Korean "settled" in the USA. the guitar came with some protruding frets, the action unusable so it was high, too low and the tailpiece, two strings are petes in the hands of the seller in 30 seconds !!!!! Really not serious from Washburn!

22 frets, Seymour Duncan SH1 and SH11, the VDC, push-pull rotary! The Buzz Feiten system: boring.
Mechanics: the silver plating is bar, the agreement is required to average damage. The rest is nickel.

UTILIZATION

Channel rather thin, flat, very typical I think, not as easy to tame an Ibanez. Varnish a little sticky as brilliant, but not bothersome.

Access to acute and perfect thanks to the heel of the set neck is really ergonomic.

ergonomics as a whole, moreover, is rather good. The handle is typed but the rest is classic. The masses are well balanced (it does not sting the nose), by cutting the stomach or against any other, but the thinness of the body compensates perfectly. I never felt pain with the guitars.
When the weight, it is very very light, so perfect for fragile backs.

SOUNDS

I play mostly in the registry rock / blues. My reference is Randy Rhoads (yes nothing to do with the washburn!)
I want to say that I have 7 years of guitar, including a year as a group and this is my 4th guitar.

Sound:
At first glance, it's good without ... The Buzz Feiten system, which I never understood the principle but is complete absence tuning, do it well .. ch , The tuner bar is in a spin ... super ...

BUT!
This is a guitar to explore, thanks to the VCC, a kind of push-pull, but the passage occurs when single-coil tone is 0. At first the result is not obvious, but to test his strength and saturating light, you realize the sound palette that brings.
The clear sound are very hot when we move in simple, but still far from a sound strat. the sound is very full and the bass are present, without being obtrusive or parasitic. I could fault just a slight lack of sharpness. But how clean ... it's great!

In full, it's clean, defined, SH1 has nothing to prove, and SH11 demonstrated amazing people. It can be aggressive staying warm, harmonic manner to the request. A very good place for him.

Most
- The range of sound, you can pass the light to its near-saturated affects only the guitar, and that's great!
- Sustain that is in a very good average.
- The very different character from SH1 and SH11

The -
- The quality of knobs, some are very hard and other very soft, a year and a half and a tone of "crack".

OVERALL OPINION

- I use it for 2 years, almost every day, and I take him on stage.

- What I love about it is its light weight, its mouth (I in tobacco sunburst), the handle end rather quickly and the sound that I draw. I plugged into a Rocktron Deep Blue -> MXR Double Shot Distortion + -> EHX Soul Preacher -> Boss DD-3 -> GA-5 (tt lamp medium) or Peavey Classic 30 or Marshall JCM800 4010.
the varnish is rather strong I think I have very few micro scratches.

- What I like least is that the knobs do not inspire confidence, with knobs that turn "oval". The mechanical "Grove"?? really zero.

Before, I tried a bunch of Ibanez, the SA I liked, very good guitars to try but lacked character. An Epiphone Les Paul Custom, a bloody mouth, a very very good finish, but a Electone not up ...
I also tried a Gibson Les Paul Standard and a PRS I know that ... they are obviously a very big step up, but were off-budget ...

I paid 746 euros, she deserves. The sound and feel are there, it has its "face" to her, and can adapt anywhere.

If I had to go back? I will not hesitate again despite its flaws. To know the Lespaul, I return to this guitar, it is easy to play, accessible.