Washburn BT2

Enough has already been said about the features on this thing. Easy-to-use knobs switch. Some folks have complained about this thing being noisy - mine makes nary a sound I don't want. Silent, no hum, no buzz, nothing.

Again, no noise at all, even with volume & tone all the way up. Pretty good selections of sound with the selector - from really heavy & bassy to lighter & trebly. Good variety of sound. Good for blues, rock, experimental, "alternative," etc.

Pretty good factory setup on mine. Tuned it once and didn't have a problem afterwards. With a little adjusting, I think I'll be set for a while.

Played it live the day I bought it (actually within 3 hours). Sounded good. Everything feels solid enough - I had no backup guitar & encountered no problems at all.

Don't know yet. Lifetime warranty.

I've been playing seriously (in a band) for about six years now (total playing time = about 13 years, but most of those were very VERY amateurish). The reason I bought this guitar was because I had a show that night & didn't feel like monkeying with my Yamaha SE603MA (needed new strings, locking nut tremolo - great guitar, but I didn't wanna go through the whole process to get it ready), and my 60's Kawai need all kindsa adjusting. I just wanted a cheap, easy to use, decent-sounding guitar I could set up and use in a hurry. I got it with this one. I like this thing a HELL of a lot better than other cheap guitars (Squires, Harmony strat copies) that I own and have played. If it were lost/stolen, no big deal. I'd buy another one (or wait a bit and buy something nicer & more expensive).

made in 2001, china
22 frets, quilted bodi (bt2q)
etc...................

perfect for my music style (experimental, alternative music)
it has no noise at all
ritch/full/warm sound
i like to set up the tuners high- so i get wery powerfull sound out of this baby
i like everything in the sound
i play trough korg ax1000g signal processor

everything is nice,
factory setup sucked- i did mine own
i love the low end playing so i put 11" strings on and it has almoust no fret buzz with 9" it has a litle bret buzz, but if it doesn't go trough my amp then it doesnt disturb me

i haven't played live on it yet, but i think i would do without any backup

no idea
but the local dealer is wery helpfull

i, ve been palaying for about 6years now
it's my 4th guitar
if ith were stolet or lost i would buy something more expensive but definately Washburn
I love it.:)

You've read about all the features...Dual humbuckers, short & fast neck, tune-o-matic bridge, etc. GREAT finish. I have the BT-2QT (vintage sunburst, quilt top). Grover tuners. Tighten them when you get it and they are just fine. Change strings and LOCK the strings as you wind (in other words, change the strings properly...) Sounds best to me with 10's.

Evaluate more than one BT-2 for fit and finish being careful to note the frets and neck and hardware and pick the best one just as you should do with ANY guitar you are considering. Even the best have their flaws. Just check out a few Les Pauls and pick out the quality control differences!

The wood is good.
Neck pickup is passable. Bridge should be replaced with Seymour Duncan JB. In fact, to do it all correct change the neck to a Seymour Duncan '59 or Jazz and you wont be able to put the guitar down!!!

Like any other guitar, some things are Great, others need a little help. People still pay a couple of grand for a Les Paul only to swap pickups to their taste!!!

After my pickup mods, I wont be letting go of this guitar for a long,long time. My other guitar is a '98 American Deluxe Strat and between the two, I have all the tone I could ever imagine. I cant believe that a $199 guitar with an extra $140 in pickups can keep up with guitars costing thousands.

All guitars need to be set up to the individual players taste. The components with this guitar are plenty good enough to allow all of the appropriate adjustments.
No flaws on mine but I looked over six different BT-2's carefully before choosing mine. BTW, the vintage sunburst quilt is pretty attractive (if you like that kind of thing). Makes a very unique guitar even more unique.
Had to tighten the GROVER tuners but that was no big deal. No out of tune problems once I changed strings and locked them properly. The factory setup does not wind the strings correctly which is probably why other reviewers had issues with going out of tune.

This guitar can withstand abuse. You might need to replace the strap buttons if you are hard on them but you knew that and probably would be using StrapLocks if you cared anyway.

With the pickup mods I made, I definitely would use this on a gig without a backup.

N/A. Havent used them yet...

Playing 35 years. All styles. I own 2 electrics and 3 acoustics and with two major superstores in my area have access to pretty much all of the good stuff. This is a GREAT little guitar to learn with as sold stock. With pickup mods, it is awesome for the money invested.

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2001 model, made in China. 21 frets. Beautiful midnight blue satin finished alder body, with tight fitting neck joint. H/H, passive. Tune-O-matic bridge. No tremolo. Grover tuners. Body shaped halfway between a Strat and a Peavey Wolfgang Special. Neck is medium, radius probably greater than 10, so it's good for chords but if you're into high notes, it will take some practice. Plastic tone and sound knobs. Neck is not rosewood. It's some sort of composite urethane. To be honest, it's obvious not much thought went into the manufacture of this instrument. You can tell it was stamped out on the assembly line, sprayed, and assembled. That's why it's so inexpensive. You Fender lovers (I'm included)should realize nearly all guitars are manufactured the same way now, by regular foreign workers trained on the assembly line, not by "luthiers." Get used to it. That's business. Unless you consider the 18 year old girl next door in Xinxiang province or Baja "luthiers".

I'm relearning after a 20 year hiatus from guitar playing, blues and rock. Being a hockey parent didn't give me any time. Used to play in a band in '70s, had tons of equipment, traded and rebuilt plenty of axes. Nest is empty now, so this is a starter guitar to get me back into it. I'll get a LP Custom again or a LP 5 when I'm sick of this one. Used a practice amp temporarily from a friend, to test pickups, until my new amp comes in. One chord on the Sinshang stock pickups on this Washburn and I immediately made up my mind to get rid of them. They were loose, weak, dead, with non-adjustable poles. Replaced them with Seymour Duncans, JB bridge, Jazz on Neck. Now it sounds damn good, loud, even response, and sustains well. Still not as good as a LP, obviously.
Some people say "this guitar is good for rock" and "this guitar is good for metal." The fact is, ANY guitar is good for ANY music, if you know how to play well enough, and know how to set it up properly.

Excellent fretwork. Intonation off a bit. I didn't like the feel of the rod while adjusting it, though, like turning the rod was torquing too much pressure on the neck. I think this was because of the urethane fretboard not allowing it to relax. So I backed it off an eigth of a turn and left it there. The action is satisfactory, though not exactly what I'd prefer, but it's still very close to the standard and very easily playable. Fit and finish, as I said, are outstanding. Tune-O-Matic, no problems there. I also changed the cheap plastic knobs with chrome ones to dress it up.

Strap buttons, finish are durable. Finish is gorgeous compared to some of the more expensive guitars I checked out at music stores. My guitar(s) then and now don't get scratches on them, or even the slightest dent marks. Banging around a musical instrument is detrimental to its sound. You don't see violinists banging around their Stradivarius', do you?
This seems like it would be a reliable little instrument, because it's solid and stays in tune well. No backup would be necessary, based on my past experiences. It has a basic fixed bridge and H/H, a three way, a sound and tone pot. If it had a tremolo, then I'd be concerned. I didn't have the patience, or thought it was worth the effort considering its value, to split the coils on the new H/H and install a second switch. So this does limit tonal possiblities.

Had a lifetime warranty until I changed the pickups. Now, zilch.

If it was lost or stolen, I wouldn't care. I'd just go out and buy something more expensive, next time, like everyone does.
There is one thing about this guitar that amazes me. When the college kids are home, they seem to love the damn thing and strum away on it when I'm not using it. I think it's because it's easy to play and easy to learn on. Anything that can stimulate interest gets a high rating in my book, regardless of the inherent shortcomings.

Lets be straight with it, this guitar is a really basic guitar for a low price...so pro guitarists should stay away from it. This guitar is only for kids who like to hold an electric guitar in their hands and dream of their Favourite GGuitar God's(And it sure looks good in their hands). There are absolutely no features on this guitar...heck it dosent even have a tremelo arm. My guitar has a green finish n must say thet the finish of the body is really god. And it has undergone some really rough use by me and it still looks ok to me. The knobs and pickup selector(only looks classy) are classy too. But the same cannot be said for the neck.The pickup selector is very frail and just a few days of use made it come loose. It has a small hole(very small, almost like a dot)in the wood above the 2nd fret and at places the wood has grooves in it, which means that the wood has not been even polished prorerly. The chrome on the steel parts is ok.

But all in all in the feature segment there are really no features in this guitar and the only + is the body finish, but we don't buy guitars to keep them in glass cases n watch them...do we.

I am primarily a Rock Blues player(Gary Moore type) but I freak of in many directions. That mean's I play From Metal to Funk n everything in between...just depends on the feel of the day. Haveing said that this guitar is suitable only for the bluesy kinda stuff. Actually if u turn the volume know all the way up(Richie Blackmore style) than this Guitar makes a very warm tone n it has real feel to it, but thats only in the middle frets...if u go higher than all the feel just disappears. So if u wanna play some plain old blues just jack is a Marshall amp and U have a Means to express yourself. But thats wherer the range of this guitar ends. U can't eally do anything else with it. Thats coz the pickups are so noisy. They constantly make a zzzzzzzzz sound, just like someone's snoreing. And if u really put it in overdrive the pickups become too sensitive. The slightest touch and your guitar is makeing all sorts of noises.

So I suggest if u have this guitar than don't add any effects to it n just play it straight with a good Brit Stack.

Sustain is ok... altough mush better at lower frets than higher. U cant really make pinch harmonics with this Guitar.

But the worse part is the tuneability(or nontunability) of this guitar. This guitar just dosen't stay in tune no matter what u do. So if u happen to have bought it before u read this, make sure u buy a good Guitar Chromatograph(Korg makes some good ones) or else u'll go nuts tuning this thing.

The Guitar came with a very basic manufacturing defect in the neck section. The neck has a much more pronounced curve at the higher strings and a much lesser curve at the lower strings. So if u set it up for ast action than the bass atrings buzz like a chain saw, n if u chech that the higher(G,B and e) strings rise up too mush. So i've adjusted it somewhwre in between these two evils. Additionally I filed the bridge at the higher strings end a bit so that the strings sit a bit low and the action was somewhat ok.

The alignment of the neck was also not proper and I had to unbolt it all n fix it again.

This guitar seems fairely reliagle to me...i.e if someone plans to keep it that long n use it for live gigs. I don't plan to do that. If u do than this guitar won't atleast crash in midflight. Only thing I can write here is that the neck is bolted very weakly to the body. That scares me a lot sometimes and it also must have a bad impact on the sustain of the guitar

Never delt with this part.

I've had this guitar for 5 years now and I'm stuck with if only coz my dad bought it for me(Its my first electric). Otherwise I would happily give it away for anything. And since I dont like things to be stolen fron me(IN PRINCIPLE), so lets just leave that part. Nor am I a Philonthropist so as to give it away for free. But if I happen to loose it I would never buy this same Guitar again.

Features as listed in the other reviews. My, "coffe table," is black. I do like the simplicity of the design. I do love the neck, and I am going to remove it and put it on another body.

I play experimental music, and this guitar is definately "experimental". It is an experiment in terror. Plan on playing a lot of microtonal music, because that's what you get with a guitar that is virtually impossible to keep tuned. I have a fender deville, but I only play this guitar through a kmc stereo. It is noisy and wholly unreliable. This is the sound you ca get the guitar to make, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. In all fairness though, it does have a nice dark tone.

Fit????, It's fit for firewood. After purchasing this "marvel", I found it impossible to tune. Inspection resulted in the realization that the bridge is located in the wrong place!!!!!! This results in the intonation NEVER being correct. Also, the fret job must of been done by a drunkard. Even the grover tuners on this beast suck, no kidding.

Yes, it will withstand live playing, it is just designed improperly. I do like the finish;It really is a good looking guitar. It will make some young butt-rocker a nice stage to play his/her solos on.

N/A

I've been playing and performing for ten years. I do like the aesthetics of the instrument, and the neck really is nice to play on. If it were stolen I would laugh, because, what better punishment for a thief? Don't buy this guitar unless you do the math, literally. There is an equation that you can utilize to decide where the optimal location of the bridge should be in relation to scale length.

great guitar, although made in indonesia.i think it was made in 99 but im not sure. has volume knob and tone knob with a three way selector switch, which is on the top of the guitar that makes it easier i think to change while playing. it has two humbuckers which are stock for now, but i plan on purchasing some DiMarzio screamin deamon pick ups. but the stocks are doin just fine for now, i actually like them. plus it has a rosewood fingerboard which i like a lot, i guess i just have some thing for dark colored fingerboards. the color is very cool as well, i dont really like plain solid colored guitars so this one kinda gave me a change between the rest of my guitars. it has a tune-o-matic bridge which is alright i prefer floyd rose locking tremalo's but i couldnt get that option on this guitar. it has stock grover tuners which i like better than anything else that i have owned. one thing is that the guitar seems really really small. it has 22 frets compared to my others 24, but still it seems really small just cause of two frets. but i am getting used to it. actually i think it is more comfortable to play now that i am used to it. i got it with a gigbag and i added on a jim dunlop strap lock system. so over all i like this guitar its just it seems kinda small right now, but i am sure i'll get used to it.

this guitar suits my music style quite well. lately i have been into playin like deftones and cold. bands of that nature and this guitar works pretty good. i play it through a fender princeton chorus amp with two tens in it. the overdrive on the amp is all right but this guitar sounds even better with distortion through a dod supra distortion pedal. and i love the way it sounds with my jim dunlop cry baby wah. so this guitar pretty much handles the sounds that i prefer.

this gutiar is set up well i think, havent had any problems yet. but key word is yet. i have heard many things about this guitar, good and bad. but it is holding up still pretty well for me. another thing i like about this guitar is when you are not playin it when its plugged in it doesnt give a noisy feedback humming noise. that was a big plus. and the finish is really cool its a type of sunburst finish on it but i actually got the guitar for cheaper because there is a little spec on the darker finish that touched the lighter part of the guitar. i didnt really care but it got me the guitar for cheaper.

i think this guitar would withstand live playing pretty well but i always have a couple back ups on hand no matter what. the finish is pretty good i think too, its holding up better than my friends ibanez rg which has all kinds of nick marks on it. the strap buttons i changed right away just cause they were the standard kind of strap buttons so i put some strap locks on them just cause i had them. and like i said earlier when i find a good deal the pick ups are goin but for now these ones are fine.

i have been playing for about 4 years now and have owned a ephiphone strat fake (which i still own) an ibanez rx, and a bc rich bronze warlock, plus a washburn acoustic which i still have and love. so i think i have finally found a brand i can rely on, i think washburn might be my new guitar choice from now on. if this gutiar was stolen or something i wouldnt really care i would just be pissed that i lost out on some money. but i would still buy another washburn of some kind. i wish it had some new pick ups though and a different bridge but the bridge is too much of a pain to change so the pick ups will be gettin changed. all around though i like this guitar and i think i will play it till it breaks or i become so unbelievably sick of it and have to buy a new one. but i do wish it were a little bigger, so if you are a pretty big guy i wouldnt recomend this one unless you are like me and kinda like the smaller style for comfortability. it just kinda looks funny

Made in good old Indonesia! It has 22 frets and a volume knob and tone knob. I have no idea what kind of pickups it has but the ones that came with are always messing up and breaking. It has a maple neck and i think a rosewood body or vise versa. The finish is a fireburst color. Mine came with a Washburn amp, a tuner, and a crappy cord.

I play all types of music and it works pretty well for me. It has a pretty standard tone but I plug it into my Zoom 505 II and then into an amp for pretty much any sound you want. I do have trouble with the rythym pickup.

Perfect. I've had mine for about a year and love it more everyday. The action has never had to be adjusted. The strings are just in the right place to be easy to play but not buzz on the frets.

I think it would be okay live. Once again I'll mentioon the pickups but I don't know if that is just mine or if they all do. Mine's been treating me well. I've never had to replace anything but I have had to repair some bad wiring.

Never used it.

I've been playing for 4 years and consider myself pretty well educated in guitars. If it were stolen I would hunt down the theif and kill them then reclaim my guitar. I think it plays better than most thousand dollar guitars and for the price it is a spectacular deal.

This is my first guitar, I got it at a local guitar store. I think my BT2 is a 2000 model, since I got it in late 2000. It was made in Indonesia, thought it really doesn't matter to me, but some people say the ones made in the US are made better, which may be true. There are 22 frets. It's got nice Grover tuners, I like them a lot. I also like where the volume and tone controls are, the selector isn't as easily changed while playing though. The strap buttons have held up thus far, although the button at the base is slightly loose. For some reason one of the pickups sinks every once and a while and I have to use a screwdriver, though this really doesn't bother me. As a first guitar I think it was a good choice and it seems pretty tough. Like other people said, I think the scratches can give it character...though mine is still in good condition, like it should be.

The guitar suits my style, though I am trying to be as versatile as possible and learn as many techniques as I can I use it with a small peavey amp, and that can make some cool sounds if you use it right. It's got a good sound quality and I am pretty satisfied with this category.

Although some of the other reviews had bad experiences with the quality of the guitar, and had to use their warranty, my guitar was pretty well built from the start. Like I said before though, the base strap button is loose, which looks like is from it being poorly screwed in. I tried to fix it, but without much success. Everything else was and still is in good shape. The finish was flawless when I got the guitar.

I seem to be repeating myself here but these categories suck, at least the prompt questions do. Like I said, this guitar is quite durable. I think it will last me a long time, if i take care of it, these people that bought there guitar used and are complaining about its quality are completely off base. I do think that it would withsatnd live playing, and i think that if you had to use it alone it could easily be relied on.

The warranty is life time, and I haven't had to deal with the company at all, the guitar was in great shape.

I've been playing for a year and have been taking regular lessons. Althought some beginners don't take lessons and think they don't need them, they're wrong. Having a teacher could help you avoid mistakes that will be hard to correct as time goes on. Just because you have a teacher doesn't mean you can't develop your own style,though. I would definitely recommend beginners to take lessons, it gives you direction, and I have learned quite solid rhythm guitar. I'm kinda attached to the guitar now, so I'd would be really ticked if it were stolen (i wouldn't lose it). I love this guitar, but if it were stolen, I might save money for a better guitar rather than the same one. But if it doesnt get stolen i would get an acoustic guitar before ever replacing my electric. I do wish ther were more controls on the guitar. I also wish that I could add a wammy for more versatility. I have a case, and I would recommend a metronome for those looking to improve their rhythm, and electric tuners help too, though doing it by ear improves your ear.

black, maple neck, fixed bridge, 2 humbucker

the sound is decent. it's good for moderately fast paced music, but wouldnt work well for metal. i play alot of punk and this is the best sound for that type of music. clean, it isnt very bright, it's actually kinda dull.

it's scratched up alot, i dunno how it was when it was new. the finish kinda sucks but it doesnt hurt the sound quality or the feel in anyway.

this guitar can take alot of abuse, i used to play it all the time at practices and shows for my old band, it has never let me down. the finish obviously wont stand up for lots of playing and abuse but that shouldnt really matter unless you care about appearance. i would feel perfectly fine using this guitar without a backup.

i've been playing for several years, this was the first guitar i ever bought. i own a standard fender telecaster, and a bc rich acrylic mockingbird, both are new, and i use the washburn as my main guitar for everything. if it were ever stolen or lost i would try my best to find another one. the reason i bought the guitar was for the price, it was the cheapest at the pawn shop. i didnt expect to use it very long, i figured i could get something cheap to learn on and upgrade to something better once i learned guitar, but i was wrong, i love the way this guitar feels, there isnt anything i dislike about it, but some people that have played it dislike it because it's slightly smaller than a standard guitar.