Westone Pantara

This has many features. It has a H/H setup and the humbuckers are Westone make. These babys crank it out! I have not encountered any feedback whatsoever while on stage. And I get no odd noises when turning up the volume. As for the tuning - it has a locking nut. It came with (at least for me) a hard case, strap, alan wrench, cable, 20 pics, and a rag and plolish. The neck was not bolted on like with my last 3 guitars, it is built into the body. It has a floating tremolo, too. The finish is, I don't know from the list above, but it is very smooth silky and shiny. This guitar certainly has a Ton of features.

The sound of this guitar certainly suits my guitar style. I love rock. I mostly do Metallica kind of rock - but I also switch and do Led Zepplin and Jimmy Hendrix. A coulple times I have even switched and done Blues. I do dislike the fact that when i turn my amp practically all the way up and play on distort how it blos the back of my head off and I can't understand the melody with it up like that. On clean it is awesome, even at high levels, so it may just be the distortion which mess-up my sound.

The action on this guitar is AMAZING. It bends like I have never bent before. This is extremely useful when soloing over other guitarists, especially in "Blues Pentatonic Style". The only flaw I can see (and it is only because my guitar is used) is that one of my 3 knobs is dicolored - as in, the first 2 are black, then the last one is losing its black color. It is turning sort of brown. You cant tell from far away that is is discolored, but up close it looks odd.

This guitar is BEST at live playing. I get up on stage and there is NO - I mean NO feedback. One of my friend's band went up on stage a few weeks ago and there feedback was HORRIBLE. You couldn't here them it was so awful. In all the time I have had this guitar there has NEVER been an occasion where I got feedback. Never. I must say that I can DEFINATELY depend on this guitar. The finish on my guitar doesn't wear off at all - it may be my intenisve care (in fact, I'm quite anal about my guitar) on the finish. I have in fact used it in a gig without a backup and had no problems. I definately would do it again, in fact, tonight I am going to be playing without a backup.

I have never heard of Westone. A couple people told me that they don't make guitars anymore. This is still an awesome guitar. My costomer support comes from my store. I take it in whenever and they'll do whatever is necessary to fix it. I have tried to repait it - succesfully. I loant it to a friend on stage and he dropped it (never let him borrow it again) and the strap button broke off. I took it to my store and they fixed it for $2.50. I think. The warranty for this guitar was 30 days - and it was used. I dont know about the warranty for a new one. Like I said - I'm not sure if they make new ones anymore.

I have been playing for 6 years. If it were stolen - I would try to get another guitar - maybe not the same kind - just the same style and quality. I love the sound I get when I solo over a blues lick and it gives me a "Tangy Sharp" sound. I hate the strings (which I could change - Im just too lazy) they overstrech too easily. It may be my excessive bending and action, though. I find myself constantly comparing it to other guitars. I think my guitar is better (higher quality, sounds better) than my friend's Ibanez Iceman, Fender Stratocaster, Ibanex Rg40, and I find it almost equal to (in my opinion)the ESP Applause. The only thing different (and better in my case) is that I dont get any feedback while this does. The only thing I wish it had is a third humbucker, though (so it would be H/H/H style).