KnightBrolaire
Grand Wiggle Wizard
yeah that was pretty evident from.his godawful headstock design
yeah that was pretty evident from.his godawful headstock design
Single coils. Like jesus fucking christ man a little bit of wire and plastic doesnt cost a fortune. Throw another one on there and get rid of all that noise.
Not saying you're wrong, please please explain thisFun fact: significantly more $$$ in wire on single coil vs a humbucker. Magnets are more too.
Here's one: bad bursts. Just ones with terrible blending. Nothing makes a guitar seem cheap like a "bullseye" burst.
Legator is like the king of it.
Thin/cast TOM bridge is a big one for me. Gotoh is the bare minimum, anything less isn't even trying. I especially hate when they have half the saddles installed backwards so your strings are breaking over a goddamn sharp edge, and usually the cheap bridges make it very difficult if not impossible to turn the saddles back around without breaking something.
Unbound fretboards
TRUTHEspecially if there are block inlays. Blocks need binding. NEED.
The Epi headstock on their Les Pauls. Stuff like the new Wilshires look great with it, because it's an Epi headstock on an Epi guitar, but it just looks wrong on a Les Paul.
The Wilshire didn't exist prior to Gibson ownership. They bought Epiphone in 57' (deal closed in 58'), but the Crestwood came out in 58'.
Hey guys, thought this might be fun to discuss, what are some features on guitars high-end or low-end alike that screams "I'm cheap" to you, regardless of price?
To me, pickup rings. This is the worst culprit to me. Any time I see a guitar with black plastic pickup rings I always picture a Donner or Musiclily Amazon part bin pieces and just really turns me off. Same with plain maple necks/fretboards. Unless it's on a nice lake placid blue or something similar it always looks so cheap to me, I'm really not sure why.
Anyone else have anything like this?
Sticky necks.