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Published on 05/08/03 at 15:00I bought it from musiciansfriend.com two years ago. I was looking for my first guitar and had a limited budget, 350$ (Thats also for a 150$ Ibanez amp and 50$ for a DOD Death Metal Pedal) This guitar was perfect for me, since I wanted it cheap, great looking, and it was 150$ back then(now its 130$). I am still thinking that the Warlock body shape is one of those most original shapes I have ever seen on a guitar.
First of all, I loved the body shape - bought the guitar. Then I loved the heavy sound of it, whats is still so shocking about this guitar to this day is the kind of heavy sounding humbuckers and ruggedness of this guitar. Its very good that this guitar has a fixed bridge otherwise this instrument would be junk, cause they would put crappiest tremolo you can imagine.
Strap knobs are little slippery, you can even imagine howmany times the strap slipped off the guitar and I somehow caught it. This problem can be fixed with a 15$ strap locks. Nothing else wrong with it, for a beginner. Once I got the axe, I also raised the bridge humbucker really close to the strings, not too close so the strings have space to vibrate - very sick to this day.
Good construction, goesnt get untuned a lot, only when I go nuts on it, 1 min with a tuner 101 fixes the problem. After two years of use my neck is beginning to move, I guess I need to tighter the neck a little.
To summarize: great first time guitar for a heavy metal fan. Dude if you like Pantera, Slipknot etc. and looking to recreate some of those sick ass riffs witha budget this is the axe to get. Right now im going to get myself a Jackson, but definetly keeping this sick puppy with me, cause I dont think anyone would want it with all the stickers I put on the back.
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First of all, I loved the body shape - bought the guitar. Then I loved the heavy sound of it, whats is still so shocking about this guitar to this day is the kind of heavy sounding humbuckers and ruggedness of this guitar. Its very good that this guitar has a fixed bridge otherwise this instrument would be junk, cause they would put crappiest tremolo you can imagine.
Strap knobs are little slippery, you can even imagine howmany times the strap slipped off the guitar and I somehow caught it. This problem can be fixed with a 15$ strap locks. Nothing else wrong with it, for a beginner. Once I got the axe, I also raised the bridge humbucker really close to the strings, not too close so the strings have space to vibrate - very sick to this day.
Good construction, goesnt get untuned a lot, only when I go nuts on it, 1 min with a tuner 101 fixes the problem. After two years of use my neck is beginning to move, I guess I need to tighter the neck a little.
To summarize: great first time guitar for a heavy metal fan. Dude if you like Pantera, Slipknot etc. and looking to recreate some of those sick ass riffs witha budget this is the axe to get. Right now im going to get myself a Jackson, but definetly keeping this sick puppy with me, cause I dont think anyone would want it with all the stickers I put on the back.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com