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MGR/Kevin Christ « Washburn WI 66v »
Published on 12/25/03 at 15:00 I had been looking at this guitar online and was about to buy it from Musiciansfriend.com when by chance I happened to find it on E-bay. It was $299, on sale, marked down from around $600. I got it on Ebay, new, for $304, and it came with a gc-41 hardshell case.
This is a beautiful guitar. Mine is see-thru blue, but it also comes in see-thru red and caramel-burst. These colors both are also very nice. The blue has just recently been discontinued, so I got lucky. Its two humbuckers work very well. I can turn my amp on full volume and distortion, and it doesn't feed back until I get it about a foot away from the amp. The fretboard is pretty easy to play on. The selector switches and control knobs all work well. The VCC (Voice Contour Control)knobs are awesome; at 10, they are full humbuckers, but as you go toward 1, the coils split to sound like single coil, and you can get a very accurate fender sound. The tremolo bar is also a nice feature.
Washburn makes a big deal out of the buzz feiten tuning system, but I don't notice any difference while tuning it from any other guitar. There's actually nothing bad about it, I just don't understand why they brag about it so much. The gc-40 case will work, but the gc-41 case is much nicer if you can find it. There really isn't anything that I don't like about this guitar
Construction is very good. The guitar body and set neck are made of mahogany, and the fingerboard is rosewood; the guitar feels very solid. It has awesome winged fingerboard inlays... something unique, to set it apart from all the dotted ones, although, I wish they would have made the 12th fret inlay a little more distinct than the rest, but it does have the double dots on the side of the neck for you to find it easier.
Plays great. Looks amazing. Solid construction. Unique look to set it apart from all other guitars. No reason to buy another guitar for a long time.
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This is a beautiful guitar. Mine is see-thru blue, but it also comes in see-thru red and caramel-burst. These colors both are also very nice. The blue has just recently been discontinued, so I got lucky. Its two humbuckers work very well. I can turn my amp on full volume and distortion, and it doesn't feed back until I get it about a foot away from the amp. The fretboard is pretty easy to play on. The selector switches and control knobs all work well. The VCC (Voice Contour Control)knobs are awesome; at 10, they are full humbuckers, but as you go toward 1, the coils split to sound like single coil, and you can get a very accurate fender sound. The tremolo bar is also a nice feature.
Washburn makes a big deal out of the buzz feiten tuning system, but I don't notice any difference while tuning it from any other guitar. There's actually nothing bad about it, I just don't understand why they brag about it so much. The gc-40 case will work, but the gc-41 case is much nicer if you can find it. There really isn't anything that I don't like about this guitar
Construction is very good. The guitar body and set neck are made of mahogany, and the fingerboard is rosewood; the guitar feels very solid. It has awesome winged fingerboard inlays... something unique, to set it apart from all the dotted ones, although, I wish they would have made the 12th fret inlay a little more distinct than the rest, but it does have the double dots on the side of the neck for you to find it easier.
Plays great. Looks amazing. Solid construction. Unique look to set it apart from all other guitars. No reason to buy another guitar for a long time.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com