Washburn BT4

Nice bolt-on neck, small headstock, very compact. Small body, original design. Non locking tuners, not sure of the wood but gorgeous golden tint, vintage sunburst, thick glossy finish.

Fine with high overdrive with distortion, or light overdrive with effects. I use it for fusion and rock mainly, and it has more than adequate power to handle that. I find the pickups pretty responsive. The switch is pretty solid also. Not recommended for heavy metal, because it has no sharp edges or skulls on it :-).

Perfect finish, even on a used one, neck straight as an arrow, action medium, very comfortable to play hanging high or slung low. What I love is the small size, it's the smallest and cuddliest :-) guitar I've ever played.

If you don't whack it on the speakers, or on the floor, it looks like it will last a lifetime. Tuning heads have a bit of free play, but seem to hold pretty well.

Like I said, the transparent finish is very solid, withstood a few little accidents very well over 10 years or so. Strap buttons are very solid, so is the tremolo bridge assembly.

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This is a high quality instrument, despite the low price, and perfect for home use. I do not use an amp, rather a mixer with stusio speakers, and the sound is very clean, so it's probably fine for recording. Definitely better pickups than the Ibanez GIO, with the same pickup combination - two single coil and one humbucker. A little static built up in the pickup changer, but that's easy to fix. This guitar is much maligned on this site, and maybe it's because people are using crappy amps. I had that experience too - bad amp, bad sound. Brought it home, plugged it into my mixer, the sound was amazing. Please don't judge the instrument before you try it in different amps. Anyway chances of finding one are slim, they are not in production anymore. So if you do, grab it. Cheers.

I love my BT4. Like a mistress. It is my practice guitar, before I wear out the frets on my others. My Les Paul is too nice to play 90% of the time. Anyway it is a modern world so we can all use the intamanet to look up features (bought 2004, rosewood fretboard, maple neck, SSH passive layout, between a C and a D neck, Dark blue, melted strat shape, tremelo bridge that I don't use, smallish/medium frets). From some of the other reviews I like to think that I have the best BT4 in the world. The action is awesome, it sounds great, there was only fret buzz when bending on 1 fret and it took 4 years before I found a song that used that bent note. Anyyway an 8 'cause it doesn't have a Kaoss pad.

Awesome clean tone, seriously perdy, especially in second position. The humbucker is low output but is disturbingly louder than my Ibanez S series. Does a range of sounds, but has its own sound, doesn't really sound like a telecaster or a strat for example as it is a 24.75 scale etc (but I don't own a tele so don't quote me).

This one is amazingly good for a cheap guitar on all fronts. It is 4 years old, no paint wear, the neck wood it hard and apparently does not dent, the guitar is pristine. Perfect practice guitar as it does not wear out. As described earlier it took until recently to locate a fret that would not bend a whole step. I could not be happier.

Live - yep. Hardware all good. Finish is thick. strap button solid, I have never tightened them. I could use it without a backup as it doesn't seem to break strings.

It was missing a trem bar which the store provided happily. But remember it is a discontinued model.

You know when you play one guitar for 2 years and then at a party someone hands you their guitar and the neck is weird and the strings don't seem to be in the right place. Well This guitar has a 41mm nut while I prefer a 43mm (1 and 11/16). So when I purchased other amazing guitars with 43mm nuts I decided to keep the BT4 to allow me to practice on an alternative neck profile. I have no intention of ever selling it. If I preferred 41mm nuts it would be my chosen guitar and I would collect BT4s and BT2s.

This guitar is very similar to the Peavey Wolfgang when it comes to shape. It's clearly a cross between a Strat and a Les Paul.

My guitar has a see-thru red finish and it looks ok, very good when you consider the budget. The tuners are reliable (thanks to the locking nut also) but the bridge is clearly a low quality Floyd Rose (in what both action and sound are concerned).

The guitar is very comfortable (like the Peavey) being small and having a great neck (rosewood on hardrock maple). The pickups are extremely poor, especially the humbucker (H-S-S configuration). The 5-way switch is fragile and noisy. For that reason, I upgraded them to Seymour Duncan pickups and the woods thanked me the next minute. I don't know how the guitar will age, but the woods seem to be quite fine. The volume and tone controls just work on the 10. Otherwise, they cut the sound too much (I'll have to upgrade this section too).

I play rock, blues and funk and the guitar was supposed to work well in these styles. With the old (factory) pickups, forget it. After the upgrade, I can do pretty much what I want...

Like I said before, I'm pleased with the woods which are resonant and have soft spots in the low-mid frequencies (5th ~ 12th frets). The higher you go, the more you wish you were playing a Wolfgang... they lack some personality.

The pickup and controls cavity seems well shielded but there always some noise.

Action is good, fit also.
For a guitar this price, finish is very interesting.

This guitar will be the backup guitar, not the main one.
I think that says it all.

Bought off eBay in good conditions.
Thus meaning I never dealt with Washburn.

Excellent value for money, definately.

With some upgrades (pickups, electronics and tremolo), it can be a reliable backup guitar.

Hand crafted in Indonesia is what it reads on the back of the fretboard. Mine's dark purple with a deep wood fretboard but lighter wood on the back of the fretboard. It's a string-thru body, pretty easy to change strings. Don't know what year, got it from a music shop with nothing else, just the guitar. (Note this is my first electric so I don't really know any hardware terms). Only 2 out of the 5 pickups don't buzz, the second one and the fifth and final one.

Only real complaint I have noticed after maybe 4 months of playing every day is that the little pickup selector switch naturally clicks over to the last pickup if I play too hard.

I'm using a Peavey Blazer Transtube 158 (the one with reverb). On clean it sounds very nice and rich, but I hardly ever use clean. I'm a huge metalhead, so it almost never leaves maximum distortion. After you use it for an hour or so it starts to buzz a little, maybe that's just the amp (remember, I'm a newbie to electric guitars).

There's only two dials on the guitar - volume and tone. The tone, when put to 0 makes a pretty bass-like sound. But between 2 and 10 on the tone dial there's really no difference.

For metal it suits me very well. Can make some pretty nasty sounds. My friend has a Squier and when we jam mine can make a little bit heavier, dirtier sound. But maybe that's just the amp, mine's bigger than his.

The fit and finish is very nice. Better, in comparison, to my friend's Squier strat. I don't know how the factory set up was, I got this used and nothing came with it.

The cluster of two pickups towards the rear of the guitar, are a little bit loose if you poke them.

Paint is gorgeous, very smooth, not a chip on it. Mine is a mean looking dark purple, in the light you notice it's a bit darker around the edges. I think that adds a cool shadow effect. Is this a flaw or a sign of attention to detail? I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

The wood on the fretboard is pretty nice, however if you try to pull a Hendrix or a Townshend and get too rowdy with it, you might make a chip on the fretboard and reveal a lighter wood underneath the dark paint.

The toggle switch on the pickup selector becomes loose after enough playing around with it and may move to the right when you rock out too hard. I advise you to be a little careful with that.

This is a pretty reliable guitar. Rock solid strap buttons, great finish, dependable. I would use it on a gig if I didn't have a strange tendency to break the strings, but that's not the guitar's flaw. You can count on it to be a nice playing guitar, it's held up very well over my rowdiness and really smashing on it.

Mine was from a local music store, said it had never been used (I believe them because some clear plastic stickers were still on it) but didn't come with a warranty, manual or anything. Simply the axe.

I've only been playing for about 8 months now, and I've only had this for half of that time. Got it for christmas. I love the color, I like how it looks and how raunchy the sound can be.

I don't like though how it's a basically unknown brand name. When people ask me what I play, I feel kind of embarrassed to say "a Washburn" because nobody has heard of it. They assume that because it's such a small brand, the company doesn't have good enough quality to get famous. I think it's nice quality, but people assume I'm not a good player and that I don't have good equipment when they hear that I play a Washburn.

Also I'd just like to add that this is a great site, a LOT of reviews on guitars I didn't think anybody had!

This guitar is a BT-4DB, 4 in. shorter then the normal guitar, 22 frets, Grover tuners, volume and tone knobs, 5-way selector, whammy bar, made in Indo.

This guitar fits my style pefectly( rock and blues.) I am using it with a Crate Rube-Driven 70. I play it through a Boss metal Zone petal. It is a good sounding guitar..... I love to play it! This guitar is noisy, especilly with #1 on the 5-way selector. I love to use the Qhammy Bar(i tune it a lot)!

I got this guitar off of EBay, so I dont know how it was setup. It held up through shipping,it even stayed in tune. The guitar had some buzzes in the headstock.sanding scratches evident on the back of neck.just the normal nitpicks for a guitar under $80.

This guitar will probaly withstand live playing(not sure about this.) Ithink the hardware will hold up awhile. I trust that I could use it on a gig without a Backup(again I am not sure about this.) I can depend on it. The strap buttons are solid. i think the finish will hold up and so does the hardware.

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I just started playing and my dad's DeArmond was was WAY to heavy for me. This is a heavy guitar, but the DeArmond was A lot heavier. I have not played many other guitars, but I think this is a pretty good guitar(I luv the Whammy Bar). If this guitar was stolen or lost, I would consider getting another one of these. I am NOT regretting getting this guitar. I t stays in tune well and I love the sound of it. I have to say that the whammy bar is my favorite feature , but I like the 5-way selector.

1997 made indonesia, 5 way selecter h-s-s. All the regulars, grover tuners, wb 400 humbucker (crap) and two stock single coils. Everyone calls it a strat copy, but i think the shape is cool and very comfortable.

I currently own a wm3. amazing. Made in the usa, set neck, seymore Duncans, buzz feiten tuning, swamp ash. The bt4 is very similar looking other than the wm3 has a huge pearloid pickguard (too big). they are both from the maverick series. the bt 4 being at the low end, the wm3 being at the high end. I figure i bought a new maverick so must have liked the old one. it got the job done for me at the time. If you can afford it, go for the custom!!!!

As i said, the humbucker is garbage, the single coils arent bad, very clean and quiet. Pretty versatile. I know that the bt4 is a low end guitar, but the fret board was problematic with several place that buzzed. But at this price, i cant bitch too much.

Action was ok. Needed a few adjustments. As i stated before, the shape is very comfortable. I have a tobacco sunburst finish. Very unique.

Ive had the guitar several years, and it has endured.

never dealt with them, but i've heard horror stories.

Good things, looks nice, good shape, durable. bad things, heavy, humbucker is lame, buzzy fretboard, and goes out of tune just looking at it. For the price, it is decent.

My first electric guitar. 2002, made in Indonesia. Dark blue. 22/frets, vol, tone, 5 way selector, tremolo, S/S/H, Chrome tuner. Included a gig bag. I decided to buy it based on the review from this web site. I'd say for the price, it has lots of features. I could go for a fake Fender (Squirer) but I don't want to play something looks like Fender but you don't find the word "Fender" on it.

I mostly play acoustic and I have an Ovation Adamas. Of course, I know how much I paid for the BT4 so I can't complaint. Sound is OK. I use the VMP2 to drive my home HiFi stereo so I can get lots of effects and simulation. There is no noise problem with it. The A string seems to be giving me too much bass and the high E string seems to be a little low in volume. I tried different position of the switch and I can get different sound. I don't like position 2, it sounds tiny. If I want acoustic sound, I use position 1. I'm still using the factory strings. I think it may sound better if I use brand name strings. Maybe better sound if I change the pickup.

The guitar was basically un-playable when I first open the box. Factory setup is a joke. I used to be a mechanical engineer so I did the setup myself based on specs found from internet. Setup job was not difficult but took time. After spending 4-5 hours setting it up. There are still two minor issues- (1) The low E string still can't get an accurate (but it's acceptable) octave higher at 12 fret. The bridge for this string has been move all the way back. (2) the G string will have a slight buzz between 8-12 frets, and it's noticable from the amp. This is imperfection of the fret board due to mass production. Other than that it has low action for playing fast.

Finish is fine (in this price range). The color seems to be slightly darker compare to what I saw from the internet.

Don't know. I haven't been playing it a lot and haven't bring it out of the house. But it looks like it will last. I think I can depend on it and use it without a backup.

haven't use it yet.

I have been playing for many years mostly on acoustic. I have two other Ovations A/E. I may be 50/50 to buy it again if it is stolen. I love the price, but I think the quality can be better. I have to keep remind myself how much I paid then I'll have no complaint. I did compare to BT2 and Yamaha in the same price range. I personally don't like Yamaha. I mostly based my decision on this web site.

One other thing is I am always loyal to Musicfriends.com until I order this guitar from them. When I placed the order, the sales rep told me the bag is included. Their web page says include a free gig bag but it didn't come. I called them up and the customer service rep I talked with also said it should come with the bag. Then I was transferred to a "highly trained" rep who told me that I may not be getting it and told me to read the fine prints at the bottom of the page (which you have to scroll through lots of empty space down to see it). It says they are not responsible for any spec change or errors on description. I got pissed at that moment because the page says "Includes a free gig bag.". If they say this is a typo, they can ship me some gabbage for the BT4 too. Finally, they did send me a gig bag without any extra charge.

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i love the sound of this guitar its one of the brightest and best sounding i've ever played.

The action was pefect when i got it . I changed out the humbucker for a seymour duncan invader and it sounds wicked. It a small nick in the wood and i got a steal on it .

This guitar is my main guitar when playing live and it can take the punishment of the road. Everything seams like it will last forever and i've been pretty brutal to it. The strap buttons are extrmely durable (i jump alot and do a ton of crazy antics) i haven't had a problem yet. I do gig without a back up.

never had to go to washburn.

2000 model, made in Indonesia (Probably by Samick)22 frets, solid mahogany body, s/s/h washburn pickups, bla bla bla...already stated in previous reviews.

I love the tone of this little guitar. I play it through a new Peavey Bandit 112 with no effects. Nice bright tone, good sustain, nice variety of tones with the humbucker in the bridge position. I usually play in switch position 2, 4 for clean. 5 way kind of thunks when swithing, but I haven't had any problems with it cutting out.

Do yourself a favor, pay a luthier to set the guitar up properly (Usually $80 including a fret polish). The QC people at washburn seem to be slacking a bit on their set up procedures. Tuners were a bit loose, but a quick few turns with a screwdriver fixed this, and helped it to stay in tune much better. (I blocked the trem-a must without sperzels)Nice fast neck, but I wish it were radiused a bit. Fit and finish is fine-no complaints there. The fretboard is made of a wood I have never heard of, but has a great feel, and is almost as dark as ebony.

I play this live with no problems at all. Grover tuners should last forever. As far as the finish goes, it's just fine, but I am going to sand mine down and shoot it with nitrocellulose lacquer to show the beautifully grained mahogany underneath. (I sanded the control cavity paint off, and found some great grain under that paint!) I always use backup, but te guitar is trustworthy.

Easy to deal with. I got mine cheap because it was a dropsy-some moron dropped it in the store and broke a tuner. Customer service was a bit slow in responding to my email, but very helpful and polite. Lifetime warranty-can't beat that.

Been playing for 20 years. I own lots of other gear-too much to list. I would buy another if it were lost. (People don't steal from me...I'm a biker...haha)I like the balance, neck shape, tone, and general playability. Love the headstock shape, too! I hate to say this, but it played better than several American Standard Stratocasters I played in the local shop. (C'mon Fender-fret buzz all over the neck on an $800 american made guitar???) Maybe that shop's tech just hadn't set up any of the fenders, but....

I bought this Guitar in 1998.
22 frets.
Solid Top.
Volume Tone 5-way switch.
s/s/h
washburn pickups I guess--
passive electronics
heavy and solid --
thick blue paint on body everything else natural
kinda modern like something new and cool
Stratocaster --just bends down,really tight.
Grovers
the neck is nothing really but it plays good.

I have always played acoustic guitars. I have an old National Electric but I still sort of play it like an acoustic. I bought this guitar from Mary's Music in Nashville a couple of years ago because it was a clearance and I wanted to play around with a solid body electric. It is a lot of fun to play. I get all kinds of sounds out of it. I can play Clash and Black Sabbath easily with it. I have a Maximouse and on the humbucker it sounds really cool destortion. With an overdrive I can get that really high pitch howl with the wammy. When I go to the neck pick up I can get really cool Lounge Lizard sounds --especially with some of those crazy Dano pedals out there. I love doing the Star Spangled Banner with a Chicken Salad Vibrato. I keep thinking I should get something better but I really have no idea of what would be better or more fun. I guess my next guitar will have to be really expensive.I have been playing around with the middle pickup now because that is what Carlos Santana uses a lot for some reason.

This guitar was just fine when I got it. When I compare it to my acoustics it is a dream to play. My National has very good action but it is an arch top so I can't really compare the two. I think I should do something to it to make it better but after playing it awhile I just can't think of anything. I am not really too picky but when I pull it out of the gig bag I think it is really cool looking.

This guitar is solid as a rock--it might be too heavy actually.
there is nothing new or unusual about it--just tried and true design.
The electronics are sound but sometimes I hit the switch by mistake. I may just cut it off or bend it over. Maybe I will just avoid it better. Anything will withstand live playing--just don't be stupid. I have yet to deal with the back up problem. If I busted up this guitar on a gig so bad I couldn't play it or tune it I would hate myself in the morning.

I have never worked with Washburn but Mary's Music is very helpful and I like visiting their web site.

I started playing when I was a kid in the sixties. I realized I would never be Jimmy Page and so I got a day job. I am an Electronics Technician. I always loved Tubes. I was surprised to find 20 years later that tubes were still popular. I started playing in earnest again about six years ago. I remember when a Les Paul was 800 dollars! A friend of mine bought a Martin guitar new for 350 dollars. A Volkswagen bug went for about 300 used! I think guitars are a great bargain today.

New Washburn BT4, H/S/S, tremelo, rosewood fretboard. Grover tuners. Blue finish

Pretty good sound, for a beginner. I installed better pickups, now it sounds great.

Everything was great. I had to adjust the neck a little, but this is to be expected with a shipped guitar.

Good solid hardware, definitely a keeper. I have more expensive guitars but this on is really fun to play.

Hmmm. I haven't had any probs yet. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

A great player, especially for a lower end guitar. Pickups are crap, but that's expected for the price. Install some good ones and you'll be in heaven. Definitely one of the best, cheapest strat copies I've owned.

Not sure of the year, but I got it in a deal in 2000. 22 frets, made of mahogony. The knobs are volume and tone, with a five-way selector switch for the standard S/S/H pickups, and the tuners are Grovers.
It looks like a kind of semi-melted strat (but with a fanned tuning head), which I like a lot - no scratchboard, mine is plain wood finish. Very nice looking.

I like to play varied types of stuff - Bob Marley to Alanis Morrisette to Motorhead - but only to sit and while away an evening. I run it through a Zoom GFX-707 to a Washburn VGA15 amp, which is pretty good for my needs. The sound is nice, you can vary it a bit, and that's always good.

I think Mill Music set the guitar up before they sold it to me, and they did a fine job. The other guy complained about the action, but I've had no hassle with it. It's got an annoying hassle in the selector switch though - flick it into S/S or just S and it'll sometimes cut out. Nothing I couldn't sort out with a soldering iron though.
Mind you, if you so much as LOOK at the tremolo arm, you can forget staying in tune...

Don't use it live, just for my own practise, and it certainly holds up to that well. I'd have no doubts about lugging it about with me (it's followed me across the country with no problems), as it seems fairly sturdy.

If this guitar were stolen, I'd be as gutted as if some low-life had stolen my bike. Having said that, I don't think I'd go out and get another. It's good for learning, but there are much better out there.

22 frets, i think, solid mahogany, i think, standard strat controls, h/s/s rosewood fretboard, some kinda varnished, natural look, its a unique body style, quite attractive, thick neck, to thick for my taste, crap tuners, dont know wat they are, but they dont work, i thikn its a gibson LP neck scale the shorter one.

This sounds terrible, i have never heard a worse guitar. It buzzes incesantly. If it didnt buzz, and had a decent action, i would imagine it owuld be best suited for more rythm orientated styles, certainly not fast lead!!

THis guitar is utter crap. When i brought it home, and opened the box, i couldn;t believe how crap this guitar was set up. The action was about as high as my acoustic, making it virtualy useless for lead playing. Despite this ridiculous action, the frets still buzzed (i can't explain this?.
The body of the guitar was also quite seriously flawed. There was a mother of a dent on the rear of the guitar, bigger than any dent in my 6 yr old gibso LP. There was a scratch along the front of it, and another smallish dent on the headstock.

This guitar is built well for the price. It is quite heacy, and i would feel confident that it wouldnt break or something when dropped. I don't know about the finish, ive never owned a guitar with this type, but is seems ok.
I would, however, never use this guitar live without a backup, infact, i would simply never use it live, this thing cannot stay in tune for more than a couple of seconds.

Don't know

Ive been playing guitar for 8 yrs, and play a gibson les paul studio, and a yamaha pacifica 112. This guitar compares to neither of these. The yamaha is of a similar price, and although it isnt built as solidly, at lest u can play the thing. if this pile of crap wer stoled, i would hunt down the thief, and shake his hand, before buying him an expensive meal. Thats how much this guitar sucks. The only nice thing about this guitar is the way it looks, so maybe i would lke it back to customise it and make it look more pretty, but i would never want to play it again.
i don't know if this guitar is a faulty one or if all are like this, and i dont care, i am curently trying to sell it.

i got it in 1998, made in some forign country, 22 fret neck, bolt on, very thin. solid top, 1 tone 1 volume 5 way selector, s/s/H, stock pickups passive electronics, some deep dark brown wood for the body(i took off the black finish and made it natural. its a nice looking wood.) lopsided strat body with a non locking tremlo(strat style), grover sealed tuners (very nice once you tighten them) kinda wide neck. i would have loved this guitar if it had just had a floyd rose.

I play blues, punk, metal, ska, reggae and jazz. this guitar is very versitile, the neck pickup is very warm and good for blues, but its kinda quiet. the middle pickup, in conjuction with the neck is nice, and it makes the neck louder. the bridge pickup is a very hot, bright humbucker (open coil). its great for clean stuff (reggae, blues) but lately its been screeching allot when i use distortion, which shows signs that maybe i need to replace it although i live its sound clean!

when i got it, the action was sky high (i was a beginner and didnt know i could adjust it) and that was good cuz it made my hands strong now. the finish was ver neat, as i said, the tuners were loose and went out of tune if you touched the headstock. i live in hawaii where it rains 200 inches a year, so its expected that the pickups and hardware are rusting, hell my gibson is starting to rust to, cant stop it. the tone knob is really loose and i scratched the old finish fixing it.

I've played it live many times, it holds up well, the hardware seems to be very good but the volume/tone knobs and the pickups are kinda iffy. the finish is thicker than a rhino's ass. i was sanding forever! the neck is kinda starting to distort and bow but im gonna try and adjust the truss rod. the strap buttons fell off cuz i abused them by tightening them to much but a little elmers glue fixed that. after a few songs it is usually out of tune, but not horribly. i wouldnt use it without a backup though. this is my backup to my gibson sg

never had to deal with the company but now that i know that it has a lifetime warranty, im gonna get the knobs and neck fixed. the bolt on the input jack cracked in half on the inside but i just pulled it out and tightened the outer one so the jack sticks out like a quarter inch but its fine

I've been playing around 4 years, and i own a Gibson SG special and a yamaha 310 accoustic.
The Bt4 is no Prs, thats for sure, but for a good guitar to tinker with as a beginner, its great. i've never played a better guitar in this price range. if it was stolen or lost NOW, i would probably buy a standard telecaster or this other washburn Music exchange has with a Floyd rose. I love this guitar, and it play exeptionally nice for its price, and heald up to all my beatings, so it must be made well. it sounds and feels nice but i've just had a few problems with it. (some i think i caused myself like the neck thing)

it has 2 single coils up front and a hombucker on the bridge. grover tuners and a nonlocking trmelo. solid body electric. 22 frets. i think a mahogany body but dont really know. a very smooth nice feeling neck. tune o matic bridge. rosewood fretboard. i bought a tobacco sunburst color pretty cool. the body style is kind of a mishaped strat i think its better. 5 way selector and a tone and volume control.

i like the blues so this may not be the best guitar but it does its duty and very well if you ask me. albert king played a flying V i aint seeing nobody complainin bout him. a nice bright sound. full sound. i play it through a vox. i like it a lot.

nope nothing bad at all. a true work of art. i didnt have to due any thing at all

i dont know hasnt broken yet

thank god i havent had to

ive been plaing for a year and a half. i love everything about it but if it died i would probably want something more along the lines of a casino

Bought it new, had to be special-ordered because it's left-handed, so I got it right out of the factory. 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, inlays on the side. Maple neck & headstock, mahogany body w/ solid quilted maple top. S/S/H pickup config. Kind of a rounded Strat body style, I really like it. Fulcrum tremelo. Grover non-locking tuners. Really thin & speedy neck. Also got a BD-25 amp, gig bag, cable, picks, strap, basically anything I wanted. Master volume & tone and 5-way switch. Made in Indonesia, I think.

Suits my style well. I play anything from the Eagles and CCR to heavy, power-chord stuff. Play it through the BD-25 (great little practice amp) mainly, Crate combo on occasion. Low e string buzzes on occasion if it gets to a certain tuning situation. Bright sound. Played with bridge humbucker or bridge humbucker and middle single(my favorite, get a little more bite) can get a nice rock sound, sounds almost acoustic with only neck single on. Excellent overall.

Set-up fine when I got it, but the store did some work on it first so I don't know how it was out of the factory. Pickups were fine. I got it in perfect condition, but, again, the store did some work on it first. The paint is the most beautiful paint job I have ever seen. Cherry-sunburst (yellow center fading to red edges) on the quilted rock-top is great.

Seems solid. Feels like it's built like a tank. No pickguard, so the finish has been beat up pretty well with my hard playing, but no easily visible scratches as of yet. I would depend on it, but I would definitely carry a back-up because the tremelo worries me.

Lifetime warranty except on wearable parts (frets, finish, etc.). Haven't had to use it yet, though.

I've been playing for about 6 months, so I know I'm not that experienced. I play for at least an hour or two a day, though, so I've gotten to know this guitar pretty well. If you're laughing at the price, don't. The list price for the left-handed model is close to $500 by itself, and I got the amp, gig bag, strap, cable, picks, etc. for that price. It's expensive being a lefty. I would definitely buy it again if some other lefty (as if there are any other lefties on the planet) stole it. Stealing is bad! I compared it to a Mexican Strat and a Squier Strat (just for kicks) and this one just caught my eye and I really liked it. Plus, I like the humbucker, don't have that on a Strat. I do wish it had a locking tremelo or just a stop tailpiece. And I also would have liked locking Sperzels, but you can't have everything. I might put them on myself someday anyway. I love the pickup combo, the fast neck, the paint job, and the low string action.

Made in Indonesia 1999.
Pickups: S/S/H Sealed chrom tuners. Medium flat neck, rosewood fretboard Black glossy finish

General purpose classic rock and blues chord playing. I use a Peavey Audition 110 (25W) amp. I has a nice range of sounds, but I mostly use the neck pickup. Also I mostly use the amplifier "clean" channel.

The 5 position switch acted flakey, but it only needed to have the two outside screws tightened. Now it's fine. The action and intonation were a big mess and I spent 6 hours adjusting it. The paint had problems near the pickup cut-outs. The yellew primer was visible. I touched it up rather than send it back to American Musical Supply, using a black paint-pen. The neck is true and everything else is solid. The plastic casings for the pickups have begun to wear from the pick scraping them. The rosewood on the neck is low quality because it shows white streaks that cannot be hidden even when oiled.

It will probably last a long time, but will show wear quickly.

Lifetime warranty. If you have the time and patience to pursue it.

It's a nicely styled versatile guitar for the price. I have only been playing now and then for 5 years. If I lost it I would get an Epiphone humbucker thing or a Telecaster. I since have bought an american Stratocaster and use the BT-4 for open G tuning only. This guitar is better suited for rhythm than lead solos.

I don't know much about the woods and what not. The pikcups are stock, probably made by Washburn. The neck is a bit thick for my liking and not very fast or smoothe, in my opinion. The tuners are covered Grovers. It has very junky fulcrum tremelo that makes your guitar go out of tune like crazy, even when the bar is not in! I plan to add two more springs to the tremelo or just block it off. The body is similar to a Stratocaster, but smaller. I got a Washburn hardshell case for $80. The pickups are fairly high off the body, compared to other guitars, which can cause problems if you aren't used to that set up.

I play a wide variety of music from Beatles, to Hendrix, to RHCP, to Nirvana and it really doesn't work great for any of them, but gets the job done good enough. I play usually play through a DigiTech RP-7 into a Crate GFX-212 or an Estey, vintage 12" tube amp. Clean, this guitar sounds okay. Man, when I play through the tube with the neck pickup I get the sweetest, acoustic like sound. Not the greatest with distortion, the guitar sound almost like a toy or something. I only use pickup selections 1 and 5, anything in between just doesn't suit me.
The pickups, despite their height, aren't very high output, even with the humbucker. My friend a has Squier Affinity Series Stratocaster and it has higher output than this. I guess it is good for the price.

Uggg!!! The factory set-up was horrible! The strings buzzeed like crazy and the low E sting is WAY to bassy. I fixed the buzzing, but the low E is still way to bassy and you can't hear many of the other string over it a lot of the time. Plus, the low E seems to buzz when played above the 10th fret or so.
Like I said, this is the worst tremelo I have ever encountered. If you buy this guitar, just do yourself a favor and block the tremlo off.
The plastic parts on this guitar are cheap and won't hold up.
The finish is okay, but this guitar definitely isn't what I would consider to be rock solid.

I suppose this would hold up live, but I wouldn't use it unless I wanted that sweet sound from the neck pickup. The hardware looks solid and should hold up. Strap buttons are solid.

I have never dealt with Washburn. However, Swap-Shop is very good, alothough they take a while to reply via e-mail.

I have been playing for a couple years and I don't reccomend this guitar to anyone. Do yourself a favor and buy a Fender.

22-frets, on a fiveway selector with 1-1-2 pickup configuration. Maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. The only thing I would've liked to ship with is a cut switch, and a locking nut. (But I have yet to find a guitar that ships with a locking 1-way trem). But that would jack the price a bit :( I really like the playability of the neck on this thing. Compound radius neck, heavily cut away at the top for easy access to the top frets.

Well, I'm one of those people that believes about 98% of tone comes from a good amplifier. But that 2% of guitar is very important. It's like the guitar is your "face", while the amplifier is the mask you wear. If you've got a face like a horse, well... :) I ended up playing about 20 guitars through a marshall stack when I happened on this guitar. To me, only the American Strat sounded better clean, and only the Jackson Soloist had better kick. And definately, none of them felt as good to my hands.
I sure was surprised that the cheapest guitar around happened to be my favorite.

Workmanship is acceptably good. Not like there's glue on the fretboard or anything. I remember once that crap like that kept me from getting a $1000 Yamaha Pacifica. But, at any rate, I can't complain. Parts are solid, the wires were intact. Not that there's anything excessively complex with this model.

It's still new to me, so I haven't road tested it. I have, however, taken it apart, and it seems fairly good to me. No anticipated problems.

Never dealt with Washburn directly.

I've been playing guitar for about 5-8 years? Who keeps track? Anyways, awesome guitar. For $150 you can't go wrong. I sure was surprised when this one came out as my favorite out of all the guitars I've ever played. Well. Except one. (Slightly out of my price range, at 3 grand :)

My guitar was made in Indonesia. I got it in October of 98. It cost $160. Its jet black. The pickups are single, single, humbucker. The neck has a dark colored wood. The finish is non-transparent. Its double cutaway. And the great thing about it is it isnt just another strat copy. Its unique. Theres no pickguard (that doesnt matter. Theres a whammy bar, I never use. It goes out of tune alot, but dont all guitars. Nice size fretboard.

I play all kinds of stuff, and it serves my pupose. The circuits sometime screw up and I get that anoying static. But its a great guitar for the money and not for the money.

Every thing fine here except it has a moderate amount of fret buzz. But that might just be my playing.

All good here. It wouldve nice to have a seperate volume and tone nob for each pick-up.

??????? Never needed any!!

This reveiw might not sound so great, but its a great guitar. Get it if you dont have alot of money.

Made god-knows when, bought in 1999 only about a month ago. 22-fret, fulcrum bridge, a nice pick-up setup, (2 standard, 1 humbucker,), Grover machineheads. I had to have a tremolo on it.... medium sized frets, accessories were extra, but considering i paid only #99!!!! I wasn't too bothered... Mahogany fret-board, maple neck, and im not sure what wood the main body is made of. Lovely natural finish, but is probably, one of the nicest looking guitar i have ever seen. Tone and volume control, 5 pickup settings...

I play a lot of rock, and 'grunge', but occasionally some soft rock and other... Sound good for heavy stuff, but lacks a little bit of 'ooomph'. I would've liked a better set of pick-ups such as the floyd rose, but for the price, i will not complain. Mucho variety though, in the type of sounds it can make, makes this guitar great. It feels SUPERB, and i prefer it over the Squier Strat any day.

Pickups were djusted ok-ish, no real flaws, build feels quite good, although a little tacky. It has survived me though so far, so... No rusting so far, a very dodgy pickup selector though..

It'll last you forever.... built like a tank....

Been playing for not too long, but as long as I have played, I have played many good guitars. I felt that this came towards the standard of even the Les Paul Custom in terms of sound, and capability. I really like it, I think it looks great, and i think anyone should buy one. A great bargain buy.