Neeklaus
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well after a tense week of waiting my agile al-2000 finally came into today
how is it you ask? without a doubt the best low budget guitar i've EVER PLAYED. i've read it a thousand times but until you play one you won't appreciate it. it easily compares to guitars in the 300-600 range, no doubt about it.
so for a little more detail on mine-
the neck is very comfortable, i came from playing LTD and ibanez so i was concerned that having a neck that wasn't paperthin may pose a problem. i was exactly wrong, this thing plays great
the fretwork is good, we'll have to see how it holds up over the years but it is very clean fret work. the body of the guitar is obviously very heavy but it's a nice body i must say. i'm glad i went with the natural it's super sexy.
lets see...the tuners work great, i've never had a problem with grovers and don't expect to.
the pickups! oh my god! i really expected to replace these almost immediately, but now i think i may keep them. the neck is warm and really nice for jazzy/blues/clean and the bridge is a monster. it does metal so easily (my biggest surprise)
is there anything BAD about this guitar, you ask?
well, yes, a few things actually.
firstly, rondo's QC dept needs a checkup. there's been some stories floating around about dinged up guitars (supposedly due to shipping) and i got one of those. i've got a ding on my headstock that is actually missing paint and a dent/crack on the side of the body where the guitar was most obviously dropped.
i had my al-2000 shipped in a case and i have a very hard time believing that either of these where done during shipping.
i also have a small spot of binding that doesn't exactly look up to snuff on the top of the guitar.
but really- it's a 150 dollar guitar, i can't complain that much. besides it's all visual things that are messed up, this guitar play great (have i emphasized this enough?)
and as we all know :ss: which is swedlandishburg for this post is useless without pics
so here's some pics:
nice little case it came in
some of the coolest inlays i've seen
head stock ding, very blurry picture but you should be able to pick it out (it's the white spot)
and here's the body drop, you can't even really see it unless you get real close, but the paint/finish it cracked and there's a slight rise on the body because of it. it's on the top right portion int hat picture
one of the 1st things i did was remove the pickguard. but i'm still torn it looks great with and without
sorry for the hugely long post, but there aren't many good reviews on here lately and especially none with pics. i'm hoping to end that
so to recap, i love this guitar, your mom and the inlays
good day!
how is it you ask? without a doubt the best low budget guitar i've EVER PLAYED. i've read it a thousand times but until you play one you won't appreciate it. it easily compares to guitars in the 300-600 range, no doubt about it.
so for a little more detail on mine-
the neck is very comfortable, i came from playing LTD and ibanez so i was concerned that having a neck that wasn't paperthin may pose a problem. i was exactly wrong, this thing plays great
the fretwork is good, we'll have to see how it holds up over the years but it is very clean fret work. the body of the guitar is obviously very heavy but it's a nice body i must say. i'm glad i went with the natural it's super sexy.
lets see...the tuners work great, i've never had a problem with grovers and don't expect to.
the pickups! oh my god! i really expected to replace these almost immediately, but now i think i may keep them. the neck is warm and really nice for jazzy/blues/clean and the bridge is a monster. it does metal so easily (my biggest surprise)
is there anything BAD about this guitar, you ask?
well, yes, a few things actually.
firstly, rondo's QC dept needs a checkup. there's been some stories floating around about dinged up guitars (supposedly due to shipping) and i got one of those. i've got a ding on my headstock that is actually missing paint and a dent/crack on the side of the body where the guitar was most obviously dropped.
i had my al-2000 shipped in a case and i have a very hard time believing that either of these where done during shipping.
i also have a small spot of binding that doesn't exactly look up to snuff on the top of the guitar.
but really- it's a 150 dollar guitar, i can't complain that much. besides it's all visual things that are messed up, this guitar play great (have i emphasized this enough?)
and as we all know :ss: which is swedlandishburg for this post is useless without pics
so here's some pics:
nice little case it came in
some of the coolest inlays i've seen
head stock ding, very blurry picture but you should be able to pick it out (it's the white spot)
and here's the body drop, you can't even really see it unless you get real close, but the paint/finish it cracked and there's a slight rise on the body because of it. it's on the top right portion int hat picture
one of the 1st things i did was remove the pickguard. but i'm still torn it looks great with and without
sorry for the hugely long post, but there aren't many good reviews on here lately and especially none with pics. i'm hoping to end that
so to recap, i love this guitar, your mom and the inlays
good day!
