Washburn BT10

Beautiful guitar - rosewood fretboard, mahogany body (shaped a lot like the EVH Wolfgang), dot inlay. Available in a couple of finishes; mine is translucent deep blue with wood grain visible, cream-coloured psuedo binding. This model comes with a Floyd Rose bridge and locking neck. Grover tuners (very nice ratio. Two passive pickups in an H/H configuration, both Washburn issue. One pot for volume, and a three-way pickup seletor. My only problem with this instrument in my opinion is the lack of a tone pot.

This guitar suits ANY music style. I play mostly hard blues, rock/metal and jazz. This guitar sounds incredible. The stock pickups were gritty and had a cool bite, but I swapped them for Steve Vai's Evolution models, which scream in this guitar. The sound is very full on the neck pickup, but not overly weak on the bridge considering the high ouput it has. I run this guitar through a Peavey Express 112, Bandit 112 and Classic 30. Effects include BOSS GE-7 EQ, BOSS Chorus Ensemble, BOSS Compression/Sustainer, BOSS DD5 Digital Delay and the BOSS Metal Zone. There is not a tone that this guitar cannot replicate in this setup ;-) Everything from BB King to Slayer to Satch and Vai.

The guitar was fairly well setup on purchase, although I felt the action was slightly high - dropping it where it should be took only seconds. The pickups were a little low for my taste, but as I changed them and rewired the inside everything is exactly where I like it. The finish is immaculate, without a flaw anywhere.

It doesn't scratch easily (I've had it onstage for almost two years now and its barely marred at all). The guitar itself is built like a compact little tank. If there ever was a guitar I would feel confident in, its this little Washburn. Don't let the price fool you - with a little customization this guitar can provide you with an incredible experience.

Never needed to contact them - the guitar is built like a BOSS ;-)

I have been playing now for twelve years, and have played many guitars extensively, in all price ranges, in all models. True, the BT10 is not 100% perfect, but its definitely the best value for what it is. Again, customization lets you use this body to create something semi-perfect!

It's a Korean made probably 1997-98, haven't dissected the guitar yet, sort of EVH-Peavey-Wolfgangesque solid body. Two piece white mahogany body with a bookmatched maple carved transparent red top. Two piece maple bolt-on neck with 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with really artistically placed dot markers. Has cream body and neck binding. Comes with one volume one tone and a three way toggle switch. Two 600 series Washburm passive 'buckers. Comes with a very nice Washburn Floyd Rose licensed tremolo. Comes with excellent Grover 3x3 tuners on a very unique angled headstock. It's an approx 24 3/4" scale with a nut width of 1 11/16". For the price, finish, pick-ups and tremolo I say it's a 10.

I play mostly punk with lots of distortion. The pick-ups are the same as in the Washburn P2, which I also own. To be honest these are the only stock p/u's that I haven't replaced. I have other Fenders and an Epi Les Paul all of which have had their p/u's changed. Their sound is good and the output drives my tube amps to great distortion. The 'buckers are real quiet. Palm muting has great chunk like a Dimarzio Super Distortion or other high output pick-ups. The tone knob for me is irrelevant and as a matter of fact, the volume also since I leave them at "10". I do all the ton/volume tweaking with the amp controls.

Actually I was pleasently surprised with the set-up. The P2's setup was aweful. With the BT10 the action was perfect for my style, medium, the neck was nicely set, with just the right amount of relief and no warpage. The pick-ups were a little low but nothing that a simple phillips screw driver couldn't fix. The p/u's are nicely aligned: all strings through the middle of the polepieces. The bookmatching is perfect, not very curly, actually a little faint, but the finish is very nice and seems as durable as any other polyesther finish. The routing is nice and clean although the cavities have some polishing compound dust. The control cavity is shielded although the carbon conductive paint was sprayed on with polyesther. The intonation was right on the money and the tremolo was floating nicely. A few points off for the maple top being a bit faint.

I've practiced with it and seems to hold up nicely. The chrome seems nicely laid the nut looks durable. The finish, since it is synthetic, seems a bit thin but has held up nicely until now. The neck/body joint looks nice and solid. I always change the strap buttons to Schaller's but the stock buttons are wider than the stock Fenders. Gig without back-up: never, not even with a Gibson or Fender.

Did call them once regarding the P2 and I waited for a long time. Once through they were very helpful. Comes with a limited lifetime warranty. Never had to dealt with to claim warranty or repairs.

Taking into account that I am a frequent customer at this warehouse the price is unbeatable. I also got a very good deal with the P2 last year. I own a few Fenders and an Epi Les Paul. Have played very high end Gibsons and Fenders. I like Washburn a lot. Their guitars are of very good quality but just the pick-ups in this guitar are worth the money. I've heard they are SD's, I really don't know for sure. I was looking for a Floyd Rose equiped guitar and compared it to some Ibanez's and prefered the Washburn. Very nice body shape, comfortable neck, great finish, awesome humbuckers, and a great tremolo. This is a guitar that I'm sure I'm not investing any more money on to upgrade: except maybe the output jack, feels weak and flimsy. I'd definitely buy it again if stolen, although i'd try to find the prick who stole it and kick his teeth in.

TOBACCO SUNBURST . 2TONE , 1 VOLUME. 21 FRETS ,COULD HAVE 1 MORE TOMAKE 22 . FRETS GOOD SIZE. REVERB ON THE GUITAR . TREMOLA BAR. ETC...MAHOGANY NECK. SOLID BODY. NON-LOOKING TUNERS. BODY TYPE IS A STRAT. BODY IS SPRUCE.

I PLAY HEAVY METAL MUSIC . GOOD GUITAR TO JAM ON . CAN"T GET THE GREATEST DISTORTION. PRETTY CLEAN & CLEAR SOUND. IF YOU WANT TO GET A GOOD HEAVY SOUND FOR ANY GUITAR I SUGGEST BOSS METAL ZONE FOR THAT

NOTHING WRONG WITH IT

EVERYTHING IS GREAT EXCEPT THE BODY IS A LITTLE SOFT GETS DENTS IN IT EASILY THOUGH . NONE OF THE BUTTONS WILL LOOSEN UP ON YOU WHILE YOU'RE PLAYING.

HAVEN'T HAD ANY PROBLEMS

MY FAVORITE FEATURE IS THAT YOU CAN PRESS AS HARD AS YOU WANT ON THE TREMOLA BAR AND IT WON'T BREAK. I LOVE IT . IF IT WAS STOLEN I WOULD PROBABLY BUY A DIFFERENT GUITAR THEN LATER ON BUY THIS ONE AGAIN.METALLICA RULES !!!!!!!! I GET MY ISPIRATION FROM HETFIELD AND HAMMETT. THIS GUITAR IS PRETTY GOOD FOR PLAYING METALLICA . MISFITS RULE TO!!!!!!! THIS GUITAR WAS MY FIRST ELECTRIC IT'S AWESOME IT KICKS ASS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Two-humbuckers at neck and bridge positions. Volume and 3-way selector switch. No tone control. Mohagany body, flame maple top. Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. Floyd Rose tremelo. Has binding on body and neck. Gotoh tuners. Fat frets though not very tall.

My style is in the line of Eric Johnson and Satriani so I was looking for a good lead tone with decent sustain. I found it with this guitar. BT-10 seems to be geared towards hard rock/metal. I play through a rather simple setup of a Zoom 505 and a small Ibanez practice amp bought over seas and let me tell you that I can't get some monstous tones. I was unable to get a "Fender-ish" clean sound without a ton of processing from a Zoom 505 pedal. Culprit could be the neck humbucker. But since I wasn't in the market for a clean sound, I can't say that it affected my opinion of the guitar in general. Tone is alot darker than a Fender, both clean and distorted.

Like said before, guitar has mohagany body with a flame maple top. It has a transparent red finish. Neck is maple with rosewood fingerboard. Finish was immaculate when I purchased it and have noticed that it doesn't scratch easily, and that is after some "belt buckle abuse" from friends. Neck joint is reasonable, though I noticed some space on the treble side. Tuners were nice and tight, no slack whatsoever. Frets were nicely polished with no signs of filing. Volume knob and selector switch aren't noisy. When it was purchased the action was a little high for my personal taste, so I lowered it as far as possible. When the fulcrum screws reached the bottom of the tremelo anchors the anchors themselves started lifting out of the body. Yikes!!! Turns out the anchors are friction fitted, which I'm not crazy about. I remedied this problem later. Strings put about 100 lbs pull on the neck and bridge, so that equates to 100lbs perpendicular to the anchors. I'm not worried about them ever coming out by themselves but that seems to be a nasty production shortcut on Washburn's part. Besides this flaw I don't really have any complaints.

Can't imagine having any problems with the guitar. Finish seems really tough. The hardware is chrome so I don't think that will rub off or anything like that. Neck seems to get better as time goes by, gets "slicker" for lack of a better word. Cord jack seems to always get loose, might wanna put some lock-tite on the threads to cure that one. Strap buttons are a little blunt for my personal taste; you might want to invest the extra change in getting some straplocks if you value you possession. I would always gig with a backup, unless I could afford a PRS or LP Custom.

When I discovered this little problem with the tremelo anchors I promptly called up Washburn to complain. They were really quite indifferent if you ask me. He said that the anchors were of significant length not to come out completely. Warranty would've covered a repair if so desired.

Though I wouldn't consider myself a technical expert on guitars, I have been playing for over eleven years. I have also owned Ibanez and Fenders in the past and would probably not choose the BT-10 over something like, say, an RG-550 or American Standard strat. Those two guitars seem very good at what they do. The Bt-10 does have a monstrous lead tone with good sustain, but I was outta luck for clean sounds. Wish that it had a "knob that nobody uses" because you miss it when it isn't there. Every other guitar in the free world seems to have a volume knob, so why not this one. That could've really made the difference in clean tone when dealing with those humbuckers.