WSL Guitars

This WSL guitar Barybone is a very good guitar for the price! I sold one of my fav Strats to fund this and it is the best guitar purchase I have ever made! Fit, finish , playability, beauty, unreal! The top is surreal and 3d. Tthe neck is super fast, and action is almost spot on right out of the case. I did alot of research, especially being new to WSL‘s, and this is the one for me, and probably you if you are reading this and looking in this price range. UTILIZATION I see a lot of quick references to the coil tap feature, so I will elaborate upon this. I have a lot of misgivings about split coils and 'S' switching systems. The split coil set up on this guitar is the real deal. The differences are subtle and nuanced and every combination of the split coils on this guitar are not simply "useable": they are actually quite good. I simply love this guitar. I have been playing Dire Straits, Carolyn Wonderland, The Jayhawks and Ryan Adams all day long. I am in guitar heaven. I picked mine up in a Guitar Center brick and mortar store. I do not know if they spent any time on the setup. I agree with the good reviews of the Plek system. SOUNDS Sounds a very clean and classic. More of a rocker type sound to me though. Jazz didn’t come out very well for me. Also, the skulls on it are a little too much for me. But that’s just with this version. Its more of a custom style. OVERALL OPINION One issue that I noticed on all WSL Guitars when I played was that the strings are shifted very slightly to the higher pitched side of the fret board. The result is that the high E is somewhat prone to getting hung up on the edge of the frets, if you do vibrato by pulling down rather than pushing up. If the strings were centered perfectly on the fret board, this would be less likely to happen.

(Originally written by darkjmb/translated from Audiofanzine FR) Color: black Body: mahogany Neck: maple Fingerboard: rosewood Number of frets: 24 Pickups: Kent Armstrong® Pickups configuration: H Pickups reference: Motherbucker Controls: push/pull volume Bridge: Wilkinson®-type tremolo Machine heads: Grover® Hardware: black Pickguard: none Scale: 25.5" Strings: D'addario® 9-42 (replaced with 11-58 Skull Strings, tremolo springs changed) Note: 4-coil pickup (manufacturer features) At first I was pretty satisfied with this guitar (it's my third guitar) but after having used it a quite some time (over one year)... It turns out my guitar was faulty. The neck is distorted on the G, B and high E strings from the 11th to the 24th fret so I use it only for rhythm parts (and I actually I replaced the pickups for this purpose). UTILIZATION When I tested it I compared it it with the neck of a BC-Rich Warlock (which is thicker and wider). This neck is slimmer and easier to play (except the high E string which has not enough space). When I tested it I liked it more than a Schecter Hellraiser, which is a high-end product (and I would rather have now). The guitar is not light but it lighter than a Les Paul. The main turnoff is the faulty neck, which I didn't notice when I bought it. It's a pity considering the guitar. SOUNDS I play several music styles but mainly heavy and death metal... My setup: - Hartke Piggyback amp - Digitech Deathmetal and RP80 pedals - Danlectro Fab Metal pedal The 4-coil pickup produces a highly compressed but not muddy sound with extremely loud lows. It sounds better clean and it allows you to play good funk licks, but that's not what you expect from this guitar. I wanted to enhance the sound so I replaced the original pickup with an EMG81. It changed 60% of the sound (40% remains the same due to the neck defect that doesn't allow me to play solos). The sound is very powerful. OVERALL OPINION - How long have you been using it? Over one year - Which feature do you like the most / the least? The neck (compared with my first electric guitars, a Cort Stratocaster and a Squier) Showmaster HSS. - Did you try any other models before buying it? A BC-Rich Rich Bronze Series - Warlock Tribal but I didn't like its neck. - How would you rate its value for money? Disappointing because I expected a quality guitar considering the price. - Based on your experience, would you buy this product again? Yes and no! Test it if you are an experienced guitarist or ask an experienced guitarist to test it for you otherwise you might end up frustrated. The neck defect and the pickup are very disappointing. But the guitar is not that bad if you customize it. From the same manufacturer I can recommend you the Az By Wsl Guitars Serie 60 with Les Paul shape and WSL pickups. http://www.azbywslguitars.com/AZbyWSL.html model az aslp black 3