it won't last, just like any other instrument. Overall the workmanship placed into this guitar was decent considering that this is just an introductory musical instrument.

who freakin cares!!!!? It's a Memphis
But the store I bought it from was a pretty kick ass place. The owner and employees are all professional and some of the coolest guitarests I have ever met.

I have been playing guitar sense I was 11 and I'm 26 now. I have jamed with a lot of good players and quite a few of them started off on either Memphes' or similar guitars. I have tried to give this guitar away to my little brother, but he seems to think that a brand name will help him play better. To each their own I guess, besides all 15yr olds are intrested in anyway are what will make them look cool. When I was 11 years old I fell in love with this guitar because I didn't know and I didn't care that it was a cheap "peice of junk". I would never have bought this guitar as an adult today, but back then this guitar was the best thing ever made to me, and even today it still holds a special place in my hart. Just like the first girl I lost my virginity to, she was fat, ugly, and I would never touch her again if I had the chance, but she was and always will be the first to "Rock My World".

By the time you get to this review, you know basically how this guitar is made...plywood body,two single coils and a humbucker, cheap tuning knobs, string thru-body tailpiece. Your basic cheap Strat copy. It was a pawn shop special, covered with dust. It had a broken nut, so I got it and another beater for 50 bucks. I did have to make minor repairs to the wiring. Considering whatI paid and the fact I needed the body, it was a good deal.

The sound (after minor repairs) was decent. I think the pickups are stock. It does have a fat/thin switch on the humbucker and the 5 way selector switch. I have used this with a crate GFX and a Johnson 250. With or without effects it has a nice sound almost a slightly overdriven. The original neck was not in tune at the 12th fret and had a broken nut. I spent some time trying to adjust the bridge to balance the neck with no luck, so I replaced it with the neck from a peavy. It's still not perfect but is very close, and I've seen a lot of better guitars tune in worse.

Considering I replaced the neck, I can't say much here. I readjusted the pickups and bridge after that. The body did look nice when purchased. It was red and had no real signs of abuse. I gave it a light sanding and painted is with a color shifting paint prior two coats of poly urathane to seal it. With the exception of the tuning knobs it it a decent guitar.

I use this as one of my beater guitars. Throw it in the van it I'm heading out to jam with some friends or go camping (portable amp). It sits out next to my amp in the living room to mess with if I'm bored or such and I don't worry about it being hurt. When the grand kids come over I don't worry about it being left out. It needs tuned fairly often and NO, I would not use it in a paid gig, I have a Firebird VII, Les Paul and SG for that. Remeber I bought it for a beater and it does well for that.

I don't have a clue. Never cared or used them.

I've been playing for a "few" years but do not consider myself professional. I also have helped a number of other people learn to play, but do not consider myself a teacher. If I lose or break this guitar I will likely not worry about replacing it, but just find another old pawn shop special to tinker on and use for a beater. For a cheap guitar to lear on I believe it is well worth the money, It can be cleaned up to look nice and has a good sound, change the tuning knobs and it should be dependable enough to use in a gig. An overall rating may seem high if you try to compare it to a Gibson, Fender or Epiphone. But if you compare it to the cheaper guitars out there (Squires, Rouges and such) it really stacks up well.

Okay not allot of features, standard shite on a Strat style geetar 22 frets s/s/h pick up arrangement, 5 way selector switch, dont know shit about the tuners they hold up for me tho,

This geetar is a good geetar for metal music you just gotta know how to treet her, I'm totally Into Metallica im runnin her on a Fender Frontman and a 120w Woofer/Horn Tweeter speaker(adds good distortion to any god damned amp) so its all good here, Theres not allot of variety in sound but its got a slaming Metal Sound nice distortion I love this geetar

The action aint greatest The high E string Reverbrates too much and the pick ups dont pick it up have to turn u the amp so if your gonna do some Tallica solos u wont be able to , or maybe its just my geetar.
Were u plug in ur Chord from the amp u need to constantly tighten that so it sucks

This is a very durable geetar as i've already rammed it into so many things and it still plays good.

Theres customer Support for this thing?

Well ive been playing for a yeeer and 4 months. I have an ANJO(what the F!! is that!?)Classical acoustic. I love the look im currently gonna strip the pick ups and cram in an EMG 60 or 2 (if i can customize the body) in there and its been rewired so it works . If i lost this shit i wouldnt bother replacing it man Flying Vee's all the way.

I have no idea what year it was made in. Made in Korea,22 frets,1 volume 1 tone 3 way switch,H/H pickups,black basswood body sort of a strat thing,standard trem bridge,crappy tuners that hold tune for 24.6 seconds,looks like a rosewood fingerboard. 6 for being your Stardard beginner guitar.

im using a peavey amp and a boss distortion pedal at the time,i play everything from metallica and Korn to everlast and lynard skynard to green day and johnny cash. the neck pickup is fair sounding it says metallica,korn,anything heavy. but put it on the bridge and it screams BLINK-182, GREEN DAY, LIT, DISTORTION. the volume knob dosent do much but make is sharper and some times add more gain but it might as well be a on off switch because between 1 and 10 the sound basically never changes,the tone knob is about the same.

well I got this guitar at a pawn shop so I dont know how it was set up from the factroy, but I had to adjust the pickups because the action is so high when I would play my low e string above the 12th fret it would be killed by touching the pickup,crappy action 9th fret and beond. The bridge sucked the pins are broke off so I cant adjust it and I hate any tremolo that dosent stay in tune so I made this a fixed bridge. The tuners still suck balls never hold in tune,the frets suprisingly have no buzz or dulls. The neck isnt very fast but good enough.

so far it seems like it would goto hell and back.

dont know

wish I wouldva bout Ibanez or BC Rich

This was going to be another one of my guitars until my friend gave it to somebody else in his family for free (I was gonna' pay $50 dollars for this hunk of junk so i could transform another sucky strat copy into something original). Thie features are just like most of the strat copies otu there, except the badass neck. The bas ass neck was maple with a rosewood fretboard and was as skinny and comfortable as the neck on my Jag-Stang (Even though it was 25.5 inch scale and had only 21 frets), the fretboard was actual rosewood with 21 nickel silver frets, shitty cheap tuners (You know, those cheap aluminum jobs they put on all the cheap guitars, Harmony, the $69.00 Kramer from Music-Yo.com, rok Axe...etc). the body is just what i said, A Stratocaster shape, when are the companies going to copy something else, like a Jaguar, Jazzmaster, Mustang, Duo-Sonic, Jag-Stang, or just something other than a fucking stratocaster. We have enough stratocasters and copies to give seventeen of em' to every person around the world. Please whoever owns any strat Fender or Shitocaster, get your guitars spayed or neutered or whatever, please. Other features include the cheap, obviously simple electronics. And belive me, i know, I have taken the shitty pickgaurd off to fix this thing so many times a corner piece broke of the White/Black/White pickgaurd. the pickup configuration would be great if the pickups did not suck, s-s-humbucker. And these pickups look like someone fucked in them to glue the magnets in, gross. The selector switch looks like a Matchbox car tank when taken off of the guitar.

After working on this guitar with hopes of buying it, I think it needs more work. The neck and mid pickups sound good despite the whale semen encrusted magnets or whatever holds the magnets in, and the bridge pickup sounds like shit on any amp, bass, guitar, or Sony stereo with CD input jacks, it sounds like shit on all of them. The bridge pickup is also a disgrace to Dimarzio pickups because it looks just like an aged, white, Dimarzio tone Zone humbucker. I tried to fix this pickup but the Motherfucking electronics stores in Opelika have no AWG 45 pickup wire. All I could come up with was thee rolls of enanemal coated shitwire (Magnetwire). I finished winding the pickup and it was more crappy than ever before. I have a suggestion for Radio Shack, start ordering AWG 45 pickup wire, there are ameture Luthiers all over the world and we would like to have some to rewind our shitty pickups with.

This guitar setup shows the downside of the neck It has, It buzzes at the fifth fret until there is a centimeter of action at the 21st fret. And there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. It also breaks strings on the damn saddles which has no grooves. All you Jazzmaster players and Jaguar players whine and complain your strings pop out of the slots in the saddles, guess what, Memphis shitocasters have no string slots on the bridge, so the strings slide around the saddles until they get stuck on the action screw holes and break. The finish is the only thing this guitar has going for it, some metallic white/cream color, and even a matching painted headstock so at least your girlfriend wont have a complaint of you hanging it on the wall as a decoration and she can comment on what a pretty guitar you have.

This guitar would die if even a fairy hit it. the pickgaurd was on the way to being broken, greenstick-like, in three places, the switch does not work half of the time, the strap buttons need to be constantly retightened, and the tremelo is as well made as a Ford Tempo assembled in a Yugo plant. The tremelo was used twice and the pivot block the strings are in comes loose. Did i also mention this pathetic shitocaster has a lamp cord for a groundwire.

No but I would love to beat the shit out of the sick, demented weirdo who designed this piece of shit.

This guitar was almost finished before I gave it back to the owner because he needed it for something. the only reason I would have bought it was that I would make a piece of trash into a masterpiece.
I put in three new controll pots, a mini switch (For the humbucker), and reownd the bridge pickup to find out it needed a new pickup, to think if people were more patient I could have made at least a half decent guitar out of this lump of crap.