Real Gem , great looker , great playing guitar !

By Bobby C.

I bought two of these, one in Vintage Orange and one in Georgia Green. The orange guitar intonation was spot on. The action on it was a little high for my taste, so I lowered it to 1/16 on the treble side with 3/32 on the bass side at the twelfth fret. I lowered the bass string a couple of thousands at the nut, and tuned it up.....no buzzes or fret outs. Using the Bigsby tended to pull the guitar out of tune, until I lubed the nut with some graphite from a pencil. The Bigsby would work ...better with a roller bridge, the roller bridge is on the way. The Vintage orange color is very nice, the pictures are not even close to the actual appearance. The wood grain shows through, enhancing the Vintage look. The fretwork is very good, no rough ends. The only things needed as far as set up was a little fret board oil. The fretboard dried up some during storage. The two I got are the older models with the rosewood fretboard and the Super Hilo’tron pickups. I prefer them over the blacktop humbuckers offered in the latest model, and the laurel fretboard offered now. The Georgia Green one is going back to Adorama to be replaced, the neck has a very noticeable hump at the 15 fret. It had buzzing and fretting out on the treble side right out of the box. The action was noted on the setup card as being set at 1.5 mm, but it was higher than that on the Georgia Green model.....the icing on the cake was the price on these....449.00 for these guitars is a steal. Black Friday, Cyber Monday. Kudos to Adorama for making the exchange easy on the guitar with problems. On a final note, expect to replace the strings right out of the box. A good guitar setup and intonation adjustments needs a new set of strings.....the proper set up uses the word train....for the steps.... Tune. Relief Adjustment. Intonate. Noodle !