Product: Saga PRS-Style Kit
Price Paid: US $125
Submitted
09/07/2003
at
08:15am
by
Jim
Features
:
6
The guitar was a kit. I'm not sure where it was made. It has 22 Frets. It has one volume, and one tone knob. It also has a 3 way toggle switch (the switch was wired backwards, so check your before installation!!!) The guitar has 2 nice sounding humbucker pickups. The guitar was "ready for finishing." That is, all but one spot, which ended up being a major pain to rectify during my hand finishing. The guitar came with what looked like a nice flame top, but I ended up staining the guitar so dark, to cover the "bad spot" that the flame really doesn't show up now. It has a tupe-o-matic style bridge and a stop tailpiece. The tuners are sealed. One other thing that bothered me was that it didn't come with all the necessary screws to put it together. But a walk to the hardware store took care of that. Also, many of the pre-drilled holes weren't where they should have been, they were slightly off. Once I did get the guitar assembled (it was EASY) and set up (also easy, but then again, I've set up a lot of guitars) I was suprised. It plays and sounds really good!!!
Sound
:
10
I mainly play blues and blues rock. This guitar is perfect for it. It sounds great for slide, volume knob swells etc. I play it through a Marshall. No annoying hum, etc. It just sounds great!!!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
The neck supposedly needed "no work" and was ready to play. But.....I will need to do some fretwork on one fret which is too high. As far as set up, I did that, so it's ok. The bad fret is a bummer however. Due to that, it's a 7.
Reliability/Durability
:
9
The guitar is actually pretty darn solid. I think it will last.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
8
I've been playing for about 30 years, and have never built a guitar before, so I thought this would be a fun project. Other than the problem staining the wood due to it's bad spot, missing screws (other screws also stripped easily), I actually like this thing a LOT. If it were lost or stolen, I probabally wouldn't get another. Like I said, this was a "fun project." The guitar is very balanced in weight, and after proper setup, sounds great. The built guitar itself is great, building the kit had it's issues.
