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The guitar came in beautiful condition. If anyone has bought a guitar online, you know the horrors of shipping, and getting a broken guitar. This was packaged very nicely. First layer was the gig bag. Then ir was wrapped inside that. Then, it had styrofoam on the switch, which would protect that as well as the knobs. Great quality on prepping the guitar for shipping.
I normally play bass, but wanted a guitar so I could work on songs i'm writing, as well as hopefully get my wife to play again so we could play together.
I ordered an amp and it came in the same day as the guitar. For the purposes of the review, I just tuned up the guitar with the strings it came with. I did order strings that I will swap out soon. This guitar sounds beautiful clean and distorted. The switch for the pickups works beautifully, though I will leave it in the middle for the balanced tone. The intonation is great, but there is slight fret buzz, so I'll have to redo the intonation after adjusting the neck a touch. It has great fast action, and the neck is good and thin. I'm not worried about that changing with the adjustments as the fret buzz is very slight.
The guitar, knobs, switch, and tuners all feel good and solid. For the price, this thing is definitely a gem (I got it for $189 and would have no qualms paying twice as much. Thank you ESP for such a great deal!!!!!
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Quality control is a lottery I guess.
I want to give this instrument 5 stars. I really do. I get it, for this price you don't get high quality pickups, premium finish, one or two piece body. But none of those factors matter for a beginner guitar. However there are 3 craftsmanship issues,, that are present on my EC-10 that make it disappointing.1. This one's minor. Electronics cavity looks like it wasn't cut by a router, but gnawed out by a hungry beaver. Inner walls are all chipped out and I had to sand those before I could add proper shielding.2. The neck profile is carved in a very weird manner. From the heel towards the headstock it gets thinner first (naturally, that's how it supposed to be), then from 14th fret it starts getting slightly thicker, producing some sort of hump. And from 9th fret it finally tapers properly again, right to the headstock. I wouldn't call this a very major issue, but it's irritating to someone with small hands, and takes some time to get used to.3. Frets. This was a total buzzkill. I was struggling constantly to tune the guitar, with no success. I thought at first that I was just failing to intonate it properly, because almost 1/4 of the fretboard was producing flat notes. Then I got a hold of a fret ruler. Starting from 16th position every fret is positioned with significant shift. See the picture. This renders the instrument basically impossible to properly intonate and tune.I don't know if this is a widespread thing with EC-10 or I was just unlucky to get a faulty one that slipped through quality control. I hope the latter is true, because I love ESP/LTD guitars.
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I want to give this instrument 5 stars. I really do. I get it, for this price you don't get high quality pickups, premium finish, one or two piece body. But none of those factors matter for a beginner guitar. However there are 3 craftsmanship issues,, that are present on my EC-10 that make it disappointing.
1. This one's minor. Electronics cavity looks like it wasn't cut by a router, but gnawed out by a hungry beaver. Inner walls are all chipped out and I had to sand those before I could add proper shielding.
2. The neck profile is carved in a very weird manner. From the heel towards the headstock it gets thinner first (naturally, that's how it supposed to be), then from 14th fret it starts getting slightly thicker, producing some sort of hump. And from 9th fret it finally tapers properly again, right to the headstock. I wouldn't call this a very major issue, but it's irritating to someone with small hands, and takes some time to get used to.
3. Frets. This was a total buzzkill. I was struggling constantly to tune the guitar, with no success. I thought at first that I was just failing to intonate it properly, because almost 1/4 of the fretboard was producing flat notes. Then I got a hold of a fret ruler. Starting from 16th position every fret is positioned with significant shift. See the picture. This renders the instrument basically impossible to properly intonate and tune.
I don't know if this is a widespread thing with EC-10 or I was just unlucky to get a faulty one that slipped through quality control. I hope the latter is true, because I love ESP/LTD guitars.
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