Switch Oscar IV Custom

This guitar was made in China for Switch. It has a 22 fret bound Rosewood fret board. It is a solid body simi Les Paul shaped guitar that is made out of a man made material called Vibracell. The neck and body are all one piece. It has Tune-O-Matic style bridge with the standard stopbar tail piece. The tuners are standard Grovers. Neck scale is 24.75 with jumbo frets. It has two volume and two tone controls with a three way pickup selector switch. Pickups are a custom Switch design. The guitar comes with a very nice gig bag and strap. I rated the features at 5 because it has what it needs to perform correctly with out anything special.

This guitar sounds fantastic! The pickups are well suited for a wide range of styles. I'm running this guitar into a Marshal JMP-1 preamp and a Carvin TS100 power amp. This is jacked into an open backed 2-12 speaker cab with Emenence Private Jack speakers. The neck pickup should please most anybody looking for sweet, fat Blues. The bridge pickup is slightly bright, fat, and articulate. You can get plenty of chunka chunka crunch out of it with out it getting muddy. I really like both of these pickups as is and can't see any reason to want to change them out as they are really sweet and match well with each other. They are equal to anything out there in the after market in quality of sound.

I bought this guitar as a B Stock guitar from Music123. I was told by the staff that it was a Switch Demo so bare this in mind. Factory setup was almost none at all which was a real suprise. I am told, and have read here and elsewere that they are set up very well from the factory normally. Cosmeticly I would rate it as a B+ but again I bought it as a B Stock guitar and its performance out weighes its flaws here. Once I had the guitar set up to spec.s it is a lightning bolt to play as the action and neck are near if not completly perfect! I love the way the body contures just fit you when you pick it up to play. I was concerned about the volume control placement when I ordered this guitar as they are in the same location as a Strat style guitar. This location is just right to be wrong for me on most guitars that are set up this way as they get in the way of my picking hand. On this guitar it is no problem because the body is stepped down in this location. Shape wise this guitar fits perfectly into my Epiphone Les Paul guitar case although it sits a little deeper into the case. It doesn't feel as big as a Les Paul when played though. The guitar is very well contured to fit your body when you play it. The contures of the face of the guitar might be beautiful to some and ugly to others but they do serve a purpose and it will become clear to you once you play it. The guitar just fits and plays well. I'm giving a high rating here as the guitar is a real player once it was set up.

This guitar feals like it is built like an M-1 Abrems Tank! Able to take on just about anything that's thrown at it but can dance like a balarina while maintaining pinpoint aim at its target. It is a sonic heavy hitter that can be sweet and clean when you want it. This is a well balanced guitar in every respect and built to last with reasonable care.

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I've been playing since I was 14 and I'm pushing 53. I have a Gibson SG Faded Special, an Epiphone Les Paul Custom, a Carvin Bolt, and an Alvirez Yari.
This Guitar is better than my SG in some respects and the SG is or was my main ax. I love everything about this guitar and would pop for another one in a second if I had to. The bang for the buck is "HUGE" here as this is a first rate playing and sounding guitar if you like Gibson's scale legnth. If you don't get your self a Innovo as it is a 25.5 scale. Make the switch to Switch